Visual Basic Essay

So reports The Evening Mail in their daily coverage of the Marrs murders. Ashburton’s traumatic recollection demonstrates the power that the murders had on the individual; not only through inspiring “powerful sensations of horror and guilt” (Critchley and James 36), but specifically in their ability to resurrect past experiences of otherwise unfathomable violence. The murders have a similarly evocative effect on Thomas De Quincey. His works are steeped in violence and a preoccupation with…

Drew LaBlanc Northland Alumni scholarship The passions I will bring to the Northland College community are my passions to succeed and try my absolute hardest at every challenge that is handed to me. I am also very passionate about the arts, since I am going for an art major. I enjoy learning about and creating art. I’ve taken an art class each year I’ve been in high school and I love to answer people’s questions about art. The environment is another big passion of mine. I want to create art…

This was achieved by the sarcastic literary text captioned beneath the image of Turnbull. To follow on, an image was represented portraying Turnbull in an unprofessional like matter. The importance of visual and literary text in this instance is key. They help to perceive Turnbull in such a negative way could not be completed without the help of the caption. Non-the lesser of the image, without it there would be no connection made between cartoon and…

In order to fully grasp the concept of the color visual system, one would need to understand the psychobiology and cognitive theories. Psychobiology is used to examine the relationship between the brain and mind. While the cognitive theory emphasizes mental processes involved in numerous actions, such as remembering, solving problems, and thinking. In short, the eye takes in light rays and converts them into electrical and chemical signals that are interpreted by the brain to form physical…

Maurizio Anseri was born in 1969, Loano, Italy. Born in Loiano, Italy in 1969, Maurizio Anzeri studied Sculpture and Graphic Design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts. Right now, he lives and works in London, England Anseri uses found photographs and embroidery skills to create subtly sculptural pieces in which strangers are given new identities. This adds to the mystery and complex to his work. He sees photographic portraits and landscapes, exploring them in order to layer then with his…

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visit My visit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) was a long one – however, the visit was still an exquisite one because some of the artwork that was there that caught my eyes. There were countless stunning and alluring artworks at the VMFA that I took pictures of in the collections I visited. I went to the American + European Design Collection (Art Deco and Art Nouveau), the African Art Collection, the East Asian Art Collection, and the South Asian Art…

Andy Warhol was a successful ad and magazine illustrator who became a leading artist of the pop art movement in the 1960’s. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was always a very quiet and people thought of him as an introvert. Throughout his lifetime, he went into a wide variety of performing arts, including filmmaking, video installation, and writing. He also controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Andy Warhol died at the age…

in optometry. As I have stated in several posts over the term, optometry (like dentistry or even public health) is a vastly underrated field of medicine. And with my long-term dream of getting into pediatric optometry and working with children with visual impairments, I saw an opportunity to bring the eyes and community health assessment into one project. Largely due to more accessible data sources and information, I found this project was achievable with minimal difficulty compared to the prior…

This painting is named the Signing of the Mayflower Compact. It was painted by Edward Percy Moran in 1900. If You would like to go see it, it is located in Pilgrim Hall museum. In the painting is a scene from the Mayflower Compact where the men are signing a document that states Plymouth's government and rules. This was when democracy began. The major characters involved are Myles Standish helping William Bradford, who has his pen in his hand, William Brewster and John Carver, elected Governor,…

A possible assumption for exploring the idea of 'real' is that it is no longer an object of representation. Documenting the real world is manipulative in a sense where the artist implicitly intends to assert something about the truthful scene, which the audience are expected to form a sense of that aspect or an artist’s intention about that subject. Therefore it questions the framing of reality. Today reality itself is hyperrealistic as the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable for being…