...Strategic Plan BUS 475 April 21, 2014 Strategic Plan Photography companies allow people, families, friends, and organizations to capture memorable moments that will be seen for years to come. Megan Elizabeth Portraits is an individually owned photography studio based in Dallas, Texas. The studio specializes in newborn, maternity, and family portraits using natural light to enhance the portraits. Each photography session is centered around the type of picture the client wants. There are guidelines that each client must follow in order for each photo session to be successful and each client to be satisfied. Megan Elizabeth Portraits wants to make each experience a lifelong memory and an experience that will capture the essence of each client. The vision of Megan Elizabeth Portraits is to capture the beauty of the environment and nature (Elizabeth, 2014). The studio wants to give the client unique portraits that will last a long time and give the client something to share with others. The vision of this studio will help to make clients feel comfortable and make them feel like their decision to have Megan Elizabeth Portraits as the photographer was the best decision to make. Clients are able to do photo shoots with nature as a backdrop and other different kind of backdrops that will bring a fresh view of the environment through the picture. The type of pictures that this studio wants to produce and the kind of experience each client should have further exemplifies...
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...Portraits do not exist to simply show what a person looks like, portraits are meant to strip people their essence and convey the embodiment of a person, “Portraits should provide us with authentic insights into individual personalities and this means much more than simply recording physical impressions…the task of the portrait artist is no so much to produce a likeness as to capture the “reality” of a person”, (Neville Drury, 1992). A painted portrait possesses a life of its own that stems from deep within the painters’ soul and shows the raw soul of the sitter; portraits should allow you to see who the person truly is, its an embodiment. Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 conveys the essence of who van Gogh was, his state of mind and mood through visual...
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...English 11: Philosophy It’s All About You The Self-Portrait The Assignment: To create a mixed media self-portrait through which you reveal a “secret of your soul” -- an element of your identity such as a passion, a belief, a characteristic, or a value that you hold close to your “core” [or, in other words, that you believe plays a significant role in defining your true self]. Why a Self Portrait? A self-portrait allows you to see your beauty, understand your shadows, and express your feelings and reflections. It is a powerful tool that can help you to understand yourself on a deeper level, ultimately promoting inner peace, change, and personal growth. Where do I Start – and End? Obviously, attempting to understand yourself is a process that necessitates an introspective journey. • Begin by experimenting with some of the warm up techniques that are listed on the back of this page. These techniques should get you thinking in a reflective direction. • Once you have completed some of the warm up activities, log on to Moodle, and review the “It’s All About You” PowerPoint posted there. It contains examples of self–portraits from various professional artists (along with, in many cases, their statements of intent); some instructional tips on art techniques, terms, and materials you might use to create your own work; and sample projects from previous years’ philosophy students . • Draft your ideas, considering both the...
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...A “selfie” is a self-portrait photograph, usually captured with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are frequently posted on social networking sites like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Tumblr. They are usually random, and are commonly taken either with a camera held at arm’s length or a monopod, or in a mirror. The term “selfie” was explained by photographer Jim Krause in 2005, despite photos in the selfie type predate the extensive application of the word. Self –taken pictures were specifically common on MySpace before Facebook became popular online social network in the beginning of the year 2000. Nevertheless, writer Kate Losse depicts that between 2006 and 2009 (when Facebook became well-known than MySpace) the “MySpace pic” (mainly “an incompetent, flash-blinded self-portrait, regularly taken in front of a bathroom mirror”) became a hint of a bad taste for users of the newer Instagram and Facebook social network. A “self-portrait” is a description of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Even though self-portraits have been built by artists since the earliest times, it is not before the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be commonly recognized representing themselves as either the primary subject...
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...Alfred Pierre Agache (1843 - 1915) At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, a striking portrait has attracted art observers since 1965. The large 6 feet by 3½ feet oil painting is a courageous woman in a black robe. She is sitting down with her fist on her waist and a long, sharp sword on her right hand. The woman in the portrait has a piercing and intimidating expression on her face. There are words displayed on the top portion of the portrait, “Pro Iustitia Tantum.” The term is Latin for “on behalf of justice only.” The painting was a gift from the Canadian National Exhibition Association and it has been one of the most popular artworks at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Alfred Pierre Agache was the artist known for this famous...
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...Reflecting Upon Your Best-Self All of us can recall our own extraordinary moments, those moments when we felt our best-self was brought to light, affirmed by others, and put into practice in the world. These memories are seared into our minds as moments or situations in which we have felt alive, true to our deepest selves, and pursuing our full potential as human beings. Think about three times in your life when you were at your very best. For each best-self episode, write the story of what happened, including how the episode got started, what kept it going, and how it came to an end. | | |Best Self Episode #1: | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...A portrait is a painting that shows and focuses on one or two people that often shows many things about who they are. Portraiture is a very interesting type of artwork because you can often make many observations from the little details in the painting that represent who the person is. From these small details, we can infer information about someone who lived hundreds of years ago. The piece that I am analyzing is a double portrait by Jan van Eyck called Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife that was painted in the year 1434. This piece is oil on wood panel and can be found on page 562 in the textbook. I chose this piece because I feel that there are a lot of different details that are available to analyze and that this piece really represented many of the key aspects of 15th century art in Northern Europe. Van Eyck was extremely detailed and incorporated a lot of symbolism in the portrait that helps to be able to identify who the people in the painting are....
