...Johnson also known as Joshua Johnston was a prominent African American folk artist in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was recognized as the first significant African American portrait painter. Some scholars believe that Johnson was born in the 1760s in the West Indies, and that he was the son of a white man named George Johnson and an unknown enslaved African woman. Though he was a mixed child he still faced the same adversities as any African at birth. He was sold for 25 pounds, but as he grew up, his mixed features dominated, and he was treated less harshly. Johnson was promised his freedom after completing a blacksmith apprenticeship or turning twenty-one, whichever came first. Johnson finished the apprenticeship and was freed in 1782. There is some speculation that Johnson was a slave as a child to Robert Polk. Robert Polk is the brother-in-law of artists Charles Wilson Peale, a man...
Words: 1121 - Pages: 5
...Unfortunately I was unable to find much information or a story on why Rembrandt painted the portrait of Philips Lucasz. So I will tell you what I found and some information of the man in the painting Philips Lucasz and tell you more about Rembrandt van Rijn. The man in the portrait is Philips Lucasz and lived in Middelburg. There he made a successful career in the Dutch East India Company and he was able to go up through most of the rankings in the company. He was appointed Councillor General Extraordinary of the Dutch East Indies and later returned to the Netherlands as the commander of a trading fleet. He then married Petronella Buys and went to Amsterdam where Lucasz received the gold chain that he wears from the Dutch East India Company. During this...
Words: 606 - Pages: 3
...1949, it was formally inaugurated by Vice-president Dr S. Radhakrishnan in 1954, in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Hermann Goetz (1898–1976), a noted German art historian became its first curator and in time, it added new facilities such as Art restoration services, an Art reference Library and a Documentation Centre. Then in 2009, a new wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art was inaugurated adding almost six times the space to the existing gallery, plus it has a new auditorium, a preview theatre, conservation laboratory, library and academic section as well as a cafeteria and museum shop. I witnessed artwork of various painters in the gallery. But the painting “Three Girls” made in 1935 by Amrita SherGill caught my attention. This is a painting which shows three girls on the frame. It has got touches of the Bohemian art movement in Paris and Post-Impressionistic feeling. It also has an example of chiaroscuro as it plays significantly with the lights and shadows. The expressions projected through the eyes shows that they are engrossed with deep thoughts. The work of art left me curious to know more about one of the pioneering woman of the Modern Art in India. Amrita SherGill was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered...
Words: 943 - Pages: 4
...she is walking into the National Portrait Gallery to get warm. She doesn’t have any change for the tampon machine so she asks in the bathroom if anyone has got some change she could borrow. One girl responds. The girl and her brother fled from Uzbekistan, she is now homeless and all of her money can be kept in one pocket. The woman decides to take her out for a cup of tea out of gratefulness for the change she borrowed from her. The girl tells the woman about why she is now in England and how she and her brother are now sleeping on the streets of London every night. At one point the girl starts crying. The woman leaves to get her some napkins, but as she has the napkins in her hand she turns around and leaves the café. The story is written in first-person narration and has a linear structure. The story is reaching towards many well discussed topics such as immigration. In the story we follow a classic “Londoner” who keeps to herself and minds her own business. You can say that she is a very reserved personality (pg. 1 line 1-3). The conflict appears when she “befriends” a refugee from Uzbekistan. The girl is different, and she looks different as well. The woman wants to help her but for some reason something is stopping her. She seems to think that she, as a single mother, she has enough problems already. The woman seems very insecure especially when she says “I was forced to ask in a loud voice in this small lavatory: has anyone got three twenty-pence pieces?” In this small...
Words: 1189 - Pages: 5
...Miss Emily herself chooses not to accept the fate of death and also not to accept live alone at age of thirty without a husband and even a single suitor she had.Therefore, she cannot accept the fact that he is now gone and she is alone The sudden death of mr.grierson causing her to be so afraid of being alone.” ……as is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.” She told them that her father was not dead” (F aulkner). This quote from A Rose for Emily clearly shows how Miss Emily tried to defy death by holding on to her father’ s corpse and treating it as if he were still living. She chooses to hold time and keep her father alive in a fantasy world made for herself. The death of her father constructed a mental milestone in her life in which she would continue to build upon in an unhealthy manner. , Emily clings to the controlling paternal figure whose denial and control became the only—yet extreme—form of love she knew .She gives up his body only reluctantly. However the ashes of her...
