Arnolfini Portrait

Rembrandt van Rijin’s Portrait of a Man With Arms Akimbo reflects his personal technique as well as the Dutch Baroque style, which lasted throughout the 17th Century. This piece features an unidentified man depicted in a position of strength and superiority. This is established through Rembrandt’s use of composition and light, using effects common to the Baroque era such as tenebrism. To better understand the identity of the man pictured, physical qualities such as style of dress can be used to…

Although Frida knew Diego would still have affairs with other women and could never be the husband that she wants him to be. In this self-portrait named “As a Tehuana” Frida painted Diego’s face on her forehead, in place of the third eye. Frida wears an elaborate tehuana Mexican dress (Diego’s favorite) perhaps in an attempt to recover his admiration. Around her face the whole painting is…

In the immediate thoughts of present day, many people feel unworthy or unimportant to society. Everyone wants to feel some type of worth, whether it be from a relationship perspective or how they are seen through their own eyes. It creates a sense of security, life without being able to progress or accomplish the goals that are desired can bring on a feeling of insecurity. This can be seen numerous times throughout the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock written by American-British poet, T…

This paper will discuss the formal aspects, contextual analysis and the museum presentation of the following two paintings. Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan by Rembrandt Van Rijn and Alphonse Promayet by Gustave Courbet. The painting of Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan is created in Dutch in 1633 and it exhibits in gallery 637. The Alphonse Promayet is created in French in 1861 and it exhibits in gallery 809. Both galleries are on the second floor of the metropolitan museum of art. Each…

symmetry in the painting is near-perfect. While this painting is a clear representation of linear perspective, another artist, Diego Velasquez, had a different style of art. In this painting, Las Meninas represents a very radical interpretation of a portrait. The art practice used was unique in that the main focal point wasn’t King Phillip IV or the royal family,…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses the display of the reliquary of the right arm of St. Valentine. This Medieval arm is a silver, sapphire and partial gilt piece of metal-work that was dated to the fourteenth century. It is a Swiss piece of artwork that was intended to house a relic. Reliquaries acted as caskets for greatly valued relics of influential individuals in society such as a religious figure or a saint. They are often an indication of what class or of what hierarchical standing a…

passages, Rembrandt painted, sketched, and etched the people of Amsterdam – ranging from circus performers to children playing in the street. Many of his pieces are portraits of individuals who had either inspired Rembrandt or commissioned him to do so. The influence of the effluent individuals on Rembrandt is fairly clear in his self-portraits throughout the years. Rembrandt often painted himself in the same way he would paint his well-to-do patrons; wealth and urbanity appear to be the things…

Throughout “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot’s main goal is to show us the harsh reality of the world we live in. As we read the poem, we are brought on a journey that opens our eyes to make us realize how empty modern life really is and how we are wasting our lives away. As we go on with our journey with J. Alfred Prufrock we are forced to realize that we live a dull, unimaginative existence that is strictly run by routine and habits. In the poem we follow the narrator, J.…

Literature throughout time often features characters who are similar for a variety of reasons. During the nineteenth century many works of literature featured characters who were devalued, exploited, or dehumanized and how they achieve or transform status and gain self respect and/or freedom. These works emphasize the importance of the common man. This trend in print could be attributed to the political climate throughout the nineteenth century. This was a time of turmoil as many people began to…

Brayden – Essay T.S. Eliot’s poetry has been described as “a disturbing portrait of uncertainty amidst the turmoil of modern life” this statement is reflected well by Eliot’s poems; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Love Song) and Rhapsody on a Windy Night (Rhapsody). Love Song emphasises this through the portrayal of Prufrock and his thoughts. Rhapsody represents this statement through the repetitive nature of life delineated within the poem. Ingemination a visual representation has been…