Silhouette

Kara Walker is an African American contemporary artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. Walker is most known for her tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. One of her most famous art works is Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. This romance that the title speaks of is representing a love triangle between the man’s wife and mistress. The romantic war that is occurring is…

Sharon Gless, a famous actress, once said, “Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama” (Gless). Indeed, before the Women Suffrage and Civil Rights Movement, women and minorities were often not respected and made fun of. Although many minorities were not respected and often viewed as subordinate, they were able to remain hopeful at American Dreams. For a long time, the American Dream was known as the “dream of a land in which life should…

The Wayang Kulit is a famous shadow puppet play in Indonesia. Wayang means shadow and Kulit means leather. This is to be said one of the earliest forms of puppet dancing, going back to the year 800. The origin of the Wayang Kulit comes from Indonesia, although there have been arguments that it also could have come from China. This style of theater is based on the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata". The Ramayana is a story where a prince Rama tries to rescue his wife from an evil king and The…

A good advertisement, regardless of subject, will plant a seed in the viewer’s mind, leaving the viewer with an emotional response to the ad. Sometimes, this seed will sprout into a disgust towards a targeted idea. It will leave you remembering it for days to come, and compel you to act upon a new feeling. Take for example, the Australian Childhood Foundation created a series of posters to target an issue that many people know about, but do not regularly act upon. Child abuse and negligence…

Master/Slave power structures: Miss Emily’s Father Through Emily’s Father, Faulkner conveys his apprehension of the master/slave power structures in the South. You can see this through the strained and very much controlling relationship between Emily and her Father. Emily’s inability to continuewith her life due to the loss of her over empowering father. And lastly, Emily’s Father being the embodiment also as a father figure/paternal hierarchy of the South. So let's take a look into…

advertisement you see Victoria Beckham wearing her clothes line that she design. Beckham says her mission: to simply women lives be designing a nucleus of clothes, in particular, separates that enable them to put together their own sleek, easy to wear silhouettes while still transmitting a fashion statement. Identifying with the model is the advertiser's goals because the Beckhams are well known. Targeting vulnerable consumers is the advertiser goals because Victoria Beckham has her own clothes…

Figure 2 is a photo of my grandparents on my mom’s side at my grandma’s high school prom in 1958. In our interview, my grandma stated, “I wore a gown that I re-used from a wedding. We were a poor immigrant family, so it was really hard to go out and buy something new” (Giorgi, n.p.). Her dress has a sweetheart neckline with a full skirt at ballerina length. The sweetheart neckline became popular in 1940s evening wear, but was still used in the 50s. Farrell-Beck and Parsons discussion on 50s…

One Perception Check Later A light rain comes to a stop as I walk up the slick driveway of my friend Aaron’s house. I push on the white, waterlogged, wooden fence gate to the backyard and stand just thirty feet from the open garage door. The backyard consists of two halves: the concrete path with a hutch housing rabbits and a grass yard with a brown, stone fire pit. A constant air of music plays from the wind chimes that hang from a vine-covered terrace separating the two areas. We take the…

mouths made me freeze on the spot, my blood filled with lead making it impossible to move. My heart dropped, my breathing deepened, and all hope seemed lost. This was all too similar to that day, the day where everything in my life turned into a silhouette; dark and lifeless. My fingers wouldn’t wrap around my paintbrush in its normal way, constantly shaking. I couldn’t work knowing that my mum and dad were at the hospital getting tests done. They wouldn’t tell me why or what it was for, they…

immediately tired. Getting out of his nightgown into clothes made him exhausted. They also felt bigger, heavier. However, he didn’t pay attention to that. The only thought that circled his mind was Isabelle. As he ate breakfast, he could trace Isabelle’s silhouette from the shadows the sun created. He almost thought she was moving her fork, but it was a mere mirage. He couldn’t eat that morning. Each bite was a mountain to move. His eyelids could barely stand open. Having…