...MADONNA: The reign of the queen of pop The music industry is full of one hit wonders and brief careers. Pop stars that remain at the top for decades are very few; and even fewer can claim to be one of the wealthiest women in the world, running a highly successful business: this is Madonna’s story of sustained competitive success. Described by Billboard magazine as the smartest businesswoman in show business, Madonna Louise Ciccone began her music career in 1983 with the hit single ‘Holiday’ and in late 2001 enjoyed critical acclaim for her latest ‘Music’. By 2001, Madonna had produced 51 single tracks, 14 albums, had undertaken four world tours and had major roles in five films. It is estimated that this twice married mother of two had a personal fortune over £135 million. She owns Chelsea Girl LLC, a limited liability company and had one third of the record company, Maverick. Maverick, formed in 1992, has been a successful partnership between Madonna and Warner Bros whose roster includes Prodigy and Alanis Morrisette. It has generated over £775 million in revenue since 1992. Madonna’s stake was estimated to be much more than £30 million in 2000. Madonna was also one of the first media icons to realize the power of the Internet and that she needed control of the madoona.com domain name, and she engaged in a court battle to secure it. But it was her record breaking web cast deal with Microsoft in late November 2000 that was widely reported as a shining example of her business...
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...With such an interesting work of art, One must consider various aspects and detailings of the piece, to truly see the various complexities and hidden details that preside within it. Such applies to Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist,1510 (Giuliano Bugiardini).Upon first sight of the piece, We can see various different things going on within the piece. Whether it may be the arrangement of color, the placement of the characters, the triangular arrangement of the interaction of the characters,etc.,so much is to be seen in this seemingly simple piece Depicting Madonna, Baby Jesus, and St.John. When we see these aspects of a work, the notion of influence usually follows. Taking in Both the influences of the Southern Renaissance, along with his own stylistic touches, Bugiardini effectively portrays the significance and a level of purpose, with this close up scene piece. When looking at the piece firsthand, we first begin to notice the structure by which this painting follows. We see this triangle of interaction taking place, in which Mary is looking and interacting with St.John, who in turn is kneeling before Baby Jesus with a grand expression on his face. The Baby Jesus is closing the webbed triangle by playfully pointing an outstretched finger in the direction of the Saint, serving as a form of subtle acknowledgement of his presence. This triangular dynamic of interaction proves to be very important to the piece as a whole. The triangle forms the “railroad tracks” for the...
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...In Raphael’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints the artist uses lines, composition, and color to draw the viewer’s focus to the Madonna and emphasize their majesty, stability, and importance. The work was made by Raphael in 1504 and it is an oil painting with gold on wood. The main panel is 66 3/4 x 66 1/2 in. (169.5 x 168.9 cm) and it currently resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting uses a balanced composition with the saints flanking the Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus, and John the Baptist. This composition creates a single coherent scene for the viewer. The figures dominate the space of the painting forcing the viewer to observe them. They are crowded in the foreground of the painting. The environment behind them is simple and unimportant when compared to the...
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...Madonna is the perfect example where drive and ambition resulted in her fame and success, not the direct pursuit of money and fame. Madonna had very little musical background and no contacts when she arrived in New York. However, that did not stop her. Even with this lack of training she knew that she needed to meet more people and have more exposure to get ahead. She watched and listened to current trends in music and adjusted her career to the dance music industry that was becoming popular. Madonna was a great relationship builder and motivator. She used those skills to gain more exposure which eventually led to a very successful stint with Warner Records. Madonna also realized that she needed to expand beyond music; through movies, through children’s book publishing, through a distribution deal with Warner Records, and through a contract with Live Nation. She has always managed to stay just enough in the public eye without drawing too much attention, but was very aware that when needed she could turn it on and reinvent herself. She is a brand, and the quote by the London Telegraph says it best, “What doesn’t change and hopefully never will, is Ms. Ciccone’s hypercaffeineated zeal to make the world pay attention” (“Madonna mistress of metamorphosis,” 2008). As our book points out, strategy is about winning. Madonna has shown this through a continued understanding of what it takes to be a success. Madonna whether she realized it or not, was constantly performing...
