Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it. (Confucious) The piece “Little’s Barn” by Sonia Grineva is an oil on canvas which depicts the movement of everyday life. There is such a diverse and simply outrageous amount of negativity today, it tends to outshine all the beauty. However, there is beauty everywhere, you just have to take a moment to see it. As has been noted, even with all the negativity in the world, beauty shines through, within your everyday routine, as shown in “Little’s Barn”. As can be seen today, the world is painted in a mist of darkness. Everywhere you look, you see one tragedy after another. There is always an event on the news that is causing intense suffering, distress, and destruction, such as a crime, a serious accident, or some natural catastrophe. Even beyond the news, I often come across a sorrowful environment, such as walking past an Grineva tells is that “ I’m inspired by the scenes and movements of everyday life- morning on a city street, an autumn day in the countryside, a fresh bouquet of flowers placed on a table. The creative act begins with seeing the unique beauty in what is assumed to be ordinary. My work is an effort to discover and convey the beauty of everyday life.” ( Grineva) In this work of art, a country side landscape is portrayed. There is a small, simple house with a chimney off in the distance. Farther back, and we can make out a couple more houses. The piece is simple and peaceful. It perfectly captures beauty so simple it is often overlooked. I chose this piece because I can relate to it, and a immensely inspired by it and the powerful message it delivers. Grienva wants to show the world through her art, that the world is not what we perceive it as. Beauty is not all about fashion, and glam. Beauty is not only make-up and shoes. We just need some perspective, and that is precisely what Grineva gives us with her
Many viewers from Cassatt’s time would expect that not only is she painting an everyday scene (as did many other impressionists), but that she is also painting from her experience – the female artist as mother. However, the gaze Cassatt casts on her subject is not nurturing, as a result of her color and compositional choices. Instead, her lens is cold, frank and straight to the point. Cassatt’s Little Girl lives on to explicitly oppose her era’s principles on how a female artist sees and treats their subject. If this piece were painted by a male, with his gaze, it would be completely different – more idyllic. How does he interpret what she sees? The child would be curled up with a smile on her face and the dog in her arms. He would illuminate the child through bright, warm colors. He would emphasize the domesticity of the moment. But Cassatt throws those images away and provides the viewer with her fresh take on a familiar scene. She renders the slack little girl with lots of blue, taking away from the painting’s potential homeliness, but makes up for it with her skill and talent. By projecting her gaze onto the subject, Cassatt articulates and asserts her own ideology: images of domesticity, the woman’s maternal role and beauty are not interdependent. Little Girl shows the viewer just how. The
The everyday world brings harsh conflicts and strong willed people that oppose it. The corruption in society helps bring out the good in some people and the bad in the rest. No matter how many bad people in the world there will always be good-hearted, loving and curious people that will help bring back the light to the world. The bad in the world helps some people realize the true character and goodness inside of them and can help them reflect back onto their character. No matter how big or small a decision might be it will bring you closer to knowing who you really are. These decisions can lead to individuality from others and standing up for what you believe in even if it goes against other people’s views. In All the Light We Cannot See,
In his painting he has a lavish pink and blue sky that seems to be almost made entirely of clouds. The plants, trees, and grass all look soft and kind. The people are posed in unnatural Baroque ways, but are dressed in Cinderella-like costumes. The people, statues, and angels are all round-faced and happy. The colors of everything all are soft and appealing to the eyes; nothing is too bright or harsh. This painting is a fine example of the art that was crafted during the Rococo Period.
Humans have a tendency to shy away from their sufferings. People are known to reach for stimulants in desperation, overriding the prudence of good judgment. Resorting to alcohol, Edgar Allan Poe himself escaped from painful recollections of his loved ones. “It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” This quotation written by Edgar Allen Poe, explains the very heart of human behaviour. Humans are notorious for their ability to focus on the negative aspects of life and those who do not acknowledge the bleakness of the world are often caught in the trap of distracting themselves from the agony that surrounds them. The hopelessness within
The mood of the narrator seems to be mystical yet powerful. By reading the translation of the poem, the narrator’s experience of beauty and spiritual movements is not something to easily understand. The narrator describes the idea that although a sculpture or an object is incomplete, there can still be different approaches to analyze the meaning(s)
The painting was created to help individuals understand that," True beauty comes from within; it’s about being kind to others and not only thinking about yourself..
...ngs [are] leaning against the wall”, “the vases [are] on the floor”, “the fireplace [is] in the corner”, “the love seat [is] against one wall” and “the peach couch [is facing] the window”. Therefore, at the end of the description, one, inevitably, feels a sense of familiarity with the living room as well as the narrator. As the narrator changes perspective, the audience respectively adopts the narrator’s point of view and sees and experiences events as she sees and experiences them. The same attitude, repeats in introducing the girls via the photos, as the narrator does not find it adequate to merely name the girls, she points out to their specific place within the photo. As if the reader is holding the photo, she indicate “the one to the far right is Manna”, Yassi is “the one in yellow, bending forward and bursting with laughter”, “I am the one in brown”. (p. 4)
Many believe that our mind is the source of our freedom. We see this in Azar Nafisi’s “Selections of Lolita in Tehran,” Cathy Davidson’s “Project Classroom Makeover,” and Maggie Nelson’s “Great to Watch.” Nafisi creates a world of color to escape from the darkness of the society she lives in. Davidson tries to resist standard education. Nelson discusses avant-garde artists use cruelty as a way to rebel against banality. But people are surrounded by fences that limit their individuality. The mind is not enough to overcome the environment to create freedom.
