Marilyn Monroe

Appropriation Art is the concept of taking a previously imagined and created idea and altering it either dramatically or slightly to the artist’s liking to fit the artwork. It is the idea that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.The ‘copied’ artworks can be comprised of objects seen in everyday life or can be from another artist’s work.The earliest cases of Art…

If you listen to music genres such as pop or hip-hop you can often find this lyric to sound familiar, “My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun”. This famous song lyric from one of the most well-known female rappers in America, Nicki Minaj, has stirred up the media’s attention to focus on a women’s body image, specifically, the butt. Whether the posterior has been achieved through implants, working out, or genetics, this new found fame has been the on and off topic of many beauty…

Arthur Miller is a twentieth century play, write who wrote many classics. One of his classics was 1949 Death of a Salesman which appeared on Broadway that year. The year 1949 is a the death of an old decade and the birth of a new one. The 1950s, was a decade of unprecedented consumerism and technical advances in America. In the 1950’s many new innovations were made for the home such as the Tv was now affordable to most people and so tv programs grew as the audience grew as well. The washing…

One morning Suzie wakes up and she is tired. She's tired of living. She is stressed out over school and sports and over making her parents proud of her all the time. Suzie always feels like she makes mistakes. So Suzie grabs her laptop and searches for ways to relieve the feelings and the stress. She comes across a web site about suicide. This web site has materials Suzie can use. Should Suzie use this site? Some people would agree to using this site, but others would disagree to using these…

face. The good news is that you don’t need to suffer from deep wrinkles and you don’t need to spend a fortune on plastic surgery to get rid of them. In fact, there are 10 all-natural ways to smoothen the forehead wrinkles. 1. Petroleum jelly Marilyn Monroe and Jennifer Aniston vouch for petroleum jelly when it comes to reducing forehead wrinkles. The natural product helps hydrate the skin and prevents lines from forming. Apply the jelly on a lightly dampened forehead for best results. 2.…

Vanessa Gerdes P.1 Photography Research Essay A lot of people don't think much about the art of photography. They don't consider the different types and styles of photography jobs that field has to offer. At Syracruse University, they offer photography classes as well as being able to major in photography! For example, one unique style of photography is field photography. Field photography has to do with pictures being took of landscapes. Sebastiao Salgado does an excellent job…

In “A&P” by John Updike, the story takes place in a 1950’s grocery store called A&P. This story reflects the life and culture of what life was like in the post-war era of the 1950’s. A&P is a small town grocery store located in downtown Massachusetts during the 1950’s. During this time, the country is recovering from the Great Depression and World War II. After the Great Depression and World War II, “new items constantly appeared on the racks” (Young 81). In the store, brand names of food…

Andy Warhol. John Lennon. 1985-86. Synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. 40 x 40 1/8in. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA,(May-October 2005). The artwork I have chosen to describe by Andy Warhol is John Lennon. It is done with synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. I think this piece of art is very different. It’s a realistic painting in the fact that it is based off of the actual person, John Lennon. It is a little abstract because the colours aren’t how you’d normally see a…

How does one not fall victim to insecurity when faced with unreasonable body expectations on a daily basis? In America, people are forced to see ads that show women in workout gear and eating salads while being super thin. Men feel like they have to bulk up and be super fit in order to get beautiful women (SOURCE). Obviously being fit is an attractive trait, but at what point is it too far? When do people decide that their actions are equivalent to someone who has an eating disorder? A…

Portrait (1986) show Andy Warhol exploring the theme of death. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screen printed images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational…