Classicism

In feminist ideologies, the male gaze is the act of presenting women as objects of pleasure, from the perspective of heterosexual males. The male gaze is internationally prevalent throughout the history of art and film. The gender power asymmetry that dominated the nineteenth-century was a commanding force in how artists catered to the male viewer. This only further encouraged the pre-existing patriarchal ideologies and discourses. A Roman Slave Market by Jean-Leon Gerome will be formally…

Myrtle Wilson, as well as the plentiful of young women, who go to Gatsby's gatherings (Štrba 41). Besides, his narrator Nick’s rumination on women, in the rumors of criminally surrounding the newly rich Jay Gatsby, and most explicitly, in the racism, classicism, sexuality, espoused by Tom Buchanan, whose wealth, race, and gender position him as the voice of the dominant ideology (Froehlich 81). Women are almost valueless without social status and money of men, either through hereditary or…

Larkin feels that poetry must be rational and delightful and therefore opposes Dylan Thomas’s use of too much expression and excessive romantic surrealism. Surrealistic poetry of the 1940s especially of Dylan Thomas appears odd and irrational to Larkin. The poetic sensibility of Larkin and other Movement poets was as per the likes and dislikes of the audience of the post-War period. Larkin’s “Plymouth” is about his continuing struggle to find a distinctive manner. The poem betrays the influence…

crime make a rational choice to do so (Bradley & Walters, 2011). Biological positivism was founded in an attempt to answer the question: “What makes a person choose to commit crime?”, something that classicism wasn’t interested in addressing. For this reason, biological positivism, in contrast to classicism, puts its focus on the criminal, not the crime. With the integration of the medical model into criminology that biological positivism brought, criminality…

Rococo art and Neoclassical art both reflect the attitudes and overall culture of the times in which they were painted in. Rococo art marked the uneventful and lighthearted period in French history. It was a time when French leaders embraced superficial values and pursued only pleasurable experiences, thus these shallow cultural philosophies are showcased within Rococo art. Neoclassical art came out during a time of warfare and religious revolution, thus Neoclassical art emphasizes courage,…

The characteristics of paintings by important Renaissance artists Michelangelo - Michelangelo is widely regarded as the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance. Among his works are the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the Sistine Chapel frescoes. His works are characterized as monumental, muscular figures with reclining, twisted poses in his sculptures and painting compositions based on diagonal lines and curves . Michelangelo did not believe that beauty was guaranteed through the…

Throughout the town of Maycomb, there is segregation not only between those of different colour, but also those of different social ranking. Aunt Alexandra’'s actions provide a blatant explanation of the social rules, while mirroring the town's feelings. Upon learning that Atticus has chosen to ignore the social barriers, and willingly defend a black man, Aunt Alexandra is distraught, and does not fail to let her feelings be known, as Francis flaunts, “I guess it ain’t your fault if Uncle…

the social sense in the word "classical" goes a long way back, and is as strong as the original one of the classroom-the classics being the great examples proposed to students. As a suprahistorical concept, then, there is no reason to believe that classicism has any meaning beyond this: the art of authority, authoritative art (34). Therefore, because The Grand Lodge of Tennessee was built to resemble a Greek temple so that it projects a sense of authority to anyone who passes by. Standing at the…

In the 15th century, the search for the trade route between Europe and Asia led to the Age of Discovery, a rise in global trade, in which European empires were exploring oversea lands and expanding Western European influence. This was the starting point of European colonial empires that followed for the next six centuries. Eventually, it was believed that without proper knowledge of the people they ruled, the colonial rulers were at a disadvantage, which led to the study of the Orient and the…

arena of Greek politics. The most famous were Athens, Sparta, and Thebe. But it was for Athens to carry the flag of excellence in art, politics, spirituality and even war. Most of the representative figures of antique classical culture (before Roman classicism) were Athenian. In the Vth century, after the Persian wars, there were in Greece two major factions: Athenian Empire and Peloponnesian League, with Sparta in front. Athens and Sparta had some frictions, but largely no total war…