Iconography

entire could be race “assaultive and belligerent” (Metzl and Roberts 677). In the 1980’s, during the “crack epidemic” (Metzl and Roberts 679), similar methods were used by the media and doctors when they portrayed pregnant crack addicts as “the iconography of depraved black maternity” (Metzl and Roberts 680). Headlines like “Crack Babies: The Worst Threat is Mom Herself” (Metzl…

understand the films, a genre also can tell the audiences what type of movies it was. The genre was very complex and narrative element that audience can visualise it on the screen. Many narrative elements can be anything along the screen, just like iconography. Moreover, narrative elements can make the films look narrative. However, in the clip of The Birds, it had some problems with the time of editing that it drew the audience’s eyes could not catch up with it. Therefore, this essay will…

The biblical Virgin Mary’s story exists in a spiritual realm of understanding that accepts a dimensionality that cannot be quantified by science, but rather must be accepted by pure faith as it requires one to move outside of conventional reality to believe it. Furthering the acceptance of Mary’s holy nature Dorothy Sacksteder in her thesis “The Cult of Mary: The Role of the Virgin during the Italian Renaissance” states that the Roman Catholic Church exercised their spiritual authority in…

How a miracle means varies depending on the religion, the person, and the region in which it is constructed. Miracles can be ongoing, they can be as simple as a story, or one miraculous event, and they can be a combination. The meaning of a miracle is complex, pulling from several various meanings throughout history, religion, and personal connection. Within the Buddhist religion, miracles are a largely complicated aspect of the Buddhist belief. The particular Buddhist Saint miracle story of…

Carraci’s genre paintings of the normal life style of people, were not always in his paintings but more so in his sketches, and sketch books that he would go out and draw in. The unique features of Carracci’s artwork, helped him craft his own art style when he started to journey into genre painting. Either it being his poses, sketches, or painting style, others that were under him took up his artwork and used it for later in commissions for different reasons. “Domenichino first assisted Annibale…

The nineteenth century was built around the revival of religious activity and hasn’t been the same since the Puritan times. The bible during these times was taken seriously and as the literal truth, the foundation of moral behavior became known as Victorianism. “It was believed that if religion was accepted by all that standards would create the end to crime and poverty” (Clifton 1). At this time there were many different types of religions one could follow and many different standards/rituals…

Inside the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, there are two frescoes in a series by Francesco Salviati (1510-1563) whose unusual iconography caught my interest during a semester abroad. Though ostensibly depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, in both cases the titular narrative is rendered obscurely in the far background of the work while the foreground is dominated by the bodies of spectators who watch the scene. My senior thesis project, titled “Shaping Spectatorship in…

These two works of art were created in the same medium of oil done by Spanish artists. The iconography is very much similar in that the portrait depicts Jesus on the cross when he was crucified. Both works of art portrays Christ with his arms spread open, nailed to a wooden cross. The element of chiaroscuro, creation of light and dark is very prevalent…

The Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, located in New York’s largest art gallery district in Chelsea on 521 West of 21st Street, has gladly opened their doors to receive the internationally-known and creative artist Ernesto Neto with his exhibition called The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth to Humanity which will be on display from October 29 to December 16, 2016. As soon as you walk in you encounter hanging crocheted ropes that touch and wrap around you as you pass creating a jungle-like environment. But as…

Picture to yourself, if you can, a universe in which everything makes sense. A “serene order presides over the Earth around you,” and the “heavens above revolve in magnificent harmony.” Everything you can see, hear, and know is a particular aspect of the ultimate truth: the simplicity of a geometric theorem, the predictability of the movements of heavenly bodies, the harmonious beauty of a “well-proportioned fugue”- all are reflections of the essential perfection of the universe. These are, in…