Arnolfini Portrait

Painting slanted ceilings is a chore, but it may not be as difficult as you might think. Of course, it is always a challenge to paint any ceiling, but once you figure out what colors you are using and how to design your paint color scheme, painting slanted ceilings is just like painting the walls. There are a few things to think about before you start, specifically what colors you want to use for your walls and ceiling, and whether or not you want to distinguish between the ceiling and the wall.…

The Murder of Dreams Examine how Eliot utilizes literary devices to convey and enhance one of the themes of his poem. You may want to consider tone, diction, allusion and/ or imagery when creating your analysis. “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” is a collection of fragmented depressing thoughts of a man, Prufrock with no self esteem. When one thinks of the title “The Love song” one often assumes the poem is based affection, and their one true love. “ The Love Song of J. Alfred…

Vermeer used oil to paint this master piece that would forever be a part of history. Using camera obscura Vermeer was able to create a very detailed painting because device that aided him on his work. When the whole that the light comes through is smaller the image becomes sharper leading to a more detailed piece of art. Modern ones would have a lens to make the image bigger. Vermeer was also famous for his special blend of oil that was known by other artist but nobody was able to perfect it…

Self Portrait, Myself at 66, is an oil on canvas, painted by Mathias J. Alten at his home studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. and is most likely his final self-portrait. It currently resides in the George and Barbara Gordon Gallery at Grand Valley State University as a part of a collection titled ‘Mathias J. Alten: An American Impressionist’. Alten painted himself as a gray-haired man with a white shirt and gray pants, holding a palette and paintbrushes. It is evident in this work that Alten has…

Apathetic Tone in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the sad tale of a man who has accomplished little in life but wearing "rich" clothing and procrastinating. Eliot employs a myriad of literary devices to convey the dull routineness of Prufrock's life, but the absolutely apathetic tone of the narrator is what really drives home just how passive he is about his own life. The entire poem is nothing but an aside to help Prufrock avoid…

The initial conclusion one can draw from the critique of modern culture by both Kafka and Eliot in their portrayals of modern man is that it is them placed in these settings and their literature is simply an outlet for said critique. The modernist sentiments expressed in their works were, in part, universally held opinions amongst literary contemporaries of theirs and as such were not only a veritable representation of them coming to grips with the reality of the world around them, but also of…

An Explication of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Elliot, is a poem about a man’s psychological state of mind as he is walking through town on his way to visit a woman to ask her an important question. Instead of focusing on the woman and what he wants to ask her, he focuses on what others think of him and how he is not good enough for her. Prufrock gets himself all worked up about his physical and mental inadequacies and ends up not…

Recurring images of time, romantic disillusionment and memory reveal the inherent tension between the actual and the possible in Eliot’s poetry. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock dismantles idealistic romanticism and exposes the pessimistic perspective on life, love and time that is central to modernism. At the time of writing, in 1911, Eliot was twenty two years old, and was battling with a lack of lyrical inspiration. For this reason, critics have argued that Prufrock 's romantic hesitations…

No two men are exactly alike, not even identical twins. Some attributes, appearance, and ideology may mirror, but no two men are alike. Differences in how the world is perceived will allow these individual to stand together, but appear far apart. The modernist method of writing allows for individuals to do exactly that, stand together but appear to be far. Writers Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot demonstrated such disassociation in living deliberately in time and place of Nick and J. Alfred…

years, her fame inclined, she attracted many wealthy artists who wanted to have their own portraits done by her. In 1774, she was accepted into Académie de Saint Luc, this increased her exposure and professional career. Vigée Lebrun has a painting style that was captivating and…