Essays on Portrait

Albrecht Durer was a versatile and gifted German artist of the Renaissance period. The brilliant painter left a strong impact on the medium of printmaking and commercial centers in Europe. The artist is known to create a number of striking self-portraits that assert his creative genius (Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) 2016). His Self-Portrait wearing a coat with fur collar is done on a wooden panel in 1500. The essay discusses the Self-Portrait as well as the importance of the gaze in the portrait that is considered the most personal and complex. The self-portrait was done in 1500 was ...

China has always been considered to be one of the strongest empires in the world, where a lot of military achievements took place due to a very fast development of new kinds of weapons and protection systems. China was impossible to defeat. Having the largest population in the world, it took care of all the people to get education. For the Western world, it wasn’t easy to understand the complex Chinese culture. While there was already presidency in Europe and women fought for the rights, the Chinese still had emperors and aimed on conquering more lands. Their women ...

The episodes in ‘The Magic School Bus’ by Bruce Degen and Joanna Cole display a series of pediatric issues through an equal display of various adventures that children experience in a magic bus. ‘Gets Lost in Space’ is among the episodes in the series (The Magic School Bus) that vastly display an array of pediatric issues in the event of children’s development (Cole & Degen, 2009). The episode unfolds in both DVD and VHS media channels, which equally facilitate for the expression of development issues in children. The VHS media version runs for a maximum time of thirty minutes, ...

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Abstract George Washington was the first president of the U.S. There are many portraits of Washington. Some of them are well-known while others are less-known. “George Washington Miniature” is an investigative documentary on a historical point, i.e. tiny colored painting of a man, who is labeled as “G. Washington.” It was a less known painting. On the back of the painting, it was written, “Property of White Matlack. New York, 1790.” This painting was present in a Manhattan’s old building. Wes Cowan, who was a host of "History Detectives" investigated the painting in 2009. He ...

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Salvador Dali can be considered the iconic painter of the surrealist movement. He was cheeky, provocative, ironic, and disrespectful in his attitude to all he came in contact with. He took the foundations of surrealism to their extreme. Dali raised surrealism to a higher artistic level by depicting emotions and thoughts ranging from realism to delirium. His unusual creativity is evocative because of its mysteriousness and uncertainty. This paper attempts to discover a little more about this Spanish artist and takes a look at one of his most famous paintings.

Curatorial Statement The exhibition, “Thirty Years of Dali” has ...

In My Last Duchess, a Duke shows his guest the painting of his late wife and gradually reveals how her perceived infidelity enraged him into killing her. Browning narrates the scene through the voice of the duke, allowing understanding to dawn naturally on the reader as though they are hearing the story firsthand. This makes the horror of the poem a personal experience for the reader, who uncovers clues throughout about the death of the Duchess, feels as though they are engaging personally with the Duke, and finally, comes to realize the crime of the story and apply that ...

A Socio-Linguistic Study

Literature Review A Socio-Linguistic Study

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The enduring widespread political and public engagements in the Arab world have actually empowered many segments of the public in those regions. The debate on the impact of social media on various aspects of the Arab world as well as globally continues among the Arab policy makers. The incessant strong progress, acceptance and diversity of the usage of social media platforms across the entire Arab world in the recent years, specifically in 2012points to the fact that many well-known movements like the Arab Spring and extensive social media usage are sweeping the Arab world. ...

The sagas of Icelanders developed as a new literary genre among the Icelandic authors. These sagas describe characters who are essentially farmers or their sons who were at the lower strata of the social ladder. These authors depicted the life in Iceland as they had experienced it or visualized it in the past. In fact, the Icelandic literature is seen as an authentic source of information by the historians who find a significant amount of truth in each saga. These sagas offer a valuable insight into the framework of a unique medieval community. Egil’s Saga records origins of ...

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Effective marketing strategies that are designed and implemented by smart marketers focus on the consumer behavior. In particular, successful fashion brands pay attention to the consumers’ perception of their own selves. Self-concept defines the consumer choice of apparel, shoes, and accessories. Without knowing the consumers’ perception of their own selves, it would be hard for the fashion marketers to position the products in the market successfully. The paper analyzes the role that the knowledge and understanding can play in implementing effective marketing strategies. There is also a brief comparison between the marketing strategies of Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, to ...

"Jeune orpheline au cimetière" and "Jane, Countess of Harrington" symbolize two different periods of the art history. Young Orphan Girl in the Cemetery is an early work of Eugène Delacroix, the master of French Romanticism. The picture is full of sadness - there is a young orphan girl in a white gown, which slightly shows her bare shoulders. She is looking somewhere beyond the picture frame and Delacroix shows the girl's despair through certain elements like tears in her dark eyes or her lying hand. She seems to be distracted from what surrounds her, the artist uses ...

Synesthesia is an event by which the prompting of one sense group gives stimulation to a sensation in another group. The term synesthesia according to Campen and Froger (2008), comes from the Greek terms syn that means together and aesthesis which means to perceive.1 At present, the most popular and widely known form of synesthesia is the hearing of vowels or music in color. Campen and Froger (2008) also add that the different types of synesthesia such as the sense of smell is stimulated by one or more senses such as hearing and sight.2 Color Synesthesia for one is ...

Horas Brothers and Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

The painting has the ancient Greek simplicity and details of neoclassicism. Although the crowning ceremony brings magnificence and decorations to mind, I see the plainest and detailed form of the nobility after examining the art. It has been drawn in such detail that every guest there is easily noticed, and the richness of the clothes they wear is so detailed that it creates the feeling that you have taken it into your hands and examined it. At that moment, everyone gathered for a vital coronation and watched it in excitement. This enthusiasm and excitement are one of the signs of ...

Cranford, Cynthia J., Leah Vosko, Nancy Zukewich. “Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 16 (2010): 6-22. Web. 1 Oct. 2013.

The increase of precarious employment poses a significant challenge to policies that support current income yet it remains a largely neglected part in policy-making. The article uses data from the Labor Force Survey and the General Social Survey to examine the relationship between gender, forms of employment and dimensions of precarious employment in Canada. According to the article, most women work in part-time and casual wage ...

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The work of the architect depicts a Koran having Islamic writings in it. The first page of the Koran represented by the artist, Dr. completed Rahman who is an accomplished professor in the faculty of arts, the portray can be analyzed and be interpreted for example the subject matter in this scenario lies on the portray which has a symbolic meaning of showing the role of the portray for example since it is a Koran then it depicts the tool that the Muslims use in their religious practices.

The sensory qualities illuminated in the portray touches on how one feels when ...

Art is a powerful tool of story-telling and Vincent Van Gogh had some stories to share. This brilliant artist had the most tragic destiny. No one appreciated his work; he spent some time in the asylum, because of the severe depression. But Van Gogh managed to find a close friend, who stayed with him till the death. This person was Van Gogh’s doctor – Paul Gachet. Vincent felt that Gachet was just like him. He even wrote a letter to his brother Theo and described his doctor was sick (Aronson and Ramachandran). Van Gogh was right – Gachet himself was struggling with a ...

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Francisco de Goya was a Spanish romantic painter, to whom the specialists regard as to the last from the Old Masters. Being a court painter to the Spanish Crown, he painted multiple churches, done portraits of monarchs of those times.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes a Spanish painter and printmaker was born on March 30th 1746 in Fuendetodos - a small village in northern Spain. In the family of Jose Goya, Francisco was the youngest out of three sons. All of Goya brothers managed to get a basic education. In 1763 Goya moved to Madrid, where he tried to enroll the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The aim of this paper is to define the relationship between the court and artistic patronage. There have been a number of portraits that have been created in order to fulfill the demands of the heir to celebrate their success and political power. Therefore, it can be said that the portraits in the ancient times have been clearly used to indicate the power and notions of one’s ruling era. Italian Renaissance includes various portraits that have been discussed in this paper to closely assess the era of Italian Renaissance. The paper also discusses that the avid need of portraits ...