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...sculptures and depicted in nearly the same composition, yet every artist has unique ways of portraying the image of Mary and her baby. As I walk along the many works of art in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts I spot Donatello’s Madonna of the Clouds and Luca della Robbia’s Virgin and Child with Lilies. Both of these reliefs contained the same image: the Virgin Mary cradling her child with angles surrounding the pair, yet because of the artists material and style both had crafted a completely different array of emotion and form of storytelling. One form of art, one set of figures, and two completely different stories. Reliefs are a type of sculpture that is crafted from a flat plane and then slowly...
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...Raphael Madonna in the Meadow Oil on panel 1505 Figure 4.16 The artist Raphael painted the Madonna in the Meadow when he was in his twenties in Florence. The painting is also known as Madonna del Belvedere. The painting is currently held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Light: There are multiple sources of lights in this painting. The most obvious is the light from the sky. Although you can see clouds, the sky lights up the scene behind the Virgin Mary. There appears to be light that makes Christ and St. John light up. Their figures are almost iridescent as well as the Virgin Mary’s foot. Color: The colors in this portrait are mostly subdues except for the Virgin Mary’s dress. The red and the blue in the dress are very bold. The scene behind them appears serene because of the greens and the light blues. The shading on the children’s bodies makes parts of their bodies glow. Shape: The figures in this work appear to be arranged in a pyramidal form. The way the Virgin Mary is sitting and the children are placed in front of her form a pyramid. The mountains behind her also appear in a pyramid shape. Space: The backgrounds of the mountains appear very light and the blue leading up to the top of the portrait display a great amount of atmospheric perspective. Much of the background is also taken up by the green around Mary and the children. The subtle flower popping up also fills the space. Texture: The texture in this work are also very organic. The green...
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...seat of wisdom and holding Jesus as a baby on her lap. It shows different scenes of baby Jesus’s life and him and Mary are placed at the very top of the sculpture. In relation to this sculpture, the Renaissance figure of The Rottgen Pieta also shows Mary sitting on a chair and holding Jesus on her lap, though this is a scene of Jesus’s later life as a man and his human nature of suffering and Mary’s detail is shown more expressive than that of Renaissance. Although there are some slight transformations, the Virgin Mary is still sitting on a chair holding her sun and expressed in significance to both the Medieval and Renaissance ages. On the other hand, art showed an immense change. An example would be the painting the painting of the Madonna Enthroned done by Cimabue in Medieval age compared to the same painting done by Giotto in the Renaissance. Although they are the same painting, there style and positioning is very different. In Cimabue’s style, all of the faces look similar, whereas in Giotto’s faces are diverse. Giotto shows the new Renaissance style because the faces are more hidden and show patterns, their eyes are narrow, they show a greater...
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...The analysis of two outstanding artworks: The Divine Shepherdess and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel The art works in the art center provides a broad range of artistic visions from different period of times as well as various cultural backgrounds. Among them I choose two religious painting as my favorite: The Divine Shepherdess, from 1780-1800, which is an oil painting on canvas; and Domenico di Bartolomeo Ubaldini’s Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel, from 1518-1520. The latter one is also an oil artwork, but on panel, not on canvas. According to the annotate of The Divine Shepherdess, the theme source comes from the words of Saint Antoine, who said: “Mary is the Good Shepherd who pastures the church with the blessed fruit of her womb.” In The Divine Shepherdess, Mary has been portrait as a young woman with care and love, providing protection and shelter to the lambs. Sitting on a rock under a tree, Mary wears a tunic with delicate gild flower patterns embroidered on it. On her shoulder hangs a dark blue mantle, which embroidered with identical gild flower pattern as her tunic and trimmed with lace. On the shepherdess’s dark wavy hair she wears a golden lace timed hat with red feather on the top. Two angles, one on the top corner at each side, hold a crown and are about to put it on Mary’s head. The red and white ribbons around the angles symbolize Mary and the lambs. Near Mary’s right hand was a shepherd’s crook...
