Pictures at an Exhibition

private moment of the victim’s life and that we –as art audience- don’t have the right to break through this space. One cannot imagine an exhibition celebrating or even displaying detailed images of rape victims during the act of rape or straight after and calling it ‘art’. Why don’t we see the same consideration and thinking go into displaying other crime pictures like war crimes and disasters? Aren’t victims of war and victims of rape are both sufferers of violence and…

Thomas Drake Jr. LIT 106 Professor Edward Kihn Short Paper Response Assignment 1 Question 1 Characterize some of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema (5%): The characteristics of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema began in the early 1900’s. An actuality film is a non-fiction film portraying footage through a real event. A narrative cinema was a fictional film presenting the audience a story. The audience’s attention…

leading of lyrical color in the century and considered to be others opinion. However, Degas had reason to feel more optimistic. In spite of his association with the unpopular group of artists his work appealed to collectors. Seven of his ten pictures in the exhibition were sold even before…

Sophie. Sophie, along with all of Dorothea’s grandparents, had immigrated from Germany to the United States. After the move, Dorothea’s mother took a job at the New York Public Library, where Dorothea liked to go after school to look at the pictures in the books. Dorothea did not do very well in school, and though she often skipped school, she managed to graduate from high school in 1914.[3] Once she was out of high school, her mother made her go to the New York Training School for…

In most cases people would assume that a portrait is nothing more than a face. However, Annie Leibovitz often includes more information in the photograph. Some of her portraits give insights into the celebrity’s life while others do not. The formal and posed, portraits often remind us of a person’s well-known character, while the informal portraits rely on other information like environments in order to portray the person’s personality or lifestyle. In the same aspect, some of the portraits also…

"Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it . . . Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist; it is the soul of the individual that counts." (Collections). Emily Carr was a famous painter and writer, she was the only one original female painter of the first half twentieth century. Most canadians galleries have Emily Carr’s works, which are from her famous tour called “Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon” (The Canadian Encyclopedia). Emily…

It was hung in the New South Wales art gallery as part of the Archibald Prize 2013 exhibition and followed by an exhibition tour. Barton normally paints the female form so painting Weaving was a different experience. Barton loves movies and watches 4-5 movies a week and Weaving is one of Barton's favorite Australian actors and she admires him both as an…

A Summer to Die Molly and Meg Chalmers are very different. Molly is the type of person who is the popular girl at school, has multiple boyfriends, and is known for her beauty and laughter. She takes pride in the little things in life, just like her mother. On the other side, Meg is a very awkward kind of girl, instead of living in a fantasy world like her sister, she pays attention to the logic of everything, like her father. They believe that if they get excited about the little things, then…

Den blå Planet/The blue Planet - National Aquarium Denmark The Architecture/Building The outlines of the building instantly show the approach of experiential building design as well as the strong underlying concept. As the building would be seen from water, land and air, every angle had to be aesthetically pleasing. It was the architect’s wish that the building should invite interpretation and at the same time stimulate the imagination. It can be seen as a success that 3XN was able to keep…

Each room creates a different feeling and imagination. The connection between each neighboring room did not seem very related, but it had a similar feeling to it. One interesting room that left a huge impression was a room with pictures of freeway signs and streetlights. This room left a feeling of you being in traffic or just being surrounded by many cars. You can imagine people honking their horns or just being very impatient while waiting for traffic to subside. Another room…