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...Images never merely portray an authentic reality but instead they “inevitably betray the values of the culture in which they were created” (Howells, 2003: 70) Fig1.1: Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns, 1940, Oil on Canvas Fig. 1.2 Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed), 1932, Oil on Metal This paper will begin with a brief introduction of visual studies, painting in particular and go on to establish the fact that visual images not merely imitate reality but also inform the real world. When one views a painting, it is not complete objective view. There is a very thin line between objectivity and mind working under influence of ideologies. Complex interworking of representation of perceived reality by the painter, ideological approach of the viewer is at play, both, striving to figure out the real. The paper will try to analyze Frida Kahlo’s two paintings Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Humming Bird and Henry ford hospital, The Flying Bed under this lens. The term visual might seem to a layman too simplistic to be critically analyzed but the field of visual culture expands the scope of our ways of seeing and the perceptions that govern an individual's spectatorship. It is easy to define visual as "What is visible to eyes" but new vistas are opened when as students of visual studies we set to decipher the fact that our understanding of reality is primarily if not wholly based on our pre-conceived notions, acquired ideas, collective unconsciousness (Jung), ideologies...
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...artists in Minnesota. This particular exhibition held at MCAD showcases the works of five recipients of the $10,000.00 grant. These emerging artists are Susannah Bielak, Amanda Hankerson, Michael Hoyt, Melissa Loop and Lauren Roche. The exhibition includes video, drawings, and performed work by Bielak. Photographs by Hankerson, including a mobile drawing unit designed by Hoyt, mysterious landscapes by loop, and captivating abstracted portraits by Roche. The 2012/13 winners of the grant seem to have had a clear focus in terms of what they wanted to display and composed their pieces in a fascinating manner. The pieces are very diverse when it comes content as well as media; I would defiantly say that these are defiantly artists to look out for in the near future. The works that I feel are most representative of this show come from the landscape and portrait paintings composed by Melissa Loop and Lauren Roche. Both painters are considered traditional with their choice medium being oil on canvas. Loop has more of an affinity for painting portraits of amazon like landscapes. She acknowledges her former Hudson River school as being a source of inspiration for her works. Her reliefs inspire one to not only look at the serenity and beauty of the exotic landscapes, but also to realize that these lush lands may have inhabitants. She try’s to capture in her paintings, the inhabitants perspective in the form of the inhabitants looking at the viewer. Her trips to Mexico and Belize inspired...
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...The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock With time poems may have lost their voice, but not their importance. Up to this day, poetry is still one of the greatest forms of artistic expression; Poems speak to emotions and capture feelings. There is no right format of a poem, but yet a world of possibilities. Instead being unchangeable poems are innately open to interpretation, they should be spoken out loud in order to be “heard”, convey truth and cause impact. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is an extremely meaningful poem; it is one of Elliot’s best-known works and without a doubt a masterpiece (Hillis). T.S. Eliot introduces the poem with a quote from Dante's Inferno (XXVII.61-66), and with that sparks our curiosity. He then makes statements and questions that perhaps everyone has done, or will do at some point in life. The poem is a legitimate work of the modernist movement, the language used is contemporary; the verses are free and the rhythm flows naturally. All of the elements in the poem are in harmony and work together in order to set the tone making up a unique poetic style. “Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky”. From its first lines, the poem is able to catch the reader’s attention by using very strong imagery. Eliot’s following verse says, “ Like patient etherized upon a table”. The reader is both amazed but also “shocked” by the author with the...
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...learned so much about painting and sculptures that have never seen before. I think that the sculptures were more detailed and more presentable than the painting, but all the paintings were still good too. One of the first things that caught my eye when I first enter was a big man statue standing, and it was about 8 feet tall by an American artist named Gaston Lachaise and it was one of the biggest art craft in the museum that I saw. Another one was the best of the savior by Gianlorienzo Bermini and was made in Italy. The paintings were colorful, but some of the paintings in the museum that I didn’t like such as the zinc yellow by Franz Kline (American artist). It was white and yellow stroke but I thought that the style was poor. The portrait of Miles Sherbrook by American artist John Singleton Copley was the other painting. It shows Miles Sherbrook and his business and it looks reality to me. One of the arts that I really liked was the Wounded Indian, by Peter Stephenson. I liked it because of how its artwork and it was very well created. Saint John the Baptist was another one and it was made of wood and it seems very powerful and how it was presenting. The last one that I experienced was Ariedne which was created by Chavey Bradley. There were a lot of things to look at and learned from it but time is not enough. It was a really great experienced and I really enjoyed...
