Portrait

The characters in “The Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James are mostly American people who came in Europe at a moment in their lives. They have lived in Europe from the beginning of their life, as in the case of Madame Merle, or they came there in their adulthood, like Isabel did. Either way, the European lifestyle had an influence on their shaping of identity. Isabel Archer is the main character of James’s novel “The Portrait of a Lady”. The personality she has created while…

“Self portrait” painted in 1640, only a few years after this, shows evidence of what these changes might have meant to the 34 year old Rembrandt and is painted for an entirely different purpose to that of plate 6. Plate 7 is markedly different and appears to be…

the fact that Kahlo only paints her own reality and not dreams, nor nightmare strictly shows how in tune and wide eyed she is with the real world. A great example that Kahlo painted that relates to losing innocence is the “Self Portrait on the Borderline.”(Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Oil on metal, 12 1/2" x 13 3/4", Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Reyero) In the piece of art, it depicts that Kahlo was standing in the middle of the border of the…

Brayden – Essay T.S. Eliot’s poetry has been described as “a disturbing portrait of uncertainty amidst the turmoil of modern life” this statement is reflected well by Eliot’s poems; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Love Song) and Rhapsody on a Windy Night (Rhapsody). Love Song emphasises this through the portrayal of Prufrock and his thoughts. Rhapsody represents this statement through the repetitive nature of life delineated within the poem. Ingemination a visual representation has been…

There are some bursts of colors in this portrait added by Liu that differentiate from the original photograph. For instance, the words “Flower Ridge” written in Chinese characters on two red resin boxes offer a surge of vibrant color. The yellow background offers an oxymoronic sense of happiness…

passages, Rembrandt painted, sketched, and etched the people of Amsterdam – ranging from circus performers to children playing in the street. Many of his pieces are portraits of individuals who had either inspired Rembrandt or commissioned him to do so. The influence of the effluent individuals on Rembrandt is fairly clear in his self-portraits throughout the years. Rembrandt often painted himself in the same way he would paint his well-to-do patrons; wealth and urbanity appear to be the things…

The title suggests it should be a portrait, but the arrangement of figures says otherwise. Greatly influenced by his teacher who was encouraging up and coming artist to skip the sketches step and go straight for the canvas, he wanted his students to break free of the old rigidity styles.…

make a person’s physical illness extremely hard for them. In order for a person to be completely healthy they must take care of not only their physical health but also their emotional and mental health. Relating this to the film we saw “Stress a Portrait of a Killer”, the concept of the movie was to show and describe how stress can slowly kill you if you allow it. Our bodies sometimes doesn’t know how to…

work in context of style and inspiration in relation to a recent photo portrait. Analysis of Roy DeCarava’s Photography Roy DeCarava was an influential photographer from New York, born in 1919; he is renowned…

today, he is celebrated for his magnificent portraits, and it is easy to understand his popularity in portrait painting after viewing even just one of his portraits. His portraits of women caused quite a stir, and this boosted his popularity while also causing him to become notorious for his sensual depictions of women. Arguably his most popular work of art, a painting titled Madame X, a portrait…