Essays on Portrait

Introduction

Understanding self- identity in ‘selphie’ portrait photography looks at the influence of social media on the way people take mobile phone pictures connected to editing a new identity as portrayed in the photographs shared on Internet social networks. The amazing popularity of phone camera (see Figure 1) technology, photography, and the number of self-portraits finally appearing on Internet social networks continues creating a phenomenon. The effect looks at how social networks influence how people take selphie (Oxforddictionaries.com, 2014) photographs and edit them. Comparisons of film and digital photography linking to self-identity show a connection ...

Women in art have always been a very mysterious and intriguing object to observe, both from the perspective of women as an object and a subject for the painting. Mona Lisa is possibly the most recognized painting in the world. She still puzzles its every observer with her gaze and feeble smile, welcoming him to silent communication. Frida Kahlo is the world’s most recognized woman artist. However, she neither invites for silent conversation in her Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, nor does she puzzle the observer. What Frida does, is pictures her soul openly and frankly, not hiding anything, not leaving ...

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=344716 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Dutch, about 1628 Oil on copper 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. 2013.60

Introduction

This is perhaps one of the most famous self-portraits of all time since it shows Rembrandt in a laughing pose that is also quite uncommon for an artist. The artist painted more than one hundred original self-portraits and the correct name for this work is; ‘A more cheerful pose’ and is in keeping with the more jovial style that he had adopted during this particular period. The portrait includes several trademark elements that we normally associate with Rembrandt, including the interplay ...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled. In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific focus on artistic and ...

The self-portrait is probably the most important painting in the repertoire of the artist since it defines the character and vitality of the subject matter. A self-portrait is an important statement about oneself apart from also being intrinsically linked to an artistic development. I approached the self-portrait issue with some trepidation, since this has been the remit of several great artists over the years, and several have been studied in detail, apart from offering important guidelines about that particular artist’s work (Smith, Kelly, 1997). The practice of portraiture probably began with the Ancient Egyptians when it was ...

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross by Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic is a work of art painted in 1975 by 31 year old Thomas Eakins. The painting is a depiction of Samuel D. Gross a physician from Philadelphia and his other clinic members performing surgery on a young man. It was painted when Dr. Gross was at the peak of his career working at Jefferson hospital. He was removing a malignant bone from the thigh of a young boy at the same time teaching a student audience about the techniques in a medical amphitheater at Jefferson medical college. The painting is considered America’s greatest ...

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross by Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic is a work of art painted in 1975 by 31 year old Thomas Eakins. The painting is a depiction of Samuel D. Gross a physician from Philadelphia and his other clinic members performing surgery on a young man. It was painted when Dr. Gross was at the peak of his career working at Jefferson hospital. He was removing a malignant bone from the thigh of a young boy at the same time teaching a student audience about the techniques in a medical amphitheater at Jefferson medical college. The painting is considered America’s greatest ...

Art Appreciation

Clearly evaluating the pictures of Saint Mathew in the book by Durrow and the portrait from the coronation gospels, several differences can be observed. One of the major differences is that the portrait appears to be abstracted in the Durrow book. The abstraction in the portrait is mainly due to the fact that there are other animal images in the same portrait (Janet, 1979). These other animals are elongated therefore causing the abstraction. This is not the case when you observe the portrait from the coronation gospels. In the coronation gospels, there are no other features that are present ...

A self-portrait is an artistic representation of an artist, painted, sculptured, drawn, or photographed by the artist. Several artists have used self-portraits to highlight different aspects about themselves that they believe other artists might not critically bring out in their representations. Since the advent of the mirror in the fifteenth century, modeling artworks have greatly improved with self-portraits becoming some of the new advents that came with the mirror. For whatever reason an artist might choose to construct a self-portrait, almost all the artists in all media from sculptors to painters have attempted this exploration of self. Jean Fouquet's self-portrait ( ...

Hellenistic Portrait Head

The Menil collection has artwork in ancient antiquity that range from Paleolithic to the Christian eras. The Paleolithic objects date from 22000 – 15000 BC (Smith 89). The Asia Minor artwork is a prehistoric Greek antiquity from Hellenistic period. The marble head that appears in the Menil collection, Houston represents a figure of a mature man with a small beard. The man turns his head to face the left side. This statue has short hair that has coils placed in rows. The coils emanate from a cowlick stand and have a coiffure with completion of bangs. The eyebrows have diagonal knots forcing arched furrows on the ...

