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While I was at the El Paso Art Museum a piece of artwork caught my eye. The piece is called Dona Josefa by Manuel Acosta. I find Manuel Acosta’s painting very interesting because it was made out of oil paint. In my opinion I feel like oil paint is a very beautiful technique to use. I feel the paint makes the painting pop out to the audience and makes it have a shine. Dona Josefa painting has a lot of visual elements that helps the audience understand the piece of artwork. Lastly the artwork of…

Vision and Sound: Polyphony in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s Walls The term polyphony, meaning multiple voices, has its origin in Western music. Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian thinker has adopted the term polyphony to explain the nature of Dostoevsky’s novels. In his Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics Bakhtin says that Dostoevsky makes his characters free from his control and allows them to have their own voices. In the same work, Bakhtin later says that…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki uses “In Praise of Shadows” to relate to the audience by talking about the multitude of differences between traditional Japanese aesthetics and modern Western inventions. He shows how these differences affect the past culture, causing it to fade away with the introduction of innovations that are more useful, beneficial, and efficient. Tanizaki explains the deeper meaning and significance of the simplest things. The author explains how there is a significance to everything…

In this essay, I will be contrasting Donald Judd’s untitled 1980 sculpture and Renne Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ 1929 painting. I will be weighing up the positives and negatives of both the sculpture and painting and finally concluding my essay with my opinion. Renne Magritte’s ‘The treachery of images’ is a painting that of surrealism, which creates a three-way irony of an object that corresponds to words and image. The painting itself is a pipe, with a phrase in French “Ceci n’est…

Both Zarqa Nawaz and Sarah Macdonald represent non-western religions within western popular culture formats (a television sitcom and a travelogue). You are to write an essay comparing and contrasting these two representations and consider how they address, resist, combat or reproduce orientalism. The portrayal of orient as distinct from the oxidant is evident in both the representations. Both the representations, i.e. the travelogue and television sitcom are creation of oxidants (Zarqa Nawaz and…

Marx and Erich Fromm to explain in detail the influences this system has on our modern day relationships; with specific focus on the western wedding as the epitome of capitalistic control on intimacy. Capitalism can be explained as an economic and political system in which a country 's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, as opposed to the state (Marx, 1956). It is characterised by innovation and invention working together to produce and exchange commodities in order…

Introduction The leadership style of Quint Studer reminds me of a bulb, not because the Studer Group and Foundation carries his name has a bulb in the logo, on the contrary, it encourages to “be the bulb.” As described by Cokeley in (2012) an electric current flowed through a filament of carbonized thread and brought the world into light on New Year’s Eve 1879. It was Edison’s vision, and willingness to share that created dynamic change. Both Edison and Studer are exemplar they set raised bar,…

In this essay the paintings Charles, I at the hunt and The Blue Boy will be compared to one another specifically in subject matter, media and composition in relevance to their eras and styles. Anthony Van Dyck created the painting Charles, I at the Hunt and later Thomas Gainsborough created The Blue Boy after being inspired by Van Dyck’s artwork. Both pieces share similarities, as well as distinct differences. Van Dyck created Charles, I at the Hunt in the images of King Charles I in 1635…

is a beautiful example of Greuze’s talent in portraying emotion by successfully combining the elements of art which enhance the mood of the image. Greuze creates a well constructed composition through the use of line, color and light to convey the state of being at rest and nearing a peaceful slumber. His use of smooth, flowing lines which curve with the figure draws the viewers gaze to the figures face highlighting the serene expression. The direction of the curving lines created by the…

Artists Gustave Caillebotte and Clide Hassam are rewound painters who spent their careers depicting scenes of everyday life in various levels of impressionism. Combined, the two provide for an excellent comparison of how specific techniques used for their works elicit different emotions and interpretations. Specifically, Caillebotte’s Paris Street: Rainy Day and Hassam’s A Rainy Day of Fifth Avenue capture similar scenarios in roughly an analogous time frame, allowing viewers to focus strictly…