A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

- Leonardo da Vinci (BrainyQuote.com n.d) Leonardo da Vinci is a writer, mathematician, inventor and also an artist. He is the very definition of ‘Polymath Renaissance Man’ which also means a universal man. After being documented, researchers found approximately 7000 pages of notes he left behind remain scattered, hidden, lost various collection of…

learning and scholarship. Furthermore, the armillary sphere, a tool used to plot the movements of the planets, sun, and moon, is prominently located on the left of the top shelf. This intellectual machine is “symbolic of the learned life that the young scholar has led up to that point” and serves as a reminder of Saint Augustine’s flirtation with the…

Taking place in England during the 1890s, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde tells the tragic story of a young and beautiful man named Dorian Gray. Artist Basil Hallward becomes infatuated with Dorian and his beauty after capturing a glimpse of him at a party. Basil invites Dorian over to paint a portrait of him, but Dorian is soon swept under the influence of Basil 's friend, Lord Henry Wotton. He tells Dorian that beauty and youth are the essence of humans ' existence, and because of…

Anglican and fellow artist Albert Tucker who is also a very famous artist from the same period of time. From 1938 until 1947 Joy Hester was part of a colloquial group known as the ‘Angry Penguins’. She was the only women artist in the group of 4 others named, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Albert Tucker. Hester would use mostly brush and…

Lincoln. In 1844 Johnson moved to Washington, D.C., and began to draw crayon portraits. Johnson drew a portrait of John Quincy Adams, which was mantled in the National Portrait Gallery and a portrait of Dolley Madison, which was put in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. At this point in his career, Johnson was becoming famous. In 1846 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow invited him to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to draw portraits of his…

organic shapes that make up the scene. Specifically, this painting depicts a young man who is leaning forward to inspect a portrait of a woman and looking through a magnifying glass to examine a brooch clasped close to her chest. Light and shadow are used to create the illusion of depth on the young man’s form; he almost appears to be three dimensional as he gazes at her portrait. The colors on the woman’s portrait are bright, involving the primary colors at a greater intensity than anywhere…

contains another substance, whether it be a container or even beehive. Metaphysically a vessel represents the idea of a vessel. This includes the subconscious of the human body more specifically the human brain. From looking into the artworks of artists such as Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch and Rene Magritte, the concept of growth, change and mutation, are apparent either physically and metaphysically in their work. From their self-evaluation thoughts have been depicted through their artwork…

How does Dorian Gray’s portrait play a central role in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray? Bavarian International School Candidate Name: Sandra Forro Candidate Number: “There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own.” Supervisor: J. Cook Subject: English Literature Examination Session: April 2015 Word Count: In his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde depicts a tale that revolves around the full-length portrait of Dorian Gray, whose marvelous…

the main character Dorian Gray is being influenced by these two completely different impactful characters his friends; Basil Hallward and Lord Henry. Basil paints a portrait of Dorian gray appreciating the epitome of beauty and Lord Henry and acquaintance of Basil convinces him to sell his soul to be forever young while the portrait grows old. The piece of art flares varying attitudes closest to Dorian and he begins to be more self-indulgent and corrupt inside and out. In the novel, Lord Henry…

Introduction In Egyptian art the term Fayum mummy portrait refers to amount of paintings excavated from sites across Egypt, from the late Hellenistic period Greek and Roman period of the first century of BCE. The Fayum mummy portraits are found around Fayum Basin, to the Nile south of Cairo especially in Hawara, Achmin and Antinoupolis. The portraits were created around the imperial Roman period and are made from different hard wood such as cedar, fig, or oak that is then painted over them and…