The relationship of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein has to be understood in this study and Gertrude Stein’s friendship with Picasso and her influence in his artwork and development of career. Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain and later, he has been associated with a large group of writers and artists in early stage of career. In 1904, Pablo Picasso settled in Paris and got friendly with artist named Georges Braque. Later, Picasso and Braque have developed Cubism (Baldassari, 2006). The painting style of Picasso has been changed many a times in his overall career and then ...

Introduction

Hierarchic scale refers to the act or process of manipulating the size and the space in a given picture. Usually, this is done in order to emphasize the importance of some specific object in the picture. For instance, when an individual undertakes to paint a picture of some woman in a farm of vegetables, one could do several things to the picture in order to emphasize the importance and the value that is attached to the object in question. If the most important thing in that picture is the shoe that the woman is wearing, then the person painting the picture would ...

Influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray And The Book of Job

The Picture of Dorian gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the main character in this book and it revolves around his life and how the characters in the novel influence the protagonist’s life. Dorian Gray is depicted as a wealthy, beautiful, and unspoiled male who changes his life completely by sinning and pleasure after meeting Lord Henry who totally influenced his life. Wilde writes a story whereby the main character Dorian Gray is influenced to embark on a hedonistic life; a life he had feared for a very long time. Dorian was an innocent man who was forced to ...

Introduction

The novel ‘Jacob’s Room’ is a presentation the impact of traditions and how it affects the subjects in the respective societies. While the novel’s plot is not in consonance with the characterization, the characters through the thoughts assist in drawing conclusions concerning the issues that are manifest in the society. The novel puts into perspective the relationship that the characters have to their society and the extent to which cultural exclusion and inclusion affects their stability in the respective social constructs. Consequently, ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ is a reflection on the future and the cultural ...

The years of James Joyce's life mark major transitions in world history, as well as in world culture. When he was born, in 1882, the worldwide transition from an agrarian way of life to the industrial paradigm was still in fits and starts. Wars were still fought hand-to-hand and on horseback. Literature was still primarily a mostly straightforward affair, as were the visual arts. Matters of perspective, the bailiwick of the modernist artists, were still yet to be the matter of much experimentation. However, the arrival of the Impressionist painters began to erode a unified perspective by considering how subjects might ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract Nicolas de Largillierre is a relatively unknown artist to those who do not study paintings, particularly 1690’s French paintings of women in stylish garb for their time. While most would cast their eyes on his work, like that of “Portrait of a Woman, Perhaps Madame Claude Lambert de Thorigny (Marie Marguerite Bontemps)”, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum, they may not give it a second glance. However, students of fashion see this work of art, as well as others like it, and understand that there is more than just a painting here. Largillierre was seeing the future. The problem ...

Part I. Stylistic

The unknown work of art can be compared to the works of Paul Gauguin. However, what set’s the “Self Portrait with Halo” painting from the rest of Gauguin’s work is the use of more vivid colors, but all of them show similarities in the use of postimpressionism techniques. Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Emile Bernard in 1888 shows similarity in terms of angles. Gauguin’s portrait with halo art and that of Gauguin’s portrait with Emile Bernard encompasses characteristics such as the use of real-life subjects models, emphasized distort form and visible brush strokes. Gauguin used his ...

Gustav Klimt was an important painter in the history of art, and one of the few artists appreciated in their own lifetimes. His portrait of Adele Bach Bauer I in particular illustrates how the flow of his life’s work ran through the Victorian Age, into the Edwardian era and influenced the genres that followed. In part, due to the times in which he lived he was exposed to a world in transition. Born on July 14, 1862 in the Austrian-Hungarian city of Baumgarten during the Victorian era he studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts until 1883. ...

Joshua Reynolds, the influential English painter from the 18th century, began his painting career by painting portraits commissioned by British military officers, and he continued painting such portraits throughout his career. Captain The Honourable Augustus Keppel (1753) is an example of one such portrait by, which although was not commissioned by Captain Augustus Keppel himself, but gave Reynolds the opportunity to enhance and expand his artistic endeavors. Later during the 18th century, Reynolds’ client base expanded to include celebrities who would also get their portrait painted by this great artist. Often celebrity portraits were reproduced and Mrs. Siddons as ...

Introduction:

The portrait of ‘The Gross Clinic’ or the portrait of Samuel D Gross is a famous portrait of Dr Samuel Gross painted by the American artist Thomas Eakins. It depicts Dr Samuel D Gross, a professor attired in a black coat as lectures a group of students at the Jefferson Medical School. The painting is intriguing as it also includes a self-portrait of Eakins himself, seated at the right of the canvas writing some notes. The clinic clerk, Dr Franklin West also features prominently in the painting. The portrait is signed by the artist and the signature appears on the front of the ...

