Homage

After the sacking of Athens and the destruction from the fighting all across Greece, rebuilding was started and much of the iconography used as decoration in the rebuilding process likely played homage to this conflict. One of the best examples of this is on the metopes of the Parthenon, where experts believe myth was used to represent the victory of the Greeks over the barbarous Persians. The Gigantomachy is an excellent example of this as throughout…

Why did people not respect Fitzgerald’s writing in the twentieth century, but they respects and values his work in the twenty-first century? Fitzgerald had a hard time to earning profits from his writing and he was not successful after his first novel. The story of Fitzgerald’s life reveals a close comparison between Fitzgerald and Gatsby from his number one book in AmericaThe Great Gatsby, and Fitzgerald’s emotion throughout his life show through his writing. From childhood to adulthood,…

We can all admit that at one point in life we have caught ourselves following the latest trends. We assume the style is an idea that is in for the moment, that came randomly from someone or somewhere that does not concern us. When in actuality it derived from a culture far from where we are with a deeper and significant meaning. This is what is known as cultural appropriation. No matter if it is an accident or intentional, taking an idea or style that does not belong to our original culture is…

at intervals. One’s eye can only move to the horizon. This painting is a sharp contrast to the painting showing ‘The Woods of Asshockan’ (1871). This composition invites your eye into a wooden valley. The lighting and texture could only be paying homage to great artistes like Church and Asher B. Durand. The second exhibition, the one at the Dorsky Museum, showcases McEntee as a modest, yet unique painter. He stayed in Europe for a while with Church and Sanford Gifford. He was adept at depicting…

Goodness: Virtue thus came to mean, not moral goodness in itself considered, but goodness militant and triumphant. Virtue then, in its more usual sense at the present time, denotes conduct in accordance with the right, or with the fitness of things, on the part of one who has the power to do otherwise. But in this sense there are few, if any, perfectly virtuous men. There are criterions to recognize cardinal virtues: there are fitnesses and duties appertaining, first, to one's own being, nature,…

The political parties in the United States and China are exceptionally different. In a way that each country's political party system varies but at the end each country's main objective is for their country is to succeed and to protect the interest of their people. These two countries have different forms of government, in which political parties plays different roles. In China they have a communist form of government and in the United states we have a Democratic and Republican parties.…

Plato’s Apology is the retelling of Socrates’ trial and his ultimate death. In the Apology, Socrates argues and defends himself against the false charges of: corrupting the minds of the young and not believing in the gods recognized by the state. Socrates was judged by Meletus, Anitus, and Lycon; Meletus of which he discussed with the most. How these charges came about, were merely prejudices and assumptions by the people of Athens that accumulated over the years. It all started when…

The manifestation of a deity in today’s western world is associated with an image with a human form but Egyptians associated gods with an assorted variety of animals as Horus was with a falcon and Wadjet with the snake. The idea of multiplicity of approaches was common as some deity’s had two animals representing them such as Thoth who can be seen as an Ibis and Baboon. Some god/goddesses had two forms to express aspects of their nature, angry Sekhmet turns into a lion but when mildly angry,…

The painting, teeming with organic forms that merge and meld seemingly in defiance of nature, is a testament to Miró's ever-increasing stylization and abstraction at this point in his career. The picture may be viewed as both an homage to Spain's past and a statement on the political upheaval in Europe. In subtle ways, Miró's works frequently expressed his own political sentiments as does this one as well as works from the period leading up to and throughout World War II.” (Wilkes…

time of the ninth century.) According to historical and archaeological studies, Jezebel lived an extravagant spoiled life full of vibrant textiles, and the education taught by the best Phoenician tutors money could buy. At an early age Jezebel paid homage to multiple Gods and she may have even practiced as a high priestess, but the God she committed these sinful acts for was known as Baal, the storm God who was believed to control the fertility and nature…