Essays on Still Life

Exhibition Critique

The critique at hand presents impressions and critical comments regarding the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.. The analysis was done on the virtual museum tour provided on the YouTube (“A Woman’s Touch: The National Museum of Women in the Arts”). Despite the huge difference between the physical visit and the virtual one, there is still an opportunity to understand and assess the exhibitions that refer to the major subject of the role of women in the arts and history. The most astonishing fact is that many people, even well-educated, are used to the ...

American painter John Frederick Peto created mostly still-life painting. A distinctive feature of his paintings was similar theme of dilapidated, time worn nature of what is depicted on his paintings. The objects of his attention include old books, lamps, boards, tubes, photos, everything that bears a particularly visible impact of aging, the inevitable influence of time and use. In the XIX century, when the artist lived and created his paintings, such images were not popular among the general audience preferring to see on the canvases something luxurious and rich. Only after his death, huge interest arose to Peto`s ...

Sexuality and gender have no place in the modern world, but while reading the work of Diane Seuss and Emily Dickinson, it is clear sexuality and gender are a part of every aspect of life, similar to a universal truth that has no chance of changing any time soon. Poetry has the ability to tell a story through multiple verses, lines, or stanzas. This paper will focus on the works of Seuss and Dickinson, while discussing the formal elements of both poems. The first poem described is “Still Life with Self-Portrait” by Diane Seuss discusses the painting by Cornelius ...

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist, was born on in the house of her parents, known as Casa Azul – the Blue House – in town Coyoacan, the suburb of Mexico City. Her father - Wilhelm Kahlo – had German roots, moved to Mexico in his early age. Her mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez had mixed Spanish and Indian roots. At the age of six, she has contracted the polio, which has made her to stay in bed for nine months. This disease has made her right leg and foot grow much thinner than her left one. She had to limp after the ...

The cultural event features some of the contemporary post-modernism artworks created by various artists. In this exhibit, the pictures present an interesting backdrop that attempts to illustrate the art of the 21st century. The first picture in the exhibit was Amber Garceau’s Dancer (see fig. 1), a photograph that depicts a man in the actual performance of dancing mid-air. The outlines of the right foot indicates the fast movement, the light shining from below creates the chiaroscuro and the shadows that emphasize the dancing male form. The random movement of dancing mid-air is truly a wonderful rendition on ...

Today, the name James Welling is famous due to his skill in photography. However, it turns out that this finest American photographer did not really have a background on photography. A native of Hartford, Connecticut, he was born in 1951 and spent a lot of his childhood near the border of Simsbury. His interest in art was honed in 1963; together with his friend, Julie Post, he pursued to become an artist. By 1965, he enrolled in one of Hartford’s finest arts schools, the Wadsworth Atheneum where he began his first attempt in painting using watercolor pigments as ...