Vanitas

When researching Vanitas, I found that I really liked the paintings and pictures using flowers and animals alongside skulls. It represents life and beauty along with death. I found an artist called Harmen Steenwyck, who used mainly fruit and sometimes flowers in their work and I really like it. Steenwyck also uses skulls, old books, shells, with occasional animals and fish. Harmen Steenwyck, was a Dutch painter of still life, notably fruit. He was born in Delft, in 1612, in the Netherlands.…

The women in William Shakespeare’s play, “Othello”, are presented as more traditional and conservative, being possessions to the men. While some of the women views and knowledge of their roles in society differ, Shakespeare gives them a naïve perspective about their lives. In the play Desdemona, Bianca, and Emilia are largely presented as not having a voice in their relationships and being easily controlled. This relates to the Elizabethan expectations that women should act and follow the rules…

make themselves sexually available” (Corporaal 99). Although Desdemona did fight back and speak her mind, Othello still punishes her by slapping her across the face. “Othello’s behaviour [is] “typical,” that is, as normal husbandly, manly behaviour” (Vanita 342), as no one knows any different. Emilia, who is less naïve than Desdemona, also knows her role in her relationship. When Emilia reveals Iago’s plan of revenge on Othello she says “’Tis proper I obey him, but not now” (5.2.203).…

depicts a newly created life, and he also added an old women lying in the middle, and a man holding a lady. By that compensation of young and old, male and female Klimt wanted to show that anyone could be taken by death. The theme in this artwork is vanitas. The focal point is the skull on the upper lift side. On the right side the artist depicted life by a brighter pallet of colors, conjuring flowers vibrance. On the…

I feel as an inside looking in, the promising practices highlighted in the Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement report showcase the innovative and thoughtful work that dozens of law enforcement agencies are doing, there are also countless other agencies around the nation that are committed to this effort. Underlying this work is recognition that while greater workforce diversity alone cannot ensure fair and effective policing, there is a significant body of research suggesting that diversity…

experiences the oppression from the patriarchal society. With the males need of feeling of superiority and dominenece they will do anything to keep that in control. In Vanita's paper she talks about and analysis the deaths of Desdemona and Emilia. Vanita argues in it that they both died similar deaths even though many others argue differently. Many think that their deaths were caused by different reasons but she argues against that. Both of their deaths were caused their male partners. They…

Northern Baroque: Baroque Art was the principal European style of art in the 17th century. Although encapsulating the whole of Europe, Baroque art greatly varied from region to region. Having been divided into two separate spheres, the Northern countries who turned Protestant, and the Southern countries who remained Catholic, developed two distinctive artistic styles. In Italy and Spain, the Counter-Reformation was in full swing, promoting complex and dramatic paintings and sculptures such as…

all three, economy, safety, and mass opinion it is difficult to understand why we as a whole would still choose to keep them behind bars. “Elderly prisoners are the least dangerous group of people behind bars but the most expensive to incarcerate” (Vanita Gupta). The number of older prisoners has more than doubled in the past twenty years, because of our constant need to “feel safe” within our community. Laws have been made up to cushion the thought that we are safer in our streets. So that…

manifested in artwork. One concept that De Pascale focuses on is that of vanitas, which is artwork “…depicted in a figurative medium through symbolic objects that allude to the fleeting passage of time, the ephemeral nature of pleasure, the brevity of existence, the inevitability of death, and the origin and end of every human life” (De Pascale 99). It is interesting to note that even though the symbols associated with vanitas are meant to emphasize that life is ephemeral, such as flowers and…

Van Gogh uses color in a very deliberate and effective way in The Night Café. He selects the colors not based on his visual interpretation of the room but on the psychological and emotional effects it has on its occupants. He explains to his brother Theo, in a letter, that he uses the red and green in an attempt to express the terrible passions of human nature. The use of these colors helps to illustrate the intensity of the Café de la Gare and provoke the emotions of the viewer who may relate…