Western White Pine

Gustave Courbet was a man interested in beauty no matter where he found it while Eugène Delacroix focused more on beauty in war and suffering. Both painters used color to enhance the authenticity of the the people in the images. As well as color, the painters used shadowing and it enhanced the mystery and seriousness of the paintings. Gustave and Eugène both painted pictures of characters that were surrounded by backgrounds that either enhanced them or the scene or the image in the back was…

pieced together in a collage-like, layered fashion to form the overall appearance of a skull. The color palette used is mainly based on subdued primary tones of red, blues and yellows against the dominate black forming some shapes and lines, and the white of the abandoned canvas showing through. Subject Matter and Interpretation The first impression this artwork gives the viewer is one of…

Whilst there is no doubt that a system of bandits did exist, what is less clear is how far the Thuggee archive is entirely an orientalist product full of inaccurate reflections of Indian crime especially Thuggee. Notably, the “authentic archive” was created by Sleeman himself indicating accounts on thugs were influenced by preconceived notions of Indian men. Consisting of oriental biases, the archive was perhaps a product of ‘deep-seated European inclination’ to civilise India. Depicted as…

Women in History: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Surrounded by portraits of and by male artists, Artemisia Gentileschi’s (1593-1652) oil on canvas Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) 1638-39 stands out in the midst of Vancouver Art Gallery’s “The Royal Collections: Portrait of the Artist” exhibition. As one of the only woman artist portraits, it pronounces itself in entirety to symbolise the prominence she has given females in history as she…

Liberty is a Caucasian woman, therefore using light grey, peach and white blended paint to create a smooth skin and she is dressed in a pale yellow dress, holding a brilliant red, white and blue flag while a subtle halo of light in the cannon smoke that surrounds her to emphasize her power. Notice that the blue section of the flag is right above Liberty’s head, by using a darker blue, the flowing flag blends into the sky, giving red and white an even greater contrast, which demands attention to…

otherness includes doubleness, both identity and difference, so that every other , every different than and excluded by is dialectically created and includes the values and meaning of the colonizing culture even as it rejects its power to define; the western concept of the oriental is based, as Abdul Jan Mohamed argues, on the Manichean allegory (seeing the world as divided into mutually excluding opposites): if the west is ordered, rational, masculine, good, then the orient is chaotic,…

sufficient skills in ICT to propel with the pervasiveness of these technologies around the world. This also ensures that citizens will not be left behind with the advancements all over the world. With the Internet’s aggressive integration, popular western culture is easily depicted on multiple online platforms. There were not many Asian websites mainly due to accessibility constraints and lack of knowledge to operate ICT. Also, plenty of websites are produced with content in English as it is a…

principally, to examine the process of decolonisation. Postcolonial criticism’s origins can be traced to Said’s Orientalism according to Milner and Browitt (2002). Said portrays the Eurocentric universalism which admits the superiority of what is Western and the inferiority of what is not, he states that “there are Westerners, and there are non-westerners. The former dominate; the latter must be dominated” (Said 1994: 36). For him, Orientalism was a ‘discourse’ in the Foucauldian sense of the…

Photo Art Service Photo Art Service indicates that photographic painting of an image. Photographic painting is a work of art. An art is related to the topics of painting to describe its feature by an acrylic painting. It denotes the theme of something to understand it logically and physically. It is one kind of replica of an image as like as show the feature of an image. Art is different from capturing image; it is take by creative manner of his/her mind lowing feature. To describe something…

Francisco de Goya (1746 – 1828) was one of the famous Spanish court painters. His early artwork belongs to the genre painting, which he mastered through tapestry design for King Charles III. Influenced by the work of Velasquez, Goya developed more spontaneous painting technique. Simultaneously, his portraits became well-known among the Spanish aristocracy facilitating him to become a Court Painter of King Charles IV in the 1789. Goya’s Self-portrait before an Easel (1792-5) depicts him as a…