Distinctively visual images evoke profound ideas and notions about society, culture and values which enables responders to perceive reality in a new light, challenging or reinforcing their own ideas and attitudes. Through the use of distinctively visual images, composers are able to add depths and complexity to the characters within their respective texts in a way that shapes and deepen their responder’s perceptions of these characters. In the postmodern novel “Maestro” by Peter Goldsworthy, distinctively visual images is used to convey Edward Keller’s traumatic and shady past, allowing the audience to perceive his distressing past experiences with greater depth and clarity. Additionally, Goldsworthy uses distinctively visual images to illustrate Keller’s isolation and displacement in Darwin while also highlighting the complex and nebulous relationship between him and his student, Paul. Similarly, I have used distinctively visual images to represent how Goldsworthy’s characterization of Keller has shaped perceptions of him, allowing the audience to see both his past as a musician in Vienna and his life as an exile attempting to escape his traumatic past.…
An artist can create art work through a creative process. An element of this process is critical thinking. Artists’ creativity process begins with seeing. It then goes from seeing to imagining and from imagining to making (Sayre, 2009). This essay will provide an explanation of artists’ roles. The essay will also include two chosen works of art, one of which embodies the role of the artist and the other holds symbolic significance requiring the application of iconography.…
Tim Hawkinson conveys the passage of recorded time. This art piece shows how history repeats itself and overlaps. Despite changing times, we still face war, natural disasters, famines. Some things never change.…
Whereas, the black-clad girl opening the shop’s door onto a lively Paris street is the focal point of the work. In the interior, a hushed serenity, and stillness is achieved through the muted value of light and the gentle shadows on the shop girl’s face. Consequently, Tissot’s traces on the young lady with soft, suave lines define curvatures of each muscle in long, unbroken brushstrokes to convey stability and fluidity, decipherable of the Parisian streets outside. Although wearing an unilluminating perplexed black dress, we are able to pinpoint where the waistline of the young lady adjoins her thighs and knees through her corset, as we are able to supplement Tissot’s sensual rendering of the woman…
In this painting, the movement has a significant impact on how the viewer will see it. John has tended to control the direction of how he wanted the viewer to look at…
Banks, P. (2010). Represent: Art and identity among the black upper-middle class. New York, NY: Routledge. Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class Blacks searched for Black visual art they could identify for themselves.…
The author suggest that we ask ourselves: “What is the purpose of this work of art (and what is the purpose of art in general)? What does it mean? What is my reaction to the work and why do I feel this way? How do the formal qualities of the work-such as color, its organization, its size and scale-affect my reaction? What do I value in works of art?”…
Using descriptive language to pull the reader into the painting (2) "quality of the draughtsmanship, the brush strokes in thin oils, had a Renaissance beauty, but the fearful and compelling thing about the picture was its modernity"…
The notion of the distinctively visual can be seen as a process of connecting an image with an idea, the distinctive quality of the visual lies in its capacity to elicit a powerful response and plant it within the reader’s mind, in order to cultivate as the themes, characters and plot of the material begins to broaden. Distinctively visual texts have the power to provoke reactions from responders whether that would be reactions of pleasure or anger and most intentions of distinctive visuals is to provoke us to question embedded notions of normalcy or challenge us to think in new ways and to most importantly understand the image being evoked by composers as they rely on language or visual techniques to induce distinctive visuals in their readers…
a. Drawing is viewed as the key to the entire imaginative process, the medium of the painters very thought as well as of its concrete expression…
In this essay I will attempt to analyze the artwork named “Beguiling Lure “ by Isaac Talley , 2009. The medium of this artwork is acrylic and oil on canvas. The composition is simple with the main focus being a dangling object and a portrait of a single bird. The multi coloring of the background is bright and soft with dark and light hues. The artist was able to deliver the paint onto the canvas in different directions and angles which gives the appearance of overlapping colors,roughness and an uneven texture. There is a small horizontal space that has been left blank and untouched in the middle of the canvas that provides a dividing line separating the upper portion of the painting from the lower portion. Even though there is no similarities in the main two subjects in the painting the artist brings balance, proportion and unity to his work by using the same background colors and patterns from top to bottom.…
The author starts off describing this sudden urge and desire to view a painting he has seen so many times in reproduction – The Painting of the woman with necklace. The author spent 2 hours in the gallery observing minute details of this painting alone. He views it so close up that his nose was almost on the painting and the guard had to kind of waive him off and then he studied the painting from several different directions. He was paying attention to every minute detail such as clothing, colors, shades, folds, texture and elements of the painting ,and he was referring to some critics point of view and making a point to look at the painting with a fresh eye. The painting had him engrossed so much like no other painting ever before. The painting was like urging him and telling a total different story than critics’ views.…
The next thing I noticed was the rhythm and repetition for example, repetition was used by all of the passengers sitting down side by side are all reading the newspaper. The rhythm comes from the newspaper which also matches and follows the design on the ceiling of the train which has the same pattern of squares from back to front. This leads me to notice the lines drawn by the artist. There are several ninety degree angles all throughout the painting. These angles and the direction of the passengers’ shoes, create an implied line, which help the vanishing line effect. All the straight edges from the newspapers, ceiling tiles, people’s clothes and faces show order and elegance of the people riding the bus. Next I notice the use of complementary colors; most of the picture is done in yellows and dark violets and reds which are all on opposite sides of the color wheel. The shading on the passengers faces show character and emotion at the time of the painting. While the shading and chiaroscuro in the newspapers point out the angle where light is coming from and give the painting a third dimension appeal. The main source of light is coming from the top or the train and it makes it appear night…
In the poem “On The Subway”, written by Sharon Olds, two sides of two person that encounter with each other in a subway. It is almost clear as water that the poem talks about two different worlds, white and African American.…
The focus on surface meant that the meaning of the object was not seen as important to the object itself, but comes from the interaction between viewers with the object. This led to the emphasis on the physical space in which the artwork resided, such as Kelly’s “Sculpture for a large wall”. It’s a huge combination of aluminum panels, each of the panels oriented in a different way, so that color and form are made to interact with both the wall and the space of the viewer. The work captures the effect of sunlight on a river and the light and shade on buildings in cityscapes. While compare with the painting, the artists painted simple canvases that were considered minimal due to they used of only line, solid color, and geometric forms and shaped canvases. These artists combined painting materials in their own…