The work that I am analyzing is Bathsheba After the Bath by Jan Steen (1626-1679). I believe the meaning of the painting shows exactly what women had to endure to be presented to a man of high royalty and had no rights in the matter to reject his advances. The gloomy colors in the painting correlates with the emotion that Bathsheba expresses. Examining the painting I found interesting props surrounding Bathsheba and the maidservants. The painting tells the story of how King David sent for Bathsheba.…
To begin with this image uses the Pathos appeal. Just by looking at this image aggravates me because, it’s sending the inappropriate meaning to the youth women that struggle with anorexia or self-esteem issues that want to find freedom turning on the erroneous path to discover it. Moreover, this image portrays women as an object, the reason being is that on the picture it compares freedom with a tinny spray perfume, which it is inappropriate.…
The purse disappeared again, but this time by Mays doing, but again it came back to her. It is these moments, when the purse returns to her again and again, that show that May is haunted by this purse, her past.…
It is a photograph, with three-dimensional and naturalistic qualities. It has a narrative and is it asymmetrical. The main feeling I get when I look at this photograph is love. See how loving the couple is standing holding close to each other, enjoying their time together. In addition, a calming feeling is portrayed, they are relaxing, and their positioning of their bodies shows contentment.…
Tina Chen states that art creates false meanings in an image. Chen writes that Adorno feared that any attempt to represent the unimaginable in an aesthetic image would construct a morality and political ideology; transforming “the physical pain of those who were beaten down with rifle butts into something concrete, creating meaning”…
Rockwell’s paintings are distributed all over the world. His paintings describe different people and situations. I recently viewed different paintings by Rockwell, although some had the some had the same message that was portrayed. Artists normally have similarities between pictures, but Rockwell pictures stand out more because they express extreme realism. After browsing I noticed that Rockwell is very creative and talented.…
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.…
Often people go through life without analyzing objects. Most of us live life just doing the same old cycle of things but never stop to appreciate the beauty and emotion that an object can bring. This same thing happened to me until realizing the beauty of something so simple. A barbell.…
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As pieces of art go, not every piece can be considered easy to look at. In fact, most are considered unpleasant and difficult to understand with a deeper meaning that is hidden within it. The selection for this assignment is a painting titled Seated Bather (La Baigneuse) by the great Pablo Picasso. The artwork in question is an abstract painting of a young woman, made out of a series of shapes that come together in form of the painting. This women that is shown is said to be of Picasso’s wife, Olga Koklova, a Russian ballerina he married in 1918.…
According to the narrator, “[She] went out into the sea and begin to walk straight ahead, toward Korea, and found out that the water wasn’t getting any deeper. [She] mysteriously caused the sea floor to rise up” (58). From her perspective, she speculates that the water is putting her in high esteem and giving her an empowerment to break her limits as a human being. Even though walking on foot in the deep ocean en route the Asian countries seems nonsensical, the narrator has mustered of all her trust to brave through what the sea has offered. She is overwhelmed because the sea seems to allow her to do what she wants.…
Beauty is not a direct representation of the inner self. It does not express the qualities of a person or his or her skills. However beauty is given a powerful role. Society has placed a higher importance on physical traits instead of inner qualities, thus many women are overly obsessed with their outward look instead of bettering their inner self. Women are expected to look their best at all times.…
Expressive theory of art, while being able to include certain artwork and exclude non-artwork that was problematic for formalism, has difficulties of its own. That is, there seems to be something wrong with arguing that simply because an artist has not felt the emotions expressed in their work their creation is not art. This notion could discount many great creations. For example, suppose there was the most beautiful painting; formally it is perfect, the colours, shape and brush stroke is technically brilliant. Art critics all over the world write about how amazing it is that this artist has captured sadness so exquisitely.…
A good looking face or body shape can often give others a good first impression, however, it is hard to define someone’s physical appearance “beautiful” or not. Just like what Shakespeare had written in his book Love's Labour's Lost, “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye”, concept of beauty of physical appearance is considered as subjective, however, it is in fact biologically based. This essay will show that by having both common and diverse traits among different cultures and countries around the world, concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically constructed in evolutionary aspect and intellectual aspect. Concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically constructed since it is created by human reproduction need. According to Darwin’s evolution theory, the individual who is more adaptable to the environment will have the bigger chance to survive and reproduce next generation.…
I was fascinated to learn about the elements in Art. I had always thought that art had no organization, guidance or system. I thought that people just painted or drew pretty much whatever they wanted with no apparent rules. The Visual Elements that Getlein mentions on chapter 4 consist of the following; line shape and mass, light, color, texture and pattern and last but not least; time and motion (Getlein, 2012). These elements are intrinsically woven in art!…