Portrait of a Lady

all. Her mother’s belief in American opportunity forced Jing-mei to undergo various tests her mother made up in attempts of becoming a prodigy–a Chinese Shirley Temple, a child geographical genius, a balance-oriented girl, and then a Bible-commanding lady–but failed until her mother watched a Chinese girl mastering piano on the Ed Sullivan Show like how her mother expected Jing-mei to be. But alas, when she took piano lessons from a deaf teacher who could not distinguish anything from another,…

Andy Warhol is one of the most relevant artist of the 21st century. He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol was considered “the gifted one” for his ability to paint and draw at such a young age. Not to mention he was a highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. He was the son of a an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh. with their support andy was a successful…

morality of womanhood. It has been no surprise that main protagonist Esther Summerson in Bleak House portrays ideal household lady in old England as someone full of compassion, motherly love, self-effacing combining unceasing flow of spirits, extreme activity and diligence, her punctuality, uprightness and remarkable frugality that distinguishes her from her mother, Lady Deadlock who epitomize the vanity of era but all seem to in ruins as the novel progress and by way of contrast she became…

I chose to analyze a painting done by Fridah Kahlo in 1946. She titled it “The Little Deer” (Kahlo). It depicts a deer jumping through a forest. The deer has the distinctive human face that Kahlo uses in many of her self-portraits. In addition, there are several arrows sticking out of the deer’s back, which are bleeding. We can see through the trees in the background to the ocean, where though it appears to be a bright day, there is a lightning storm. The tone at first glance seems hopeful as…

Elizabeth Engel Mrs. Gann English 4 22 November 2016 Elizabeth Barrett Browning The exciting life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning consisted of many struggles beginning with her childhood all through the time that she passed away. Best known for her poetry, some of her most prominent influences included John Milton and William Shakespeare. From a young age, she was advanced in reading and writing, completing her first book at age twelve (Biography.com Editors). The life and work of Elizabeth…

with enough power to captivate the mind of a genius such as da Vinci quickly became lost in history? We always remember the artist, but rarely the muse. In “The Oval Portrait,” by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator of the story becomes obsessed with a portrait of a beautiful woman hanging in an oval frame in his room. The model in the portrait is none other than the artist 's wife. The painting is so life-like that everyone who sees it can conclude that the artist loved his craft and his wife, but…

Arthur Miller uses many symbols in his play, Death Of A Salesman to help enhance and strengthen the themes he portraits in the novel. The stockings, seeds, and diamonds mentioned throughout the play help add stability to the themes of betrayal (stockings), failure (seeds), and the american dream (diamonds). The diamonds symbolize wealth and the american dream. Even if the money earned that goes towards ¨the american dream¨ is earned in a bad way. Ben went to the African jungle and basically…

Lady Gaga, was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, in Yonkers, New York, on March 28, 1986. Her father, Joseph, was an internet entrepreneur and her mother, Cynthia, worked in telecommunications. Stefani has a sister that is six years younger than she. Stefani grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her family was well-off and sent her to a catholic girl’s school called, the Convent of the Sacred Heart. At age four Stefani began taking piano lessons and wrote her first song shortly…

fought for equal rights for all men and all women. We started a war within ourselves to promote rights that would remove segregation. We went and moved to show that ladies are more than pretty faces in white laces, corsets, and 20 pound dresses, whose only purpose was to decorate the fireplace and always be composed for a perfect portrait at anytime of day. We fought so we could be who we are and do what we love and love what we want. As our last great president said: “No one in America…

This paper will present an analytical description of Bacchus and Ariadne, an oil on canvas painting created from 1520-3 by Italian painter Titian as a commission for Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara in the High Renaissance period. The work is part of a series by Bellini, Titian and Dosso Dossi to be placed in the Camerino d’Alabastro within the Ducal Palace alongside other paintings derived from classical texts. Since an 1826 acquisition it has resided within The National Gallery, London. Titian…