One artist captures you with his subtle strokes while the other captivates with the sheer drama that happens in the canvas. Vermeer and El Greco-artists with completely different styles yet united by the magic they bring about in the emotions of their figures. In the two paintings of Vermeer, ‘Study of a Young Woman’ and ‘Young Woman with a Water Pitcher’, there is a certain sense of stillness and serenity as opposed to the paintings of El Greco which is rather dramatic. Perhaps it is the setting and theme of the paintings, but the two works of El Greco, ‘Opening of the ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Simply stated, an optical illusion is something that fools an individual’s mind and eyes into perceiving reality falsely. Optical illusions can be found everywhere in photographs, drawings, unusual solid objects, holograms, as well as natural phenomena such as mirage. I have had an experience with a number of optical illusions which include mirages, holograms and a drawing known as the Hermann Grid Illusion.

When taking a walk along the road on a very hot sunny day, one will tend to see a puddle of water at a distance. However, this is not water to quench thirst but rather an optical illusion known as mirage. ...

- 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 ...

Large crowds gather at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria to witness the official opening of the Urban Thunderbirds: Ravens in a Material World exhibition. This is even is a milestone courtesy of the western civilization and current changes. This event features the main actor such as Coast Salish, Rande Cook, and Francis Dick. This exhibition signifies the existence of cultural practices in the modern world. The artists resemble native people who employ tactful ways to relay information. The artists use art skills to elaborate cultural practices in the contemporary world. The Ravens in a Material World is a beautiful collection of art ...

Renaissance refers to the process of rebirth and it took place in many ways. Dating back to 1350, parts of Northern Italy experience the beginning of this rebirth process. It took place after the country underwent a period of ravaging from the Black Death, which swept away a third of the Italian population. Among the earliest pieces that represent the renaissance took the form of art and architecture. In the art, literature also appeared as a form of presenting this new birth. Decameron by Giovanni presented the renaissance in literature between 1313 and 1370. It presented the tale of men who escaped ...

Art is an expression. It is borne from a feeling, an idea, and an act that deserves an eternal glisten. How artists may go about choosing which moments, which facts, or realisation is a political act. But when a region of artists follows, the politics become a dedicated genre. If pressed to divide the entire history of Art, there are two categories: the theatre of Baroque, and the stillness of Neoclassicism.

The Baroque Era and Neoclassic Period are cousins, carrying very similar traits but altogether different in their achievements. The parent to these genres is the Renaissance. In their respective years, the phase ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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The purpose and scope of this paper is to evaluate the leadership potentials that assisted Barack Obama to become president of United States in the year 2008. During, American antiquity there has been many significant leaders who have carried impartiality, self-determination, and transformation to its country. Several great leaders and lastly the head of the state of the USA Barack Obama, there have been many countless individuals who have completed history. As the first Black culture to turn ...

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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 ...

Most of us would probably have to take a peek at a twenty dollar bill in order to answer whose portrait appears on it, and perhaps some of us might not even know his name. As for those who answered Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, they are definitely correct. Anyone who has not read Jon Meacham’s American Lion: Andrew Jackson would be curious as to why Andrew Jackson's portrait appears on our currency. American Lion is a biography of Andrew Jackson, but the book specifically focuses on the 8 years and 2 terms that he spent ...

In the early 1800s, Neoclassical writing was par for the course; works were typically very restrained, conservative, and focused on structure more than anything else. However, as the 19th century rolled along, more and more authors (including Washington Irving and

James Fenimore Cooper) found themselves writing stories of passion, full of experimentation and discovery. In these works, notions of established language and literary structure were challenged, as the Romantics ceased believing in the established systems of literature and created wholly new works that were free from restraint. While the works of Smith demonstrate the observational, dry and formal writing ...

