Portrait of a Lady

In the poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, he uses a depressing tone to express a meaning of don’t take life for granted and life is shorter than you think. The poem shows a man that is getting old and has regretted not doing the things he should have done. The author shows the characteristics of J. Alfred, a man that is looking back on life and regretting the things he didn’t do. Throughout the poem, T.S. Eliot uses words to characterize and build up the story of J.…

The artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady by Adrian Piper has influenced my own artwork Timeline in that the concepts, meanings and metaphors found in her artwork are not immediately identifiable. Although there is no influence of Pipers work on mine in terms of process, media or presentation, in this essay I will be discussing the confrontation that viewer experiences when faced with Pipers artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady, my own artwork Timeline, and the ways in which both…

Slavery can be found in other areas all around the world not only in the United States. There are many stories in the United States that present slavery or enslavement as one of their main themes. Two of the main works that depict slavery are The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. These two…

I argue Lady Audley’s portrait is crucial to the movement and culmination of Braddon’s novel. Its symbolic implications are multivalent: as Lynette Felber writes, ‘[the portrait] protests the power and authority of the male gaze; it anatomizes fetishistic desire; and it raises questions about the construction of women and their sexuality in Victorian society’. Structurally, the portrait heralds the fate of Lady Audley by revealing her dual nature, by implicating a significant secret, and by…

argue that Sofonisba Anguissola conveyed her self-consciousness as a woman and emphasized her power to create as an artist effectively but subtly. Held captive by the structures of a patriarchal society, she did not keep silent. However, via her portraits loaded with double entendre, her daring spirit remained acceptable to the society. In this way, Anguissola unified her roles as a noble woman as well as an exceptional artist, which were…

figure in the literary culture of the nineteenth century, focusing on literary realism and trying to capture life as realistically as possible. In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James reveals the realities of how society’s expectations of women and unequal gender relations in marriages affected women of the…

In this specific artwork, a young artist is studying a locket on a painting of a lady who seems surprised by his attention. There are three men as a painting on his right side looking as if they are jealous or concerned about what he is doing with the magnify glass. These are the few things that can be seen from the first glance of the painting. The artists seem so focused on examining on one spot of the portrait with his magnify glass he is oblivious of his surroundings. The facial expression…

One of the common types of paintings in Colonial Peru during the 18th century was a portrait style depicting a single figure. These portraits were not created to only be a image of the person in the painting, but also to convey information about their life and their accomplishments. One of the most notable examples of this type of painting is the Portrait of Marcos Chiguan Thopa Coronilla Inca. Marcos, a royal Inca descendant is portrayed standing very similar to the posture of the Viceroys next…

elegance and an inside look into Leonardo da Vinci’s creative mind (Lady with an Ermine 1). In figure two, The Lady with an Ermine is painted a bit differently than the Mona Lisa. This painting is focused on just the figure itself; there is no background landscape like in the Mona Lisa. The background of this piece is one dark shade that helps the colors of the self-portrait stand out. The focal point of the piece is the self portrait of the woman. If this background was a landscape background…

workshop and was also being trained by his father when he was younger. By 1527 Hans was assembling his creations of work but by that time it was difficult to have his own work when it was being compared to his father's.Hans valuable paintings were Portrait of a bearded Man and Hercules at the Court of Omphale, in which he signed the both of them. On october 9, 1537 Hans Cranach died in Bologna.The humanist and poet Johann Stigel wrote a long poem in praise of his skills as a painter when the…