Artistic merit

Fanfiction: On Trial for Kidnapping? While many people find themselves indulging in late night binge-watching or gauging on unhealthy fast food, some would consider their guilty pleasure to be reading fanfiction. Fanfiction is a story written by fans that takes elements from a previously established setting and transforms the already fixed plot into something entirely new. The elements that pre-exist might be characters, locations, objects, or institutions adapted from another source. A…

vicinity. I also wear masks as an artist, in fact, I have pseudonyms for each depending on the genre I’m writing. I even made one into my legal business name. As a child I did use artistic vibes, instruments or writing to mask and escape. I embrace and love those masks and continue to nurture with aim. Masks have therapeutic merits that grant abilities to unleash surprisingly the unknown, and substantive insight. People, also love the entertainments of them, hence theater, movies… and for more…

Sidney’s Virtues, Shakespeare’s Passion Throughout time, literature has tested a variety of roles within society. Much of early English literature was of a highly religious nature, and often used to teach lessons of morality and virtue, chivalric romance, and epic historical sagas. The purpose and role of poetry and other originative writing has been the topic of much controversy since its very beginning. As we have bared witness to in this class, poetry comes in many different forms, and with…

often-crowned laureate of Harlem, Langston Hughes through his literary works faithfully recorded the authenticity and nuances of the African American experience. The opening line draws attention to Hughes internal struggle that had followed throughout his artistic career, as he was attempting to seek out whether art could be free of any involvement of political propaganda and to be left as pure poetry, during this cultural explosion termed as the Harlem Renaissance. Literature in the form of…

A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose was written by Robert Burns a Folk Hero, Poet who is regarded as one of the very famous characters in Cultural history in Scotland. He also has three nicknames which are Ploughman Poet, Scotland’s favorite son and Rabbie Burns. He was born January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, in southwestern Scotland and died at the age of 37, in July 21, 1796 at Dumfries, Scotland. For his lyrical poetry and his re-writing of Scottish folk songs, he has been best known as a…

Plate 7 is markedly different and appears to be an artistic statement of confidence and strength. Rembrandt’s gaze is fixed firmly on the viewer, and his face and expression well lit and proudly worn. The shyness and uncertainty that characterize plate 6 are long gone and instead are replaced with a composed and positive body language and demeanour. It is likely to be no coincidence that only a year after this, his elevated status and merit as an artist were committed to history in a biography…

imagine and create that what lies beyond just a primal, basic understanding of the world around them. It is this nature that overflows with ingenuity and vision that begs to be conveyed through something that has existed since the dawn of humanity. Artistic expression is an undeniable epicenter of the human identity. The arts are such a rooted part of the human identity that every society, culture, civilization, and group emulates some form of it, from pottery in Ancient Egypt to Shakespearean…

Without precedent for history, bombarding from the air had demolished a whole town. The deliberate butcher of innocent individuals so infuriated Pablo Picasso, the Spanish craftsman that he promptly went to chip away at an artistic creation in light of the bombarding assault. The artistic creation, which he titled "Guernica," turned into a symbol for the fear experienced by regular people in war. However, the assault on Guernica ended up being just a review of another kind of war. In this new…

and self-transformation.The goal of Buddhist pilgrimage then is to profoundly change the practitioner through the transformative experience, both mental and physical. Art supports the ritual of pilgrimage as the engagement of a journey, the acts of merit-making, charity and alms-giving during the process and beyond, sacred viewing at the site, and construction of memory through ephemera. A third category of relics is consecrated paintings or sculptures, which serve as reminders of the sacred…

Conflicts between Good and Evil Achebe weaves conflicts in his novel between man v/s man, and man v/s. society. The conflicts are manifested in Okonkwo’s inability to reconcile with the Change. Achebe gives a message through his novel that a man must change with time, and if that man does not act wisely and instead acts like a die-hard man like Okonkwo, he is hoisting with his own petard. Tradition Verses Change Achebe develops the theme of “traditional verses change through a powerful…