The Underpainter

For this assignment, I went to the Clara M. Eagle gallery located in Murray State Universities fine arts building. I chose Adam Vincent as the artist that I wanted to write about, I selected three of his pieces that really spoke to me during my time at the gallery. The artist’s name, as mentioned above, is Adam Vincent. I selected two pieces whose titles are: All That Remains (Vincent 2016), and Conspiracy Theorist (Vincent

This precise diction attempts to invoke a feeling of distance between the man and himself as a young adult, allowing the reader to potentially infer the somber tone of the story, but also to show the relative immaturity of him and his former wife. Furthermore, this contributes to Carver’s use of minimalist style by not directly stating these qualities, but instead leaving the reader to infer them.

Cassatt created a revelation of family life in her paintings. As described in the article, “only a woman can pose a child, dress it, adjust pins without pricking themselves.. this is family life painted with distinction and love” (288). Through this statement, Pollock is describing Cassatt’s ability to recreate charming characterizations through her subject of self discovery. She had the ability to recreate reality into her paintings, avoiding sexual differentiation and creating a sense of equality. Cassatt’s unique

In the beginning of the story, the author gives the reader images of the two

In the bottom panel, the image depicts Alison’s work table with lots of art supplies and some sketches strewn over the surface, and on the bottom right of the table is a copy of The Importance of Being Earnest. This was the play that Alison’s mother had just performed in at the time, and the presence of this play on Alison’s desk shows Alison’s attempt to reach out to her mother and relate to her. The copy of the play being located near all of Alison’s art supplies draws focus to the relationship between the two art forms of theatre and visual art and the fact that there is something in common there, just like in Alison and Helen’s relationship. Alison’s blank diary is also on the desk, and Alison says that her “earnest diary entries had given way to the implicit lie of the blank page” (Bechdel 186), and the use of the word ‘earnest’ again draws the attention to the play and the way Alison fights to connect with her mother through art. These blank diary entries could also describe Alison’s relationship with her mother.

The subject in reference to the concept of the painting in this chapter is chiefly Gerty MacDowell. Joyce lays the scene like an establishing shot of a movie, slowly revealing specific details about the setting. I can scarcely think of the sublime nature and aesthetics of painting without thinking of the mythology surrounding the Roman goddess, Venus and her representation of sex. Like Venus, Gerty acts as a vehicle of seduction. “Her woman’s instinct told her that she had raised the devil in him and at the thought a burning scarlet swept from throat to brow till the lovely colour of her face became a glorious rose” (U 13. 295). The art of the painting functions as an approach to describing Gerty’s seductive venture as Bloom’s detumescence.

Divided into five chapters, this book follows Stephen's life from childhood through adolescence to manhood. We are essentially given a window into Stephen's consciousness, and the whole world is unveiled to us through that single aperture. According to Sydney Bolt, no novel written before A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can match its variety in styles This indicates Joyce's originality. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is told in characteristic dialogue and ironically sympathetic

Fading affect bias is a finding that the intensity of the affect that are associated with negative autobiographical memories tends to fade faster than affect associated with positive autobiographical memories. For example, when someone is initially turned down for a job, the individual may initially experience feelings of distress or sadness, but over time, they may begin to feel relief and decide that not being hired for that position turned out for the better. (Walker & Skowronski, 2009) Dissimilarly, an article by Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, and Vohs published in 2001 hypothesizes that, according to multiple literatures, it is the “negatively valenced” events in our lives that have the most significant emotional and psychological

The act of realization allowed the protagonist to be conscious of their tranquility. Although Lois is unease by the paintings of landscapes she found inner peace by acknowledging that it was part of her life. Lois admits herself that she did not enjoy the painting either as they make her feel anxious. Her anxiousness was not enough to stop her from buying and filling her house with these artworks. Although, the drawings of landscapes brought back unwanted memories for Lois, the paintings brought happiness and wealth in the artist’s life. Similar to how Lucy helped brought joy to Lois’ life. Lois was able to accept her fears through purchasing artwork of wilderness to remind her of the good times she had with Lucy. “This [is] where Lucy is.”

I am reading An Artist's Touch i have read from chapter 24 to chapter 43. In the book at Ryan's collage an art critic comes to look at everyone's artwork from the semester and is thrilled from what he sees from Ryan. He is so stunned by what he saw that he offered Ryan a art show in a huge art museum in Chicago. Without hesitation he says yes and begins preparing for his show. Before Ryan And Brendon leave for Chicago they decided to go visit his parents and a few of his old friends back in is home town. Excited to share the news with his parents Ryan tells them and introduces them to Brendon not knowing what news is going to be shared with him the next day. The next day when Ryan wakes up and goes downstairs for breakfast his parents sit him

Her grandiose false sense of self-worth and self-esteem came crashing down after the rude comment made by the young boy that was sharing the bench with her. After all, she was not as invisible and confident as she portrayed herself to be. The remark just reinforced her invulnerability and her feeling of being unworthy. Her exuberant and love for life suddenly turned into haunting nightmares revealing her distorted reality. She was so immersed in that reality that she was emotionally unable to deal with the new reality that was presented to her. She realized that her life was an empty shell enclosed with a false sense of reality that she created for herself. Although, the rude remark was too painful to handle, it unleashed an avalanche of

The writer begins with rhetorical questions to make the readers thinking about the power of art and gives a statement of how most of art’s history being assumed. After he sets the background plot to the essay, he presents Mark Rothko’s concern of modern life, in which, Rothko set himself and New York a test. The writer then moves on to describe the year of 1958 where Rothko took on a commission of bringing his monumental dramas right into the center. This idea connects to the next in a way that the writer shows things do not work in the way as expected. This disappointment leads to another disappointment that Rothko committed suicide. The writer ends this section with his thoughts toward the power of arts and starts a section that gives a summary

Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 and Died 1978. At the young age of 14, he enrolled in art school in New York City. Two Years later he left High school to study at the National Academy of design. Before studying Norman Rockwell for this paper I honestly had no kind of knowledge about him or any of his work, At least I didn’t think I did. Looking at some of the work that he has done, I noticed I few pieces that I have seen before. One thing that you would notice about all of his paintings. Norman Rockwell is able to paint a vivid picture of whatever you can think of but the way he is able to capture certain situation is uncanny. He is able to capture an image that may have two or three different interpretations of the same photos. (Relative Clause) He is a mastermind at using different works of arts and tying them in together somehow. For intense, the three photos that I decided to use are all contains four boys playing three different sports. In all the sports the four boys are showing three different emotions. Four sporting boys Basketball will be the first photo. Four boys sporting baseball and the final one American Masters.

The picture of the protagonist that Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie, portrays is only a half-truth. By examining Sister Carrie’s character, she is readily deemed as passive, weak, and full of superficial desires and yet in this profoundly inert nature lies the seed for the greater expression of an artistic soul. However, this realization is only drawn out by Ames’s archetypically scholarly eyes (the intelligent but withdrawn engineer); bringing forth the powerful and intimate beauty that Carrie possesses, which without a photograph, the reader would forever remain blind to. Nevertheless, as Ames draws out the riches of Carrie’s humanity, he delineates yet another ideal, the ideal of the artist, which lies far away from the comfort

This essay explores the various types of art used in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The focus is made on the three types of art: the picture of Dorian Gray, the yellow book and the actress. It examines the way Wilde chooses to develop his novel’s characters’ personalities and destinies by asking: what is the role of art