Distinctively visual images evoke profound ideas and notions about society, culture and values which enables responders to perceive reality in a new light, challenging or reinforcing their own ideas and attitudes. Through the use of distinctively visual images, composers are able to add depths and complexity to the characters within their respective texts in a way that shapes and deepen their responder’s perceptions of these characters. In the postmodern novel “Maestro” by Peter Goldsworthy, distinctively visual images is used to convey Edward Keller’s traumatic and shady past, allowing the audience to perceive his distressing past experiences with greater depth and clarity. Additionally, Goldsworthy uses distinctively visual images to illustrate Keller’s isolation and displacement in Darwin while also highlighting the complex and nebulous relationship between him and his student, Paul. Similarly, I have used distinctively visual images to represent how Goldsworthy’s characterization of Keller has shaped perceptions of him, allowing the audience to see both his past as a musician in Vienna and his life as an exile attempting to escape his traumatic past.…
One of the central aspects of this poster is its use of images to depict scenes and ideas within the play 'The Shoe-Horn Sonata’. In this play, Misto creates meaning through his use of a linear timeline, which allows the reader to follow the events as they occur. This is crucial to the play as it causes the reader to become emotionally invested in the characters and causes them to question what happen in the camp to result in the present. This poster uses layout and gaze to create this effect of a linear timeline. If examined closely, it can be seen that the photos on the bottom half of this poster depict the events of the women’s time in camp and there reconciliation after, as described by Bridie and Sheila during their TV interviews. As…
In the world of art, the photograph has conventionally been used to establish original subjects that document and reflect cultures as accurately as possible. However, in Philip Gefter’s essay, “Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor”, Gefter points out that, “just because a photograph reflects the world with perceptual accuracy doesn’t mean it is proof of what actually transpired. (208)” What Gefter is telling us is that it is that the ordinary reality of the image is not what is important; the metaphoric truth is the significant factor. What makes photojournalism essential is that it helps show us how to view the world in an individualized way. It is, essentially, a public art, and its power and importance is a function of that artistry. From the war photography of Mathew Brady (who was known for moving dead bodies to create a scene) to Ruth Orkin (who directed a second shot to capture “American Girl in Italy”, when the first “real” shot was not to her liking), Gefter underscores that, although these shots are not the unedited version of life,…
Nikky Finney, in her book of poetry Rice, captures her intention to “camera / What they believed / Could not be caught” (“Daguerre of Negras” 1-3). In other words, she records what she and people like her believe as well as what they perceive cannot be captured, reached, or taken hold of (OED, 1). By converting the noun camera into a verb, Nikky Finney expands the meaning of camera. She moves from the simple recorded image (i.e., from a still or moving picture) and expands it into the act of recording, the act of movement, the act of capturing a moment, etc. Furthermore, she uses words as her lens to “snapshot the face / Of the unwilling travelers,” exhorting readers to bring out their camera to document the atrocities they see. (Implying that each person determines his or her medium, the speaker reflects that words are her camera.) By doing so, all beings bear witness to the experiences that heretofore had not been captured. Using poetry as her lens, Finney's scathing commentary about the emasculation of the spirit propels readers to dismantle their notions of what it means to be an outcast in society and to return to the self.…
The composer John Misto of ‘Shoe-Horn Sonata’ creates a wide image of distinctive visual techniques through imagery. John Misto uses this visual technique to raise awareness of the damaged chaos that occurred to the women who have been captured by the Japanese. By using distinctively visual techniques Misto allows the viewers to empathise with the crucial actors/segregation that the Japanese people were showing towards the women.…
These works of art attempt to impact and acknowledge the memory of war by showing you before, during, and after a war. They take different aspects of war itself, and through different perspectives and artistic designs, they…
Kahlo’s own painting “The Broken Column” inspired this interpretation where she has painted a particularly distressing scene full of needles stinging with desertion and gaping cracks filled with despair. This scene is piercing and lacking in cheerful colors. The statuesque figure in the painting fills up a good portion of the space…
