Existentialism
As the events in Bosnia started to remind people about what happened 50 years prior, a writer who was set for her life, who had no reason to come to Bosnia did and set up Waiting For Godot. Sontag’s goal was to show connections between Waiting For Godot and what was happening in Bosnia, bringing up the point of waiting. While Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, the Bosnian Muslims were waiting for the UN to intervene and stop the Serbs, then it became so bad that the Muslims hoped that the UN would drop bombs on them.Then for another comparison, how can we connect art to the Bosnian conflict. So why would Susan Sontag travel to Bosnia and help to set up Waiting For Godot.
In this piece by Salvador Dali called the Archaeological
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After a while, the Muslims realized they had to listen to what Milosevic was saying to hear what was being planned. As the war started to break out, many people thought it would blow over and they would soon return home. As day after day went by the same as before people gained a more bleak image for the future, they were losing all the power they had over their lives to someone they might not even know. While the war dragged on, people realized that the war would not end soon, and the rest of the west thought nothing of what was happening, with the mentality that this is the 20th century and this only happens where people aren’t sophisticated and lack most human emotions. while this was occurring, the west was trying its very hardest to make sure their own countries wouldn’t lose any troops. As Estragon says, “‘Beat Me? Certainly they beat me.’’The same lot as usual?’’The same? I don't know.’”(2 Beckett), giving a reasonable explanation about what happened. While many Muslims were lucky enough to just be cleansed, many were beaten and killed or raped if you were a pretty woman. But it wasn’t the same men all over Bosnia, it was people that really thought what they were doing was right in some way or another. The way the Serbs treated the Muslims was the same
His last and final piece, which is very interesting, is called the "Stoneware Vase*" It has two curled spiral handles, suggestive of ancient or pre-historic civilizat...
Unfortunately this upset the native Bosnian people. So, although the United States feels obligated to help the Bosnian Cause, they may be worsening the situation with their involvement, both there and in the U.S There are two sides to this story. The first is the opinion that the United States should completely withdraw from Bosnia. The other opinion is that the United States should go headlong and give Bosnia their full support, and commit more troops and more supplies to the Bosnian Cause. There are some positive things done by the United States in Bosnia. The presence of U.S troops did bring temporary peace to the area. Although the peace is purely an act, it does give leaders time to talk and plan without worrying about their people dying. Also, the United States presence in Bosnia helped to eradicate the most horrific problem in Bosnia, large Serbian concentration camps and mass Albanian genocide.
... study for the overall concept they appear rather as abstract patterns. The shadows of the figures were very carefully modeled. The light- dark contrasts of the shadows make them seem actually real. The spatial quality is only established through the relations between the sizes of the objects. The painting is not based on a geometrical, box like space. The perspective centre is on the right, despite the fact that the composition is laid in rows parallel to the picture frame. At the same time a paradoxical foreshortening from right to left is evident. The girl fishing with the orange dress and her mother are on the same level, that is, actually at equal distance. In its spatial contruction, the painting is also a successful construction, the groups of people sitting in the shade, and who should really be seen from above, are all shown directly from the side. The ideal eye level would actually be on different horizontal lines; first at head height of the standing figures, then of those seated. Seurats methods of combing observations which he collected over two years, corresponds, in its self invented techniques, to a modern lifelike painting rather than an academic history painting.
Spanish painter Salvador Dali was undeniably one of the most eccentric personalities of the XX century. He is well known as a pioneer of surrealist art whose production has had a huge influence on media and modern artists around the globe . By bringing surreal elements into everyday objects he pushed surrealism forward. It is partly to his credit that surrealism is this popular today. In "M...
The representation of the new age of exploration, which serves as an allusion to man’s potential, is starkly contrasted with the depiction of Icarus that serves as an allegory for man’s limits, indicating the shift from a euro-centric universe. This painting is an oil canvas landscape of the sun setting on the horizon of the ocean sea, while the ships were sailing through the body of water. The focus on humanism during this period is clearly portrayed by the presence of the plowman, shepherd, and fisherman performing their daily task. Lighter colors are used, which differ from the darker colors that were emphasized during the Dark Age or Medieval period. Shadows can be seen on the ground next to the plowman, showing the increasing artistic methods that begin to be utilized.
