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peaceful place. And in McKay’s America he shows a negative view thus, we see the hate, anger, and discrimination. Both poets present their perspectives of America, but they are very different. By exploring the lives and works of both Walt Whitman and Claude McKay, we understand how America, the same country, can be a country to one where only love, law, and freedom prevails and to another it is full of hate and racism. By looking at the lives of these poets, we can get a better…

Claude Monet is considered one of the most prolific French painters of the 19th century and a founding father of the Impressionist movement. It was Monet’s ability to repaint seemingly similar landscape scenes while effectively differentiating each paining’s symbolic meaning and memorializing these varying variations of color and fleeting effects of light and seasonal weather changes that truly distinguishes his style of painting from other painters. In order to gain greater insight into the…

these African American writers that the main struggle is with equality. Common themes within these works are brutality, segregation, and violence. These works are outlets for these writers to voice their concerns about these topics. If We Must Die by Claude McKay is essentially a call to arms for marginalized African Americans. This work highlights the problems that were going on during the race wars of this time period. Essentially, this work is basically saying that African Americans were…

John Farrer Winter Scene in Moonlight Visual Research Project Monica Whitney CREA 232 Art from the Fifteenth Century Professor Stavros March 22, 2015 Winter Scene in Moonlight is Henry Farrer’s first known watercolor painting. This painting was painted in 1869 and can be found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Henry Farrer used techniques from the Pre-Raphaelite Association to paint this drawing. This watercolor painting is of a…

Ophelia was painted with oil on canvas by Sir John Everett Millais (The Story of Ophelia). Millais was known for his great attention to detail when it came to the botanical aspects, so much so that a professor teaching botany would take his students to see Ophelia because the representations of the flowers were so close to nature (The Story of Ophelia). The concept of this painting was born out of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet, the title character’s love interest, Ophelia tragically…

Summary and Response to “The Thing on the Wall” In the section “The Thing on the Wall” of the book An Introduction to Art, the author teaches us the important factors which determine the successful concentration or focus of our attention on a single painting when we view it in public. He says the first thing we should consider is the lighting and claims that the natural sunlight and artificial light sources differ in intensity. Daylight is generally less bright and goes well with ‘cool…

In the documentary film In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles, produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, the life of misunderstood artist Vincent van Gogh is depicted, particularly his works done in Arles, France. The film takes the viewer on an in depth journey of van Gogh’s life highlight points such as his inspirations and specific paintings all the while weaving it into the story that is uniquely the artist’s own. Through the introduction of the artist’s inspirations…

Andy Gjata Museum Paper Michael Coyle Art appreciation 1301 The subject I will be writing about is Martin Johnson Heade’s painting called “Passion Flowers with the Three Hummingbirds.” It is believed to be painted around 1875. The medium is oil on canvas height 17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm); width 22 1/8 in. (56.2 cm.). It is part of the American Art exhibit located in the San Antonio Museum of Art. This painting is part of a series of many pieces of art that depicted the Central and South American…

Assessment 3: Annotated Bibliography By Marcel Duchamp ‘Fountain’ E. Kuenzli, Rudolf & M. Naumann, Francis “Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century” Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917-William A. Camfield (1996): 64-90. William A. Camfield writes about Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as one of the most famous and equally infamous objects in the history of modern art. He goes over the history of ‘Fountain’ in high detail and answers all the questions…

Thomas Cole was an artist in the early and mid 1800s bringing his own new style of painting to the art world taking it by storm and really breaking away from the normal traditional ways that we have studied through this last semester. I chose Thomas Cole because I have experienced pieces of his work for years of my life through my previous courses. I have a love for the country and he depicts the woodland and beautiful landscape of the world making you appreciate where you are no matter what is…