Words: 952 - Pages: 4
...Pablo Picasso [pic] http://www.pablopicasso.org/before1901.jsp [1] http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021 [2] http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/picasso-gallery.php [3] Perceiving The Arts: An Introduction To The Humanities 10th Edition, Dennnis J. Sporre [4] Http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681444/bio [5] Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Almost every art enthusiast in the world, knew and respected him. “Picasso was Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad on the 25th October 1881 in Malago, in southern Spain.”[1] Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. “He later dropped his father's surname to become simply Pablo Picasso.” [1] Even though he was born Catholic, Picasso later became an atheist. A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes that seemed to mark him destined for greatness. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope,'" he later recalled. "Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."[2] Some sources say his first words were “piz, piz,” a childs attempt to say “lapiz” which means pencil in Spanish. His father was himself an artist...
Words: 1138 - Pages: 5
...women or to hide your particular ethnicity. 3、author：As Diaz himself admits, much of his work is thinly veiled autobiography. His work is definitely fiction, however, and not to be seen as accurately portraying his own life 4、There is only one main character in this short story. “you”The narrator is assumed to be a teenage boy living in an urban area. He is trying to win the hearts of the local girls. However, because of his upbringing and his culture, he knows he has to hide his identity in order to please a white girl or a halfie. You see the multiple dimensions of this one character all brought out by race 5、The diversity of the neighborhood calls for him to describe three different scenarios for three different types of girls, Black girls, white girls and what he calls "halfies", mixed race girls. This short story is filled with a young mans limited, stereotypical, amateur predictions of how each racial delegate of the female sex will respond to his carefully thought out applications of immature charm 6、the self-loathing（自我厌弃） ethnically confused burgeoning playboy. a subtle portrait of an entire culture, that of the latin inmigrants in the states 1、 Government cheese：It was usually delivered to your door(if you had a home) in a large block, by the state.for poor people 2、 Union city：Union City is rather impoverished but it has always been a destination for immigrants. It is the Little Havana of New Jersey. Once inhabited mainly by Cubans, it is now home to Latino...
Words: 359 - Pages: 2
...Expressionism Emil Nolde a German Danish painter, watercolorist and printmaker. His real name is Emil Hansen near the village of Nolde. Born August 7, 1867 in Duchy of Schleswig and passed away April 13, 1956 in Neunkirchen, Nordfiesland, Germany. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brucke; he considered to be one of the great oil painters in the 20th century. He had an independent personality. He took private art lessons after being rejecting by Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Was a supporter of the Nazi party during the 1920s. His work was condemned by Adolf Hitler as degenerate. He was also a honored with the German Order of Merit following World War II. He has three brothers on a farm. Born into a Protestant family. He...
Words: 583 - Pages: 3
...impossible and digitally suggest this sense of fabrication and falseness, a perception that cannot be reciprocated by a typical woman. She continues by suggesting that the depictions of women in the media is poisonous and highlights just how bad the impact of the media is, that it is comparable to poison and is harming not only women but young girls who view these advertisements as well. Heldman also demonstrates the direct effects the “poison” has, she mentions that self-objectification leads to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. These disorders stand out from the essay because they discuss a serious disease that could affect young girls and women. Heldman then focuses on the young girl aspect of the problem when she mentions the American Psychologists Association investigative report. The report found that girls as young as seven years old were learning to objectify themselves after watching advertisements and across other medium. Heldman states, “Teaching them to think of themselves as sex objects before their own sexual maturity.” The statement brings in another issue of some form of pedophilia; a form that can objectify little girls and make them out to be sexual objects...
Words: 1109 - Pages: 5
...Alexandro Ramirez English 1302 Professor Robin Russell 4/12/13 Critical Essay #1 “First Confession” At the beginning of the story, O’Connor, in the short story, “First Confession”, may use the all-knowing or omniscient point of view. He describes to choose any act of the character and any thought of the character, and he tells the goodness and the bad side of the character. Instead the story is written in first person point of view. The narrator in this story is also the main character, or protagonist. This way the reader is allow to the see the world in the eyes of Jackie, and his point of view about his grandmother, Nora, and Mrs. Ryan, and women itself. Jackie does not stand her grandmother at all, he relates her as the source of his entire problems, “and all because of that old woman!” Even thou his grandmother lives with him, because of the dead of his grandfather, he was actually afraid of her, he had to make excuses to his friend so he won’t go inside his house to play because, “because I could never be sure what she would be up to.” He also is disgusted by the woman’s love of porter beer, her inclination to eat potatoes with her hands, “she had a jug of porter and a pot of potatoes with-some-times-a bit of salt fish, and she poured out the potatoes on the table and ate them slowly, with great relish, using her fingers by way of a fork,” and of course favoring Nora, “she knew Mother saw through her, so she sided with Gran.” Nora his old sister was a pain to...