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...Live Nation Is there a song or artist that you love to listen to? When that song/artist comes on the radio you can’t help but sing along; that familiar beat and those catchy lyrics bring back personal memories. It’s safe to say everyone at some point in his or her life was or is a “fan” of a particular song or artist. Live Nation’s goal and mission is to connect fans and artists. Anyone and everyone, from toddlers to grandparents and everything in between, people that enjoys listening, celebrating, and partaking in music can connect with Live Nation. Live Nation is meant to serve those fans. Live Nation’s customers are people that want to experience live music. Music fans are the crucial customers that allow Live Nation to be successful and thriving. Live Nation offers their consumers an opportunity to be apart of every aspect of the artist’s music journey. Live Nation recognizes that not every customer is the identical; they try to caterer to everyone’s needs, as their motto goes “Artist Powered, Fan Driven”. The company tries to make their services accessible to every fan. Live Nation’s mission statement is connecting fans and artists in everyway, shape, and form. Live Nation doesn’t just sell tickets they offer many other services. Their website offers merchandise, ticket deals, promotions, inside information on artists, and customer feedback to name some of the other amenities. Live Nation is eager to please customers; they want to get feedback to see what works for...
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...The Scream is a classic art piece. This piece is classic because of how simple it is, yet how effective it is at evoking emotions in the viewer, particularly with its unease and fear. It's a striking piece because of its abstract nature. The lack of details leaves much to the imagination. Why is the figure screaming? Where are they? Who are they? They seem to be on a bridge, but even that much is vague. Why are there other people, seemingly calm in the background? This piece can be the topic of endless debate. Additionally, as we cannot hear the scream, this seems to add yet another level of eeriness to this picture. The figure to me seems to be Munch, himself, he’s portraying himself in an uncomfortable situation that happens in everyday life for everyone but he’s fueling the emotion right now. Munch is using art to portray his feelings towards a certain situation, it cries out in his painting because there is a lot of angst, hurt and pain through the scream. The background of the picture looks very calm and eerie, almost as if death is approaching the figure or something in its life. There is an array of colors that go from warm to dreary that add tension to the picture depicting change in passion. The ships are coming in to wash away the weak. They’re sitting in the sunset waiting for the right time to move in, do the job and move out. The figures in the back are glum because the screamer isn’t keeping this a secret; it’s just not affecting any of the other people...
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...“The Scream” by Edvard Munch has a lot of detail that catches your eye. All the detail impacted my opinion as what I think is going on in the painters mind while he was painting this. A detail that catches my eye is the detail put into the sunset. In the background, the sunset looks like stripes of dried blood stains from a victim. Almost as if the person was hurt severely and were left to die. The blood from this victim was left to stream across the ground. This impacted the painting because I can infer what time of day this painting takes place. Another detail that catches my eye is the black swirl like thing. To me it looks like a giant loch ness monster that came up from the ocean. The monster is swallowing people one by one that were...
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...but also by incorporating the detail he put into his depictions. As he once said, “every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.” He illustrated realism in the greatest way he could through use of expression and added a great amount of personality to his figures, as you can see in Lamentation as well as Madonna Enthroned. Lamentation is full of expressive emotion. It illustrates grief and tragedy. Every figure’s face is full of sadness and exemplifies the feeling that Giotto was trying to convey. The Virgin Mary embraces her dead son and her expression is the most penetrating throughout the piece. All of the angels look devastated and mournful. The people kneeling around Jesus give the sense of intimacy and create a greater focus on the Virgin Mary and her son. The emotion Giotto illustrates is true and real throughout every detail. Madonna Enthroned, also known as Ognissanti Madonna, illustrated Giotto using his specialized talents. He actually puts the Virgin Mary and Jesus in a realistic environment, instead of illustrating them as divine beings. This was not a familiar idea at the time. Giotto gave them a sense of worldly beings. The angels surrounding Madonna and baby Jesus look almost as if they are a choir singing around the two individuals. Giotto adds depth and perception to this piece, which adds to the realism of the illustration as a whole. Every detail in Giotto’s work was there for a reason and illustrated the exact emotion he was going for. Giotto helped...
