These two essays mainly talk about the understanding of the painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet. Also, both of them develop a deep understanding of a social term, which is called modernity, by viewing the painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. However, the authors of two readings have the totally different understandings of painting, besides, those different understandings also focus on women’s status in late nineteenth century. Griselda Pollock declaims that this painting represented
Mikey Espinosa is an artist who made her dream come to life. One of her pictures is an abstract portrait drawing that originated from a dream that she conjured up. It shows a young woman staring at herself in a mirror, her body animatronic, with an electrical face exposed. This is a successful piece of art because it gets people to let their minds wander and think about what the possible meanings are behind the art. An effective piece of art also catches and keeps audience’s attention, which this
In Michel Foucault’s essay, Panopticism, power relations between different ranks are analyzed and explored. Foucault begins by exploring the instances of power relations of a plague village; when illness has taken over a community, a hierarchy of power is put in place. At the bottom of this system are the ill and those who are quarantined inside their houses, followed by the syndics who report to the intendants who report to the magistrates (Foucault 182). As a result of this reporting system, the
American Literature. Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Harlem Renaissance is the name given to the time from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s depression. It was known then as the “New Negro Movement”, named after an anthology, titled The New Negro, of important African Americans works, published by philosopher Alain Locke in 1925. The renaissance involved
expression that both entertains and has the ability to create change in our society. This causes the government to fear music and put regulations upon it, which is not right. Censorship in music ultimately compromises the First Amendment, restricts artists creativity and compromises the meaning of the
Art essay Faces around the world in art. Exploring the face of the world through textured and realistic techniques My year works are around the theme: Faces of the World: seeing different cultures: showing how different people really are: how people grow through certain experiences and how it gets portrayed through various mediums. Faces show how people are, how they are doing. It shows what they feeling and what they are going through at that point in time. It shows their emotions, how they feel
perceived plagiarism which I found interesting and relatable. Plagiarism is the copying/ taking credit for other people’s work without giving credit to those who fully deserve it. Some people perceive plagiarism in different ways. Plagiarism can be as trivial as sampling a song for a chorus without permission from the artist. When plagiarism is involved in music it can involve numerous amounts of lawsuits because not only does the record label have to give permission but the artist who sang\ played the
that kindled the new cultural identity and brought about many things like jazz, blues, dance, poetry, and musical theater. In the decades following World War I, a myriad of African Americans migrated to the industrial North from the economically depressed South, which is known as “The Great Migration”(Essay par.1). The recently migrated artists, writers, actors, and musicians sought economic opportunities
The following essay looks into the hidden truth behind superhero’s and the masks they hide behind. The topic about superhero’s and why they hide behind their masks and costumes. From what I have seen in most movies most superhero’s hide behind masks mostly to protect their identities and protect their families and friends. Moreover these superhero’s mostly have super powers that make the different from everyone else. They most definitely all the time face evil and enemies that threaten the human
The first time I even looked at “Is It Possible to be a Conscientious Meat Eater” by Sanaura Taylor and Alexander Taylor I could tell something wasn’t right. Sanaura is an artist, writer and activist from Oakland, California and Alexander studies philosophy and ethics in Athens, Georgia. The article is about how people treat animals, or chickens in particular, harmfully and people eat way too much meat than they should. Although Sanaura and Alexander did makes some good points for their article