Analysis of Poe’s Short Stories

Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short story - “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Tell- Tale Heart” and “The Oval Portrait” – is indeed very gripping and thrilling. With every sentence that one reads more interest and curiosity builds up to know what will happen next in the story. Each of these stories is about horror, death and killing, with a great element of suspense. The Gothic element therefore is very strong in all the three short stories. Joanne Harris (Edgar Allan Poe, p.42) stated in The Telegraph that Poe is a master of horror and one of his strongholds is the detailed ...

In the History of Photography, Walter Benjamin tries to tell the journey taken by this form of art from the very first decade of the invention. He states that the very first years of photography were the best. During this period that preceded industrialization, photography got mixed up with it and this led to major changes and inventions but it later on liberated itself and became a more practical and applicable work of art. It embraced technology all together and it can be said to produce the God- given image or appearance without the use of any machine. There is a ...

Antonello da Messina created the Portrait of a Young Gentleman in 1474. This is the picture of a man, as the title denotes, and we can presume that this is the actual likeness of an individual, as the characteristics of the face seem to be particularly telling even to the point of depicting unflattering details, like the big nose. Dressed primarily in black, with a grey undershirt, the man is presented in a three-quarter view staring directly at the viewer, confronting him/ her with what art historians call a ‘steady gaze’ (‘Portrait of a young gentleman’). The clothes of the man, although simple, seem to ...

Art is used as a medium of expressing messages as well as interests that a painter has. The painting art has been used in different ages to articulate important messages as well as store memorable events of a place. In previous eras, painting was considered a necessity for the royalty. This was because the royal families needed to preserve their legacies as well as family members in art form. This notion made the art of painting to be a very respectable work. The art work that is being discussed here is on a portrait painting that was done by Elizabeth Louise Vigee le Brun. She ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ better known as Mona Lisa has captivated the hearts and minds of millions for several hundreds of years since its conception. It is truly a great work of art in that it is basically simple yet its true life approach makes it one of the most desirable paintings ever to grace a collection of great masters. The comparison painting is the one of Ginevra da Benci which was painted by Leonardo in 1479/80, almost twenty five years before the Mona Lisa. Although it is a relatively early work by Leonardo, some of the stylistic features which ...

This presentation seeks to examine a photographic portrait of Martina Navratilova by Annie Leibovitz. Both Leibovitz and Navratilova are famous women; Leibovitz for her unique and evocative portraits, and Navratilova for her skill, success, and strength as a tennis player. With this photo, Leibovitz seeks to go beyond the simple portrait and explore the personhood of her subject in a setting and context that viewers do not expect. For instance, other pictures of Navratilova shot by Leibovitz show Navitalova posing with a tennis trophy; when viewers imagine a photograph of a famous tennis player, this portrayal is more expected. The Leibovitz portrait of Navritilova selected ...

Oliver Parker’s version of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a witty horror movie that captures subtlety of Oscar Wilde’s writing. The movie is somewhat different from previous attempts of screening the story about a young and handsome Dorian Gray.

The setting of the movie takes place in 19th century London. Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes), an extraordinarily beautiful and pleasant man, moves to this big city after the death of his grandfather. Dorian starts to enjoy a life of wealthy London Victorian society, as he inherited great deal of money from his relative. Soon he meets two of the people, ...

1. The Elder Sister

This is a painting made by a French painter, William Bouguereau in 1869. The medium employed is Oil on canvas. It is 51 ¼ x 38 ¼ inches in dimension and found at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It was presented as gift b an Anonymous Lady in memory of her father.

Description

It portrays a young girl, staring fixedly at the beholder while affectionately embracing an infant on her thigh, gifted with an almost mysteriously enticing beauty. William Bouguereau was the typical thriving scholastic painter. His canvases were in great demand by European and American investors mutually, and his reputation has been reawakened lately.

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Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

The motif in the portrait is about a man, the main character called Stephen Dedaus whose life unfolds as a young obedient boy living with his parents in a Christian setting to an independent man who learns what he wants in life and goes ahead to follow his dream as a man. Leaving behind his parents and the expectations of his community towards, him he flees to Dublin. The portrait of an artist is brought out by Stephens’s character in following his dream of being an artist and the portrait as a man is explained throughout his life as he meets the women ...

