In Theodore Dalrymple’s What We Have to Lose, Dalrymple explores the human ability to convey meanings and higher thought as a means to differentiate the civilized from the uncivilized. He alludes to the notion that the main factor that distinguishes humanity is our ability to make art and other expressive mediums that can articulate the different and complex emotions and thoughts that we experience. His main methodology to support his argument is through various anecdotes.…
History of Art During my visit at Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, I came across several modern and contemporary artists. At the time of my visit the museum displayed different pieces created by women artists, they called this, “You Go Girl!” exhibit. While viewing these works I viewed different artists with different pieces but similar themes. Each artist used their art to convey issues or their feelings using different techniques.…
Art, Action & Revival by David S. Fetcho is definitely one of the most thought out and thoughtful articles that I have read on the church and theatre in a long time. Fetcho begins his article with stating that “in many ways, the world of art and the Christian church are parallel universes. Both are concerned with the goal of becoming the point of social, psychological and spiritual integration for individuals and for society as a whole.” He’s quite right of course, and goes onto how the church and theatre ought to be married in the dramatic arts. He argues for the idea that the Christian artist, though a hundred years ago would have been crucified in the Church, is valiantly attempting to “reclaim lost ground--reclaiming territory that has…
Considering his arguments, however, it is not so difficult to, at the very least, comprehend the surface of his somewhat radical views on the dangers of the arts. It does not accurately reflect reality, which in turn can create a false image of the truth, spread by the individual who perceives it in that way. He argues that although we do get enjoyment from art, art in excess can change our own behaviours for the worse. In the end, art can only ever depict outward appearances to the ignorant observer, and that, in itself, is very dangerous…
I chose this picture because it demonstrates how the inner beauty is like a butterfly, it truly is enthralling. Butterflies are truly standout among the most lovely animals in this world. With its brilliant wings and lighthearted state of mind, butterflies enchant our feeling of sight and at some point or another, make us take a look at it more closer and see the beauty which is covered up inside. This is connected to the poem of "Beauty" by Tony Hoagland because like his sister her physical qualities, much like a butterfly's, intrigue us. She just realized at the end of the poem that the true beauty captivates and captures the heart is the personality.…
Since Ai Weiwei’s birth in 1957, his complete life story has sculpted him into the profound artist and social activist that he is today. After his father, a well known poet, was exiled during the anti-rightist campaign, Ai spent his first years in a labor camp. The circumstances of his childhood instilled a voice inside of Ai that would later invigorate his art. Ai explains the conditions of his children as having “no personal rights, no freedom of speech or expression” (Weiwei, 2008). Ai came to the conclusion that these conditions made it impossible for individuals to develop a self-conscious and awareness of esthetic values.…
Chapter eight highlights the importance of student’s prior knowledge, purposes of reading, and provides strategies to be used before, during, and after reading. Students must learn reading comprehension because without it reading does not provide the reader with any information. As a future educator, I will teach reading comprehension so I can help my students develop the knowledge, abilities, and experiences to become enthusiastic readers. Activating and using background knowledge is important to reading comprehension. I agree with the author that if readers have not been exposed to a writer’s language patterns, or to the objects and theories the writer discusses, then the students’ comprehension is incomplete.…
Warhol’s mass production of the ordinary in artwork, was indeed art for the masses. His work was not meant to stimulate those with selective taste, instead he appealed to the the everyday working class citizen. By making recognizable imagery he was able to illustrate the familiar in the artworld. Warhol’s work was originally critiqued for being low art and in many ways it still is. The definition of high and low art has greatly changed over the most recent decades.…
A Great And Terrible Beauty As a child, the first stories we are told are tales of magic and wonder of beautiful and brave princesses, the usual stories that let our imaginations thrive and explore. They keep our hopes and dreams alive, and can also provide an escape from the depressing world we all live in. In A Great And Terrible Beauty, the author Libba Bray builds a world where Gemma and her group of friends can only visit in their dreams. Gemma and her friends are whisked away to the Realms, where they can forget the troubles of their own life.…
Uncanny is the state of being odd in an unsettling way. Freud draws back to this phenomenon as the case of incidents wherein one becomes lost and accidentally retraces one's steps, and instances wherein random numbers recur. As if you can say that uncanny is similar to Deja vu but defers from it considering the aspect of the nature of the incident and not its circumstances. Uncanny is also characterized by the Uncanny Valley that resembles the unsettling factor. To be simpler, uncanny can be related to situations were human morals are offended.…
Susan Buck-Morss creates in her essay the concept of anaesthetics, explaining what it is, how it is created and showing some examples in which it can be productive. Her paper is also a dialogue with Benjamin’s “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”, trying to go further than him on his own arguments and giving his article a stronger ground of reality. In fact, the article rejects a pure discussion about ideas to enter the fields of cultural history and politics. In order to define anaesthetics, Buck-Morss creates a powerful and bold notion of aesthetics, going pretty far from its current general meaning.…
The decay of art is a relevant idea to society, as Children of Men’s reality presents to the viewer, the consequences of a world without art in people’s lives. If art is our way of expressing our imagination, our ability to attach meaning to something; taking it away is,…
Black music has been stolen throughout history and rebranded as a “white” genre. There is nothing white about rock & roll. The truth must be told about the origins of our culture and we must acknowledge those who have contributed to it. The university sets out to tell the whole truth and present a variety of perspectives in order to fully comprehend historical events. However, throughout history many perspectives have not been shared.…
Roy Lichtenstein’s Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too… But is one of his most well-known paintings, and some even dare to call it the most famous painting he has ever made. This piece depicts a teenage girl on the phone with her boyfriend Jeff as their relationship appears to be threatened by some outside force. Lichtenstein came up with the subject of this painting and many of his other paintings by copying and distorting single panels from comic books.…
The process of gazing at "secondary kinds of beauty" like physical beauty of a boy such as Tadzio, and it is a process, means reaching a place where one can see pure Beauty. Weil notes that "he will finally arrive at the center of the labyrinth. And there God is waiting to eat him. Later he will go out again, but he will be changed, he will have become different, after being eaten and digested by God" (Weil, 164). Obviously one is not literally eaten and digested by God, rather one climbs the ladder of love through beginning by gazing at secondary kinds of beauty with a lower case b, like Tadzio and eventually he becomes beautiful himself, he sees Beauty, he protects thing all around him that before he saw as ordinary.…