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
Writing is an art form. The artist needs to break the set rules of their medium to make the best art and to better themselves and the community. this is exactly what Jane Gallop did in her controversial article “The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters”. In her article, Gallop writes about the importance of close reading -- the act of reading a piece without bias -- all the while deceiving and exploiting their prejudices. Gallop has definitely delved into unorthodoxy while writing this paper by dropping
novel about innocence and human error, struggle through a portrait of the artist as rabble- rouser”. He responded to the narrator’s questions of the struggle for equality and justice, Ellison stated that he is not concerned with injustice, but with art. Ellison published short stories and nonfiction stories, but he was mostly known for invisible man, he won the national book award and Russwurm award. He became the twentieth century most important African American authors. Ralph Waldo Ellison was
only masculine standards. Limited were the women of this era; leaving female artists unaccounted for, the work produced by women constrained due to restrictions regarding subject matter and views, and lifestyle so drastically differing socially, individually, and economically between men and women. Pollock begins with the discussion of the concept of spaces, then moving forward to modernity and the public position or lack thereof, of women using an essay written by Charles Baudelaire. Griselda Pollock
Roman, Early Christian and Islamic Mysticism Art is developed and portrayed in various form, it enables people to see the different cultures within the world and answer questions to things we might not have particularly understood. In Art, whether it may be Roman, Early Christian or Islamic Art forces the audience to think and explore the story behind it. All three arts provide similarities and differences which will be debated throughout this essay but one certainty is that they all provide their
The elephant in the Art room The mother the other Addressing the elephant in the Art room Linda Nochlin posed the question in her 1971 article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Arguing it was necessary to question “the unstated domination of white male subjectivity” that shaped the art historical canon; the article explored the reasons for the severe asymmetry of female to male artists throughout the course of art history. When examining western art as viewed through the canon one must
and perspectives from different women, tries to make an emphasis on the harsh circumstances and situation that women lived in the 1800’s in the United Kingdom. Thus, Woolf analyzes deeply the English society. Undobtedly, the essay (story) that she is requested to write by certain group is a ‘door’ for Virginia Woolf be able to explain and express her perspective about the way women’s rights and abilities were oppressed by a society ruled by men. As a result, arts such as literature
thought provoking perspective and a brusque tone to make her point clear and connect with the reader. Gay’s initial description of a “Professional Feminist” versus a “Bad Feminist” helps broaden the idea that feminism is only for certain types of women. She’s willing calls herself a “bad feminist” because she does not identify with all the feminist idealism. It’s really comforting to see that written out in a book when the reader has some of the same feeling.
The third and final artist I wish to discuss in the essay is British artist Jenny Saville (b.1970) who paints figurative paintings most frequently of female bodies. Some of these figures are based on her own body and others are of distorted and fragmented people and limbs. “The flesh of the subjects is scarred with feminist inscriptions and seems to reveal a degree of self hatred.”(Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith 1999) She includes “unfinished” spaces in her paintings that are abstract, vertical
for exploitation into the modern era. (Spooner, 2006) It is profoundly concerned with the past, it has a history. The aim of this extended essay is to focus on the seduction of the Gothic