Modern English Cuisine Essay

In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wide writes: “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors”. Discuss this statement with close reference to the text. Introduction The quote, “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” is a case in point of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Dorian’s image reflects his inner self, and mirrors his soul. The Picture of Dorian Gray highlights the idea of aestheticism and challenges influence of art over an individual instead…

I. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE The basic block diagram that shows the components for analysis and interpretation of any classical dance is shown in figure 1.This involves the analyzing the following features: body movements, hand gestures, expressions, music, costumes and make-up, instruments used as well as lyrics of song[19]. The information gathered from the analysis of those features will be made as a domain knowledge storage which can be interpreted for various…

This is often the irony of subcultures and group identity. Some say hipsters are obsessed with vintage stuff because they are disillusioned by modern society while others observe that the large black-rimmed glasses hipsters love are a sign that the new cool is smart and well-educated. The new granny chic trend is also a powerful fashion statement in our modern society which is obsessed with looking young. Believe it or not, the cool thing to do these days is to dye your hair grey and dress up…

The colours used by artists in these two eras differed greatly. Art nouveau artists tended to use earthy and natural colours such as mustard yellow, shades of green, orange and brown. Pop artists used much bolder colours, in particular bright yellows, blues and reds. Ben day dots were also popular in pop art. Ben day dots (named after the printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr) are a method of using dots to add colour or shade to a picture and was developed in 1879. These became a trademark of the…

The twentieth century was an exciting period in European architectural history, it was a period of Modernism development. The early part of the period was focused on an approach by a group of architects who desired to reflect historical precedents and develop something completely new during their time. Instead of focusing on the traditional architecture such as ornaments, the architects during that time created a new aesthetic look using new materials and new structural approaches. This time of…

Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and critic Roger Fry as he prepared for an exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London in 1910. The show, held November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911) was called "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," a canny marketing ploy which…

Standing Female Nude poem actually derives from George Braque’s La Grande Nude portrait which belongs to the Cubist art movement which began in Paris around 1907. The Cubists used analytic system which requires to redefine the three parts of the portrait from several points of view, instead of using the single point of view. The moment is mentioned as ‘a new way of representing the world’ and divided into two phases as Synthetic(1913-20’s) and Analytic(1907-12) phase which is implied and mocked…

in opposition to the artistic ‘status quo’ in France at the time. They were specifically notorious for violating the rules of scholarly painting in not only their techniques used, but in also their change of subject matter. Realistic depictions of modern life came to the forefront, replacing the countless still life and portraits. They chose to focus heavily on effects, especially light, instead of the minute details that were deemed irrelevant to them. The Impressionists viewed their…

Pierre Francastel and Sigfried Giedion were both analytical in their accounts of industrial revolution’s impact on architecture via the usage of mass-produced material such as iron and glass. However, the two accounts indeed took very different stands on their opinion of the machine and the progression of architecture. Bibliothѐque Sainte-Geneviѐve was indisputably one of the most remarkable examples of iron and glass applications during that era, agreed by both Francastel and Giedion. However,…

The modern dance piece Night Journey (1947) by Martha Graham demonstrates the unique and powerful choreography which established Graham as the “Mother of Modern Dance” (Mapes). Perhaps Graham’s distinctive style can be traced to her unorthodox path into the field of dance. Unlike many of her peers, Graham did not begin her study of dance until her mid 20s (Mapes). Graham’s venture into dance was during an era in which women did not even have the right to vote and the globe was in the grips of…