“The Elder Sister” by William Bouguereau shows the relationship between an uncaring, but trying to save face to pretend like she cares, elder sister and a sleepy younger brother. This can be a relatable relationship between many younger and older siblings. It shows how on the outside, in public thee elder sister pretends like she is having fun being the elder sister. In reality, on the inside, in private the elder sister doesn’t really want to be the older sister that has to take care of her younger baby, feed the younger brother, take all the blame, and have all the burdens of being the older sibling. The way her composure is, the look in her eyes, and emotionless smile all convey these feelings and emotion of the girl. In the painting of “The Elder Sister” there is a girl, the elder sister, sitting on a rock, holding a baby, the younger brother, on her lap. The background of the painting shows a harmonious, peaceful rural landscape setting. The girl’s eyes, which are looking straight at the audience, depicts confidence. The way the girl’s eyes look, demonstrates that she is tired of being an elder sister. The composure of the way the elder sister is sitting looks slouched, conveys to the audience …show more content…
He tries to convey to his audience the relationship of a loving older sister and a sleepy younger brother. Bouguereau catches your attention by evoking the realism of the emotional and caring relationship of two younger and older siblings. He uses colors of green to show full growth of grass and trees, uses white and a blueish type color to show it as day time. Both siblings are fully clothed, but have no shoes on while outside, which may represent them as the poor. The facial expression of the elder sister looks sarcastic, but peaceful. The older sister smile seems to be sarcastic but the same time want to keep the peace, therefore she puts up a sarcastic
This struggle is something that concerns her throughout the article. Estroff states that “The moment of truth for adult sibling relationship is the aging of parents and decisions about end-of-life parental care.” Both authors feel that the hardest times siblings will have to deal with life issues, is when their parents come to the place they cannot care for themselves. During that time is the moment of truth for siblings, if they can handle the pressure together and work together through the hard choices, or if this could cause them to fall apart. These situations force siblings to either deal with their differences for the sake of the parent, or their differences are so monumental that the burden of the parent falls on one of them or the parent is left to fend for herself, which could end the parent up in a nursing
I chose to analyze the The Family, 1941 portray and The Family, 1975 portray, both from Romare Bearden, for this essay because they are very similar paintings but at the same time very different. To write a critical analyzes it was necessary to choose two different paintings that had similar characteristics. The text about critical comparison said that to compare things they have to be similar, yet different, and that’s what these paintings look to me. As I had already written an analysis of The Family, 1941 portray I chose to analyze and compare The Family, 1975 this time. Both works have a lot of color in it and through the people’s faces in the pictures we can feel the different emotions that the paintings are conveying.
...en-year-old girl”. She has now changed mentally into “someone much older”. The loss of her beloved brother means “nothing [will] ever be the same again, for her, for her family, for her brother”. She is losing her “happy” character, and now has a “viole[nt]” personality, that “[is] new to her”. A child losing its family causes a loss of innocence.
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
The Interpretation/Meaning (III) will be written without any guideline points, the aim of this part will be to determine what the painter wanted to express with his piece of work and what it tells us in a symbolic or not instantly clear way. This part will also handle why the artist drew the painting the way he did it and why he chose various techniques or tools.
Since Sister was affected the most by certain actions of the family, Welty narrated this short story through Sister’s point of view to show how the function of the family declined through these actions. Sister was greatly affected when her sister broke the bonds of sisterhood by stealing her boyfriend and marrying him. Secondly, Sister was affected by the favoritism shown by her family towards her younger sister. Since her sister was favored more than her, this caused her to be jealous of her sister. For example, Sister shows a lot of jealousy by the tone she uses when describing what Stella-Rondo did with the bracelet that their grandfather gave her. Sister’s description was, “She’d always had anything in the world she wanted and then she’d throw it away. Papa-Daddy gave her this gorgeous Add-a-Pearl necklace when sh...
In eighteenth century novels, a common means of discussing the role of women in society is through the characterization of two good sisters. The heroine of such a novel is a pure, kind young woman who also has a streak of spunkiness. Her sister may be more good and kind, but she is more submissive and reserved. I would like to look at these sisters (and their mothers) in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance , and The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
...ion on her face as she gazes at her newborn son. She holds her stomach in agony (I assume this is because child birth is a painful and exhausting experience). The father gazes at his son lovingly as he coddles and embraces him. I empathize with this couple because I have experienced this moment with my parents. My dad once held me just as the father depicted in the painting; and my mother lay there exhausted, yet regarding of me, just as the mother in the painting.
The painting was so popular, that he made its numerous versions with sightliest differences. The version presented in Metropolitan Museum, descended through the famil...
The painting is organized simply. The background of the painting is painted in an Impressionist style. The blurring of edges, however, starkly contrasts with the sharp and hard contours of the figure in the foreground. The female figure is very sharp and clear compared to the background. The background paint is thick compared to the thin lines used to paint the figures in the foreground. The thick paint adds to the reduction of detail for the background. The colors used to paint the foreground figures are vibrant, as opposed to the whitened colors of the Impressionist background. The painting is mostly comprised of cool colors but there is a range of dark and light colors. The light colors are predominantly in the background and the darker colors are in the foreground. The vivid color of the robe contrasts with the muted colors of the background, resulting in an emphasis of the robe color. This emphasis leads the viewer's gaze to the focal part of the painting: the figures in the foreground. The female and baby in the foreground take up most of the canvas. The background was not painted as the artist saw it, but rather the impression t...
Jealousy between siblings materializes because one of them feels overshadowed by the other. For girls, this results in a lack of confidence. If a girl loses to her sister, younger or older, insecurity builds underneath often causing hostility between them. In Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Sister’s resentfulness towards her sister hinders her ability to become independent.
In conclusion, co-dependency and rivalry is very common in the world today. Though it is not a big issue out in the open, it is an emotional attachment that only one can define. In this short story the two main aspects of having siblings is the theme which revolves around codependency and rivalry. Having siblings is a part of everyday life and problems do occur which sometimes makes a person, or changes a person in ways. In this situation, Pete and Donald are completely different people but they are in fact very dependent upon one another.
The bond between the Bennett sisters portrays the simplest form of relationships; each sister relies on her sisters to guide her through her conflicts. According to May, “The primary sibling relationship occurs in a social environment involving networks of human interaction in which pairs of siblings of varying significance typically frame the main action of the plot, providing a background of fraternal and sororal 'white noise' against which the main discourse is set forth” (336). The sisters posses different personalities; their personalities foreshadow the success of their future relationships. Jane, the oldest Bennett, presents herself as polite and shy, wh...
Despite the crowded composition, the central figure demands all of the viewers attention The young woman is being escorted by an older gentleman, whose face we cannot see, but whose white hair gives away his age. Her face is turned to the left and back, casting a shadow as if she is looking at something. What catches her gaze, we don’t know, nor does it really matter. Her side glace and slight smile invites the viewer to take in the spectacle.
The role taken on by the youngest child after a death in the family becomes quickly defined when there are no other male figures to become the head of the household. Marta’s father passed away during her adolescent years and she took it upon herself to take care of everyone, in particular her mother. She was the youngest daughter of four. With no brothers or other male figures in their home, she was raised in a matriarchal household.