Painters paint what they feel. Whether it is at that very moment, or how they have felt for the past five years - an artist’s work is always about how they feel. That is why anyone can tell all there is to know about Krasner and Pollock’s relationship just by viewing their artwork. One reason why I chose them is because I heard a joke about Jackson Pollock in my favorite TV show, Archer. Another reason is that one of his paintings, “One: Number 31,” looks to me like the Vatican’s “Thrown of Satan
Lee Krasner: Born in Brooklyn, New York into an orthodox Jewish family. She joined the American abstract artists group in 1939. After studying art in various New York schools. She worked with the Jackson Pollock in 1941 whom she married in the following year of 1945. Often influencing each other’s art, her style was often known for giving visual expression to the physical energy of painting. Jacob Lawrence: An African American artist, who was supported by the wpa, that often captured the migration
Behind the Art What is art? By definition it is, “An occupation requiring knowledge or skill” (Merriam). Many people would argue that late artist Jackson Pollock’s work would not go under this category. But Pollock’s paintings were not random splats and splashes, but carefully planned and expertly executed works of art. In order to understand Pollock’s work, it’s important that you know a little about him. Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming in 1912. His family moved around the southwest
Getting to Know Jackson Pollock Understanding Jackson Pollock as a person can help one understand him as artist, in turn helps one to understand and analyze his paintings. A comparison of Autumn Rhythm and Portrait and a Dream will reveal how Jackson Pollock expressed himself louder than other artists through his form of abstraction. Each of these paintings will also reveal a lot about his connection to himself and his demons and his struggle with verbal expression. An analysis of them will also
All About Eve is an American drama from the 1950’s about a woman named Eve Harrington who manipulates her way into the life of Margo Channing, a Broadway star. The implicit meaning of the movie is the plot of Eve working her way into the light of fame. The explicit meaning of the movie, however, is exposing people’s obsession of fame, ambition, and stopping at nothing to get there. My viewer expectation is that I would not be interested in the movie because older movies are tiresome to me, especially
Every woman has gone through heartbreak at least once in her lifetime. Lee Jeans uses heartbreak to convince the audience of this advertisement to buy their jeans. In this Lee Jeans advertisement there are all different claims. The one that stands out the most is the claim of value. The advertisement shows support of this claim through the word usage and the picture representation. Lee Jeans wants to represent the " NEW LOOK FOR LEE" as the women?s jeans. Through the different use of symbols, the advertisement
child? What makes a good daughter: the one loyal to her family or the one who pursues her own dream? To address the questions, the following cinematic feature, “You are the Best, Lee Soon Shin”, specifically episode 33 will be analyzed to explore the mother-daughter relationship in South Korea. The main character, Lee Soon Shin is raised and nurtured by Kim Jung-ae, until one day she finds out that her real mother, Song Mi-ryung, the famous movie star, wants to
The novel “I am the King of the Castle” clearly explores the themes of loneliness, sadness and depression in its plot. All of the main characters have difficulties with relationships and end up facing depressive moments and experiences, some insignificant but some crucial and terrifying. Joseph Hooper (father), Edmund Hooper (son) and Charles Kingshaw are three characters showing explicit loneliness almost throughout the whole novel. Their loneliness is shown by several reasons and caused
Perceptions of the superhero and supervillain are mainly based on subjective definitions of each concept. These observations often lead to a definitive dichotomy that precisely splits characters into two impermeable divisions. However, this stringent separation is unable to account for the characters that are not at the extreme ends of their respective side. Neither is this rift capable of classifying characters that flirt with both sides of the superhero-supervillain dichotomy. Therefore it is imperative
better. Once, Walt Whitman said, “Be curious, not judgmental”. This can be a lesson to a vast number of persons, not excluding Jem and Scout. They are two of the most important characters from the most fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which takes place in the Great depression, in Maycomb, Alabama. Two of the most misunderstood characters in the whole book are Dolphus Raymond, the town drunkard, and Atticus Finch the town lawyer as well as Jem and Scouts “boring” father. Jem and
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a novel that was written in the 1960s, but Harper Lee decided to set the novel in the Depression era of the 1930s in a small town in Alabama. Lee provided her readers with a historical background for the affairs of that time and in doing so she exposed the deeply entrenched history of the civil rights in South America. Like the main characters in this novel, Lee grew up in Alabama; this made it easier for her to relate to the characters in the novel as she would have understood
wrong, in, To Kill a Mockingbird we know that there was a black man accused of rape, given it is the 1930s in the South U.S, nobody will support this man, except Atticus Finch, a man that stands up for what is right. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the character Atticus Finch to show that it is important for people to stand up for what is right because otherwise justice will never have a chance to prevail. Atticus shows this when he defends Tom, teaches Jem after the trial, and Atticus teaches
The film Capote, based on the how the writer of “In Cold Blood” did his research to write his book, a masterpiece of literature, has portrayed Capote’s behavior during his research vividly. Capote’s behavior during the years Perry waits on death row in order to get personal testimony of the night of killings is a controversial topic. Some argue that what Capote did was absolutely necessary for an ambitious writer to create such a master piece while other argue that human ethics is more important
Nelle Harper Lee is best known for her novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird, which was published in July of 1960. Initially named “Atticus” It was an immediate success. Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926 on April 28th. Among Lee’s childhood friends is novelist Truman Capote. Lee worked with Capote on an article in The New Yorker which later evolved into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Lee described Capote as, “Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head,” Lee fashioned Dill
knowledge. Three characters, Jem, Scout, and Dill in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee living during the Depression-era in Maycomb County, deal with the harsh reality of Maycomb’s racism and prejudice while maturing through gaining knowledge, experience, and courage. The kids grow up learning many lessons from Atticus or from their own experiences. In her depiction of Jem, Scout, and Dill, Lee reveals their maturation from being the children they are to having a thorough understanding of
even take part in things around our community such as volunteering at the local food bank. As we read about Jem maturing and taking part in the community, we learned that it takes a strong person to overcome the barriers of society. Works Cited Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. Print.
A symbol in literature is an object that stands for a word, cause, belief, or another object. A metaphor is a figure of speech where a word of phrase is applied to something but it should not be taken literally. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird symbolizes innocence. The mockingbird is innocent, singing for people to hear its music. In the book Atticus says to Scout, “Remember it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” When Scout asked Miss Maudie about it, Miss Maudie tells her, “Mockingbirds
To Kill a Mockingbird-Character Foils Essay Whether we read books, watch movies, or simply live life, we cannot ignore that writers, directors or people create pairs of characters that may have things in common and characteristics that show them as opposites. Sometimes, they may seem obvious but at other times, the individuals have to be analyzed and understood. They are placed in stories to show the good and the bad in the story. However, placing similar and somewhat opposite characters together
Atticus Finch is a heroic character in To Kill A Mockingbird. A hero is a person who is known for certain achievements and qualities. Atticus is known for many qualities he displayed during the novel, as well as various achievements. This makes him a heroic character. Atticus Finch is a hero because he defended a black man in court, proved his abilities and intelligences, and cared for everybody equally. During a time when black people were thought to be lower than white people, Atticus defended
such ingrained aspects of human behavior and consciousness - ideals/themes of innocence and experience, love and hatred, justice and racism, courage and cowardice, and many more. Nonetheless, at it's core To Kill a Mockingbird is, as the author Harper Lee puts it, a "love story, pure and simple". There are many diverse yet interconnected love stories in To Kill a Mockingbird. However, the most prominent one is the relationship between Atticus, a righteous lawyer in Maycomb, and his daughter Scout, Scout