This piece is very meaningful to me because it relates to my past. The broken pieces of
This piece is very meaningful to me because it relates to my past. The broken pieces of
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.…
Significant personal events in one’s life can act to influence an individual’s artmaking practice. This is evident through Frida Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ 1944, Jenny Sages ‘After Jack’ 2012 and Christian Thompson ‘King Billy’ 2010. Frida Kahlo, is the first example of such an individual as she experienced a horrible accident causing permanent damage to her spine. As a result of the accident, Kahlo became influenced to paint through using her emotion as a driving force to paint where Kahlo states “I am broken, but I am happy as long as I can paint”. This is depicted in Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ in plate 4 which depicts a figure namely Kahlo herself being pricked by nails with the presence of a broken pillar.…
Great American Lakes is created by an American sculptor, writer and educator, Lorado Taft. Taft is quite well-known through his writings than his sculptures; however, Taft hoped that the Great American Lakes would mark a new era of visual improvements. This sculpture is made through the process of casting the material: bronze into a special designed cast. In like matters, the sculpture presents the visual elements of Line, Shape, Light, and Color. The design principles in this sculpture seems demonstrates Variety, Emphasis & Subordination, Scale & Proportion, and Unity.…
Do you think that the way we grow up has a lasting effect on us? The things we go through and are surrounded by as children will shape our personality and how we deal with things? The underlying theme of these poems is a very deep and difficult subject to talk about, the breakage of a person and of a friendship. The way we deal with our past make us who we are, but how much can a person handle before they break? Stuart broke, Jackson was broken by Stuarts suicide attempt because he didn't know how to react to it, and these poems purpose an idea that we should handle suicide differently because, a suicide effects not only the person but the people around them, it breaks them.…
It is part of many portraits painted by Saville. One thing I appreciate about Jenny Saville is that she shows the reality of women’s lives. In this painting she shows a women with many scars and bruises on her face. Many women today suffer from domestic violence and are too afraid to speak up. Meanwhile, others are oblivious to the fact that there are many women who are too weak to fend for themselves.…
The photograph of the Bath, Pocono Palace was taken in 1980 at Marshall Creek in Pennsylvania by Lucinda Devlin. This was for her series of Pleasure Ground photos. I will say that this is a photograph taken upside down of the bathtub and that the size is 14 fonts. The reason for this photograph of choice was because it gave me a sense of memory while the other pieces of artwork gave me no satisfaction. Since I was examining this photograph, I was intrigued by its one-point linear perspective, just like in my sketch while I was drawing.…
These poems convey a message that people can break because of the harsh world we live in; it only matters how we individually handle the break, but we all need to learn better ways…
He highlights the suffering’s his patients (Anna and Carl) have endured throughout their lives. The author is painting a picture conveying the message drugs are not the problem, and when the subtracted the addicts still experience pain , “The methadone I prescribe for their opiate dependence does little for the emotional anguish compressed in every heartbeat of these driven souls.” (288) He’s relaying the message that he can control the hunger for the drugs, but he cannot control the pain. By having a patient’s story at the beginning and the end of the essay it’s creating a connection to the reader, the stories and the conversations seem very authentic and believable.…
1. Figure 4.3, Going Home by Jacob Lawrence. This piece was created in 1946, and was painted with gouache, which is an opaque type of watercolor. I personally did not like this piece, I’m not a fan of the medium used, but nevertheless I found it interesting. In my opinion, the low value and intensity of the yellows and greens are unappealing, I think they make this train or bus seem outdated and old, or just dirty.…
Human Condition Portrayed in Art Through the journey that life can take, emotional experiences influence one’s perspective, inspiring one to give birth to profound works of art. Such works of art that can speak volumes and even move their audience to tears. Every human being expresses their grief and sorrow differently.…
Inadvertently I stumbled upon something that I would take for granted as a refuge. A refuge in which I could express myself, my emotions and transfer them into a visual reality. For once I did not acknowledge the presence of the crutches beside me. Hesitant at first then gradually getting more bold with each sweep of the hand, my depressed state faded away as color expanded across the canvas and replaced itself with one of hunger and awe. This was the day art pulled me by the arm me and forced me to expand its importance in my life.…
My next theme, “Rue” constitutes the biggest part of my anthology because what it symbolizes epitomized my very being for a large portion of my life. I had lost the last ounce of my innocence when I realized my parents were destructively toxic and my friends had never been my friends in the first place. I tried so desperately to cling onto the people I still cared for and the things that mattered most to me, but most importantly the last aspects of me that were still filled with light but, as Sophia White stated, “I gnashed my teeth and ripped my hair, called for you, but you weren’t there”. At that point, I had lost hope in everyone, everything, and myself and decided no one could ever save me from my darkness and the pain I felt was unbearable. I believed the only way to fix myself was to bury my problems deep inside my heart so I would not be able to feel them…
I write this which is sensitive to me from the deepest of my soul, purest of my heart and preeminent of my thoughts. People will have various notions, and that is quite a common fashion which is continually conserved and will evermore be left to exist as it is. Nevertheless it would not hold me from expressing what is important to me, as my own testimony, before I reach the final end of my life. This is a piece of creation with words carved in it to express thoughts and emotion which I do not mind as with age and time my chances on earth has grown lesser due to the emerging of the new generation.…
This writing considers the question of Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece,” which is one of the most important works of that artist’s career and of its period. The essay specifically investigates the critical question of what one can learn from “Cut Piece” about the role of women in society at large. It seeks in investigating this question to uncover trends over time, seeing how the role of women has changed over time and how the role of women has been depicted in art. There will be three primary sections to the body of this work that will help to provide a clear picture of the overall meaning of this piece of art in conjunction with feminism and the role of women (Johnson). First, there will be an investigation of the piece itself to ensure a proper understanding of what is actually being studied.…
“Spring Clean” by Tom Powell is the painting that I felt had a lot of meaning to me. When the paper first got mentioned, I went to the Ice House Gallery in Mayfield, Ky. Tom Powell donated this painting just shortly before that to help raise money for the gallery. The subject matter in the piece is a house and in the back yard is a clothes line with four blankets hanging from tree to tree.…