A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

forms, and slowly evolved into what is known today as art. During the renaissance period art, most specifically in the western world, became very popular in the aristocracy and upper classes. This meant painting became a plaything for the rich, with portraits becoming the must have thing at the time. As time went on paintings became more about self-expression, with some…

Cityscapes Over Time Cityscape photography has not been a stagnant process, but a dynamic art that has grown and morphed over time. There have been changes in both the technical details of taking such photos, and in the intents of the products. After the invention of photography in 1839, drastic changes in the approaches and techniques of cityscape photographers occurred multiple times and for a plethora of reasons. Not only did the process of taking photos become easier, but the whole purpose…

truths, in their writing. The Modern Era lasted from around 1900 to 1950. World War I, World War II, Great Depression, and Dust Bowl are just some of the events that influenced the literature such as: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Characteristics of Modern literature include: transformation of past traditions, such as knowledge versus ignorance, individualism versus…

Under the circumstances of the fact that England was under oppression at the time, James Joyce wrote Dubliners in order to illustrate the sickness Ireland was suffering of, to point out its paralysis by means of the novel: “Impatient at the restrictions of life in Dublin, he concluded that Ireland was sick, and diagnosed its psychological malady as hemiplegia, a partial, unilateral paralysis” (Walzl, 1961, p. 221). Joyce envisioned Dublin as the image of complete paralysis so he decided to write…

For as much chaos that may have been ingrained into my family there was something more that we all might have overlooked and that was the life that our family posed. Good, bad or ugly my family was full of life. I recall it was always busy, moving forward with getting the task at hand done - work was essential if not the most pertinent thing. My parents both born during the time of the great depression had grown up in a very changing time in Americas history, it was a time when men were…

Very few artists have captured the minds of audiences young and old quite like the way Vincent van Gogh has. His life and works have proven to fascinate time and time again. During his lifetime it was stated, "of his 700 paintings and thousands of drawings, of which he sold less than half-dozen in his lifetime." (Fiero, 2011) In this paper, the life of Vincent van Gogh will be addressed up until the point of his demise. Within this discussion, one of the most recognizable paintings titled "The…

William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson, a man of ambition who loved to paint, write, and explore, but his greatest love was photography. Throughout his entire life, he devoted himself to the scenic and historic sites of the West, producing over a hundred thousand negatives. “He was the first person to photograph the wonders of Yellowstone and other places in the American West, as well as documenting the Civil War in a number of sketches.” (Weiser, 2003) Jackson was born in…

James Joyce is said to be one of the most innovative and influential writers of the modern time. He was a novelist, poet, short story writer, and a playwright. Joyce made “the modern world possible for art,” according to T.S. Elliot (Litz 16). James Joyce was an Irish modernist writer. His writing was known for its intricacy and vulgar comedy. He pushed the limits with books such as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In his writings, Joyce was always meeting himself “in ways which must at times have…

An early modern dancer, a revolutionary lighting technician, and an ardent queer feminist, Loie Fuller presented the female body in new and freeing ways. Her work de-gendered and hid the female body and, by doing so empowered it. Through her work, Fuller established the female body as a source of power; yet it is consistently degendered and/or oversexualized in dance scholarship because of its physical invisibility and imagery on the stage. I want to discuss the ways in which both of these…

Formal Analysis : Aspiration by Aaron Douglas Aspiration, an oil painting with dimensions of 60in by 60in, hangs in the de Young Museum of San Francisco. Originally, the modernist, Aaron Douglas, created the artwork as a four-part mural for the Texas Centennial of 1936.1 This was painted of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a major cultural art movement that aimed to showcase the talents of African Americans in order to replace the derogatory images that circulated in pop culture at the…