Picture frame Essays

  • Personal Narrative-Picture In The Frame

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    Picture in the Frame “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes Photos are thought to be the best way to relay an image of something. Be it the dark cherry red Chevy pickup resting in the driveway after one of those famous southern thunderstorms sweeping by, the swell of the Colorado river in April after the snow has melted to run off, or even a simple picture collecting dust on a shelf or desk that is seldom moved, but always gazed upon lovingly. Photographs

  • Criticism Of Diego Velàzquez's Las Meninas, Sebastiàn de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf

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    Diego Velàzquez was called the “noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country.” He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. “His men and women seem to breathe,” it has been said; “his horses are full of action and his dogs of life.” Because of Velàzquez’ great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was

  • Family Allegiance in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

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    Family Allegiance in Edit Wharton's The Age of Innocence It is a cliché to say that a picture is worth a thousand words. But I will state it anyway: a picture can truly be worth a thousand words. Therefore, any frame that contains the picture and alters the interpretation or viewing of the picture also affects these thousand words. This analogy pertains to the wide world of literature, in which certain frames can affect our perceptions of women and gender-related roles within families, marriages

  • V For Vendetta

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    form and build the conflicts. -Without pictures V would not have been as good of a novel. The complexity that the graphic novel form allows is what made V for Vendetta such an intense read. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and in this case I believe that's true. In a regular written novel form V would probably be at least 2 times as long because each image is so informative and crucial when portraying key elements in the plot. -I copied specific frames from the novel as examples of how the

  • Van Gogh's Painting Bedroom at Arles

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    this painting, I thought to myself, "It's boring. It's boring to look at. Why paint a picture of an empty bedroom?" However, once I started looking at all the elements, my mind changed. Van Gogh's use of line really gives depth and character to the piece. The first line that caught my eye was the line outlining the bottom of the bed. The strong stroke really gives you a sense of distance between the bottom of the frame and the floor. Had it been a thin line like those to depict the floorboards, it would

  • Sir Rich Arkwright and the Water Frame Invention

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    Sir Rich Arkwright and the Water Frame Invention Sir Rich Arkwright was born on December 23, 1732 at Preston in the county of Lancaster. His first profession was a barber in Bolron-le-moors in 1760. Soon afterward he traveled throught the country buying human hair. At that time he had a valuable chemical secret for dying the hair to make wigs out of. Arkwright's hair was commented to be the finest hair in the country. In 1761, Richard Arkwright married Margaret Biggins, and this marriage

  • Like Mother Like Son

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    not your normal manly figure and that he is actually a momma’s boy. Norman’s response causes him to appear shy and ... ... middle of paper ... ...cular objects help the viewer feel at ease and safe when Marion is in the frame opposed to the angular monstrosity of Norman’s frame. On the other hand, the pheasant that is placed behind him on the drawer represent Norman’s timid and shy personality. These birds are very cautious of their surrounding and easily frighten when startled likewise, to how

  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Narratives of Seduction

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    following essay is concerned with the frame structure in Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein and its’ functions as it is suggested by Beth Newman`s "Narratives of seduction and the seduction of narratives".  To start with, the novel Frankenstein is a symmetrically built frame narrative with a story at its center. This is not always the case with frame structured novels, as there are examples without a proper center (e.g. Heart of Darkness). The elaborate system of frames indicates that this center reveals some

  • Romeo and Juliet: Comparing Original Screenplay and Film (Movie)

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    be discussing plot changes to adapt to the movie's visual capabilities, changes to the time-frame of the script, and plot changes to different relationships between characters.  I hope you will find this essay informative. First, I will discuss with you the plot changes to adapt to the movie's visual capabilities.  If we were just to read this book, the only visual pictures we would see would be in our minds; but since we went to see the movie, the director had to adapt

  • Sunset Blvd.

