Another painting made at the same time, Portrait d’une femme haïtienne (1787), does not provide a clue to the painter 's place of residence. The context of this painting breaks the Western tradition of the oil portrait, where the model is a slave, and the painter is most likely its owner. The exposure of the breast in the Portrait of a Haitian woman is used by the white master to probably display the reproductive potential of his black slave, which is a crucial parameter of the economic value of his "good." Female models of the wealthy class would not have been represented in this
Alice Neel was a painter in the early twentieth century, who was a trendsetter among women at the time. Neel worked primarily in the form of portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes but most notably portraits. There are two theories to Alice Neel’s paintings that critics alike seem to always mention or try to push as the main concept. These concepts are called the Male Gaze, and Honest Alice. The Male Gaze derives from the idea that all content that is created for women is meant to satisfy the sexual desire or even just appeal to men more sensually about women in the world.
Her position and relationship with authorities and governing bodies presented firm rejection while a small part allowed acceptance to only some female artists. “Although her portrait practice did not regain its former profitability, she was an active participant in the debates unleashed by the Revolution over women’s access to education and financial support” (Brooklyn Museum, n.d., para. 1). The recognition came from her successful piece known historically as “Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785” (Brooklyn Museum, n.d.). This acceptance into the Académie Royale in Paris had opened up doors to the governing powers that would make use of her abilities and talent for detailed work in oil paintings.
The Grande Odalisque is an oil painting from 1814 by Jean Ingres. The painting is of one of the most famous harem girls in the history of art. The girl is young, nude, and beautifully lounging in a luxurious environment with a turban on her head an a peacock feather fan in her hand. This painting is currently located at the Louvre Museum in Paris and can be found in any art history textbook. The word Odalisque in the title is a French term for a woman kept as a sex slave in a Turkish, Persian, or Arab harem.
Being a sculptor, poet, architect and painter, Michelangelo portrayed the ideal human form in art. Most of his known works are of humans, in nude forms and expressing some level of emotion. The works entailed complicated poses that capture natural proportions, strength, serenity, divinity, feeling. Compared to other works of artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, other artworks favored creations that were less balanced and unstable. With a bit of realism, artists used distorted figures and exaggerated poses that symbolized mythological figures like ‘Ganymede and the Eagle’ (Emison, Patricia,
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35 and Ana Mendieta, Flowers on the Body, were both seen in the era where women were becoming more introduced in paintings and feminism was rising. Both paintings are similar because they used women as a main object. They are both different because Mendieta's purpose was to compare women's bodies as landscapes by using a silhouette formed by nature and Sherman shows more of a feminist stand by ignoring the patriarchal “male gaze” and focused on her own identity and feminist concern. They are both related due to the artists using themselves as the subject in their artwork. Their main impact on modern art is how women revolutionized in art form by putting their bodies to present their ideas and not focus on
This website gives great insight and information about this famous piece of art. The Venus of Willendorf dates between 24,000 - 22,000 B.C.E., this makes the Venus of Willendorf one of the most famous and oldest works of art that gives so much insight to how the society viewed women. For example, we should start this essay off with talking about art and its meaning. Dr. Bryan Zygmont who wrote this
America was segregated and blacks and whites had a different set of rights under what were called ‘Jim Crow’ laws. Not only was there racial oppression, however, but women were also oppressed and viewed as inferior to men. This started a huge movement of the arts which prompted changes in unjust laws and legislation. The 1960s brought about a great movement of the arts as the oppressed people and the activists spoke out against the unfair laws through their various art forms.
Manet’s Olympia defied traditional art conventions in depicting the female body. The salon displayed traditional nudes for the pleasure of the, primarily male, viewer. Under the male gaze, the woman’s bare body became an erotic object—an object from which he may craft an erotic fantasy, characterized by male domination.
‘The Woman in Black’, by Susan Hill, is one of the most successful ghost story, set in the nineteenth century although written in the 1980’s. ‘The Woman in Black’ is about a man, Arthur Kipps, who narrates the story of his life, and explains his most haunting, and terrifying revelation, hoping that sharing the story would help exorcise the memories that haunt him. There are several adaptations made of this story, such as plays, and movies. But how were they all able to keep their audience interested?
The color of Olympia skin is almost white with very little shadow or darker skin tones to emphasize the shape of her body. The only high contrast shadow is under her hand, which was considered filthy, where it covers her genitals. . Olympia was rendered almost flat but because she is in the center of the painting as well as her skin is so bright comparing to the dark color of her surrounding that makes Olympia stands out the most. By giving a great contrast for Olympia and her surrounding environment, Manet drew the viewer's attention to Olympia, her beauty and her confident gazing eyes. Beside, by lacking of the perfection on the face as well as the body, Manet convinced viewers that Olympia was not Goddess like Venus
The purpose of a ghost story is to leave the reader feeling frightened and unaware of what the truth of reality is. Nguyen's Black-Eyed Women flips all our perceptions of what a ghost is and why they visit the living. The ghost stories told in this story affect the narrator by forcing her to confront the discomfort of her reality. The narrator realizes she has been ignoring discomfort about her brother dying for her, and s the guilt and that she lived. She loses her identify, and sense of security, however her brother's ghost arrives to mend this disconnect.
Olympia By Manet Article “Venus to Olympia: An Art Timeline” by Heather Goldstein and “Olympia” by Jonathan Jones both commentates on the contextual meaning of Manet’s Impressionist painting “Olympia”. Heather Goldstein’s “Venus to Olympia: An art timeline” provides a take on Manet’s “Olympia” through a cultural frame. She introduces Manet as the “Father of Modernism” who enjoyed to “stir things up in the art world” as his artwork often lead to many controversial issues during that time. She then recounts how “Titian’s Venus of Urbino [has] inspired one of his most famous paintings, Olympia”. The final composition however, have caused “quite a stir” amongst the 19th century viewers, “when it was presented at the 1865 Salon”.
I also thought that the author presented many good points about how this painting is more likely to be of a bride than of the goddess Venus such as contextual clues like the absence of Cupid. Another reason this painting is so controversial is because of the confidence that is displayed in the nude model’s posture and gaze at the viewer instead of looking away. This shows that the woman who was being painted might have been familiar with the artist which is also interesting in
Artwork is a form of self-expression from an artist based on life experience, or on something that the artist feels strongly about (Berenson, 87). The product of art can help others with similar experiences but not able to express the same feeling themselves. From the product of art, people can start drawing excitement, purpose as well as encouragement about the real thing being expressed. Through a piece of art, the artist can communicate a purpose, an emotion or an idea in their work. In this research paper, I compare two pieces of artwork; Madonna and child with the saints by Giovanni Bellini and Madonna and child with the two angels done by Fra Filippo Lippi.
