Rokeby Venus
I choose to look at the painting “The Toilet of Venus” or more commonly referred to as “The Rokeby Venus” by Diego Velalazquez. The “Rokeby” part came into effect, because the painting was originally displayed in the Morritt Collection at Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire, before being moved to its current home in the National Gallery. Diego Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599, and went on to become one of the most brilliant and influential painters ever to come from Spain. He lived in Madrid for most of his adult life, and was employed as a court painter. Throughout his career, he tackled a wide variety of subjects, such as landscapes, scenes from real life, and mythological/religious figures. He was a master realist who excelled at capturing essential features upon the canvas. He painted “The Rokeby Venus” between 1647 and 1651, and was his only nude portrait, as well as the first one in Spain, at that time. Initially the painting met with some disapproval, especially from the Church, since it was a nude, but eventually the work received great praise, and became known, as being one of the most beautiful and significant portrayals of Venus in the history of Western Art.
The painting, in its simplest form, consists of a naked woman lying elegantly upon stately and rich cloths, while a young, also nude boy, is holding a mirror which contains her reflection. Upon first glance of this work, I was quickly able to make out the identity of the two subjects. ...
The Two Bathers was influenced by the Mediterranean whiahc can be seen in this small piece of art with its meauserements of 12” x 9.5” crated in Paris in 1921. His work was inspired by antique statuary, from the Cycldic Islands. Pablo Picasso showed his art to his idol Andre Malraux:’ Only the sculptors of the islands found a way to transform “ fertility goddesses” into signs… its goddess, if you will, imean the magic object is no longer Fertilitty. In this painting it shows a sigh of fertility in my opinion while the women standing, is half hiding her nudity behing a white cloth which is a color of pureity, and the male lies on the ground while their vertical and horizaltal postions sturture the compostions.
As human beings we often pursue truth to undercover deceit. To overcome death and nonexistence, we are born. To understand the future, we look to the past. To accept ourselves we begin to recognize others. As a result of these unavoidable actions our ego is born. Self awareness. The simple plural pronoun “We”, transforms into “Me”, or “I”, the self of our person. The self becomes thinking, feeling, and willing. Able to distinguish itself from the selves of others and from the objects of its thought. It is this self identity that many 6th century Buddhist, including the main protagonist within the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, searched to abolish in the interest of reaching full enlightenment and understanding of the world in which they life. “A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness." Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire. See now you are left with only "Happiness.” (Boulby 173)
The painting depicts two figures, the one of a woman and of a man. The dominating central figure is the one of the woman. We see her profile as she looks to the left. Her hands are crossed in a graceful manner. She has blonde hair and her figure is lit by what seems to be natur...
Our world today was shaped from the historical actions of activists like Cesar Chavez. There are many inspirational and historical activists, some change a nation, a town or even the whole world, but what they all have in common is their strive and passion to make a difference whether the impact is big or small. Many people find and get inspiration from these people which makes them want to make a difference and creates a snowball effect. In no way was it never easy to try and change a nation and start a movement, there’s always a battle but how the battle is fought is what determines the outcome of their fight for change. Chavez was an inspiration to many and his strive for change impacted our history and influenced how
Every since the start of time there has been controversial arguments, debates and ideas about how we can live a life of freedom under a civil law, thus the social contract was constructed to live a life of security and tranquility. The following essay will discuss Beccaria’s arguments on torture and promptness in punishment in the work frame of The Enlightenment values. First by stating that judicial torture is not humane, fair nor useful, then how promptness of punishment does and does not go against The Enlightenment values because of necessity. And finally concluding Beccaria’s position still being quite relevant today.
The painting is intimate, almost as if was not meant for the eyes of the viewer. The mother gently holds the baby, within her arms, as she feeds him. The mother’s gaze is met by the child as it reaches out to touch her face. The background is simple, emphasizing the closeness between the mother and child, much like Le Brun’s piece. Additionally, Cassatt’s The Child's Bath, 1893 “with its striking and unorthodox composition, is one of Cassatt’s masterworks” (“The Child's Bath”). Within this composition, she employed the use of unconventional devices such as cropped forms, bold patterns and outlines, and a flattened perspective (“The Child's Bath”). Cassatt utilizes a pastel-like color scheme, exemplifying the delicateness and tenderness between the mother and her bathing child. Her brush strokes are swift and gentle, again, suggesting the passionate, yet soft, love the mother has for her child. The elevated vantage point invites the viewer to observe this intimate moment, but not to
In conclusion, the Buddha effectively dissects the theory of the self and proves that the self does not exist. In paragraphs 22 to 29 reemphasizes that everything is impermanent. He also reiterates that suffering can be found in every aspect of life. Furthermore, the Buddha introduces the theory of becoming enlightened. By properly dispelling the nonexistent self he leads his Bhikkhus and the reader towards the pathway of the well-taught noble disciple.
Rembrandt’s striking light-sized painting of Danae, a character in Greek mythology, allures the viewer and attests to Rembrandt’s profound ability to paint human life. The life-sized nude figure reclines on a bed, her features illuminated by a soft, warm light. Her body appears so lifelike, that the viewer senses the softness of her skin and warmth of the light. In addition to brightening Danae’s skin, the light creates golden highlights on the cupid statue above her head, the sheets draped around her body, and the curtain. Danae’s expectant, inviting expression and the unidentified old woman in the background arouse the curiosity of the viewer. In Rembrandt’s 1636 Danae, he uses the Greek myth about Danae to create one of the most lifelike depictions of the female nude. In so doing, Rembrandt achieves his aspirations of competing with other renowned figure painters, capturing the natural qualities of human nature, and captivating the viewer by alluring his senses through the image’s eroticism.
Hector, I agree that Venus of Urbino is a beautiful High Renessaince art painting. I think Titian's commitment to rendering the woman body accurately, yet elegantly is a sure sign of High Renessaince art in Italy. All great artists of this era were devoted to intelligently constructing their works of art, characteristics like detailed proportion and perspective can be seen throughout High Renessaince art. We see this in Venus of Urbino as much as we see it in pieces like the Mona Lisa. Both Venus and Mona Lisa were created by their respective artists with precise and accurate proportioning of the human body– no arm, leg or curve seems out of place or unnatural.
Through the depiction of the idealised female figure, the changing idea of beauty is highlighted. With females illustrated with "stomachs like pears and breasts like apples" (The Body in Western Art Booklet) in the 15th C; robust and fleshy by Rubens and trimmer figures by Boucher and Fragonard in the Rococo age in the 17th C; and naturalistic female figures depicted in everyday setting by Realist artists like Courbet and Degas who challenged the traditional idealised female figure in the 19th C. Through this changing attitude towards sexuality and sexual politics, the nude is one of the most highly charged of all the genres. In the artwork, 'The Toilet of Venus' by Velazquez which has been classically idealised, the female figure is pale and
The dependent arising is a deep complex state of being. Stemming from the realization of a deep truth, one is said to have achieved self enlightenment when they have understood the equation between self wants and suffering. The Dependent arising is set on 2 conditionalities. The abstract we are comparing, which in this case is self, and the application of that abstract to the problem of suffering. We will first go through a brief overview of the fundamental law, then look at the factors of dependent arising and why buddhists would want to affirm it and finish with looking at the theory in practice
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.
This pure openness in which and by which everything can emerge is the absolute understanding by which and in which there may be an otherness. That is why desire it is not that which is experienced; on the contrary, to experience is to desire, that is, to lack, and the empirically experienced desire is the reflection of the shape at the content level. In this sense, the subject does not come up as a subject of an experience but rather exists according to the nature of the scarcity. That is why he is able to understand and experience. The scarcity of a self is the only sense of being that is functional to that pure understanding that it is sometimes called "subjectivity". The absence of self and the acceptance of the other mutually call for each other and, in the end, are two sides of a same way of being. There is no appearance other than that which takes place against a background of a scarcity, which is always a scarcity of self, that is to say, Desire. - What has been said so far regarding the sense of the subject as Desire means, as we have suggested, that the subject comes up in desire. That is to say, he is constituted in himself by this desire. That means that the subject of the correlation can be only thought of through the correlation
First off reading has many health benefits. Not only does reading help with the development of the brain in children but reading can also be very therapeutic. "It's not only what we read – but thinking rigorously about it that's of value, and that literary study provides a truly valuable exercise of people's brains" (Phillips). Researchers at Stanford did a research on people who read. They put people in an MRI machine and had them read a book while they were in the machine. The researchers found that reading increased blood flow to certain parts of the brain. Additionally researchers found that certain parts of the brain were being used that aren’t usually used in everyday life.
Reading has always been an important part of education and for some people, their daily routine. Because our world constantly advances technologically, the way people read has also changed; twenty years ago, the only source of reading was by reading a physical book, today, we can read from physical books as well as online and from our cellular devices. Although it is debated that reading from a device and reading from a physical book affects the educational benefits offered, statistics show that reading, all together, not only relaxes the mind, but also improves cognitive abilities and betters us as people in society. Annie Murphy Paul’s “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer,” provides information that supports the effects of reading