The notion of the distinctively visual can be seen as a process of connecting an image with an idea, the distinctive quality of the visual lies in its capacity to elicit a powerful response and plant it within the reader’s mind, in order to cultivate as the themes, characters and plot of the material begins to broaden. Distinctively visual texts have the power to provoke reactions from responders whether that would be reactions of pleasure or anger and most intentions of distinctive visuals is to provoke us to question embedded notions of normalcy or challenge us to think in new ways and to most importantly understand the image being evoked by composers as they rely on language or visual techniques to induce distinctive visuals in their readers…
Lina also uses her passion for art to remain connected to the outside world by putting her drawings in a wooden box and burying it for someone on the outside to discover. It is the discovery of this box that leads to this novel being written and the memories of those who survived Stalin’s cleansing of the Baltic region. Lina’s family made the right decision by refusing to “confess” to counterrevolutionary activities. There was no promise of freedom even if they did sign. However, those who did sign did not get moved. Lina’s family also made the right decision because they did not want to agree to the conditions of the contract. They were not criminals and if they signed the paperwork they were agreeing to be just that. Mother refused to sign as a show of dignity and pride. These attributes are nonmaterial things that the guards could not take away from Lina’s mother. This story is about compassion, determination, love, hope, and miracles. I chose compassion because of the shocking ending in which the guard is the one that really helps the prisoners to survive. Even in the face of total hopelessness, there are people who still have a sense of compassion. I chose determination because that is what the family displayed in surviving their…
In the poem “War Photographer” death is the main theme. It talks about two sides. The first is, the risk photographers takes when reporting from a place in war, secondly the death of the people in a war.…
In the poem “On The Subway”, written by Sharon Olds, two sides of two person that encounter with each other in a subway. It is almost clear as water that the poem talks about two different worlds, white and African American.…
In the section “The myth of Photographic Truth” by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, they present the thoughts and terms of Roland Barthes, which are used to view the myth of photographic truth in many ways. Barthes uses the word “studium” to describe the performance of a picture that refers to pictures’ ability to encourage an appreciation for what it holds in it. He also coins “punctum” to explain people emotions towards a picture. These two terms “studium” and “punctum” are explained to the myth of photographic truth by using feelings and emotions.…
An elegy is a poem of lament, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person; also, a meditative poem in plaintive or sorrowful mood. Through an elegy authors are able to convey their deepest remorse and grief through the eloquent use of the English language. Three elegies in which show the possible interpretations and moral convictions of death are “Elegy for Jane”, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, and “A Satirical Elegy”.…
Standing in the subway station, people start to appreciate the place; almost to enjoy it. A boy looks at the lighting; a row of meager light bulbs, coated with filth, unscreened and bewitched to a yellow, stretched toward the black mouth of the tunnel, as though it were a bolt hole in an abandoned coal mine. Then he lingers, with zest, on the walls and ceilings, lavatory tiles which had been white about fifty years ago, and now encrusts with soot, coats with the remains of a dirty liquid which might be either atmospheric humidity mingled with smog or the result of a perfunctory attempt to clean them with cold water. Above them, gloomy vaulting from which dingy paint peels off like scabs from an old wound, sick black paint leaving a leprous white undersurface. Beneath the boy’s feet, the floor a nauseating dark brown with black stains upon it which might be stale oil or dry chewing gum or some worse defilement. It looks like the hallway of a condemned slum building. The station is in full swing and the nasty stench of trash permeates the subway inside. Then his eye travels to the tracks. The light grows brighter as the people lurches away from the dark. A momentary hush; the subway varies its rhythm obligingly for the people waiting. Two lines of glittering steel, the only positively clean objects in the whole place, run out of darkness into darkness above an unspeakable mass of congealed oil, puddles of dubious liquid, and a mishmash of old cigarette packets, mutilated and filthy newspapers, and the debris that filters down from the street above through a barred grating in the…
Art has been created by all people at all times; it lives because it is liked and enjoyed. Art involves personal experiences of an individual accompanied by some intensity of emotion. Art is made of man, no matter how close it is to nature. Although each work of art is evidently the expression of an artists’ personal thoughts and feelings it may be inferred that, like any other individual, he belongs to a million, and he cannot free himself from the influence of his social, economic, political, cultural, geographic, scientific, and technological environment.…