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 ...

Hellenistic Civilizations

a. Art form or medium b. Purpose of the piece c. Individual or group responsible for the piece d. Meaning of the work e. The culture and the artist f. Influence by art and culture from previous civilizations g. Relation to artwork within the same civilization or era h. Meaning and value of the piece in modern-day cultures The different art forms and media whether architecture, music, visual art, or literature from different past civilization offer the modern civilization spectacular cultures and pieces that continue to greatly influence and act as a ...

Da Vinci’s ‘La Joconde’ 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, La Joconde 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 ...

”No Woman No cry”

One of the most interesting types of art that has always been depicting the main specifications of different time periods in the art history were paintings. Special place here has to be given to portraits that depicted people that lived in different time periods and the way people were seen by the painter in particular and the society in general. Artists have been using women to express their attitude to society for centuries. That is why women’s portraits are used for the current project proposal. The current project proposal is connected with two artworks from very different ...

Traditional and cultural domains that hinder the development of the intellectual capacity of the society extensively affect the protagonist in the narrative ‘Jacob’s Room’. Jacob is conflicted in some dimensions as he wades through the journey of masculinity and the affirmation of self-determination to succeed in life. Throughout the stages of his development, Jacob paints a picture of hope in a situation where people are faced with some issues that affect the manner in which they perceive life. In some instance, the women are miserable because of the deficiencies that they face in the society. Traditions are one of ...

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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 Mona Lisa

The role of the artist in this case is to render a likeness of the individual who is to be in the portrait. During the Renaissance, the master artists such as Leonardo da Vinci were commissioned to paint the portraits of the wealthy citizens of Florence and the other major cities in Italy at the time. The artist’s function was simply to render and create the portrait of the customer or the subject. The art piece may have had several functions. The first is to “immortalize” the image of the subject so that his or her image could be ...

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1. History Deutsche Lufthansa AG is one of the leading airlines worldwide and the largest in Germany. It resulted from the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr on 6 January 1926 (“1920s” n. p.). By 1931, it served Paris, Barcelona, Rome, and Oslo, accounting for a third of all passenger travel in Europe. Its operations stopped in the Second World War, near the war’s end, and formally dissolved in 1951. It resumed in 1954 as a new entity called Aktiengesellschaft fur Luftverkehrsbedarf or Luftag. In April 1955, it started its transatlantic ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an exceptional book by James Joyce, a renowned Irish writer. Arguably, one of the key aspects of the story is the depiction of a character, Stephen Dedalus, who aspires to be an artist. The story explores his transformation from the good and religious boy he is to a man who ends up running away from his hometown, denouncing his religion and social constraints looking for a world of freedom to express his artistic self. The story navigates the transformation of the boy from an immature believer to a mature college student who can decide what ...

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Our universe is vast and the creatures living in it are very much diverse in their own ways. We human beings are all unique from each other—which, I think, makes us special. The way that we think, act, and speak is makes us distinct from other creatures and from one another as well. Although separated by various cultural and geographical boundaries such as language and traditions, we are still able to connect to each other through the understanding of humanities tied along with history. I, for one, learned to support and strengthen the local arts in my ...

Possibly one of the most fascinating films of Abbas Kiarostami’s career (to say nothing of its contribution to Iranian cinema), 1990’s Close-Up is a masterful exploration of identity, filmmaking, and the fuzzy distinctions that are often made between fiction and documentary films. Existing somewhere between those two film genres, Close-Up follows the events surrounding the actual trial of Hossein Sabzian, who is brought up on charges of impersonating the famous Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Kiarostami, in his use of the real figures involved in the case in scripted scenes (re-enacting the real events that occurred) manages to combine ...

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 ...

