A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The world when the modern poetry was born was deeply touched by the discoveries of that time, be it Einstein’s theory, or Freud, or the development of a new art – photography. Everything come together and left its mark on modern literature, and implicit, on poetry. On this period, a great influence over the poetry of the world had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are…

and era as well in an effort to determine if this painting is a reference towards governmental/monarchist power. When one looks at An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump one is almost immediately drawn to the man in the center; this man is the painting’s focal point. Wright drew this man…

only seen in the women of high society Victorian life. The other side of Lily's relationship to the "family" is her dislike for Charles Tansley, the man who tells her that women can't write or paint. It is well known that male friends and family, in terms of what they were capable of achieving in this day and age constantly belittled women, but one man in Lily’s life takes this too far. Tansley is a disagreeable sort, a hypercritical type like Mr. Ramsay, but even more cruel in his judgments…

The Enlightenment era focusing more on discipline, rules and reason of western culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. The era introduced science, philosophy, society and politics. One of the main cause for the Enlightenment was the Scientific Revolution because of its many accomplishments and breakthrough achieved in the social and political fields. The political viewpoints related of the Enlightenment was from John Locke he…

decline, reducing her to a mere shadow of her brother.” This shows why she didn’t get to write her name on the manuscripts, to show she was the true author of her work and not Shakespeare because women in the Renaissance era were not able to do things a man did in that…

evolution of Architectural photography Throughout the history of photography, architecture has always been one of the significantly valued subjects that could be photographed. Before the invention of photographic technique, buildings were represented by artists in their paintings, and images of buildings could be easily found in different styles of paintings. The very first photographic image called "Boulevard du Temple" was taken by Nicéphore Niépce, and later made by Louis Daguerre. It…

time, God became less of the focal point and humanism (man was at the measure of all things) took root. Italy was perhaps one of the most important regions of the time due to its beauty and grandeur. The top city-states during the Renaissance included Florence, Milan, and Venice. In an effort to understand how the Renaissance period impacted both artworks and artists of Venice, it is important to review how some of the most prestigious artists of Venice incorporated the Renaissance…

Thomas and Joe: The Landscapers Thomas Gainsborough and Joe Rader Roberts are not your typical landscapers. In fact, the two are not the manual laborers who clean and fix up your lawn and gardens. Both men are artists who have remarkable works of landscape art. The difference between the two is that they were born nearly two centuries apart, so one can most likely see a huge setting and story difference in the works of art. I honestly could not have picked a better combination to compare and…

A masterpiece may be so beautifully done that it is viewed by many as being timeless, forever. However, things may happen that destroy or ruin the masterpiece. If the artist were ever to see the ruin that has come to his masterpiece, he would die, either figuratively or literally. Such is the circumstance between Basil Howard and Dorian Gray. Basil 's original painting of Dorian is beautiful, and an immortal representation…

Renaissance and Romantic artist Francisco Goya’s “The Nude Maja”. My major is fashion design, so I was drawn to write about these works of art because these two paintings depicted both females’ sensuality which is probably the most popular subject matter in the western art history for centuries. These two works are particularly important because the “Venus of Urbino” is most often referred to as the origin of the most controversial western art images due to Titian’s audacious portrait of…