Although Milosevic was a key figure during this period whose actions undoubtedly influenced the chain of events that unfolded, I believe his power-seeking motives were not unique to him; his actions in the former Yugoslavia could have been committed by a number of others who had the same desire for power driving them. Nevertheless, as he was president of Serbia and essentially commander-in-chief of Serb forces who carried out unconscionable acts of cruelty against Muslims and other non-Serb civilians, particularly in the attempt to annex Bosnia-Herzegovina, he bears responsibility for his actions as an authority figure. Though his main goal seemed to be focused on territorial expansion of the Serbian state, he led military forces to deport and murder non-Serb civilians in massive numbers and therefore was in vi...
As Susan Sontag's life continued she became more isolated than when she was a kid and often found her only escape from society in books. As a result of her isolation and absence of parents Susan started her journey towards becoming an existentialist style
This painting consists of three parts, with curving lines distinctly separating each of the parts. The foreground details a brick house with a thatch roof and a person walking along a path, the mid-ground depicts houses further away and the undulating greenery, and the background highlights the break between earth and sky with the tree line. The main objects in the Houses at Auvers are blocky houses, with a path cutting through the landscape and a person on the path. This...
I felt as though I was watching a train barrelling towards me, an inevitable bullet that had come tumbling out of the opposing pitcher’s arm. But instead I stood immobilized, watching my team's only chance of winning whiz by me. Strike three. I heard my team from behind me shouting “SWING!” with my mind screaming the same. But my bat remained unmoving, the pop of the catcher's glove like the nail into the coffin that was our defeat. All I had to do to keep our hopes of winning hope alive was swing, and yet I couldn't. I stayed on the field afterwards, tossing the ball up in the air and swinging away, landing it on the thick maple barrel of the bat.
In fact, some of the works presented depict mythological paintings that resemble the transcending Metaphysical matter of nature. Take for instance, the general aspect of the artworks presented in this chapter. They depict different social levels through the use of objects, emotions and various conditions. The lower status contradicts, the slaves to the wealthy and royalty, all delineate the role of the people present in the society and their everyday life. In the images, the poor and the slaves depicted with little to no possessions, looking tired and over-worked. Through their everyday labor, they must survive as a less fortunate person. In contrast to the images of the po...
Susan Sontag then goes on to write about the destruction that is placed with in science fiction films. She says, “Science fiction films are not about science they are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. Science fiction is concerned with the aesthetics of destruction, with the peculiar beauties to be found in wreaking havoc, making a mess.” Destruction is seen in both of the science fiction films, Invaders from Mars and E.T. The destruction in Invaders From Mars comes from the military when they begin bombing the whole that the aliens are in.
painting even though the event represented in the painting took place long before the Roman Empire. The center temple that occupies the background has a vanishing point running through its doorway and if it weren’t for this illusionistic technique, the painting would be very two-dimensional.
... point. This point is the white building in the painting. The lines all end at his point in order for the eye to follow the line down to this particular building.
These tensions, only highlighted by the war, are an unfortunate but large part of Bosnian culture as a whole. The three main ethnic groups of Bosnia are Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats, with 48.4%, 32.7%, and 14.6% populations respectively (CIA World Factbook). Their intense nationalistic attitudes and vastly different religious heritages cause animosities between the groups that go back beyond the times of nations. Bosniaks are generally Muslim while Croats are Roman Catholic and Serbs are Christian
In "A Woman's Beauty: Put-down or Power Source," Susan Sontag portrays how a woman's beauty has been degraded while being called beautiful and how that conceives their true identity as it seems to portray innocence and honesty while hiding the ugliness of the truth. Over the years, women have being classified as the gentler sex and regarded as the fairer gender. Sontag uses narrative structure to express the conventional attitude, which defines beauty as a concept applied today only to women and their outward appearance. She accomplishes this by using the technique of contrast to distinguish the beauty between men and women and establishing a variation in her essay, by using effective language.