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...Shah Rukh Khan: n 2005, Shah Rukh Khan came onto the brand to feature in a memorable TVC with Hema Malini, Sridevi, Juhi Chawla and Kareena Kapoor. This time, the product he endorses has a fragrance created by world renowned perfumer Didier Gaffet. Inspired by the perfume Kenzo Flower and keeping in mind the sensory preferences of Indian women; this Master Perfumer has created a fragrance that’ll make Indian woman feel elegant and polished. In Shah Rukh Khan’s own words, “The fragrance of Lux reminds me of being happy and being in love.” At the shoot, Shah Rukh Khan also said, “I’m happy to be associated with Lux yet again! The fragrance of Lux will captivate you just as it has made me ‘Bekaboo’. The fragrance of Lux that stands for love and sensuality brings out the lover in me.” Katrina Kaif added, “Lux for me is a very special and iconic brand; it symbolizes beauty. When I think of Lux, I think of fun and spontaneity. Lux embodies a type of a woman rather than just soap and of course the fragrance that embodies sensuality. Lux’s amazing fragrance makes the whole experience of bathing fun!” Product Definition Navratna: The most trusted brand in the category. Navratna is a force to recon with cool oil category. It commands a holding of 50% of Market Share of the cool oil market. Amazingly, it has a virtual monopoly in the southern states with a market share of 98 %. We do believe that Navratna will do wonders in the FMCG category in near future. Navratna:...
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...This piece of work by Erik Jones is called ‘Detail of Eve’, Erik looked very seriously at the way in which he could portray mental issues and try to promote awareness of them within his artwork, without having to use words. Erik uses subtle light tones, against harsh, shocking red for the eyes and dark red for the lips. Erik Jones uses colouring pencils as a background base colour before painting over the top of it with acrylic or ink, colouring pencils are transparent which is hugely important. The pencil colours are used as a base colour to begin the ‘build up’ of the piece. He uses thick black lines for the eyes which make the eyes stand out. Erik uses red tint in the eyes, which increase the attention to the eyes and away from the rest of the face. Erik Jones uses a 3d effect like many artists, however I think his art looks especially lifelike. He puts a lot of time and effort into the faces particularly of his pieces, it makes them look extremely detailed and look almost real. Erik Jones suffers from mild depression, however his focus is not necessarily on himself, it is much more based upon others who suffer from depression, as well as schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, etc. This influenced several pieces of his work, if not all of it. Erik was extremely interested in the human body, male and female, however his main passion in the body was faces, but more particularly eyes. Erik shows most of the emotion in his pictures through the eyes of the person he is drawing/painting...
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...CULTURAL EVENT REPORT Submitted by Juliet Barnett Professor D. Amore Humanities 112 September 6, 2012 As a result of the Norton Museum of Art being closed, I had no choice but to do this project on line. The Museum I chose to visit was the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I have always wanted to visit this particular museum and I hope that I will. On September 4th 2012 I visited the Online Museum of the Philadelphia Museum of Art After navigating through the site looking at different works of art and sculptures, I felt so lost in all that I saw it was as if I was transported back in time, I could visualize the painters at work, and it was as if I could feel their passion radiating from these canvases, the vibrant colors, the elaborate brush strokes and attention to minute details all brought across the message of these paintings I spent close to two hours looking at paintings dating from the Baroque period all the way into the modern age but the paintings that really caught my eyes were those from the 17th century. Of these the ones that made an impression on me were: 1. “Virgin and child with Angel” painted in 1642 by Simon Vouet in France. This portrays a virgin half sitting, half crouching with a cherubic infant on her hips while her focus was on the basket of fruits that she was eating from, oblivious of the angel to her right that was playing with the infant in her arms. The scenery is painted overshadowed by a large tree, possibly an Oak; in the distance...
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