Words: 863 - Pages: 4
...A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Context James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in the town of Rathgar, near Dublin, Ireland. He was the oldest of ten children born to a well-meaning but financially inept father and a solemn, pious mother. Joyce's parents managed to scrape together enough money to send their talented son to the Clongowes Wood College, a prestigious boarding school, and then to Belvedere College, where Joyce excelled as an actor and writer. Later, he attended University College in Dublin, where he became increasingly committed to language and literature as a champion of Modernism. In 1902, Joyce left the university and moved to Paris, but briefly returned to Ireland in 1903 upon the death of his mother. Shortly after his mother's death, Joyce began work on the story that would later become A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Published in serial form in 1914–1915, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mandraws on many details from Joyce's early life. The novel's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional double—Joyce had even published stories under the pseudonym "Stephen Daedalus" before writing the novel. Like Joyce himself, Stephen is the son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother. Also like Joyce, he attends Clongowes Wood, Belvedere, and University Colleges, struggling with questions of faith and nationality before leaving Ireland to make his...
Words: 18420 - Pages: 74
...“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: Shaping Identity By April 16 2012 Powell Texts and Contexts 16 April 2012 “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: Shaping Identity The first scene of James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” presents the protagonist, as a child then as a young man. This scene condenses the journey by foreshadowing the challenges the protagonist will experience leading to him becoming the artist he was meant to be: we are introduced to three major forces that shape his identity and thoughts; Irish Nationalism, Catholic Identity, and sensitivity. James Joyce’s choice of Dublin, Ireland at the end of the 19th century as the setting is critical for this novel. Ireland was experiencing oppression and reform from their conquerors, the British. The political dimension of this time period is introduced using the implications of song. The music is used to represent the struggle for Irish independence which is a consistent theme throughout the novel. The song begins with “O, the wild rose blossoms”; when a plant is wild it is often growing rampant implying that it is an unwelcome weed in an environment that is not its own. Suffocating all other life “on the little green place” which is Ireland. The song ends with Stephen pondering “O, the green wothe botheth”; if the rose were green instead of red implying Irish independence however, still saying the rose is still a rose regardless of the color. This could mean that even if the Irish...
Words: 813 - Pages: 4
...Fauvism Manait, Babelyn Paleng, Donna May Trinidad,JannoGioseppe I. Brief Description Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artistswhose works emphasizedpainterly qualities and strong color over the representational orrealistic values retained byImpressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, themovement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain. Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century. The Fauve painters were the first to break with Impressionism as well as with older, traditional methods of perception. Their spontaneous, often subjective response to nature was expressed in bold, undisguised brushstrokes and high-keyed, vibrant colors directly from the tube. What Are the Key Characteristics of Fauvism? • Color Nothing took precedence over color for the Fauves. Raw, pure color was not secondary to the composition, it defined the composition. For example, if the artist painted a red sky, the rest of the landscape had to follow suit. To maximize the effect of a red sky, he might choose lime green buildings, yellow water, orange sand, and royal blue boats. He might choose other, equally vivid colors. The one thing you can count on is that none of the Fauves ever went with realistically-colored...
Words: 821 - Pages: 4
...depends where people come from and what skin colour they have. In this situation we meet a typical European, who is afraid of strangers from another country. The short story is about a woman, she’s a Londoner and she’s on her way to the National Portrait Gallery. Suddenly she has a need for some change; she asked – “Has anyone got three twenty-pence pieces?” (P1, Line 9). Unfortunately for her, the people seemed to ignore her because they all were “Londoners”, or so she thought. There was only one person in the hall left – it was a young woman by the name of Laylor. “Do you have change?” (P1, Line 12) she asked. The woman seemed to turn round slowly. In some way they both start to communicate and the woman finds out that the girl is not from London, because of her accent. Unfortunately the girl a refugee is from Uzbekistan. She has the most spectacular eyebrows and her hair is black. Laylor is very young, maybe a student and she has a younger brother, but their parents aren’t with them. The parents were arrested in Uzbekistan (they were journalists). Friends of their parents acquired passports for them and put them on a plane to England. The women don’t know anything about people in Laylor’s situation and she speculates on why the girl doesn’t search for some help. Laylor tells to the woman that she’s afraid of that she will not see her mother again. The woman starts to think and her head is full of so many sensible thoughts, she starts to imagine how it will be, if Laylor get...
Words: 338 - Pages: 2
...There was a new reading conducted at the Bull bar on March 15th, 2018. Hannah Whiteman was given the opportunity to read and present her work to others visiting the bar. Her work was packed full of colorful imagery, surrealism, colors, and alliteration, at least according to other reviewers of her work. Whiteman was introduced by a friend in the same academic program as her. After listening to three of her works, I would have to agree to the idea that her work is strong with colorful imagery and musical structure. Her writing may be strong, but her performance leaves a lot to be desired. Whiteman’s first poem of the night discussed the recent hurricane that had devastated Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, hurricane Irma. She based her experiences...
Words: 1350 - Pages: 6
