Philosophical realism

with a new ideology call humanism, which was an interest in classical works and exploring the human potentials. This also effected how everything was being portrayed in day to day life. Art change with a keen interest in details and an emphasis on realism. music change from the typical Gregorian chant to more instruments, and the way of thought eventually followed with the new wave of change. Thomas More would be a very big part of this with his Utopia and the new ideas that went into this…

A trickster, essentially, is a character who disobeys the norms, though carries greater knowledge and has mainly been discussed in mythology, folklore, and religious texts, and has consistently been viewed in indigenous context. The trickster is often the anthropomorphic personification of a hidden, allegorical world. Linda M. Morra and Deanna Reder’s Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, propose that the purpose of every trickster tale is to “[articulate] ambiguous…

coincidentally, most major periods in literature begin and end around times of war. Looking at America especially, the Civil War heeds the end of Transcendentalism and begins the period of Realism. Additionally, the Modernism movement widens with the advent of both world wars. Transcendentalism, a period tending towards philosophical reaction and protest to the general state of society with the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, was transformed by the impact of the Civil War.…

20th Century Avant Garde is a period in which art was in an unexpected, experimental form that was abnormal compared to art before it’s time. Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter created Fan, Salt Box, Melon during this time period. Additionally, French painter Georges Braque created, Guitar and Bottle of Marc on a Table during the same time period. Although these two artworks possess numerous similar features because of the time period and style, they have extremely unique differences as well.…

Peace, the ultimate absence of human conflict. Throughout human history, peace has been the outstanding concept that nations attempt to achieve. However, history has shown countless conflicting periods that indicates the notion that peace is not a human quality. Moreover, many individuals from Grotius to Hobbes have decreed that human nature is violent, nasty and brutish. Therefore, is it possible to achieve world peace? Due to the anarchic system within international society, the possibility of…

technological/scientifical advancements. Leonardo Da Vinci, was arguably the most well know painter and inventor of the Renaissance era. Leonardo was not just a simple artisan of the era, he was a deep philosophical thinker and was diversely talented. To some degree, he was ahead of his time, not only in his dramatic realism of painting, but also in his marvellous inventions, and futuristic technology that were well though out and architectured with an intrigued humanist touch. Ever since…

Pope’s verse form ‘a confirmation of his wicked, narrow and manipulating ways.’ However, I feel that this is a narrow view and would that stress his use of form was fruitful. By adopting this high traditional style, Pope added an authoritative philosophical credibility to his work and lasting power to his argument considering his aim to combine other writer’s views for a definitive guide for criticism. However, this effect is not limited to Pope’s poetry, and we must consider how three other…

Gregor’s metamorphosis is symbolic of this commodification of man. The labor’s wage is a mere overhead cost from the point of view of the entrepreneur. Though the laborer is paid, his product is taken away from him. After the acknowledgement of the entrepreneur’s contribution of providing the conditions for production, it is important to realize that it is not possible to produce without the workforce. The thoughts and skills of the laborer go into his production. There are two factors at play…

Oscar Wilde’s essays and lectures discussing the role of art in society is supposed to be used as a guideline for future artists to create more meaningful and useful works. Through the analysis of his essays and lectures, it is visible that, Wilde thinks there are characteristics of art and artists that offer no value to the world and are inherently useless. Wilde compares useful and useless art in an attempt to explain what qualities are necessary to develop meaningful and beneficial artworks.…

Q.1.) How did Picasso and Matisse differ in their views about the purpose of art? How did their styles differ? Which works best exemplify their different styles? A.1.) First with Pablo Picasso, he once said, “the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off your souls". From his famous quote, we can gather that our lives require day by day measurements of art similar to how our body needs a clean and healthy bathe to remain perfect and sound. In other word, art is the essential request…