Introduction

Films are crafted for various purposes but most importantly, most films have a message for the audience (Fernandes 2008 p 41). The message may be explicitly stated and clearly cut throughout the movie though the ideas may also be metaphorically placed. More often than not, the filmmakers hope to achieve reactions from the audience and also expect the viewers to reexamine the traditions and values in the play (Fernandes 2008 p 29). The paper will focus on two films that were crafted to portray the struggles of women.The films, Portrait of Teresa and Salt of the Earth highlights the women’s rights ...

Report on six (6) pieces of art work of the Louvre Museum

The aim of this essay is to present you with a detailed description of six (6) different pieces of art work which are to be found and seen in the Louvre Museum. A description of these art works along with a brief background informative on their creation, their artists as well as their thesis in the field of art, are to be analyzed in this essay. In addition, the thoughts of me while observing them and seeing them in the Museum, the personal reflections, along with the portraying of the feelings generated within myself, which followed the experience of looking ...

Introduction

Cubism refers to a style of art that emphasize and stress on the abstract structure other than other pictorial elements .It displays and demonstrate many aspects of one object at the same time as well as fragmentation of the of the same object. This artistic style involves the use of paints and sculptures as well as movements in music and architecture. The use three-dimensional structures lead to cubism. This style does not base only in the traditional works but it gathers inspiration from all cultures of the world. Most works of art in cubism were done buy Picasso, Juan Gris, ...

In naming this piece, Damien Hirst compels us to confront the message of End Game: our vanity and mortality. Hirst draws from the vanitas (Latin for vanity) genre of paintings of the 17th century, which depicted decaying animals and fruits and human skulls. The effect was to remind us of the temporality of all life. Hirst too wants us to stand face to face with our own personal “end game.” End Game is a large-scale sculpture. It measures 77 X 148 X 20 inches and stands up along a wall at one end of the gallery. The main component of ...

Introduction and Thesis

‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is a very famous and much-anthologized poem. It is a dramatic monologue written in rhyming iambic pentameters – that is to say the poet adopts the voice of someone else and speaks throughout as that person. It was first published in 1842 and is one of many dramatic monologues that Browning wrote. This poem is based on real historical events. Duke Alfonso II of Modena and Ferrara (1559 – 1597) married Lucrezia de Doctors and she died four years after the wedding in mysterious circumstances. This is the starting point for Browning’s poem. Victorian Britain was ...

Postmodernism is a movement of art that emerged in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among all art movements, this one is considered to be the most controversial (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This movement defies definition and is said to have fundamentally introduced an unstable mix of theoretical and theatrical. It was majorly multifaceted and was characterized by elements ranging from the luxurious to the completely ridiculous (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This new brand of art is considered to have shattered some of the previously established ideas and styles as well as generally introducing radical freedom to ...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is similar to Joyce novel, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in regards to the evil of that exists in the society. One can see how people deteriorate slowly based on the evil that is within. Similar to the actions of Stephen with the prostitute, the evil present in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” shows how individuals create their personal evil. In addition, both writers employ different stylistic approach to writing. The dialogue is in simple language in the “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” The reader clearly sees where each ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ better known as Mona Lisa has captivated the hearts and minds of millions for several hundreds of years since its conception. It is truly a great work of art in that it is basically simple yet its true life approach makes it one of the most desirable paintings ever to grace a collection of great masters. Principally, Mona Lisa contains a visual expression of a woman in the height of her prime. Her staring gaze is undeterred by what is going on around her; she almost seems to be completely fixated with what is in the foreground ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories. Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when be painted “ ...

Keith Haring used continuous lines in his art work. Specifically, he used strong lines to draw in his art at a high speed hence he was very careful to ensure that no mistakes were made in his art work. The use of lines in his work was to ensure that his work would be easily recognized. In addition, he wanted to make sure that people could easily read his work. The combination of white lines and dots are use in his art to clearly define the black regions. Keith has also use dots in his work to differentiate the colors of ...

Te Pehi Kupe's "Self Portrait."

The two portraits of Te Pehi Kupe present a sharp contrast on how different cultures view an individual. When first viewed they seem very different. However, when the aspects of context come into play the similarities are abundant. By examining each of the aspects of context one by one these similarities can be brought into sharp focus. Both portraits were completed in about the same year, at the same place and of the same subject. Both portraits may even have been created at the request of the same individual. The differences arise from how the artist portrayed the subject. The ...

- Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece- embraces the use of oil on oak panel. Thus, the artist uses objects from the material world. These objects symbolize spiritual ideas. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style

- Jan van Eyck, Arnolfin & His Wife. The materials used are oil on oak. The portrait is that of Giovanni and his wife Cenami standing side by side in a bridal chamber. He is holding the hand of his wife. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style.

- Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban. It is a portrait of a man in a ...

Raphael’s The Woman with a Veil (1516)

Raphael’s painting, The Woman with a Veil (1516), exemplifies the values of the Renaissance. This portrait in particular shows a young lady elegantly dressed. A cream-colored veil descending down past her shoulders down her back neatly covers her brown hair. The exquisite detailing of her dress and veil exhibit the attention to detail for which Renaissance painters are known.

She has a few strands of curly hair that are not tucked into her hairdo. Attached to her head band that holds the veil in place is one pearl that stands out against her dark hair. The red of her lips is ...

CONTEXT AND COMPARISON OF

In reaction to the decadence and corruption so pervasive in the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation sought to introduce an asceticism into the artistic world of its followers. Martin Luther, as well as others who followed him, advocated the destruction of art in churches, particularly images of saints, muted color schemes for the artwork that remained, and an emphasis on images either of Jesus or of contemporary leaders and heroes of the movement. Joseph Koerner’s book The Reformation of the Image (2004) compellingly shows how visual art became indispensable to a religious movement built on words. In a time ...

The painting “Harbor in Normandy” was completed by Georges Braque in 1909. Braque used oil to paint the image of a harbor on an oil canvas (Kern 45). The subjects of the painting include boats approaching a harbor guided by the light houses from a distance. This is a landscape painting with a spatial sensation. Braque uses this technique to capture the element of expanse space in the large water body. Braque uses forms of lightly painted forms to fill out the landscape. He also uses light shading to complement the dark colors that represent the sky and the light houses. This shading ...

After the century in which Vincent van Gogh lived, the early twentieth century was a period of continuous change in politics, economy, and society. The revolutionized printing press liberated the people’s minds from the curtains of naiveté and transformed the society into a modernized culture where freedom of expression is highly valued. Frida Kahlo was a female Mexican artist who often noted through her expressive self-portraits which are characterized by her solid and thick eyebrows similar to a man. Her paintings reflect the pain, her dreams, and her life hidden from the public view.

The Life and Works of Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon was born ...

Introduction

Pablo Picasso, born in Spain in 1881 learnt his art at the Barcelona school of fine arts at a tender age of 14. His father was a master in the art of drawing and because of this he received early recognition. His painting styles throughout his career were always changing characterized by different shades of colors. He went from shades of blue to shades of pink. Picasso passed on after a prostate operation in 1973. On the other hand, Amadeo Modigliani was born in 1884 in a Jewish family and got his education in Venice and Florence. He studied the works of Botticelli. ...

Darkness and Light, the documentary film by Helen Whitney, follows the life’s work of Richard Avedon, a legend who sparked a revolution in the world of fashion and portrait photography. The documentary provides viewers with in-depth insight into the inspirations, personal life, and work ethics of Avedon. The thing that stands out about Avedon after watching the documentary is the fact that he tries to nurture perceptions that are discarded by most people. Richard Avedon appears to be a photographer who is really in tune with himself. It is easy to be impressed by Avedon, mainly because of his never ...

Chuck Close’s “Frank”: Everyman as Art

The late author Douglas Adams said that art is holding a mirror up to the Universe – although he then pointed out that there was not a mirror big enough, since the Universe was infinite in size. So what’s an artist to do? American artist Chuck Close brings that mirror down to size by making his subject huge. In “Frank” (1969), a grey-toned acrylic painting of a black-and-white photograph, an everyday man becomes a monumental work of art. Close shows that the everyman is just as valid a subject for art than classical themes or the upper class. It has only been very recently ...

Heather Dina’s’ Photograph – Two Brides, At Your Feet

Heather Dina’s’ Photograph – Two Brides, At Your Feet The first impression that I got from the portrait was different from what it has been named by the artist. I noticed only one bride at the feet of a man. However, closely seeing the photography, I was able to sense how Dina’s had induced the perception of two brides. The portrait evoked a reserved, raw and intense feeling within me. It reflected the gesture of helplessness and domination simultaneously, introducing the subject of strength and humility. I noticed desertion in the bride while domination in the man standing beside ...

