Iconography

Media during the Vietnam War The Vietnam War was diverse for America for many reasons, but the dispute about the role of the media has become almost as debatable as the war itself. Americans varying opinions of the Vietnam War were influenced primarily by the media and the biased content they chose to show. A popular thought came to individuals minds after the war that the media contributed to the failure in Vietnam by oppositional information. The media influenced Americans…

What is the grey? Chroma, the greek word for colour, the light waves from the sun creates colour for the world. Colour usually appears on surface, the outermost surface which has interaction with the sun, or light. In the lecture of Brown, by Kiristina Podesva, and the lecture about black, by Liz Lee and Jared Sexton. The relationship between colour is intersecting with each other. Black as the extreme of one spectrum of colour and brown as the unique form of colour being nowhere in the colour…

Since the first revelation of a piece that was considered as an “artwork”, many styles have been developed throughout the centuries. Artworks have been engendered by different artists in sundry styles, time periods and places. When artists or theorists invents an incipient set of conceptions of an unknown style, it can now be utilized by anyone, sundry times. Once an artist engendered an artwork utilizing a concrete style, another artist can re-visit it as the reference to engender a different…

The conflict between Catholics and Protestants in France assumed many forms. It was a physical conflict, but also an ideological one where both parties used propaganda to fight each other. Pamphlets and images where used by both the Catholics and the Protestant to discredit the adversary and rally people to their cause. The Great Marmite Overturned, Le Renversement de la grand marmite in French (Fig. 1), is one of those images. It is a woodcut, which was first produced in 1562 by an unknown…

Representations of the transport of political prisoners to their place of incarceration is of increased significance within Russian art because of the practice of exiling prisoners to the far frozen corners of Siberia. The most notable depiction of the torment experienced by prisoners en route to exile is Valery Yakobi’s, The Prisoners’ Halt (1861). While it did represent prisoners suffering at the hands of the Russian penal system, that did not necessarily make unacceptable to the governmental…

Released in 2000 and produced by Walt Disney Pictures (and Jerry Bruckheimer Films), Remember the Titans is a sports film dramatization of the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who was an integral part of the 1971 integration of T.C. Williams High School (and consequently, its football program). Naturally (due both to the close proximity to the Civil Rights movement, and to the setting of Virginia), this was a highly controversial change that was met with opposition both externally from the…

Twentieth-century texts, specifically that of American literature, which address diaspora and the effects of displacement, exhibit a purposeful distortion of reality in efforts to define what reality is. It is important then, within such texts, to examine the depiction of a character’s subjective experience in response to their extreme circumstances. When personal circumstances evolve, and what was once the mundane or the ordinary, digress into an array of cataclysm, the self too, digresses in…

building, seemingly plain on the outside, and in. There were no bright colors or advertisements outside, no statues. Coming from a Catholic family where statues, sculptures, and art work are ever present this was alarming to me to not see such iconography.…

Archetypes: How you know the Stepmother is Evil Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess with skin the color of snow who lived with her stepmother. In one sentence you already know what is going to happen. You know who you are suppose to like, who the villain is, and you can probably guess the basic plot line and the ending. You know that the stepmother will be evil, she will try to hurt and/or kill the princess, who will undoubtable be saved by a prince on a gallant steed, and they will…

Miriam Schapiro was born in Toronto, Canada onNovember 15, 1923. Her talent rose at age of six when her father gave her weekly drawing assignments. She was a student at the Museum of Modern Art and learned to draw from the nude model at age 14, when she attended Federal Art Project classes. She received both her undergraduate (1945) and graduate (1946, 1949) degrees in art from the University of Iowa, where she studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. While at the university, Schapiro met…