David Becker painted a piece in 1998 titled Empty Every Night which depicts life and mortality of the human body. The elements of this image work together to provide a explanation of this piece to the audience. Becker uses specific techniques to show the chaos in human life. The meaning behind this image is not visible at first glance but requires some extra background knowledge. In this essay, I will frame a visual analysis for this piece and discuss how research effected my perception of David Becker and this work.
Hardships, setbacks, and advantages have always been and always will be a part of life. Throughout every walk of life: the beautiful to the ugly, the rich to the poor, and the highly intelligent to the mediocre, people always encounter some type of problem. They can be trivial, significant, or even life changing; however problems take different meanings to different people. In the drama “Beauty,” by Jane Martin, the author’s main point is that people continually look at what they perceive their life is lacking rather than appreciate what they do have in their life.
We started off by going to the Francien Rutwich Gallery, in which I saw a couple of paintings that I was drawn to. The most beautiful object that I could find was called “The Intersection of a Table and a Piece of Lace (2009)” by Leyden Rodriguez Casanova, born in 1973,Cuba. The idea of the piece of art was very simple, but yet so elegant at the same time. The lighting was perfect and the shadows were sharp and this made a basic table on its side come to life. This brought me so much joy because it made me think about how anything can be beautiful. While it gave me joy, I also began to question what brought the artist the motivation to create something like this.
Through vivid language about all aspects of life the reminder to todays society is clear and the meaning of the work as a whole is enhanced which is, that the creation of true beauty is cultivated by the purest intentions, that when a person is abled to see people soul instead of the appearance and that when a person can make a mistake and learn from it is when they are truly beautiful. Dorians ambiguity is what heightens this message to the readers because he is
An assortment of different elements can be employed to convey rhythm. In Frosty Morning lines and shading are used to show this. One aspect of the painting that implements these elements is the grass throughout the fields. The use of lines tracking towards the same direction is one aspect of showing movement in the grass. The second aspect is the shading of grass. The lighter portions of the grass portray that it is facing more towards the sun, while the darker portions are facing away from it. This gives notion as to which direction the grass is moving as well. The element of shading to illustrate rhythm is also used in the smoke billowing from the chimney of the country home in the distance. The use of shading the smoke in darker and lighter sections allows an observer to distinguish which direction it is moving. This is based on the fact that the lighter portions of smoke have dissipated more than the darker portions, thus showing the direction based on where the concentration is greatest. The title of the piece of art is Frosty Morning, which tells that it is cold. Together, the movement of the grass and smoke also aids in further implementing the weather setting. By showing movement in the grass and smoke, it portrays wind blowing, which is often associated with cold weather. Combined, these two elements of movement are a major component of setting the overall tone of this work of
In point of view, “The House with the Ocean view” is without a doubt one of the most important live art works in decades. Not because it is a work of extraordinary elegance, which it is, nor because it continues potent themes of Marina’s thirty year career, which it does, but because above all it is a work of visual theatre in the most powerful and heroic sense. It is the staging of emotion, without recourse to a single word and of high drama with barely a contrived effect. It stems from a personal challenge so unlikely to make her world a stage and is constructed with such restraint, the artist installed on a suspended platform only six feet deep on one wall of a gallery, that its success is almost uncanny, especially given the broad sweep of audience members who were moved, some to tears, to sit with Marina for a large part of her twelve day vigil.
Nonetheless, there is a visual equilibrium as different elements are made equal by color and form. The area of emphasis is the moonlit pathway leading to the tiny boat in the distance. The path is directly in the viewers’ focus and is the lightest area in the painting; the pathway contrasts with the sky and moon which are darker shades in relation to the water. The blue sky is a darker shade of blue than its reflection in the water and the colour of the almost golden moon is not reflected, instead it shines through the white clouds and upon the glistening water. The artist uses other hues to decorate the city with lights, streams of tiny yellow and red dots spread into the distance, these bits of light decorates the pale blue mountains beyond. The cool blue waters spread out like a blanket, and atop it rests numerous boats, these are forms that occupy positive space. An illusion of negative space is created between the clouds to give an impression that the clouds are detached from the sky. Value is emphasized where, the value contrast separates the direct moonlit path in the water from the surrounding water and also the clouds and sky from the mountains. The artist’s use of bold and thin lines to create the boats masts and also the thin flowing that separates the water from the foot of the mountain is impressive. It is implied that the