Artistic merit

JAY DEFEO: THE ROSE Jay DeFeo’s The Rose is remarkable. Its dimensions of 10.7’ x 7.7’ x 11” and its weight of 1,850 pounds are unbelievable. The time--eight years--spent on creating this work is extraordinary. In my opinion, this alone merits The Rose’s inclusion in this and all other art history classes. Yet, these statistics do not encapsulate all of The Rose’s mystique, intrigue, and troubled history, nor do they demonstrate the way in which it complicates the canonical survey of art and…

The Eucharistic Dove (ca, 1215-35) is a suspended dove, stylized in typical Byzantine manner. During this period, Christian influence spread across the Roman conquered world and lead to the crusades, a series of holy wars began in the name of Christianity. These strong religious convictions that defined the time were represented in art of the day, famously finished in copper and heavy with ornate detail. One might quickly identify the period and suspect that because the artist depicted an animal…

Literature is a term used to describe written and sometimes spoken material. It represents the culture and tradition of a language or a people. The Sophocles’ trilogy is an adequate example of literature. The stories of Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus are tales that correspond with one another. The key symbols in the stories reinforce their main theme: fate. Sophocles' trilogy of Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus discusses the theme of Fate. In Oedipus the…

Thera, or the modern day island, Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea, about 200km south east from the mainland of Greece and 70km south of Crete. It is the southern most member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73km squared. Thera was devastated by one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the last seven thousand years around 3,500 years ago. The volcanic eruption left a large caldera surrounded by ash deposits hundreds of feet deep, and its effects may have…

no need for artists to depict it. In “The Decaying of Lying,” Wilde uses the narrators of the essay to describe the use of nature as inspiration as having good intentions, but being simple, monotonous, and lacking in design when compared to other artistic topics. Wilde’s dislike for the depiction of art does not necessarily mean that artists should never depict nature; it stems more from numerous artists only depicting nature in their work. This causes a lack of diversity, resulting in many…

College is one of the most important decisions in anyone's life and there are just too many factors to consider while trying to find a college that best fits you. For this compare and contrast essay I have decided to break each of my six colleges down into six criteria These criteria will help me decide which college would be the best fit for me. The colleges I have chosen are as follows: The University of South Carolina (USC), The University of Clemson, The University of Alabama, The University…

Three elderly ladies are seated at a nearby table, sipping mugs of coffee, nibbling on scones, and discussing the merits of lesfe and meatballs. Hannah, one of the baristas, casually greets one, “Peggy, good to see you! It 's been a while.” Others, like the college age girl hidden in the corner, take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to get some work done. Her eyes…

Career- Director (Film) Research Paper I. Introduction to the career of directing Steve Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott Joss Whedon and Kathryn Bigelow are not only influential personalities and globally admired celebrities but also celebrated motion picture directors whose works will live through human history. These film directors are proof that a career in film directing is one of the few that present an opportunity for creative minds to influence history and re-write humanity’s…

envisioned when they first sat at a sewing machine? Was it because they studied so hard on what color contrast goes best with what painting styles or what design would be perfectly matched to a particular shirt? Michelangelo’s parents disapproved of his artistic choice and he refuted that he was a painter and Coco Channel was an orphan. It is highly doubted that these individuals received the most elite training to become experts in their field, which prompted them to create such creative pieces…

Images of women are ubiquitous and pervasive to such a degree that their deeper implications and reflections of the world that they occupy cannot be ignored. Images of women cannot and do not stand alone; they must be examined in a cultural context and through a feminist framework to be fully understood. Some feminist theorists argue that portrayals of women are inherently objectifying, positioning woman as a thing to be viewed rather than as a being in and of herself. These images exist solely…