Ornament

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In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Price uses examples of how flamingos changed America’s culture to create a jocular tone that satirizes the culture within United States. Flamingos were creatures that had little significance in American lifestyles. However, as Price describes, people were “flocking” to Florida just to bring a flamingo back home. A hotel and casino had been built using the concept of the flamingo and soon after that more hotels were open that were that were…

The Plastic Pink Flamingo by Jennifer Price In her essay, Price’s emphasis on the plastic pink flamingo and the symbol it has of wealth and style in the 1950’s, along with the irony of the importance of the pink flamingo to the United States culture implies that Price views United States culture as fake and bold, as a way of ridiculous or strange. Price uses the plastic pink flamingo as a symbol of wealth and style throughout the passage to prove her view of American culture being fake. Fake as…

In Adolf Loos’ “Ornament and Crime”, the author has a forthright stance on ornamentation. According to Loos, implementation of embellishment disables society from progressing forward in contemporary culture. Referencing to the Papuan’s choice to decorate without restraint, Loos delineates a stark contrast between modern and tribal perspectives relating to ornamentation. In other words, the “evolution of culture” removes the dependency on decoration as a means of expression (Loos, 167). In…

8:7) David here is a type of Christ who would later have His own triumphal entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey. (John 12:14-15) The foremost and consummate antichrist type in the Bible is Antiochus Epiphanes. In the book, “The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance”, by Clare Lapraik Guest, the author states that his processions, “contained temporal allegories and robed statues of the gods plus mythological scenes.” In 168 B.C. he conquered Jerusalem and built an idol to the…

In this essay, I am going to discuss what ornaments mean to both Christopher Dresser and John Ruskin, showing the main differences between their thoughts about ornaments, then I will compare their thoughts with the contemporary meaning of ornamentation, which is the meaning of ornamentation today, and at the end, I am going to share my own thoughts about ornaments. Ornamentation, which is the state of decorating an object, a room, or a building, is one of the visual elements in architecture…

If the output of interdisciplinary dialog between psychology, art history and aesthetics was to offer a more open-ended notion of ornament, one that mediates an aesthetic “vitality”, it would still be up to artists and architects at the time to debate over what was the “vitality” that to be conveyed, what role did the artist play in this mediation and ultimately what value would this creation possess. The inherent “modern” characteristic of such a vitality was closely intertwined with everyday…

He explains how Loos’s essay was not given attention to at first from the public, but later on when his publication began to spread internationally, changes were seen and attention to ornament “as a crime” was taking place in modern architecture design. Banham explains how Loos’s writings were inspirational, particularly to their role in inspiring the Futurists, the Dadaists, and the emerging modern movement. As well as being architecturally…

It's that time of the year again. The holiday everyone has been waiting for. As Christmas quickly approaches, everyone begins to get in the holiday spirit. No matter where you go, you will be reminded that the holiday is here. People have begun to set up Christmas characters in their yard and hang lights on their house. Radio stations are playing all of the Christmas classics, while the television has all of the new Hallmark Christmas movies on. Stores are crowded with holiday shoppers who are…

For the families with young children, decorating the Christmas tree is a process in which different objects are placed on the tree at a certain time; the lights go on first, then the ornaments, and lastly the tree topper. Each part of the Christmas tree has a bigger meaning behind it than what meets the eye. The tree in general represents the eternal life. As the process of decorating the tree begins, the lights are strung on the tree first. Back in the 17th century, the trees were decorated…