While visiting the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the works of Archibald Motley caught my attention. Two paintings by the same artist are the focus of this compare and contrast paper. Both are oil paintings during the same time period. Portrait of my Grandmother was painted in 1922 and Hot Rhythm was painted in 1934 only 12 years later. Although the paintings are by the same artist and have similarities, there are also differences which make the artist’s work interesting. Portrait of
Colour is a non-verbal visual communication in our lives. Kalmus (2006) assists that colour uses a most important part in our lives. He says unlikely listening to music for a short time; we look at colour every moment of our lives continuously. I can say it is the first impression that people view something at first time. It implants something in people’s mind and thought from the eye and it gives ideas to people how they should react that they have seen. It does not say anything but it says something
In comparing Jonathon Green’s Bessie Mae and John Biggers’ mural, Origins, both paintings are from the same era and represent the African American culture. Jonathon Green’s Bessie Mae was create in 1995 and resides at Winston Salem State University. Origins is a project driven mural requested by Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Inc after a visit to John Biggers’ studio in Houston during 1989 ("Delta Arts Center | The Biggers Mural Project by John Biggers", 2014). Although the emphasis of both paintings
From the flapper era to having disco fever, dance has evolved and changed tremendously throughout the years. As an art, dance has so much music, culture, and history behind it. Dances from the 1920s were often talked about as wild and carefree, from the shimmy to the Charleston, to Gatsby parties. Most of the styles of dance from the 1920s were performed in clubs. In the clubs, they did dance contests called marathons, which is when you dance until you can't dance anymore. There were records beaten
CHAPTER III COLOR DESCRIPTION AND EXTRACTION 3.1 INTRODUCTION Image retrieval is the process of handling large volume of image database in order to achieve the efficiency in identifying similar images over the retrieved results. In Image retrieval, a choice of various techniques is used to represent images for searching, indexing and retrieval with either supervised or unsupervised learning models. The color feature extraction process consists of two parts: grid based representative of color selection
In todays society people are assaulted by ads every day. The ads are everywhere, in your house, in your car, on the streets. Slogans, catchy songs, videos and images are flashed across TV screens, websites, billboards, phones and radios around the world. These ads are produced by a handful of big name companies. The ads not only try to sell you tangible products but also ideas of what things and people should be or act. Over the years these ads have grown more controversial and suggestive. The teen
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli depicts a moment from Venus birth when she stepping, almost floating, off the seashell that was blown ashore by Zephyors along with Chloris. Horae awaits Venus arrival to shore with a large red cloak to cover her naked body .Venus is the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty, fertility, and prostitution. Venus is the Roman Aphrodite. Born of seafoam from a singled drop of blood in to the sea from the castration of her farther Uranus by his son Saturn. Botticelli
Hitler’s Propaganda: Indoctrinating the Youth Germany in the 1930s was rich in hope and nationalism. Hitler and the Nazi party gained the support of Germans; quickly becoming a dominating far-right political party. Claiming the title of “De Führer” or The Father, Hitler acknowledged the necessity of indoctrinating the young minds of Germany using propaganda. Propaganda was a tool utilized by the Nazi party to promote a particular political cause or point of view with a biased or misleading nature
one thing that can destroy Big Brother. "Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces," (Part 2, Chapter 2). Love added warmth, meaning, and colorfulness to Winston’s life, which is what caused him to try to go against the government later in the
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is widely recognized by New Critics as one of the greatest novels of its age for its aesthetic artistry. In the Portrait, a powerful autobiographical novel of bildungsroman, commonly known as a coming-of-age story, that follows the life of Irish protagonist Stephen Dedalus, Joyce portraits his momentous transition to adulthood as a passage of psychological struggle towards his ultimate philosophical awakening and his spiritual rebirth as an
However, the divsersity of the patient body is clear, and the accentuation is I believe necessary for the public to understand the message of , One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Indeed, the colorfulness of the characters in the movie is also a way to charm the public, and focus on the psychological aspect of mental disorders. Forman's work has been criticized for its treatment of race and gender, with the image of Nurse Ratched as castrator for
Beauty and the Beast, music by Alan Menken and Book by Linda Woolverton, is a tony-nominated Disney stage classic based off of the Oscar Nominated and world-renowned Disney movie. Produced in many forms and facets over it’s 12 years of existence, this musical has evolved to be able to take on multiple shapes depending on the company producing. All of it aided by an evergreen script and score, but the details and designs brought to the table by each individual company change the show drastically.
Have you ever wanted to know what fashion was like thirty years before? Have you ever wanted to go back in time looking at what people wore in their daily live? To find this out, you can research fashion icons, celebrities, and books. 1980s fashion changed fashion and shaped our modern fashion looks today. Children Clothing in the 1980s changed children’s fashion forever. For example, In the book, Society’s Child, Rubenstein talks about two main categories in children’s clothing in the 1980s which
McLaughlin 1 Antonio McLaughlin Ms.Dalesio English LA 12200 13 January 2017 The Survival and Extinction of Spinosaurus The Spinosaurus was one of the biggest carnivores living during the Cretaceous Period. In fact the Spinosaurus was bigger than even the Giganotosaurus ,which in turn was bigger than the Tyrannosaurus. The Spinosaurus was around fifty two to fifty nine feet long and weighed seven to nine tons(Castro,Live Science). The name Spinosaurus means spiny lizard and was given this name due
by showing the division of society. The Buchanan’s live on one side, East Egg, and Jay Gatsby lives on the other side, West Egg. The West Egg is saturated with no rules or restrictions from past generations. It is a place that is filled with colorfulness yet everything clashes with each other. It has a sense of rawness to it and it is very much unstructured. The West Egg represents the fast moving-chaotic twenties. Gatsby is a part of West Egg society. West Eggers are the newly rich; the people
Early History of the Pipe Organ The “king of instruments” has a long history, one which can arguably be traced to the concept of a collection of “fixed-pitched pipes blown by a single player (such as the panpipes)” (Randel 583). The first examples of pipe organs with the basic features of today can be traced to the third century B.C.E. in the Greco-Roman arena; it is said to have been invented by Ktesibios of Alexander and contained “a mechanism to supply air under pressure, a wind-chest to store
Knowledge and power are considered two of the most important assets of a society. In the context of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place knowledge could be defined as a set of proficiencies or expertise attained through experience and education and power as a control of one’s own circumstances. While knowledge and power are individually definable, they do not exist in isolation. Knowledge and power are mutually constitutive to one another. In her aggressive and expository essay, Kincaid successfully
Pompeii Pompeii is possibly the best-documented catastrophe in Antiquity. Because of it, we know now how the Pompeians lived because they left behind an extensive legacy of art, including monuments, sculptures and paintings. Pompeii lay on a plateau of ancient lava near the Bay of Naples in western Italy in a region called Campania, less than 1.6 kilometers from the foot of Mount Vesuvius. With the coast to the west and the Apennine Mountains to the East, Campania is a fertile plain, traversed by
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo is a novel about writing itself ? not only in the figurative sense of the postmodern, elf-reflexive text but also in a literal sense? [It] is both a book about texts and a book of texts, a composite narrative of subtexts, pretexts, posttexts, and narratives within narratives. It is both a definition of afro American culture and its deflation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of The Signifying Monkey Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed?s third novel and by
Nike+Ipod Product: The innovation between music and athletic The world nowadays, there are lots of new events about health care issue and people are now focusing more about their own health. People started to exercise more in order to keep them healthy. It is to be ready to face with anything in their life every day. While in the other side of the thought, technology is growing very fast. It makes people somehow stick with the technology. The technology itself pulls the people’s attention to it