Art criticism, although initially believed to be a negative aspects, involves responding to an artwork, interpretation of the meaning, as well as making a critical judgments (“Art Criticism and Formal Analysis Outline,” n.d). Since every artist targets a particular audience, it is necessary that art critics help the viewers in the interpretation, perception, and the judgment of the work. Such may take place in various ways. First, the art critics may describe the work without necessary placing value on it. One may also analyze the work i.e. determining the features as used by the creator and how the element brings out the ...

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 aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the readings of the novel ‘Passion’ written in 1987 by Jeanette Winterson. Jeanette Winterson has been widely acknowledged within the borders of the literary community as one of the writers who succeed in bonding their stories closely to mystery and passion, somewhere between magic and reality. This paper will present you with the main idea of Passion and will prove that people’s lives are conquered by Passion in such a way that Passion can neither be considered exclusively benefactoring nor destructive. It depends on the ...

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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. ...

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

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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 ...

Artistic pieces from the past and present times impact the community positively in many ways as most of the artistic products produced relays and display information and themes that happen in the society. The broad categories that constitute artistic features such as sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography, music, sketches among others have made it possible for artists to relay and convey the intended messages with ease. Each artistic feature it is noted suits well in conveying certain themes and messages to its audience even though a variety of styles and techniques available can make many artistic products display the same messages ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Egon Schiele is an important representative of the Klimt school of painting where grotesqueness and crudity come to the fore. He came from a humble background and was born in 1890, in the town of Tulln, that is situated in the state of Lower Austria. Since Schiele’s father worked with Austrian railways, the young Egon was fascinated with trains and began drawing at a feverish pace. Unfortunately, his father did not approve of his new hobby and tore up most of his sketchbooks thus making the artistic world lose a substantial body of early work by Schiele, since this would have ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Faulkner is acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. What has appealed most to his readers is his mastery in depicting the identity and legacy lying in the North. North is seen on behalf of Faulkner as a geographical and cultural independent field which has always affected Americans greatly. North has always been regarded a place of mythical power, carrying its unique character of its people, their mentality and their difficulty in coming in terms with their true selves and / or the progress of the worldwide community, which finds itself under constant changes and progress. These ...

Paintings and sculptures in ancient Rome were used to develop quite an array of subjects to ornament both public and private buildings. The Romans were known for their prowess as architects, city planners and decorators of public and private spaces. This is due to the fact they could design for functions or even for beauty. The ancient art work in Rome maybe attributed to historians such as Pliny. Romans in the ancient times lived in highly visual societies that were surrounded by images. Some of these paintings range from those on walls such as Pompeii, Herculaneum. These paintings portrayed ...

Images constantly surround us in our everyday lives. Our eyes and brains are so saturated with visual information that we sometimes do not notice the power/influence images hold over us. Images/objects/monuments did not materialize out of thin air! They were created within particular cultures/societies and mirrored these societies’ concerns. Thus, almost all changes and/or developments in style and iconography reflect changes within a society political, social, religious. In looking at all the arts, in the world from the ancient times to the modern world it is clear that they have all portrayed something of importance at that time. Some examples ...

Art of the 20th century is universally regarded as Modern Art. Modern Art comprised paintings that are revolutionary in forms and representations. Revolution in the sense of modern paintings is a way to describe the alterations done by modern artists to the common aspects and traditional representations of art on canvas. Among such brave, intelligent, and creative minds that dared the conventions of traditional painting and brought innovation to the art on canvases were Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. Both became known for their own styles as well as for the tumultuous aspects of their lives such as relationships with ...

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty begins his essay “Eye and Mind” with a comment on science. Studying the world in the manner that science does, takes a person out of one’s body, he says. It places the world in a series of definitions, constructs, indices and variables, allowing only the understanding of minute, exact changes to have a status of legitimacy. He says science “comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals” (Ponty, 121). For any lover of art who lives in this practical, rational capitalistic society, this point of view is refreshing. Today, typically, the real world is referred to ...