Arnolfini Portrait

value of almost seven hundren sixty-eight million dollars, based on an insurance assessment in the early 1960s, valued then at $100 million (Chris 2015). The Mona Lisa’s mysterious expression, which is both fascinating and indifferent, has given the portrait worldwide fame, and many years later it continues to attract admirers in the millions. Many duplicates had been made of the painting over the years, including some where the Mona Lisa’s face has a mustache, or the face is swap with other…

The issue with appearances is that people constantly overlook and judge themselves, which creates a barrier of the reality and the mind. According to Güven, “Eliot implies that nobody shows his real face in this fragmented modern world, and that is the reason why Prufrock needs time to prepare a false face for himself” (Güven 82). Prufrock cannot help but place a barrier between the people and himself due to the pretentious nature of modern people. For example, Prufrock interrupts the poem by…

Castiglione (1616-1670) and Rembrandt (1606-1669) were the first two artists introduced the true artwork of Monotypes. William Blake (1757-1827) was another major artist of monotype. He developed the technique of monotypes by using egg tempera to create some of the images for his poems. However, because he was quite secretive with his unique techniques, the methods he applied was not popular. During the etching revival, Vicomte Ludovic Napoleon Lepic (1839-1889) introduced a new technique,…

For this assignment I visited the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and chose a painting from the 2016 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition. The oil on linen painting was titled Professor Quimby and was made in 2014 by Cyd Goodwin. Goodwin appears to be influenced by theatrical plays as most of her paintings revolve around the same subjects/people. In Professor Quimby, one can see a young woman in a greenish dress, standing, looking over her shoulder at the viewer. Diagonally from the woman…

T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an ironic depiction of both man’s dilemma and neglection of his view of the modern society that lacks any true meaningful relationships between other people. The poem deals with the idea of modernism, a desire to break from traditional way of understanding the world by rejecting the artistic and literature styles of the past. This idea of modernism appears in William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning.” “Barn Burning” shows the son’s dilemma of trying…

Mona Lisa can be termed as the best work of art of all time in the world. It is a half-length portrait of a woman, which was created by Leonardo Da Vinci during the period 1503 to 1506. The artwork is known to be the most famous, being the most parodied, the most written about, sung about and visited in the world. It is known by not only art lovers but by the world’s population better part. It is assumed that the artwork was a representation of Lisa Gherardini, who was the wife to Francesco…

Authenticity Is In The Eye Of The Beholder A Jackson Pollock painting will cost a person a very good amount of fortune. In 2006, The New York Times reported that David Geffen sold Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” painting to an anonymous buyer for a whopping $140 million. Jackson Pollock paintings cost that much and are valued so highly in the art world which is why they are very meticulous and cautious when authenticating newly discovered art works from the late artist. There are three factors…

T.S Eliot’s poetic style in “The Love Song of Prufrock” illustrates the shift from romanticism to modernism. Eliot alienates Prufrock throughout the poem further emphasizing the change imposed. To continue, Eliot introduces new themes and utilizes techniques such as free verse, irregular rhyming, fragmentation and stream of consciousness. To continue, these techniques directly correlate to the main character, J. Alfred Prufrock. In the poem, J. Alfred Prufrock does not feel comfortable in his…

painting. A young pale skinned woman, in a silk black dress with two thin chained straps, had gripping onto the front of the dress, which looked to me like she was showing her figure and the bustle of the fabric. It took 30 sessions to complete the portrait. It was exhibited in the 1884 Paris Salon, and caused a stir right away. Critics like L 'Événement, called it “hideousness”. It portrayed that married women could be loose and show such expressions around other men. The models name was…

Juan Linares Mr. Maust 2 February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen…