Watson and the Shark is oil painting by John Singleton Copley. This piece was made in 1778, as a depiction of a boy named Brook Watson attacking by shacks in Havana, Cuba, and his shipmates launching a valiant rescue effort. The piece’s present location is the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. While this historical painting is a snapshot of a real-life event, Copley uses low value hues and spotlight effect on Watson as well as his shipmates, giving us equal or more attention to the people saving Watson. Moreover, Copley challenges the conventional history paintings by giving all the saviors on the boat the same attention, and each one is allowed to have his individual role in the rescuing process.
Watson and the Shark is a large oil painting on canvas measuring 71 3⁄4 in × 90 1⁄2 in. While Copley decides to depict the dramatic and decisive scene where Watson is about to be attacked by a shark, the shape of each man on the boat is carefully painted, and each of the actions is detailed. Specifically, all shipmates have distinct function within the rescuing process: two are...
John Singleton Copley’s painting called Watson and the Shark dramatizes a horrific event that took place in 1749 where fourteen-year-old Brook Watson was brutally attacked by a shark in Havana Harbor. Shortly after the attack, Watson was rescued from the water by his fellow shipmates. The crew of a small boat, which had been waiting to escort their captain to shore, fought off the shark and rescued Watson. Unfortunately, Watson lost his leg (below the knee) as a result of the accident. He went on to live a full life never forgetting that day. In 1778 he commissioned John Singleton Copley to make a painting about this life changing event. I believe John Singleton Copley put pictorial limitations on his historical painting of Watson and the Shark because of political and personal implications at the time the painting was completed.
Throughout the film there are many experts about the ocean and the animals that live in it. Researcher Ritter the misconception of the shark’s species is blown out of proportion by the media, which is why sharks have such an awful reputation. Experts touch up on this subject adding how even one of the biggest movies Jaws is a very large portion from where people get their fears from or it could be from all of the “shark attacks” on the news. Rob discusses how at the rate we are going we can destroy all of the food chains in the marine ecosystem, and this is where most of our oxygen comes from. Throughout the film experts Rob Stewart and Paul Watson are trying to get long lining banned in Costa Rica. Paul makes a really interesting point saying how the biggest problem is that we do not understand what we are and we are just a bunch of “conceited naked apes” that are out of
20 year- old Madison Stewart, many know her as shark girl, is an underwater filmmaker and a dive master. The young Aussie grew up living on a yacht from just two years old, she has spent nearly every day of her life in the water. When she first started snorkeling, one thing grabbed her eye and that was seeing sharks in the wild, She instantly feel in love with the animal and decided to have a future being around sharks every day of her life. When she was young she didn’t once think that she would have to fight for sharks and their lives. When she returned to the Great Barrier Reef at the age on 14 years old, she had expectation’s such as seeing the same beautiful reefs and the same sharks, but what she saw and discovered changed her life forever.
In the short story “ The Open Boat,” by Stephen Crane, Crane does an outstanding job creating descriptive images throughout the entire story. With saying this, Crane uses symbolism along with strong imagery to provide the reader with a fun and exciting story about four guys who 's fight was against nature and themselves. Starting early in the book, Crane creates a story line that has four men in a great amount of trouble in the open waters of the ocean. Going into great detail about natures fierce and powerful body of water, Crane makes it obvious that nature has no empathy for the human race. In this story, Crane shows the continuous fight that the four men have to endure in able to beat natures strongest body of water. It 's not just nature the men have to worry about though, its the ability to work together in order to win this fight against nature. Ultimately, Crane is able to use this story, along with its vast imagery and symbolism to compare the struggle between the human race and all of natures uncertainties.
Through fully fleshed-out arguments, writers Fretz and Rushing address class consciousness and economic strife in the movie, Jaws. Director, Steven Speilberg, morphes the blood thirsty shark into a symbol of economic terror, for the people of the costal town it massacres (Fretz 70). Threatening to shut down Amity’s beaches, a large source of income and tourist draw, the shark poses menace to the safety of people’s lives, as well as their lively hoods. Without tourists, the town of Amity loses most of its’ income. Sigmund Freud argues, “mystery and fear emerge from something with which we are familiar but has always been oppressed” (Fu 15). The people of Amity know the danger swimming in the ocean poses, but they neglect the truth for a bit of Summer fun. Shifting the perception of the audience through
Hallucinations and Revelations: Logical Analysis in the Erlking. As the “Erlking” chronicles the last moments of life of a young boy in a gothic setting, the hurried last words between a father and son are heard and leave the reader with the question, what is real? The child fears the Erlking who is supposedly following them as they ride quickly on horseback through the windy night, where as the father claims nothing at all is there, and that each fear can be logically explained and discredited. Due to this, it is easy to assume that the “Erlking”, by Goethe, is making an anti-Enlightenment statement, and because of that, all events and occurrences can have a solely supernatural explanation.
Today, many people associate the word “inception” with the award winning Christopher Nolan film, but what does inception really mean? All dreams aside, inception is the time at which something begins. However, Inception is also the title of a rap composed by artist who goes by the name of Logic. Logic, also known as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, is a rapper from Maryland. Inception is on Logic’s 2012 mixtape, “Young Sinatra: Undeniable”. I admire much of Logic’s work; however, Inception not only resonates within me emotionally with its sound, but I find that the lyrics echo inspiration and motivation that I can relate to personally.
Writing in “Fact, Not Fiction: Questioning Our Assumptions About Crane’s ‘The Open Boat,’” Stefanie Eye Bates remarks, “By mentioning the men’s friendship, the atmosphere of congeniality and fraternity, the captain’s calm voice and the comfort the others took in it, Crane fully explains how he draws the conclusion that ‘although no one said it was so,’ the sense of unity was felt by all” (73). Since this bond of brotherhood is felt by all the men in the boat, but not discussed, it manifests in small ways as the men interact with each other. They are never irritated or upset with each other, no matter how tired or sore they are. Whenever one man is too tired to row, the next man takes over without complaining. When the correspondent thinks that he is the only person awake on the boat, and he sees and hears the shark in the water, the narrator says, “Nevertheless, it is true that he did not want to be alone with the thing. He wished one of his companions to awaken by chance and keep him company with it” (Crane 212). In reference to this scene, Shulman remarks that “the central theme of community [is] touchingly rendered here because the correspondent does not awaken his exhausted companions” (451). Nobody makes any statements about the bond that the men develop, but it is evident in small things like this, where the correspondent lets the other men sleep
Anguissola’s piece titled The Chess Game depicts the artists’ sisters, Lucia, Europa, and Minerva and someone generally considered to be a servant, in a mountainous, outdoor setting. The medium used for this painting is oil on canvas. This painting was completed in 1555 and was hung in her family home in Cremona. The painting displays the Italian Renaissance style, while portraying her sisters in the best humanistic tradition. In The Chess Game, Anguissola dispenses with stiff formal poses and instead illustrates three of her sisters, in a relaxed, informal game of chess, as well as bringing life to the genre of portraiture.
Before affiliating the crew aboard the ship with Moby Dick, there are some comparisons to be made between them and ocean inhabitants in general. While living in the ocean environment the men begin to acquire the same survival techniques as some of the organisms in the ocean. The manner in which the whalers go about slaughtering the whales is much like the way that the sharks react to the whale carcass being held stagnate in the water. "....because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcass, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more that the skeleton would be visible by mornong"(Melville 328). These sharks are savages in the face of sustenance. In most cases the sheer size of the whale prohibits it from being captured and consumed by the sharks. The only chance that they have at these huge beasts is when they are slung along side the whaling ships. Once they have their opening to this plethora of meat it becomes a barbaric feeding frenzy. These actions of the sharks reflect the actions of the whalers when taking part in the slaying of a whale. "Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying gish.
First, the three boats form a pattern of their own. Next, the fishermen on the boat are all clinging to the boat in the exact same way on every boat. Their round white heads with blue outfits form a pattern with their shape and color. Then we have a pattern within the water in multiple areas. One is with the dark blue color forming a stripped pattern with the white of the crest. The second is the dark blue forming a stripped pattern with a lighter shade of blue on the main wave. The third is the curled wave pattern on the crest of the wave. The last pattern is the repetitive dots made by the water splashing. All of these patterns aid in adding unity to the piece.
When the film Jaws (Steven Spielberg 1975) came out, it was one of the most frightening movies at that time. The attack showing the little boy being ripped apart by a shark that occurs during the scene on the beach shows how devastating the shark can be as well as how helpless officer Brody and the audience feels during the attack. In the famous “beach scene,” Spielberg makes the audience identify with a helpless figure caught in a violent frenzied moment through the use of framing, color, and camera direction. In this scene, the shark is not actually seen; its attack is filmed in a point of view shot which does not allow the audience to look away and forces them to stay with the perspective of the shark. This builds tension and also makes
Patrick Waters, a hardworking young man, came aboard the Titanic in hopes of proving himself to his mother. Patrick finds it hard to just fit in because of his overly large ears and long hair. While Patrick is working to prove himself, Mr. Archibald Rockwell, a heavyset Florentine man, is onboard in hopes of stealing Mr. Widener’s rare copy of Sir Francis Bacon’s Essaies, which is said to have a secret message inside its pages. Mr. Harry Elkins Widener is an extremely intelligent man who loves books. He is only onboard for the experience.
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The “Open Boat” and “A Mystery of Heroism” are both fantastic displays of Stephen Crane’s mastery with naturalism. The first depicts the struggles of four men trying to survive the open ocean, the latter a commentary on the obscure requirements of heroism. Both stories shared similar characterization by letting the reader decipher the protagonist through their actions and thoughts. The themes of the two stories differed, one emphasizing the indifference of nature and the other musing the ambiguity of what constitutes a hero. The conflicts also shared a likeness, with the power of repetitive nature of waves connecting to the force and persistence of artillery fire. The values of the stories still hold prevalent to modern society. Wars still rage on, many heroes are lost and forgotten, and nature still holds her unrelenting grasp on human complexion.