Grande Odalisque

The mexican war started in 1945 when the annexation of Texas took place. After the annexation , Mexico and America had a disagreement on what the border of Texas was. The U.S. thought that the border was the Rio Grande , while Mexico thought it was the Nueces River. This quarrel then led to the war , the prize being the land. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because America believed in manifest destiny and that God gave them the land to overspread and also because 16…

valuables, and they often carried a bookbag which they had all their other items in. When they got close to crossing the Rio Grande, they seemed to discard their bookbags and unnecessary items to make crossing the river quicker. The border control guards also found these items which alerted them to the wetbacks’ locations, as shown in the documentary. When crossing the Rio Grande, the wetbacks utilized garbage bags or similar objects, and shoelaces. They put their clothes in the bag, tied the…

Today is the day, to find out if the American are ready to take over the world. Well not technically, they were just there to find out if they are justified in going to war. So was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico? Well the US was justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexicans attacked US troops on Texas soil, they need to get more land for Manifest Destiny, and America needed to prove to Mexico that they did not steal Texas. The United States went to war with…

point of entry. In addition, LNG waiting export will be stored within four LNG storage tanks on site. The entire RGLNG site will approximately span 1,000 acres with central coordinates Latitude: 26° 1’ N, Longitude: 97° 15’ W("Rio Grande LNG - Project…

Similar to Mulan’s fate when she had courageously enrolled in the Chinese military in order to protect her feeble father, I was forced to take on responsibilities that I was not ready for at that age, but under the circumstances, chose to embrace them. August 25, 2012, was the day I had finally made the A-team for volleyball after frequently being told I was not exceptional enough. I remember I was so ecstatic to inform my parents for all they did was support me. Meanwhile, that excitement began…

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this paper. Baroque style was known for the realness and emotional ties that go with every painting or sculpture that is made with that style. Meanwhile, Neoclassical style is more on historical viewpoint with a decorative way. The painting, "La Grande Odalisque" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and the sculpture, "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" by Gianlorenzo Bernini, both portray females in exotic poses. While both artworks feature women, each artist used very different methods to get their…

Guerrilla Girls, an American group of art activism, founded in 1985 with an aim of bringing attention to female artists and artists of color, an exposing domination of white males in the art world. In 1985 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted a large exhibition titled “An International Survey of painting and sculpture,” (Interview magazine, 2012) in which only 13 women out of a total of 169 artists were included. The group remained anonymous and assumed alias’ of famous women…

context, how juxtaposed to create contrast, what is the work about how does imagery and texy relate and convery meaning about the culture, how has the artisit organised the subject within the space? The defacing of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, one of the most famous nudes is an image composed to embarrass one of the art world's most sanctified institutions. “Do women have to been naked to get into the met” matches the Guerrilla Girls portfolio of packaging protests in…

Olympia, painted in 1863 by Edouard Manet, and The Coiffure, which Mary Cassatt created in 1891, illustrate inequalities in class and gender. As art used to be considered a field only for men, the male gaze was and is very commonly found in art. Male gaze is when a female subject is seen through the view of a man and often seems objectified. Manet, in Olympia, and Cassatt, in most of her work, either invert the gaze or work to entirely remove it. In addition to showing women in a more positive…