Portrait of a Lady

divisive figure due to her commentary on such polarizing subjects as early feminist theory and her role as a potential boundary-crosser; she aspired to be both a part of and apart from the cultures she experienced. The collected personal correspondence of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu…

role of colonial women was determined by their wealth and status. In the image, you could tell the women were unwilling to be near the young black slave boy, but are forced by the man (Mr. Potter) to act naturally by drinking tea. You could tell the lady on the far left and right seem like they are reluctant to drink the tea with the slave boy. I learned from the image that men dominated the lives of colonial women and that Women couldn’t go against men or argue with hm. It seems like the woman…

new religions. This was the Reformation. One of the first most famous people of the Baroque period is Caravaggio. He wanted to imitate the natural things. The point of Baroque artwork was to be direct, simple dramatic, and obvious about what the portrait is displaying (New World Encyclopedia). Baroque literature had many metaphors, hyperboles, exaggeration, pessimism, and symbols used in it. The purpose of main reason of the Baroque literature was to make the reader go into an emotional state.…

after all. As Muggles, we paint still images, but in the world of magic, those paintings come to life. In magic, instead of a portrait remaining still, a live-feed camera is installed at a particular place, and the subject…

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…

Lady Macbeth stimulated the insanity of Macbeth, but upon losing control of her husband Lady Macbeth became overwhelmed with grief and anxiety. Inevitably, the anxiety lead to her suicide after multiple futile debates to end Macbeth’s tyrannous actions. After losing control of the malevolence produced…

statistics show this inequality, but literature explores this phenomenon. From the era of dark romanticism in the early nineteenth century to the era of modernism in the early twentieth century, writers analyze the effects of this inequality. “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allen Poe is a dark romantic short story. In contrast, John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” is a modern era prose. Both authors live hard lives, evident in the mood of their works. Regardless of the distinct time periods, both…

became the crème da la crème for those in the high class. These dresses were often made out of silk satin, damask, and chiffon. Usually they were decorated with lace, rhinestones, spangles, and most of the time was designed in a way to highlight the ladies favorite showing off body part. The Upper arms were always covered with lace and an under lay of fabric. At the high waist you could find a sash of the sort and a lace overlay on the entire dress itself. The large poof was no more and the…

But when Dorian looks at his portrait, he sees there is no change—except that “in the eyes there was a look of cunning, and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite.” He realizes his pitiful attempt to be good was no more than hypocrisy, an attempt to minimize the seriousness of his crimes that falls far short of atonement. Furious, he seizes a knife—the same weapon with which he killed Basil—and drives it into the portrait in an attempt to destroy it. Breaking into the…

a piece called Portrait of Artist’s Sister, by Georges Lemmen. It is a, you guessed it! A portrait of his sister, it is very realistic but also really cool. Painted with oil on canvas, the artist portrays his sister in a stricter light. She has an expressionless look on her face, with bags under eyes. Her hand are clasped on her lap, she is dressed sharply with her hair placed in a bun. It is the perfect way to be portrayed as a woman in 1891 but also has a twist. The whole portrait was done by…