Mona Lisa Smile

and always connected. While this connection is quite helpful for many things, the people in a society must also be careful not to let technology control them and take away their humanity. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and short stories The Smile, The Pedestrian, and August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, he addresses a central message to society. He warns that, while the technology itself is not necessarily evil, it is and will be if humans continue to abuse it and allow it to…

Topic: Leonardo Da Vinci Purpose: To inform the audience about Leonardo Da Vinci’s past, impact on art during the Renaissance period, and his current achievements. Thesis statement: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest artists who had a tremendous impact on art during the Renaissance period and is still very well known today because of his achievements and talents. INTRODUCTION: I. Art has existed for a very long time, and is universal, as it exists throughout the world. As it…

The Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 was one of the deadliest and fast-moving epidemics the world has seen. Outbreaks mainly began in West Africa and quickly spread worldwide, affecting well over tens of thousands of people. It was not long before much of the world became familiar with the disease through personal connections or hearing about it from the extensive news coverage. Richard Preston, an American author, is very familiar with infectious diseases, and dives into all aspects of…

This painting shows a poised woman with her mysterious smile which was what made this painting famous. The landscape had some greenery, but the plants and trees were blurred focusing on the woman in the picture (Leonardo da Vinci, Document 5). The famous Leonardo da Vinci painted this masterpiece, that is known today as the Mona Lisa. Painted in 1503, Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist in Italy. His painting of the Mona Lisa was really lionized and showcased a variety of art techniques…

There are twelve songs in this album. The Ballad of Mona Lisa,Let's Kill Tonight,Hurricane,Memories,Trade Mistakes,Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind),Always,The Calendar,Sarah Smiles,Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...),Stall Me (Bonus Track), and Oh glory. The lyrics touch on themes like manipulation and confusion.Vices & virtues took over two years to create.The single The Ballad of Mona Lisa came out number 7 on the Billboard 200.This album was made on Fueled by Ramen…

“Oppression: disguised freedom” "A girl should be two things: Classy and Fabulous," we have probably all heard this quote attributed to the famous designer Coco Chanel. I have personally heard many of my female friends praise it, but what caught my attention was how even in modern societies, we still come across norms and stereotypes like this surrounding the role that a woman should play in society. The norms, stereotypes and cultural myths surrounding gender roles have changed with time, but…

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…

Author, Kate Chopin, in her novel, The Awakening, composes a story about a woman named Edna who is in a passionless marriage and is realizing her sexuality. Director, Mike Newell, in his film, Mona Lisa Smile, illustrates a story about a woman named Katherine who is an art professor at Wellesley College teaching female students about breaking out of society’s roles. Chopin’s purpose is to bring to light to how some housewives felt trapped in the lives they were supposed to live during the 1890’s…

For many years, science and art has played a major role in the development in humanity likewise society. Science deals with discovering and understanding the nature of how the environment behaves and operates as well as the outside world by using reason and concrete evidence in order to evaluate and reach a conclusion to something that will benefit the humanity for generations whereas art applies various types of techniques and colors by means of establishing emotion and instinct to the mind and…

Medium- Medium refers to the material used to create a piece of artwork. Most artworks are created for different purposes and to tell distinctive stories and by using various mediums the artist can achieve this. Two examples of unlike mediums include paintings and hand-colored prints. An interesting example of an unconventional medium is an artwork called “Maple Leaves on a River” created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This artist took a sheet of paper he had painted blue and let a chicken…