Coloured hat

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, by Timothy Brook, sets out to explain how the world was transformed during the seventeenth century through a growing world market and expanding globalization between civilizations and cultures that either had not have contact or limited contact in the past. The book is organized into eight sections, each corresponding to a different piece of art created by Johannes Vermeer and other artists. Each of these sections covers a…

Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook, looks at globalization in the 1600s through the works of Johannes Vermeer. These works include, View of Delft, Officer and Laughing Girl, Young Woman Reading a Letter, The Geographer, Woman Holding a Balance, and The Card Players. The book also looks at works that are not Vermeer’s, including, a plate from the Lambert Van Meerten Museum of Delft, and Emperor Guan, The Chinese God of War. Brooks uses these works of art to examine globalization, through the close…

Vyse’s wintertime subjects. The Pedlar woman wears an old felt hat with a green feather. Her dark green thigh length top coat is unbuttoned at the waist, revealing a long claret-coloured skirt. For the first time Vyse models a street vendor figure wearing grey spats, presumably to protect her boots from the filthy streets. From her large wicker basket, overflowing with colourful jumble of ribbons and white lace trimmings, she proffers coloured trinkets, bangles and beads. The yellow paisley…

by wars. Behind the tree, there is a long bandage that is untied, coloured mostly in red. This represents that in order to be alive, the snipers cannot give up, no matter how painful it is for them, they have to get over it. It shows that without letting the wound heal, they must stand up right away to fight. Beside the tree, there is a crow. In…

to the beach eventually; the sun high above our heads. Mom made us put on these god awful red sun hats with the little neck flap on the back. We whinged and moaned, mostly over all the time she spent making sure that we all had enough sunscreen on, that our hats were on right and warning us not to stay in the sun for too long. We spent the day splashing about in the shallow water and collecting coloured rocks and interesting sea shells from along the long stretch of beach. The day ended with me…

Precisely, the hat is decorated with metal candle-holders to provide the artificial light for Goya. Later in the book, there is a quote by his son which confirms this claim: ‘’The final touches in order to secure the best effect in a painting would be added at night,…

the spirit of this contemporary sporting figure. Vyse vividly portrays the rotund player, half-kneeling in rapt concentration as he looks towards the Jack in readiness to bowl his wood. In the Staffordshire tradition, Vyse uses the subject’s bowler-hat as a removable lid. Commenting on Vyse’s Toby jug decoration, Naimaster in his Walker’s Monthly article suggests: The decoration has arisen from fundamental pottery processes. He did not overlay them, superimpose the new upon the old and blot it…

Simmons. He was a spiritual father, founder and the first “grand wizard” of the reformed Ku Klux Klan. At this time the main opponent for the Klan was the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). (Effects of the Ku Klux Klan) The main “base” or territory for the Ku Klux Klan was in Atlanta, where the KKK was mostly active. Since World War 1 the KKK became strictly against Catholic, Jews, Communists etc. or anyone that came…

Portraits: a comparative essay. The Archibald prize is a famous Australian portrait competition. It as named after JFA and was first awarded in 1921. His aim was to foster portraiture as well as support artists and preserve the memory of great Australians. William Dobell, painted fellow painter and beloved figure of Australian art, Margret Olley; and won in 1948. Margret Olley was also painted a second time by Ben Quilty in 2011, that too won the Archibald prize. Although The two paintings,…

IS RACISM COMMON IN OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE? The reading I decided to expand on was titled “Racism in the English Language”. The english language has many phrases and vocabulary that if analyzed well enough, could be considered racist.The article gives specific examples in regards to terminology, symbolism, politics and context from the english language is racist to those around us. In the article, the paragraph most interesting is “Speaking English” for the reason that I can relate to it the most.…