Pooja Shrestha ART 201: Art and Life 03/16/2012 Formal Analysis: Forest Monarch- Reynold Weidenaar Forest Monarch‚ a watercolor painting by Reynold Weidenaar is one of the pieces of art hanging on the walls of the Art and Music Library in the second floor of Funderburg library. The painting consists of a massive tree as a backdrop and has a man facing the tree‚ turning his back towards the audience. The tree in the painting may be an oak tree. Generally‚ an oak tree is considered to be the king
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15. “He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other” (Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex‚ 6). Discuss. Despite having a relatively conservative childhood in which she was raised a Catholic daughter to a bourgeois family‚ Simone de Beauvoir steered away from the traditional familial roles and became a pioneer for modern feminism. Perhaps to the distaste of her family‚ she attended university and always placed the autonomy of the intellectual life above the traditional values of
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"Of all religious subjects‚ that of the Annunciation is closest to the artist as a Christian. The subject is described only by Luke‚ patron saint of painters‚ who was popularly believed to have been a master of their craft as well as a physician."1 Flemish painting was founded in the Low Countries at the start of the fifteenth century. The Low Countries‚ consisting of what is now Belgium and Holland‚ as well as the provinces of Artois and Hainault‚ and the cities of Arras and Cambrai.2 "No
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For readers who have ever had their heart broken or dreams crushed‚ “Araby” by James Joyce may be a flashback to a reality long forgotten. The young boy transforms before the eyes of the reader before one can actually grasp the fact of what is happening. He goes from a dark mindset‚ to an optimistic one with the chance of love in his mind‚ only to end up back in a pessimistic state of mind. In “Araby” the narrator takes a journey down a dark childhood path that ends in a sudden realization that life
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LEONARDO DA VINCI‚ ANNUNCIATION‚ C. 1472 After looking at Leonardo da Vinci‚ Annunciation art‚ what comes into my mind is that the lady in the art must be of higher authority. This is clear because of the way she is been greeted by the mighty Angel with detailed wings. It is further complemented by the Angele’s way of greeting where he is kneeling before her. On the other hand‚ the lady in the art seems to be responding to the greeting with his left arm raised slightly. One aspect of
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productivity was at its finest. Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio are famous artists who were influenced by the Renaissance. They began painting the Annunciation in 1472 and finished it three years later in 1475. It should be noted that the painting is meant to be viewed from the the right and a little below. Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation represented the effects of the Renaissance. The artwork showed the changes of mediums in art‚ as well as the changes in beliefs during this
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Michelangelo’s Sogno is a black chalk drawing on unprepared‚ cream-colored paper. Slightly larger than 8 x 12 inches‚ the drawing requires close-hand examination. At the center of the Sogno‚ an idealized male nude perches precariously on an open box filled with masks. His upper torso twists to his left as he leans on a sphere for support. He turns his head in the opposite direction‚ looking upward and over his right shoulder to watch a winged creature descent from above. Considerably smaller
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During my visit to the Carlos Museum at Emory University‚ I was amazed by the many works I saw from ancient times. They ranged from ancient Greek/Roman statues‚ Indian carvings‚ Egyptian mummies‚ to even Central American relics which we haven’t learned about in class. The piece that stood out to me the most‚ and what I will focus on for the rest of this essay‚ is the Aphrodite (Venus) statue‚ which is a Roman copy of the Greek original from the 1st century CE. Upon arriving at the Carlos
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Bauhaus is a German school of design established in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Its aim was to bring people working in architecture‚ modern technology‚ and the decorative arts together to learn from one another. Realizing that mass production had to be the precondition of successful design in the machine age‚ its members rejected the Arts and Crafts Movement. The school developed a style that was spare‚ functional‚ and geometric. Bauhaus designs are highly prized today‚ but when the school
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In the introduction of her book‚ The Second Sex‚ Simone de Beauvoir attempts to define the concept of “woman”‚ or “femininity” and arrives to the conclusion that woman has been defined as an “other” in relation to men. In this essay I will attempt to explain what de Beauvoir means by defining woman in terms of “other” and will provide some examples as to how this “otherness” is unique in the case of women. De Beauvoir begins her book by asking “what is a woman?” In page 1 she asserts that there
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