Adriana Rosas
2 September 2016
Ms. Cooper
Art Appreciation Compare and Contrast 1 “Pitman”
Janet and Wassily, Similarities and Differences
Janet Echelman is an artist who creates astonishing art out of fabric material. She creates thoughts that people get lost in. Her art is very deep as she incorporates texture of fiber, steal and lightning in her sculptures. She also included colorful colors that contrasted to the environment and to what her art needed to stand out. She hung her sculptures where she thought would change people and to have them get a sense at looking at things in ways you would never think of. Janet had got her inspiration from the cactus flower and how patient the flower could be to represent Phoenix. She created her title from the words of the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote, “Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience”(Frank, pg 2). Her Secret is Patience was meant to show the city of Phoenix that patience is key and you can only wait and hope for the best to come, rather than forcing something that should not be forced because the most beautiful things come
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He created works of art that consisted of swirls and bright colors almost like music. Music can be flowy or bumpy and that is the way he wanted to pursue his art similar like. He would name his paintings after musical songs because he wanted the feeling of his painting to be similar to the rhythm of music. He said that, “color directly influences the soul” (Frank, Pg 34).Just like music really connected to people's soul. Wassily wanted to connect with people in a way where they would feel the vibrations and rhythms that they they felt when listening to music. He wanted them to look at his paintings and see, “The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul” (Frank, Pg 34). He wanted them to connect with his
According to Tolstoy, the true purpose of art is connected to our abilities to feel emotion. “To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art” (Tolstoy,66 ). Much like food is necessary for sustenance, art is necessary for our sympathetic capacities. In order for this form of communication to occur, the artist must have the capacity to express and transmit through his art, while the audience must have the capacity for sympathy in order to feel the artist’s expression. According to Tolstoy, simply transmitting an emotion is not enough to define art. A true work of art must be infectious to its audience and be able to express individual feelings lucidly and purposefully.
In Wassily Kandinsky's excerpt from Concerning the Spiritual in Art, he argues that art is supposed to make one’s soul resonate through the discovery of the unknown and color. Kandinsky claims that at first art is only understood by one person, usually the original artist, and it then slowly expands to more and more people as they look at the art. This allows them to discover something the previously did not know or understand. He then claims that color affects the viewer in two distinct ways: physically and psychologically. Using these two claims, he supports his argument that art allows the soul to feel in ways that are not possible otherwise.
Phoenix Jackson, the main character, is a small, old African American woman who goes on a journey for a purpose that is unknown at the beginning of the story. Although Phoenix has made this trip many times, something is different about this trip. Throughout her journey, Phoenix faces many obstacles and hardships. The author uses symbolism and, later, gives the reader awareness of Phoenix’s character while, hopefully, teaching a lesson about life. In “A Worn Path”, Eudora Welty uses the symbols of the name “Phoenix”, life and death, and the main characters’ age throughout the story.
In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” the character Phoenix Jackson is introduced. Phoenix Jackson is an uneducated, African-American woman without any family besides her sick grandson. Phoenix is the hero of this story and fits the role well by delivering much-needed medicine to her grandson. Phoenix shows many distinct traits that reveal her to be a hero to her grandson. The heroic feats she accomplishes pave a path that leads to her satisfaction as well as protection of her most beloved asset, her grandson. Throughout the story, Phoenix’s humble, caring, and determined character is displayed through her actions.
Life is more than just a walk in the park, we are not always that lucky. Throughout one persons life there are always ups and downs, but what really make a person are the actions we take when we encounter obstacles. Life is an obstacle course in which we have to overcome in our lifetimes. In A Worn Path an older woman by the name of Phoenix Jackson takes a long road full of hardships to achieve a goal, which is to get medicine for her grandson. Not only does Phoenix of A Worn Path represent struggle but how we overcome this struggle to achieve a sense of achievement or a goal. Throughout time, people have been going through life’s obstacles and their willingness to
Phoenix shows determination by getting by all of these obstacles and getting to town. Her determination to get to town shows that she would not let anything get in the way of something she knows she must do.
In “A Worn Path,” Eudora Welty uses setting, characterization, and tone to illustrate the progresses of Phoenix, in a physical and emotional sense. The author illustrates the progress of Phoenix’s social, physical, and emotional sense to describe changing times and social norms. This allows the reader to get a clear and vivid out reach of what they are going to read about phoenix journey.
She has a few reoccurring themes in her works such as, a character struggling with their community, the power of love to heal, and the demands of an individual vs. the demands of a group. The power of love to heal in portrayed in “A Worn Path” when the main character, Phoenix Jackson, goes on a journey to get medicine for her grandson despite her old age and lack of eye sight (Mainiero
Dillard never fully states how or why she has decided to adopt this quality she learned from an animal, but instead discusses the topic more broadly in order for the idea to have more expansive applications. When discussing purity, necessity, and persistency, Dillard states, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.” Not defining her necessity in life or the necessity she believes we should grasp tightly to, directly contributes to the intricacy of this essay. This statement could make her audience think, “How could I relate this to my life?” One could relate this idea to relationships in general, spiritual relationships, or relationships with themselves. The possibilities are endless. Dillard has used her personal experiences to communicate a compelling message of “living as we should”. In some ways, David Searcy also uses these methods to indirectly portray these thoughts of “living in the moment” in his essay “The Hudson River School.” Uncovering the title of Searcy’s essay is substantial in order to find meaning. The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art movement by landscape painters whose aesthetic views were influenced by romanticism. A story about the death of a bothersome coyote prevails, but the same idea of connection to the world—rather than our
Phoenix Jackson’s, in “A Worn Path,” physical limitations eluded to the difficulties she faces throughout her journey.
The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against
With this statement, the author clearly depicts Phoenix’s determination to continue down this path despite the challenges of the wild animals. She is determined not to let anything come between her and getting to town for her grandson’s medication. Phoenix may be old and worn, but her determination motivates her to continue.
Although Phoenix Jackson is old, tired, dirty, and poor, nothing can stand in her way. In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” Phoenix jumps off the page as a vibrant protagonist full of surprises as she embarks on a long, arduous journey to
As art continued to drift away from reality in the twentieth century, it inevitably become detached from the ordinary public. Disregarding the conventional expectations of their audience, composers became increasingly experimental. Although to some this was a breath of fresh air from the heavy sentimentality of composers such as Tchaikovsky, many were driven away by the harsh separation of music from feeling. Compared to the romantic sounds from the era of the same name, Modernist music seemed cold and emotionless. One of the most influential composers of the time, Igor Stravinsky, was an outspoken advocate for this detachment, or “objectivity”, as it was called, of sentiment from music, and rejection of Romantic emotionality. Objectivity was the ideal, and this more mathematical approach to music led to some interesting new sounds. Some
Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, developed his idea of the correspondence between a work of art and the viewer, and called it "Klang" (sound or resonance). He wrote: "Color is the power which directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, and the soul is the piano with the strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music. To reinforce his analogy with the musical expression, Kandinsky for many years used musical terms as titles, he began to divide his paintings into three categories: "Impressions" (which still show some representational elements), "Improvisations" (which convey spontaneous emotional reactions), and "Compositions" (which are the ultimate works of art, created only after a long period of preparations and preliminaries). Of the three types, Improvisation, as its name suggests, was the most spontaneous, beginning, perhaps, with a subject (object), but one which then receded rapidly from view as various themes were woven from and