Critical review of Chinese Art and Literature

Introduction: Chinese art is varied and intriguing both in the literary or dramatic aspect, as well as in the visual aspect. These two articles analyse various aspects of Chinese art dating back to several centuries. A typical example of the development of Chinese art are the famous flower paintings by Chien Hsuan that date back to at least the thirteenth century. This work, which according to a fifteenth century colophon, dates from Xhien’s maturity and is probably one of the finest of his flower paintings, apart from its interaction with poetry. The painting also reveals the richness and ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a portrait of Blanche DuBois, the leading female figure of the play ‘A Streetcar named Desire’ written by Tennessee Williams, a widely acknowledged theatrical writer whose works have been greeted with lots of admiration and enthusiasm. Most of his works have been generating tones of enthusiasm and admiration, attracting people’s interest constantly ever since their first appearance on stage. Some of his roles like the one of Stanley or Blanche in ‘The Streetcar named Desire’ or the one of Kim Cattrall in ‘The sweet birth of youth’ have been considered ...

Analysis of an individual’s portrait who is working hard to make changes in the field of Educational bullying – Analysis of this social issue of bullying in schools- Reflections drawn upon this person’s actions and work and the results of his effort in the field of Education [The author’s name]

Abstract

This paper will present you with the demonstration of an individual’s performance. This performance is the action and work done on behalf of this individual in the field of a social issue which has been generating increasing concern during the recent years. The paper will focus ...

This is an analysis of ‘The Glass Menagerie’. ‘The Glass Menagerie’ is a theatrical play which has been considered among the borders of the literary community as a play carrying lots of autobiographical elements of the author. This play which opened the path to his author Tennessee Williams for recognition and admiration won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. This is an analysis of the play’s main thematic core which is the loneliness of people and the way it is experienced by the members of a family. The portrait presented here is the portrait of a family whose world is so fragile ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ better known as Mona Lisa has captivated the hearts and minds of millions for several hundreds of years since its conception. It is truly a great work of art in that it is basically simple yet its true life approach makes it one of the most desirable paintings ever to grace a collection of great masters. Principally, Mona Lisa contains a visual expression of a woman in the height of her prime. Her staring gaze is undeterred by what is going on around her; she almost seems to be completely fixated with what is in the foreground ...

In modern times we are bombarded with so many images in our everyday existence it can often be difficult to distinguish what is “true” and what is a falsity. In the days of CGI filming and overly airbrushed photos, it seems that people are more willing to except photographic trickery than they are to accept photography as a documentation of truth (Mirzoeff 89 ). Photography was originally thought of as the ultimate truth, documenting people and events in real time, however this is often no longer the reality. By looking at images in our everyday life with an analytical eye we can ...

In 1875, the renowned American artist Thomas Eakins presented the world with one of the finest specimens of arts- ‘The Gross Clinic’ or ‘The Clinic of Dr. Gross’ (Floryan, "Eakins's The Gross Clinic"). It is basically a portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross with his students in a clinic and includes a self-portrait of Thomas Eakins himself and Dr Franklin West to the right of Dr Gross (Floryan). The artwork has been recognised as the finest 19th century painting by The New York Times in 2002 (Kimmelman, Art Review: A Fire Stoking Realism). It definitely deserves all the appreciation and recognition. This ...

Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland

The painting depicts three young women (girls) gathered around a chessboard with an older appearing woman looking on. The two girls in the utmost foreground appear to be playing each other in the chess game. The girl on the left, the tallest one, is staring straight at the viewer and smiling. The girl on the right, middle height, is looking at the girl on the left and has her hand raised, perhaps conceding the game or questioning a move. The way her mouth is represented suggests that she is speaking. The question of why the girl on the right has her ...

Gregory P Levine is a distinguished scholar for his masterly work in analyzing the historical events in Japan. He wrote an article “Switching Sites and Identities: The Founder's Statue at the Buddhist Temple Korin'in” which he describes a Japanese portrait statue made during the seventeenth century. The statue displays the monk Shokei Jofu that is found the Zen Buddhist temple Korin’in in Kyoto. The statue had inscriptions, which are significant for historical analysis by those of interest. Levine based his interest on the inscriptions and the order of temples site with the portrait as he carried out his research. He ...

Introduction

During the visit to Virginia Jamestown settlement, a young white boy who was staring a pleasant bronze marking the ground entrance, the statue of the Pocahontas spat on it and said it was Indian. The parents remained silent and this amazed Robertson. That particular moment ignited his curiosity on the interaction between the English settlers, the development of the modern codes of class and race and the indigenous population. The interest of Robertson was provoked by the discovery of the fact that Pocahontas had witnessed the masque in the court of Jacobs. This offered the access possibility of the reaction of ...