The article, Triple-Self Portrait, illustrated by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner is a descriptive process of a self-painting constructed by Norman Rockwell. The portrait is claimed to be a clever and witty comment on the artist’s own art. The artist has three pictures into one. The three pictures that are tacked on the top left on the canvas, the black-and-white drawing of Rockwell’s face, and the picture that represents him working from the back. Is it realism or something that can be called a…
A Single Shard The culture was Korean and Japanese. Which they tried to base it up about pottery making and learning how to do pottery and make potts. The location was in Korea and they didn’t have technology but the phones on the wall. They used things that looked like a book bag but was made out of straw and carried the things in there like if you go to garden they will use those and put the pumpkins and other stuff like that in the book bag looking thing. I think this is…
Hands The advertisement published by Mccann Erickson titled "Casa Do Menor," is not only traumatic to the eyes but disturbing to the heart while successfully capturing child abuse. The ill grasping hands that trap one into utter confinement are dark, eerie and haunting. The tag line, "Certain Things Hang on Forever", paints an extremely vivid image within one's mind while creating immense feelings within the viewer. It proclaims the truth that after such abuse, it becomes one with the victim.…
Don Siegel’s film Dirty Harry was released in 1971 during an anxious decade in the United States as well as around the world. There was rebellion following the Vietnam War as well as an economic recession. The film Dirty Harry received mixed reviews because viewers gathered different themes with each viewing. Filled with action, style, and detail Dirty Harry displays the anxious behavior and feelings of the American people. Dirty Harry is about extremism, justice, and ethics and reveals through…
Art is a wonderful thing. Whether it be through a powerful film, a solemn photograph, or a spirited song, art can capture the human soul and struggle. John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, masterfully portrays the plight of the more than 350,000 people displaced by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. As any great piece or art, The Grapes of Wrath creates empathy and change in the minds of its readers by revealing the hope and resilience held by the “Okies”, and exposing the wrongs and sorrow they…
Artist Salvador Dali has been a major contributor to several artistic movements during the 20th century. Throughout his life, he contributed many wonderful pieces of art that belonged to the Surrealist movement, and also created works using Futurism, Dada, Impressionism and Cubism. Most notably, Dali produced the famous painting “The Persistence of Memory” and designed the Teatro-Museo Dali (or the Dali Theatre-Museum) located in Figueres, Spain (Salvador Dali Museum, Inc). Salvador Dali…
Entertainment is a form writing that can be read in silence, spoken out loud, acted out under a single stage light, heard from the mouths of the radio through music, seen in a dark theater, shown on the television, or quickly placed on the screens of a hand held device. It can be calming, loud, annoying, humorous, exciting, sad, and eventful. Entertainment is many things and has taken many shapes through the history of society. It would be implausible to say that entertainment has the capacity…
When visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on February 20th. I was amazed as soon as I walked in. I had never been to a museum before and always thought I would be uninterested in what was displayed. It was very fun for me to see the differences in art throughout the ancient world. I also visited other collections throughout the museum but nothing was as interesting as the ancient world. It was surprising to me that the museum would be separated into different collections, I thought…
The Berwick Church in Charleston, England houses some of the most notable pieces of art manufactured by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant from the mid-twentieth century. The two were part of the well-known Bloomsbury Group, and their home in Charleston as well as their work on the Church constitute the remaining evidence of the group's involvement with each other outside of London. Grant's painting Christ in Glory sits above the Berwick altar, demonstrating how the Bloomsbury Group took traditional…
Title Pop, Hip Hop, Jazz, Classical, Rock, Country, Blues; these are few of the genres which have made it into today’s music culture because of their impact on society. In our advanced age, we are constantly bombarded with music everywhere we go, whether it be during our shopping trips, on our bus rides, or even on our elevator ride to work. Many would agree that music is undeniably a big part of our lives; it has influenced society for decades. Others may give more acclaim to the…