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...All of us have some ambition or the other in life. Such a man has naturally a purpose in life and is always enthusiastic and makes sustained efforts to realise his ambition. He strives hard till he attains what he wishes. Nothing can deter him from the path he treads. But Ambition should be within one's reach. There is no fun for crying for the moon. My ambition is to be a great painter. My teachers have always appreciated my paintings and encouraged me to paint. I have painted various subjects varying from nature to portraits. My paintings have always found a place in our school exhibitions. My imagination is sharp and sense of colours good. This and my vivid imagination have made me a good painter. I have been practicing painting for a long time now and I realize that the more I paint, the better I get it. I know that I can bring a lot of joy to the people who view my paintings. I wish to have my paintings exhibited at various exhibitions and art galleries abroad. A painter creates an imaginary world for himself. I too can create such a world where I can feel comfortable and happy. It is my escape from the mundane reality that I face everyday. It will greatly satisfy my aesthetic sensibility to continue to paint. I hope to evolve my own style of paintings and set an example for the coming generations of painters. As a painter I can express my feelings on the canvas. I can project my sensibility about certain subjects I paint. I want to be a painter with a difference. My...
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...poem; he used the word “portrait” eight times. This allowed the reader to develop his own thoughts and ideas of what the poem could be about. In this analysis Ashberry’s poem was created on the basics of derivative art; he portrays a situation where the artist’s creativity conflicted with the demands of the people (meaning the people from the “buildings”). They said to “try using the brush/as a means to an end. Select, for a portrait,/Something less angry and large, and more subject/to a painter’s moods, or perhaps, to a prayer (Lines 9-12).” In the poem, the author presents the struggle for the artist who wants to present the sea instead of just painting it. The author seemingly lionizes the painter’s struggle in finding the most creative and artistic way to display the sea. Quoting “nature, not art, might usurp the canvas (Line 14).” Summing up the poem, ultimately the author displays that the struggle would clash with what the community wanted. Art is a display of one’s self but viewed by that of the public. Interpreting this poem was very complicated. Summarizing the events of the poem, the author first identifies the painter, the buildings and the sea (as if they connect or have some time of relation). Then the painter positions himself between the symbolic pieces: the buildings and the sea. This sort of sets the tone and the assumption of the artist being torn between the two. The artist’s intention was to creatively produce an imitative portrait of the nature of the sea;...
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...Haylie Jefferson Extra Credit Art Appreciation February 10, 2016 Mona Lisa is Missing August 11, 1911 was a dramatic day for Paris. One of the most famous paintiin the world, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from Louvre Museum. The man who stole the painting was named Vincenzo Peruggia. This is a large crime and no one would ever think that Peruggia would be able to do something like this. He is a small, uneducated, working man. Joe Medeiros, the director and writer of this film is trying to figure out exactly how this happened. Joe travels across the country to meet Peruggia’s daughter, Cheltiza to get some unanswered questions. After talking with her, he quickly finds out that she never even knew her father. Peruggia died on October 8, 1945 which is his birthday as well and his body was buried in France. She was very young when he passed away and her mother remarried her dead husbands brother. They hid the fact that her father was a theft for 18 years and never told her about anything. She only knew small things about the theft that she had heard. She says that the reason her father did it was for patriotism from his country and wanted to get revenge on his co-workers that would make fun of him and call him “macaroni” because he was from Italy and that’s all she really knew about him. Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa on August 11, 1911. He stole the painting in for two whole years. He got into the museum with his old work because they were cleaning the pictures glass. At the time he...
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...Rome. From this came the discovery of new technologies, new continents through exploration, and the emergence of the arts of philosophy, literature, and art. From this time came some of the most world renowned pieces of art, many of which are still on display today, with two such pieces being “The Arnolfini Portrait” by Jan Van Eyck and “Giorgione” by Giorgio da Castelfranco. Renaissance Art From roughly 1400 to 1600 Europe experienced a rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture and with this rediscovery came wealth, both in the monetary fashion and in the art sense. With increasing trade, the discovery of new continents, and new inventions such as the printing press, there was also an increase in the arts. This increase brought about some of the most well known literature, philosophy, and art that is still studied and admired today. Although there are more well known names in the field of art such as DaVinci and Michelangelo there were many more that still have their art on display today such as Jan Van Eyck and Giorgio da Castelfranco. Giorgio da Castelfranco created a painted entitled “Judith” in the year 1504 and is one of many portraits that depicts the scene of Judith of Holofernes from the Biblical legend of Judith. The tale states that the widow Judith makes herself appealing to an army general, Holofernes, and in the end beheads him with his own sword while he lies inebriated in his bed. With the death of their leader, the Assyrians are...
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