Vivie in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” has no inclination or interests in the arts. She is an unromantic
Vivie in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” has no inclination or interests in the arts. She is an unromantic
Breaking Social Norms in the 19th Century Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Bernard Shaw is a play about a 22 year old named Vivie Warren who has been at several different boarding schools all her life, because of this she doesn’t have much of a relationship with her mother, Mrs. Warren, who is a former prostitute and now owns a string of brothels yet she has always left her daughter in the dark about what her job is and what’s paying for her to go to Cambridge. Vivie Warren defies the norms for a woman in the 19th century by being well educated, confident and very self sufficient. By rejecting two marriage proposals she shows her hard headed approach on life. Vivie Warren shows confidence, self sufficiency, and morality throughout the story, being…
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.…
According to Al Hirschfeld, “ Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” Art has changed increasingly, and it is still changing. In this essay, I will list some of the art movements in detail from the following time periods: 1860-1915, 1916-1960, and 1965-1975. The first time period we are going to look at is 1860-1915.…
The extent to which freedom of expression is applied in America is an essential question that has been debated since the freedom was first established in the constitution. One medium of expression, musical theatre, demonstrates the potential consequences of this freedom’s restriction through the attempted censorship during the 1930s of (insert the number of plays that were censored). A popular producer in that time, John Huston, commented on this issue when he stated, “I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats” (Quote Master).…
Everyone is looking for some form of acceptance, while a select few go as far as wanting reverence. Luckily, there is a convenient tool for achieving either of these pursuits: art. As for fitting in, art can express political or religious interests, which would unite the artist with the cause they represent; however, if the artist wanted to stand out, an expression of the beauty of the World or the individual himself would elevate the artist to a position of individuality. But what does one do when society chooses for the artist which path to take? By looking at his youth, Basquiat’s art can be understood as a means to recollect a fragmented identity, and a pursuit of reverence; however, as will become clear, Basquiat could not escape his heritage, making him the historian - accepted as a nameless piece of the puzzle.…
Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period. Visual culture dominated the period with television, widescreen cinema and musical spectacle providing more opportunities for visual consumption.…
The main inspiration for my work was Susan Sontag — a person that links Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett. As a critic she wrote commentaries on both: art and literature. In 1964 Andy Warhol had made a Screen Test of Sontag in his Factory and almost twenty years later she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo. They created a triangle contained of “low” and “hight” culture intertwined with critical interpretation (or the question on interpretation).…
Marquez & Kafka Society is a very cruel and unusual place, we focus more on having then being. Human beings aren 't respectful, we don 't care about others feelings we think of only our self’s. If you aren 't “normal” or what society thinks you should be its even more cruel to you, because we are a deceitful species, not thinking of others in anyway just ourselves. When reading Kafkas story, “A Hunger Artist” and Marquez’s story, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” they don 't give you a very admirable look on society as a whole. It gives the reader no hope in society we do terrible things to others to give ourselves satisfaction, or the entertainment that we want.…
‘Trading Places’: Art, Commerce and Social Transformation in the Writings of William Morris What does Morris’ article tell us about the relationship between art and commerce in modern capitalist societies? In a lecture delivered in 1884 entitled “Art and Socialism”. William Morris, an English socialist and prolific writer, focused on the relationship between Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation.…
Aunt Rose continued to be herself and express her art forms despite classist unrecognition. She taught piano, danced the debke, and permeated humor throughout her work. She expresses her culture and her personality through her art, despite the classist belief of the working-class having no culture or art. Before Kadi became aware of the social restrictions being placed on the working class, she couldn’t connect her aunt’s activities to art or culture because she had been indoctrinated with classist beliefs (Kadi, 153).…
The question of whether gender is still an issue in contemporary arts is still a huge issue. Gender inequality and sexism is still a controversial issue in contemporary art. During the nineteenth century in relations to gender, there were very strong and persuasive perceptions of how men and women should conduct themselves. Men and women were expected to fill separate spheres of society. However, after enough women stood in protests, and attended political speeches, women began taking on serious roles, and many impactful women’s rights movements began to take place.…
When most people first hear the name Van Gogh, they think of the Van Gogh portrayed by popular culture – brilliant, tormented, and driven to insanity by his artistic dedication. Yet this portrayal of Van Gogh fails to acknowledge his role as a social critic – a critic considerably influenced by his socioeconomic circumstances. Even modern-day art historians, those people deemed most likely to consider Van Gogh from every possible viewpoint, often reject this facet of the artist. They instead attribute his creative genius to either his desire to participate in the era’s leading artistic movements or his inherent mental instability. While art historian Griselda Pollock, for example, calls Van Gogh’s first major work The Potato Eaters (1885) a statement on industrialism, she later notes how its “failure […] began [Van Gogh’s] retreat […away] from a modernism situated in the contemporary social domain of either town or country […and] into the exotic, the fantastic, the abstract, and the irrational” (410).…
In contemporary art, the term “social realism” is traditionally associated with interwar American art which commented on social, political and economic conditions of the poor or working class. The movement and artistic explorations developed during the late 1920’s and 1930’s, a time of global depression, heightened racial conflict and the rise of fascism which combined became a catalyst of many artists and writers and their gravitation toward proletarian and underclass themes. Artists found inspiration through the tough depression times through the belief that their art could become a tool to expose the capitalist exploitation of workers and stem the advance of international fascism. Almost all participants of social realism in art and literature seem to have expressed and shared a strong faith in the capacity of cultural art and expression to leverage transformations in social and political standings for the poor and working class.…
A simple reflex, when I saw Dadaist poetry for the first time, was “This is going to be so easy.” There was that voice, which most often haunts those visiting museums for modern art, whispering into my mind’s ear: “Psh, You could’ve done that, where’s the art in that.” Now, I technically know that that is not true, as we have been taught time and again in various institutions that art is a many-splendoured thing, but occasionally that derisive voice still pops into my brain. When Damian Hirst leaves a sheep sloshing around in dubious fluid it is “art”, when I do it, it is “unhygienic and clogging up the fridge”. Where is the fairness in that.…
The True Power Of Women In Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the characters presented in the play each depict a Victorian stereotype relative to their gender role during this time period. During the Victorian era, males were privileged and could do whatever they pleased in order to live the life they dreamed of. “The man’s power is active, progressive, and defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender.…