Pictures at an Exhibition

Pg.1-50: The main character, Ruth Anne McCabe, better known as Roo is a senior in high school and is ready to go to her dream college, Yale University. Roo has a younger sister named Tilly, she is a freshman in highschool and one day when she was at a museum doing research for a school project texted Roo to pick her up from the museum minutes before they were about to close. Roo was running a little late and Tilly was really impatient so she kept sending her lots of text messages telling her to…

carved a deep influence in Japanese art, and also in western art history. Ukiyo-e is a genre in Japanese printing art blossoming in 17th through 19th century. The word Ukiyo refers to “the floating world”, the realm of entertainment, and –e means the picture. The word ukiyo originally expressed the Buddhist idea of the…

visiting these two objects, from the relative positions the curator chose to place these objects in the exhibition to my perception of…

Picture yourself walking through the doors of an art gallery, expecting to see something totally new, diverse and original, only to be disappointed by being surrounded with whiteness in every sense. This scenario speaks to the exclusionary nature that many people of color in the art world feel when they enter theses spaces. The notion of art has always been seen from the perspective of a certain particular group of individuals, who throughout centuries have sought to affirm whiteness in art and…

are surrounded by redundant photos, newspapers full of pictures, posters in the streets, advertisements in the shop windows and many kinds of photos on the internet from all over the world (Wagner, 2000). Photography as a part of culture was also affected by cultural sharing under globalization. In this paper I argue that globalization causes some parts of…

acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Throughout Eakins career he had difficulties with the public and critics. The Gross Clinic, 1875 is an oil on canvas, 96" x 77" and was rejected by the art jury for the exhibition in Philadelphia, because it was too brutally realistic. The painting illustrates the prominent surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross conducting a surgery in the operating amphitheater of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. The painting also…

And in the picture Serena has a tennis ball in her mouth which symbolizes how both and umpire and maybe even the crowd wants her to stay silent and keep her unpleasant words to herself. Not only has she been picked apart for her words but she has also been picked apart…

Throughout the 1920’s cinema became established as the most popular and profitable mass media, and this continued until the 1960s. Historian A.J.P Taylor famously described it as “the essential social habit of the age”. People went to the movies as their main leisure activity. The social experience of cinema going was often an escape from what could be very difficult social conditions and the rise in cinema attendances during and just following World War Two were up to 31m per week in the UK…

What decides what art is? Over the years, there have been many discussions about what decides art and it is this question that many artists have toyed with. From the aesthetic appeal to statement works to the viewer's own perception, many aspects of art have been explored. However, the value of art is decided by that of the history of the artwork itself. One could look to Vincent Van Gogh; whose works became no more extraordinary after his death, but his tragic story assisted in him to become a…

demeanors and conduct, and influences their psyches and accepts. The media faculty exploit this point the western individuals are unmindful about anything that identifies with Arabs and they simply know them from motion pictures and TV shows, and they for the most part are in the picture of fear based oppressor so they take of this point and speak to Arabs and Arab women’s (ladies) without concentrating on them or comprehension them and they generalization them as the way they need the general…