Essays on Velazquez

Introduction

The modern way of doing business in the current different market structures has proved that ethics is of great importance. Ethical undertakings within the frameworks of the different corporations and businesses make them more apt to gain the trust of their employees, customers, stockholders, and potential stakeholders. Failure to uphold greater heights and undertakings of ethics by any organization render the organizations a blurred future of survival in the competitive global market (Crane, A., & Matten, 2014).

Importance of ethics in business

Holding a greater standard of ethical value within our institutions and organization give encouragement to the employees and stakeholders to think beside the ...

The Ivy Bridge Devonshire (see fig. 1) was an oil painting created by the famous English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner from 1814 to 1815. The term ‘scenery porn’ aptly describes the artist’s magnificent use of lines as decorative element to create wonderful landscapes. The colors were mostly earth tones with chiaroscuro was highly executed, creating an unworldly appearance that illustrates the peaceful life of the common people in the early 19th century England. The painting shows a young man wearing a beret hat, running across the bridge towards the carriage probably echoing shouts to halt the carriage ...

BIOGRAPHY

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was a prolific Spanish Baroque painter who was born in 1599. The waning age of the Late Renaissance became the turning point for the rise of a new art movement so flamboyant and grotesque in its dramatic effects; it would be later known as the Baroque period. A native of Seville, he began painting at a tender age of 20 and one of his works was The Water Carrier of Seville, an evidence of his superb skill in painting intense and dramatic realism. The young genius had demonstrated his absolute talent and mastery ...