A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce uses narrative devices that are characteristic of the Bildungsroman genre to focus on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood encountering various difficulties. A Bildungsroman “concludes at a momentous point in the hero’s life, which signals the culmination of a process of self-discovery, or the moment when a life-defining decision is made” (Cañadas 16). A Bildungsroman is a novel…

Through his portrait of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce suggests that being an artist is difficult because one must rebel against societal standards, values and ideals. This includes the rejection of religion, politics, and sexual morality among many others. In To the Lighthouse, Woolf agrees with Joyce that there are certain values and morals that the artist figure must reject, however, Woolf shows that female artists have more obstacles to overcome, mainly…

history of art, female artists were uncommon and denied of the same amount of credit for their talents as their male counterparts. It was a rare occurrence for female artists to paint portraits of themselves, however in the 16th and 17th century we begin to see a shift in this trend. In the Netherlands during the 16th century, Dutch artist, Judith Leyster used oil on canvas to paint a portrait of herself, titled Self-Portrait (1635). The Self-Portrait features Leyster, a young woman, looking…

Gustave Courbet was a French artist known to be the leader and innovator of the Realist Movement of the 19th Century. His art rebelled against the Romantic and Neo-Classical Eras during his time. His passion was in illustrating the truth and erasing “social contradictions and imbalances” (www.gustavecourbet.org). Some notable paintings by the artist are “A Burial at Ornans” (1850) where he depicts his great-uncle’s funeral in his native Ornans portraying the ugliness in the situation beginning…

Ben Quilty is an Australian artist producing richly emotive works that effectively exemplify the art of abstraction, having earned him a national reputation. Acclaimed as a portraitist, Quilty creates thickly impastoed canvases using vibrant colours and broad brush strokes that build up layers of paint. He works in a wide range of genres, including portraits and still lives, but also landscapes that reflect his fascination with Australia, a passion which has its origins in Arthur Streeton’s…

“From the time I was very young I wanted to draw to understand what I was seeing. I used a pencil to understand things.” This statement from Robert Hannaford concisely encapsulates his approach to art. Throughout his artwork, it is easy to see this approach through his quest to understand the people and environments around him. Robert Hannaford is one of Australia’s most renowned and influential portrait artists. The Art Gallery of South Australia has curated an exhibit of the artist’s…

As we can see in figure 2.8, the role of colonial women was determined by their wealth and status. In the image, you could tell the women were unwilling to be near the young black slave boy, but are forced by the man (Mr. Potter) to act naturally by drinking tea. You could tell the lady on the far left and right seem like they are reluctant to drink the tea with the slave boy. I learned from the image that men dominated the lives of colonial women and that Women couldn’t go against men or argue…

H. Lawrence incorporates debt on account of gambling. The novel starts out with a young mother telling her son what luck is. She explained that luck was the ability to be successful or not. This intrigued the child and he decided that he wanted to find luck. He imagined that he was riding off to luck on his rocking horse. Turns out he does. When he rides the horse, the young boy somehow sees the answer to the horse race. This allows him to bid as much as he can, making thousands…

Raphael was one of the greatest artists of all Renaissance time. Raphael was best known for his Madonna's and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome]. Raphael was one of the best at using depth perception in his work. Raphael had some amazing talents but they were often over looked by people because they were more interested Michelangelo and DaVinci works of art. Even though Raphael is often in the shadow of other artists, he was still one of the great artists of the…

Thesis Initially I want to argue that: Although the women artists in the Renaissance were held captive by the structures of a patriarchal society, they might not liberate themselves from such constraints entirely. While she often refused to be the ideal female beauty, no taboos seemed to be broken. I want to argue that Sofonisba Anguissola conveyed her self-consciousness as a woman and emphasized her power to create as an artist effectively but subtly. Held captive by the structures of a…