Judith Leyster

friends, people frequently engage in activities that push darker thoughts to the back of their minds to be dealt with at a later time. Hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), the painting Leyster, The Last Drop (Fig. 1) captures the complexities of coming to terms with one’s own mortality. Judith Leyster’s use of lighting, color, and symbols in the piece come together to express the struggle people go through to give their lives meaning in the context of eternity, making observers confront

Self-Portrait by Judith Leyster One of the famous painters of the 17th century, the Dutch painter Judith Leyster, and the first female artist admitted to the Guild of St. Luke of Haarlem. This electromagnetic picture shows what is beneath the top coating of paint. The portrait on the easel was originally a self-portrait of Leyster. However, she transformed her observance and painted the violin player over it because her most fruitful and gainful paintings were scenes of merrymakers, a type of picture

painter Judith Leyster. She was one of the female artist acknowledged to the Guild of paint. She had own work shop and she hired three artists for her help. She draws many other pitchers and she became more famous. Furthermore, she was draw many other self-portrait, but this self-portrait became more popular with customer in

Judith Leyster, 1609-1660, painter Judith Leyster was born in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1609. Her Self-Portrait (above) is actually in the National Gallery of Art, in D.C.! However, this work marks a historical shift from the rigidity of earlier, more formal self-portraits painted by female artists. Instead, she sits in a more relaxed and dynamic pose. Compared to the standards of previous Dutch portraits, it’s very casual, which was nearly unheard of during the Renaissance. Leyster was the daughter

Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster and Art Influence How is it that art influences life and life influences art? Art is an expression artist have used to respond to social and political mores. For instance, art historically was gender-specific in the Dutch Golden Age? Today women and men artist create work of the art for viewers to relish without concern of their gender. However, during the seventeenth century Dutch Golden Age men were only allowed to paint landscapes. Women, if they were

practitioners” Introduction Defining postmodernism as well as gender is an extremely difficult task if not impossible. This essay is an argument on the two postmodernist’s concept on ‘Gender’. This essay argues posing foucauldian postmodernism of Judith Butler against Baudrillardean post modernism of Arthur and Marilouse Kroker with analysis on both their ideas on gender including sex and sexuality. This essay also argues that these two approaches are fully flawed for a number of important reasons

In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler discusses complications with constructions of inner and outer worlds of the body. She argues that “internalization of gender”, as common linguistics describes it, is a part of the heterosexual hegemonic binary of gender conformity which distinguishes inner and outer worlds. Gender, in the commonly accepted model, is innate and through a process of bringing out the inner gender is expressed. Butler proposes, instead, that “the gendered body is performative” and

Gender performativity was defined in lecture by Dr. Thomas O’Neill as the act of being either male or female each day (September 21st, 2017). In this essay, I will first be discussing what is meant by gender performativity, followed by an illustration on how it differs from gender socialization and interpretive reproduction - two other theories of gender identity formation. Patricia Adler (1992) as cited by O’Neill in lecture, explains that gender socialization theory emphasizes how children, through

Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were already expecting their first child, Susanna Shakespeare. Little is known about William Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna. A few years later, in 1585, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway had twins: a daughter named Judith Shakespeare and a son named Hamnet Shakespeare. Hamnet Shakespeare died at age eleven in 1596. Susanna Shakespeare married a Stratford doctor named John Hall. In 1608, Susanna Shakespeare and John Hall had their first Gustafson 3 child: a daughter

Grease is a classic American film that takes place in the 1950s and explores ideas of gender and sexuality. The film was produced in 1978 by Robert Stigwood and Allen Carr and was directed by Rundel Kleiser. The film was not set in the 1970s because it would have to tell a different story; in the 1970s there was birth control and an abundance of sexual liberation, unlike the 1950s. The producers were able to connect the concepts of events from the 1950s into the film. Grease explores the ideas of