Realist painters

During the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 a couple of artists had great performances, but one stood out to the public in a negative way. Beyonce’s performance causes a huge debate over social media over racism. Beyonce wore a black leotard with a gold embellished jacket, while her backup dancers sported afros' and black berets (Biography.com). Everyone turned this into a feud because she was apparently supporting the “Black Panther Party” a group formed to stand against whites that…

In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels argue that “These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity” (Marx and Engels 18). Respectively, a working person, according to them, becomes a commodity once they start selling their work and compete with other laborers for the buyer. By its definition, a commodity is an inanimate noun and usually applied to objects that are for sale. Therefore, the comparison of a human being to a commodity means the deprivation of one of their…

fashions and romance was offensive to her. Class issues are additionally essential, one will undoubtedly regard Ellen, who is educated however of a low class, more than most women of the Victorian Era. Similarly, D.H. Lawrence was a poet, novelist and a painter who is renowned for his customary…

Muniz was born in Brazil in 1961 (“Vik Muniz”). He left the country after being shot in the leg as was said in the documentary “Wasteland” and came to the United States where he became an artist. “He became influenced by optical illusions, photo-realist painting, sight gags, abstractions, and…

About the Art This work of art was created in 1856, it depicts two animals of the species Putorius erminea, more commonly called the Stoat, Ermine, or the White Weasel. Though the stoat is not actually considered a weasel, stoats are a larger species related to weasels but they are not weasels. Weasels are apart of the genus Mustela while Stoat’s are of the genus Putorius. The stoats fur color changes in the winter to a bright white color, weasels do not have this evolutionary advantage. This…

history of art, it appears to me that people of color have not been equally or fairly represented. The artwork that I have chosen to analyze includes a person of color as the primary focus of the painting. The piece is titled ‘Trying His Hand’ by painter Mary Ellen Jones. It is currently in the Oakland Museum of California. The painting was made in 1881 and it is oil on canvas. It is 24.87 inches in height and 29.75 inches in width. The piece is classified as both ‘genre painting’ and ‘social…

Maximilien Luce was a impressionistic painter and anarchist from Paris. He was known as a French neo-impressionist artist. Neo-impressionism is defined as a late 19th century movement in French painting. He was very well-known for his paintings, engravings, and graphic art. Maximilien focused on painting, rather than engraving or graphic art. He began as an impressionistic painter, then went on to pointilism, then back to impressionism. Maximilien Luce is praised for the magnificent pieces of…

Journal entry #1 Chapter 24 “ The Promise of Reason” – “The time will… come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason.” Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet. Hobbes and Locke were influenced by Hugo Grotius Idea of a political contract based on the natural laws. Locke related human beings as free, equal, and able to separate good from bad. Hobbes on the other hand, view us humans as being greedy, selfish, and aggressive. He also thought that we were nasty, poor,…

The interaction between the flâneur and worker suggest an underlying class conflict present in contemporary Paris. The setting of the painting, notable as an engineering marvel, is also historically important because it is where “different social classes [come] into daily contact,” despite its past as the “scene of heavy fighting during the Commune” (Fried 21). While the bloody history of Paris is still fresh, the calmness of the bridge suggests that class relations are evolving and perhaps…

This paper will discuss the formal aspects, contextual analysis and the museum presentation of the following two paintings. Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan by Rembrandt Van Rijn and Alphonse Promayet by Gustave Courbet. The painting of Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan is created in Dutch in 1633 and it exhibits in gallery 637. The Alphonse Promayet is created in French in 1861 and it exhibits in gallery 809. Both galleries are on the second floor of the metropolitan museum of art. Each…