His eyes were the colour of the ocean at night: swirling pools of blues and greens highlighted with the pale and dull light of the stars. Cal was a dark contrast to Sylvie, with hair the colour of rich soil, a freckle spotted nose, and olive toned skin. Sylvie’s hair hung like a dead weight on her shoulders, the colour nearly the same as moonlight, her eyes almost black they were so dark. Whereas Cal was a piece of Renaissance art, Sylvie was a black and white photograph. “You have practiced your whole life.
The physical image of poverty portrayed by the family reflects The Great Depression’s toll on their livelihood. It is clearly and plainly displayed that the mother and her children are impoverished by the techniques of black and white color choice, and intricate, detailed texture. The hardship faced by the family is highlighted by the photograph being in black and white. This allows for the simplicity of their condition to be shown without the distractions a photograph in color would provide. The image is very detailed and defined by texture, to leave no question to whether the family lacks wealth or riches.
This theme was revealed through an epiphany and shows just how feeble a young mind is. This realization shows to be an important part in the story and why an adult mind takes time to sculpt
After reading it, Mr. Notkins’ Artist Statement really opens your eyes as to what the piece is trying to convey and you change the way you thought the piece was assembled. The piece is much more obvious than other famous paintings and Notkins doesn’t seem to care about that. After reading the artist's statement my views and thoughts
Sanchez’s setting perfectly describes what the aftermath of a struggle in a room looks like. The wood embodies marks on it showing a struggle. She uses these elements of clothes thrown on the floor, a broken mirror and a lamp laying on the floor to signify the struggle. The clothes and suitcase shows the mother in a hurry getting ready to leave. The mother sits on the ground holding her two children, we can hear the sobs coming from them.
In fact, readers are continuously moved from an image to another. For instance, a strong visual image of the speaker’s location is clear in the second stanza. In fact, he is standing “alone” (6) on the upper side of the Rogue River (4) contemplating its hard rocky wall that resulted from the volcanic eruption of Mount Mazama thousand years ago. Just standing alone in that tremendous view, connects to the fact that we occasionally find ourselves in a severe situation where we feel an urge to escape our usual place in order to think and reach the right decisions. The speaker’s reflection, in the middle of that landscape, is dominated by the non-stable aspect of water (7,8).
Despite having overcome losing her father and mother, moving to various new homes around the world, leaving behind acquaintances with each move, and having to continue correspondence with certain friends through letters, there was still the daunting fear of death. Death would strip her of everything she had ever gained in her life. She successfully expressed this fear in “One Art” through the order she presented each of her personal losses, writing it as a villanelle, and using irony, all to emphasize the last stanza and the loss of “you”, meaning everyone she’s met, and in particular Alice Methfessel and Lota de Macedo
“At first Luis felt angry and embarrassed, but she wasn’t laughing at him. She told him with her dark eyes that it was okay to come closer. He walked to the window, and she held up the sketch pad on which she had drawn him, not crying like a baby, but sitting on top of a mountain of silver disks, holding one up over his head. He had to smile. “ She drew him as the strong boy she knows he is for being able to handle the death of his
Reflection In my observations and thoughts of reading the “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, I found the passage to be quite interesting but informative. In the beginning, I connected with the author’s experiences. For example, when the author conveys his drive for literature and texts; it made me reflect on my own passions and inspirations. My mother is an artist and she loves creating art so much that she shared her love of creativity though me with me at an exceptionally young age, she would teach me how to draw whenever she had free time. She would also give me bundles and bundles of different and unique kinds of art supplies and her enormously vintage art history books.
This shows the juxtaposition of Incompatible objects that was a key component of the surrealist era. When the man arrives at the inn there is a lot of eye threatening imagery that relates to darkness. In this story there is a lot of frost imagery and explains the difference between the conscious and subconscious with the scene of the mirror. During this story he is narrating the events through surrealist imagery such as dream imagery and there is a sense of rupture when he shows the duet of thorns and violent. He paints the picture of the woman with her eyes on a tray and the sense of damage to the eyes is a Freudian idea and links in with the previous works of Dali and Buñuel.
Picasso had many drawings that indirectly supported men to be the superior and wiser. For example, in his La vie painting he drew a naked woman standing beside a man who is wearing underwear, as on the other side there was another woman who was holding a baby. One can judge Picasso as a man who looked at women as sexual objects or mothers depending on what his paintings were about, especially this one. Therefore, one can realize how Picasso’s art has supported the inferiority of
This piece is important because it is exceptional compared to well-known artists. It has an philosophical interpretation that can relate to viewers’ lives. It is visually unusual compared to other art because it does not have a specific subject, and the crypticness is fascinating because it has viewers thinking deeply about its meaning as they begin to understand the visuals. It is a substantial piece of art because if one is having a difficult time in life, one can glance at The Deep and feel a sense of comfort of not feeling
Early in the novel, the reader gets the impression that the painting is pervaded by the longing for the youth that one has lost as well as the frightening deficiency of human life. In chapter eight this painting is described as: “the most magical of mirrors.” (Wilde 98). The portrait works
