Western fiction

Cannibal Tours is a film directed by Dennis O’Rourke that follows a group of Western tourists on their vacation in Papua New Guinea. The film represents the contrasting differences between the tourists, who live a modern life, and the locals who appear to live a primitive life. As a result of their differences, Cannibal Tours allowed me to truly comprehend the “The West and the Rest” discourse that shapes cultural encounters in todays world. The tourists in the documentary are a group of…

This is an entirely different style of painting compared with the traditional Western paintings. In the history of Western art, sexuality is usually defined precisely by the portrayal of bodies. For instance, women are often portrayed in various passive positions, in order to cater to male viewer’s satisfaction. The composition of a picture, selection…

effortlessly. In my Rube Goldberg Machine we demonstrated the key aspects, of the ancient Greeks society by focusing on the five different components and representing their advanced technological accomplishments. Ancient Greece the native home of western civilization contrived the most advanced technological features that people have ever seen. As shown in page 5 from the report of (n.d.). L'AnticoPédie .Greeks used a variety of advanced technology such as pulleys,…

Frida Kahlo, being physically handicapped, only produced about 200 paintings and sold a significantly low amount of works during her life. Despite all of this, Kahlo is seen as one of the largest icons in Mexican culture and continues to grow in popularity worldwide. In 1933, a painting appeared on a 34 cent postage stamp, in 2000, one of Frida’s self portraits sold for $5 million, and during November 2002, a biographical movie “Frida” was released (Smithsonian and Art Story). Frida Kahlo was…

How to Be a Good Photographer? “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art” –Ambrose Bierce. The perception of a beautiful painting is projected from the artist’s mind, feeling and mood; and a major part in completing the artists vision is the way he places the object in his art. Contrary to that some of the most beautiful pictures happen when objects naturally fall into place alas the natural movement of the sun from east to west can create many beautiful versions of…

The painting Number 11, 1949 by Jackson Pollock is one of Pollock’s paintings from his famous “drip period.” The painting is large but not huge, it is about 45 inches tall and 47.5 inches wide, so it is a little bigger than the size of an old TV. This painting does not depict anything in particular. It is an abstract painting, there are no figures present. Instead of containing figures, the painting contains forms. The forms in the painting are created by the many layers of different colored…

In the mid-1800’s to the early 1900’s two artists are responsible for the modern art movement these two artists are Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. These two artists have very distinct style of painting, however, they both helped to shape the direction of painting would go over the following century. Monet and Van Gogh painted their lives on a canvas and in their thoughts and words. Through both of the men’s paintings we can understand the struggle as artists during this time in history. The…

When Claude Debussy composed his piece, La Mer (Movement II, Play of the Waves) between 1903 and 1905, he found inspiration in Katsushika Hokusai’s artwork, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Because the song is based off of artwork, one with expect for it to be programmatic, and it meets those expectations. The title, La Mer, is customary for absolute music because it is telling of the idea that will be produced in the music. The music then follows through with the title by audibly depicting the sea…

When viewing Matisse’s Bonhuer de Vivre or Joy of Life as it is best known and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon it is quite evident that these paintings were influenced by Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers. All three of these paintings capture an uncertainty and vagueness in their subject matter and what they are trying to convey. Bonhuer de Vivre by Matisse, was one of the first paintings of its kind. He used such vivid and bright colors to exemplify his subjects along with the imbuing of…

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist who gained notoriety from his landscape paintings that utilize the dynamic lights that illuminate the scenery he builds. Joseph Turner’s work innovated and popularized landscape painting, which laid the foundation for impressionism to come into prevalence after the Romantic period. This is observed in his painting Rockets and Blue Lights, painted in 1840 with oil on canvas. Rockets and Blue Lights displays a coastal view of the ocean that…