Symmetry

“Oh.’ She nodded her head and I liked the way she understood things so fast so for the moment it didn’t matter that we looked like salt and pepper standing there and that’s what other kids called us sometimes.” (210) In this story the difference in race and class, along with the girls’ background, is evident through Twyla’s observations of her mom and the response of Roberta’s mother towards Mary when the parents come to visit one Sunday. Prior to their parents visiting, they discover that they…

they slightly frame the bottle cap and the teared book paper above the bottlecap also contributes to this. If a vertical line were to be drawn down the middle of the piece, it would be asymmetrical as the L-shaped brackets and shoe jar against any symmetry. In the top right of the work, the shoe gives off a rugged texture as it is torn. As the piece is featured on a wood canvas, most of the work gives off a rough texture, however, smooth textures can be found in the centre of the bottle cap and…

Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary tale against Man’s attempt to transgress his myopia. Mirroring the Greek traditions of architecture and tragedy, Hardy impassively elevates the catastrophic accident to an cosmic ‘intelligent design’ - an orchestrated ‘convergence of the twain.’ Hardy presents this tragedy of human “vanity” through a detached, almost reportorial tone, developed from an omniscient point of view. Particularly, he uses sophisticated diction and wordplay…

referred to as aesthetic value. Every human will have the value of aesthetics or aesthetic sense that one get to enjoy whatever he/she sees in her daily life. The joy of enjoying beauty gives some kind of pleasure. “Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity…

Time Capsule Introduction It is true that the world has been evolving and will continue to evolve in all life perspectives. This is so because there are notable improvements in the way people carry out things showing that there are advancements as time goes on. The term renaissance is usually used to mean revival or rebirth of something. In this case, renaissance refers to the period between 14th century and 17th century when revival of art, literature, music, architecture and philosophy…

I have chosen to write my report on Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna was born in Widnes, England in 1953 and he specialized in artistic landscape photos. He was one of 5 children born into a working class home. He picked up his passion at Banbury school of the art where he began painting and then picked up photography later on. Michael Kenna moved to San Fransisco in 1977 where he since has lived to this day. He is best known for long exposure, artistic, black and white, landscape photos. In fact…

The Torment of Saint Anthony Line: There are various examples of lines throughout Michaelangelo’s painting, that assist in interpreting the content of the painting. First, the vertical lines of the of the paintings allows the viewers to conceptualize the altitude in the air that saint anthony and the demons are in as they levitate into the sky. Additionally, there are countless diagonal lines throughout the painting. For instance, the limbs of the demons feature a myriad of diagonal lines,…

Modernism was introduced to western society as a new way to visualize the world in a simple and innovative way. According to Nigel Wheale, “modernity is defined as the social condition brought about by the development of the Western world’s characteristic economic formation” (Wheale 10). This development occurred after the end of the first World War when people were ready for change as poverty was rapidly increasing and new cost effective ways to design were needed. Modernism was the solution to…

Nature’s Morality Embedded In Romanticism Since the beginning of creation man has always strived to learn more about himself and the world around him. One of the most prominent ways that man can connect with their inner self and find peace with the world around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to…

Painting is a form of art used by artist to express and describe the views of the world through their eyes. Florence Griswold helped many artist to follow their dreams of painting and also make a name for themselves. Griswold turned her home in Old Lyme into a boarding house for artist to come and stay as long as they wanted. Most artist came at the beginning of spring and stayed until early fall, although there were a few artist that stayed during the winter to paint as well. When artists…