This painting is created by Albert Bierstadt. This painting is part of the American Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum located in New Brunswick. The piece of the artwork is call Buffalo Hunter. This oil painting is a representation of a native hunter trying to kill a bison with a traditional spear. This artwork is a form of fine art because it is an oil painting. The medium used to create this artwork was oil paint. The dull hue used for the background of the sky and grass field symbolize that hunting was not something that was done during bright sunny days but rather it was done during cloudy settings as well. The proportions of the artwork are quite amazing because the size of the horse and bison are quite similar. There are many visual meanings to this painting; one of the visual meanings is to represent that the bison beings killed by native hunters was the prime reason of the bison shortage that occurred during this time period.…
a) Describe the major influences that led to the rise to prominence of your chosen personality in her nation’s history.…
“I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don’t think this is possible all of the time.” -Annie Leibovitz…
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico. Her birth name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Y Caldrón. Frida is best known for her self-portraits. Frida's art work has been celebrated in Mexico as an emblem of native tradition, and also for feminists for its vivid detail of female life & form. Her work features Mexican tradition and is often described as folk art. Frida had an unpredictable marriage with another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. All her life she has suffered through health problems, which were mostly caused by a traffic accident she survived as a teenager.…
According to the article, Annie is the youngest of four travellers from North America and the only woman in the group. They camp at a small village called Providence in the Amazon jungle and witness a shocking occurrence involving a deer which had been captured by the village dogs. The deer had developed injuries on its thin neck as it struggles to free itself from the rope now tying three of its hooves. They later had a sumptuous meal of well-prepared fish and a previously caught deer with rice and some bananas as well. As they headed to their tents for a goodnight sleep, it becomes apparent that the men had been astonished by Annie’s ability to look at the struggling deer at Providence without the feeling of remorse. Annie remembers her bathroom picture, at home, of a man who had burnt his face off for the second time in his life. This is where Annie’s main theme is revealed; Pain and suffering has got little or nothing to do with an individual, human or just a deer; it’s simply nature (Dillard, 1945).…
Miscarriages, betrayal, sickness, and relationships all assist in forming the damaged, difficult life Frida Kahlo survived through her art. Upon encountering the harsh experiences she went through, Kahlo would use art as her escape and as a means to express her feelings. This research was conducted to reflect and discuss the in depth symbolism Frida Kahlo used in her paintings as a way of overcoming the experiences she endured in throughout her life. Over time, how effective was Frida Kahlo in displaying her life experiences and her emotions connected with them in her artwork through her use of symbolism?…
Another major symbol is the doe that Andy kills, which represents her innocence. When she shoots and kills the doe, Andy feels she has lost that innocence. Death made her realize that nothing is forever and we are constantly changing. The guilt Andy feels for killing the doe has a significant impact on her realization to becoming a women. She has a dream that night where the doe comes back to her and lets her touch the wound. “In pain, Andy tried to remove her hand, but the wound closed about it and held her fast. Her hand was burning” (479). This pain is the guilt Andy feels for killing the deer. The loss of innocence, death, and guilt she feels for killing the doe leads up to Andy’s realization of womanhood.…
I was not able to attend a live jazz performance due to my work schedule, so instead I watched a performance of my favorite jazz artist Nina Simone on Youtube. In this video she performed “Ain’t Got No, I Got Life” in London, 1968. I chose Nina Simone because I felt that whenever I watch her performances on Youtube I get the feeling that I’m actually there, watching her. I’ve never heard this song before watching this video.…
In “The Two Fridas,” she uses various actions and clear setting to help viewers the theme of painting easily. The background is filled with the agitated clouds on the stormy dark sky and it obviously reflects her inner pain. Frida who sits on the left side portrays rejected Frida by her husband Diego Rivera. On the right, it represents loved and respected Frida by him. The two Fridas hold hands each other as if loved Frida tries to join unloved Frida’s suffering. It also implies her only companion is herself since she was six years old. She was isolated from other people due to her health problems. In “The bandaged ear,” Van Gogh pierces the viewer’s feeling using the facial expression rather than actions. His pale and thin face like Jesus Christ in a late medieval painting and every brushstroke that he made on the canvas tells his pitiful presence at the time. In fact, it is not easy to catching the purpose of the Japanese painting on the wall behind Van Gogh. For late 18th century, European artists considered the traditional Japanese art as a utopian aestheticism. So, he uses the Japanese painting for representing his lost paradise.…
‘Plath’s poems seethe with anger, hope, desire and disappointment. Her poems reveal a perspective and a language use that are utterly unique’.…
Toni Morrison’s is a leading figure in American literature who won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She is good at giving different points of views or metaphors in order to show her purpose of writing and produce the tension of beauty. Black history plays a huge role in Morrison’s writing. In her lecture she tells a story happening between a blind woman and a few young men. The young men question her wisdom by asking if the bird in their hand was alive or dead. Her response to that was, “it is in your hands” meaning that the fate of the bird is in your hands. They could either let the bird live or die. The bird in this story indicates language. Morrison tries to imply that language is diminishing slowly as generation goes on and on. She believes that it is in our hands to revive it for what it truly is. The story involves the racial issues. Morrison shows her strong love for Hero language, but at the same time she showed her worry for its situation in the hands of todays society. Morrison feels like language can or will be killed by indifference and be employed to promote violence. In the continuing essay I will talk about Toni Morrison’s style and reason of writing what she writes and also what she means about “it is in your hands”, language that is.…
In the painting Frida is the focal point. She uses bright colours such as orange and yellow on her outfit to make herself stand out; she wears traditional Mexican clothing, a long dress with white material underneath and has her hair loose to show the combination of American and Mexican culture in her life. Frida is at a low advantage point she is looking down and there is distant land in the foreground this shows the isolation Frida feels in her life. The painting is full of earthy tones, browns, pinks, greens, whites which complement one another to further express this connection with nature, such as the orange of her dress and the blue of the sky. All of these methods, composition, costume, and colour create a striking effect and draw your eyes to important details of the painting.…
Dillard has a very unique writing style unlike any other in “The Deer at Providencia.” She has the ability to be structured and informational, yet at the same time personal and captivating. Her writing makes it seem as though she is speaking to you at the moment it is read. Her piece involves many in depth descriptions of the many aspects of nature surrounding her. She made sure to go into deep, gruesome detail when describing the trapped deer. An example of this is when Dillard stated, “its hip jerked; its spine shook. Its eyes rolled; its tongue, thick with spittle, pushed in and out” (64). This portrayal of the suffering creature gives the reader an almost too detailed image of the deer. Dillard also is somewhat repetitive, but uses this to enforce her main ideas. She is not explicit with her writing, making her readers search for the message. Along with this, Dillard uses the referencing to the real life event of Alan McDonald burning to emphasize her theme.…
A leader: a person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. This is the textbook definition of a leader although, is this the only way to define a leader? Can a leader be someone who, despite all odds against them, can come out on top, and inspire others to do to them same? Can a leader be someone who's life is filled with physical, as well as emotional pain, but see’s nothing but the best in everything she sees? Can a leader be someone who questions the status quo, and spits in the face of the social norm? Before researching this individual, I might have answer no to these questions. Although, through learning about the amazing and devastating journey Frida Kahlo faced through her life, I am forced to think otherwise.…
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” American fashion and glamour photographer Annie Leibovitz once said. Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut. The third of six children, she is a third-generation American whose grandparents were once Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. Her mother was a modern dance instructor and her father was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. The family moved frequently with her father’s duty assignments, she took her first pictures when she was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.…