Mary Pickford

“Best to remember Mary Pickford as her fans did: Part Eve, part angel, total evangelist for the blooming art of cinema.” Based on the quote by Richard Corliss, Mary Pickford was said to be a natural actress for all types of acting and an admiration to all who have watched her preform over the years. Since Mary Pickford was one of the very first stars of early cinema, she helped show people what movies can really bring to people and that they are not just a simple fad that will go out of style in a decade or two. The likability of cinema skyrocketed after Pickford entered Hollywood and she helped inspire future cinema stars to follow their dreams and showed the viewers what a film can really display when viewing one of the earliest movies ever made. Mary Pickford was an important figure in 1920s American History because she assisted in increasing the popularity for early cinema viewings. In addition to the growth of cinema popularity, she was one of the very few women in the 1920s to motivate women of all ages into following their passions and having a saying in the world. In order to…

were a much admired couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. When they got married and went to London, England for their honeymoon on June 21, 1920 they were greeted by lots of admiring fans. Since 1919 Pickford and Fairbanks had been business partners who got together with Charlie Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith to set up United Artists. After the couple got married Fairbanks gave Pickford a 22 room estate as a wedding present which included the first swimming pool in Beverly Hills…

audience. In lecture it was discussed that mass synchronous audiences went hand in hand with “mass entertainment” and motion pictures and silent films were an extension of mass entertainment. The fact that people had to travel by ferry boat from different areas to all watch the same silent film could be an example of synchronous mass audiences that act and react together in one space from all over which also made the crowed diverse. While discussing silent films she also mentioned famous actors…

with Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith (Los Angeles Times, 2008). United Artists was the first major production company to be controlled by its artists rather than by businessmen. Not merely producing films, the company also handled the distribution of films made by independent producers. It started the trend among studios to act as distributing agencies for films other than those it produced. (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.) As an artist, Fairbanks knew how…

Mary is represented as icons, drawings, paintings, and apparitions, such as La Santa Muerte, La Negrita, Our Lady of the Rock, Madonna, The Virgin of Guadalupe, and Our Lady of the Wall. With there still being many more, all of this just undoubtedly proves how incredibly substantial her influence is. It is completely reasonable to believe in Mary’s influence because “to look at [her]…is to look at God’s original plan for humanity” (Nouwen, 1989), as mentioned in class: she is the ultimate…

females around him because of his many skills, kind and loyal ways, and his devotion to God and Jesus Christ. According to Luke, “Hail Mary full of grace” was spoken at the Annunciation and “Blessed are you and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus” are spoken by Mary’s cousin Elizabeth. Luke is responsible for the stories about Jesus disappearing in Jerusalem as…

Sagrada Familia,” or the Sacred Family. La Sagrada Familia is, therefore, an expiatory temple, which is a type of temple dedicated to a deity to show devotion, which is a reason as to why the work’s scale is so immense, and why Gaudi paid so much attention to small details. Gaudi’s decision to work at such a large scale is also because he wanted the church to be seen from anywhere in the city of Barcelona, inviting those who need salvation to come and be saved. Gaudi’s plan was limited however,…

Critical Analysis- Wilthia Spann The Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux is a large gothic-style sculpture that was created in between 1324 to 1339. It was created in France and it was donated to the the abbey church of Saint-Denis by the Queen of France, Jeanne d'Evreux. It is a silver-gilt and enamel piece with the height of 2′ 3 1/2″ high. There isn’t any known record of the artist who actually built the sculpture, but it is known that they were a goldsmith. The piece can now be seen in Louvre Museum…

The artworks in this discussion are Au Natural by Sarah Lucas and Praying Hands by Albrecht Dürer. Au Natural is a composition of an old mattress, with a water bucket, a cucumber, two oranges and two melons in a space like a room or gallery. The objects are depicting male and female private parts, where the female body part is on the left hand-side and male body part is located on the right. The old mattress used has some grooves on it and some holes were made to hold the melons. Meanwhile, the…

people did not believe in the power of women to rule especially religious authorities. John Knox, believed “To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire… is against all nature” (Doc 1). Despite this common belief Elizabeth’s rule was given to her because of her religious values which may be one of the reasons she felt a need to stick so closely to it as when she entered the Spanish Armada she said “ to live or die amongst you all: to lay down for my God” (Doc 7). Knox also…