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    very first frame, which also becomes the establishing shot, we come to a high angle shot that is zoomed in close on the words “Sunset Blvd” painted on a street curb as the image is also flooded with dramatic nondiegetic music. This becomes very important because the curb is also the gutter. Here, not even ten seconds into the movie, do we get our first glimpse of what the film is about; the mise-en-scene here involving a symbolic visual correlation to the central theme an this gutter frame is depicted

  • Transnational Networks of Support for the Zapatista Rebellion

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    social movements with the Zapatistas as a case study. In particular, this paper argues that the Zapatistas are part of the anti-globalization cycle of protest. As a result, they have used the master frame of this cycle of protest and aligned that frame in light of their particular situation. Because this frame was resonant with transnational activists a network of support was formed, which pressures the government from above, increasing the chances of success of a movement. The paper concludes by examining

  • Comparing ChinaTown and the Big Sleep

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    sinister villain Noah Cross. The last shot of the film leaves the audience with no hope for the future. Gettis is back in ChinaTown, the place he has an obvious contempt for, the city that took his ex wife's life. As the camera cranes upward opening the frame, and the crowd of Chinese people surrounds the scene, Gettis is escorted away, moving to the background. We are left with the impression of watching the retreat of someone who has just been bested and is going home alone in defeat with nothing but

  • The Complex Alceste of Moliere's Misanthrope

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    as V.viii, ll. 21-2. {7} Cf. John Dover Wilson, "Introduction," in William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1936), p. xlviii. {8} II.v, ll. 711-30 (ll. 153-72 in Wilbur). {9} I.i, line 118 (so also Wilbur). {10} Frame, "Introduction to The Misanthrope," op. cit., p. 21. {11} Richard Wilbur, "Introduction to The Misanthrope," in Brown & Kimmey, p. 360. {12} Ibid., p. 361. {13} V.iv, line 1782 (V.viii, line 50 in Wilbur). {14} I do not include Arsinoé

  • Animation in the 1920s

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    used to be the base for the Felix the Cat figurine and propped him up for the shoot; studio lights, which helped transmit the picture and they also needed to be constant; an actor was needed and had to be impervious to heat, cheap, and also constant. In turn, the use of a Felix figurine was perfect for the job not only because of these reasons, but also because the picture was black and white, and Felix was a black and white cat. A scanning disk was also needed since it was the part of the equipment

  • The Use of Fragmentation in Slaughterhouse-Five

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    implies that Billy has now become free. Consequently, Vonnegut's narrative, as well as Billy, has achieved a freedom of sorts. Vonnegut will not be tied down by the conventions of time; now he will be able to place Billy in any time frame he chooses. Vonnegut moves Billy rapidly,having him experience a mere fragment of his life before whisking him off again. This creates a collage effect in the novel, which is made up of bits and pieces of Billy's life. By fragmenting

  • Essay on Fate and Chance in The Mayor of Casterbridge

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    position he ultimately adopts. The poem "I Look Into My Glass" is similar to "Going and Staying" in many ways. Both poems deal with the effects of time. "I Look Into My Glass" is narrated by a person (I picture a man, although it could really be either) who is very old and looking at his wasted frame in a mirror. The narrator is grieving, not because he is old, but because his heart is still strong and full of feelings. He wishes that his heart had withered like his skin so that he wouln't have to

  • Importance of Art in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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    There is no better example of this process than Jane's own artistic abilities as they progress through life. To best examine and explore the progress of Jane's emotional and temperamental development, it is important to construct a frame of reference, to have a base from which to work towards her final character. Her childhood home, Gateshead provides the groundwork of her emotional/character being, which at the beginning of the story is an isolated creature, devoid of

  • The Contribution of Set and Lighting to The Smallest Person by Timothy Knapman

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    regards to the contribution of set and lighting. The stage featured a proscenium stage and the set was designed by Tim Meacock and resembles this diagram, [IMAGE] The set featured a neutral contemporary theme to it, using light wood for the frame and white boards, almost modern Perspex sheets with cloth sandwiched between them [IMAGE] The set had a very contemporary style; this was because of the use of light wood and white boards that the set was made of, hardly traditional materials

  • Art Analysis: Safely Contained

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    series, the background being replaced with a shade of red. We see that the subject either appears to be standing or sitting, resting both of his arms on something that is not contained within the shot, it almost appears that he is leaning on the frame. This cropping of the subject works very well to avoid as

  • Physics of Dipnetting

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    the direction the salmon want to go which makes their trip a lot easier.� And bad news (from the salmons point of view of course), it makes the salmon easier to catch because the water is flowing the ideal direction for dip netters as shown in the pictures below. ���� Notice that the back eddie makes it really easy for the dip netter.� If there was no back eddie the current would push the net the other direction, which makes dip netting a lot harder. The Physics The physics of dip netting