According to the artist’s website, Stephen Shames is an American photographer and photojournalist who has made many award-winning photo essays on social issues, particularly children in poverty. While it is mentioned that his efforts have been towards the promotion of social change through raising awareness, I selected one photographic example of his non-profitable projects in the line with the Sontag’s argument about “looking at the suffering of others” and its relation to the commercialization
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The Artist, David Gerard, created a marvelous art piece called The Rest on Flight into Egypt. The painting was crafted in 1510. The artwork depicts a “holy family” that emerged from a forest on the way to Egypt. The mother is holding baby Jesus while the father/husband, Joseph, gathers food. (The actual portrait shows the mother breast feeding the child, however that is not school appropriate.) The art piece was also inspired by the bible verse (Matt. 2:13-14) This specific biblical verse explains
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innovative ways • An example would be Marcel Duchamp’s artwork, “Nude Descending a Staircase”. People undervalued and ridiculed this particular painting due to its name. Duchamp’s intention was to create motion picture for his painting, a type of “advanced art” that people could not see at the time. 3) They make functional objects and structures more pleasurable
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installation as art and it’s also evident that Ricks is basing his pieces on the reactions of the viewers. Ricks’ manages to push the boundaries on what is considered art in a modern society where art is considered to be important based on its retail value. In a gallery where there is a dominance of significant artworks that have tremendous retail value, Ricks’ manages to provide a solid and controversial exhibition for which the general public can determine the validity of these pieces as art in a contemporary
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What make a photograph so captivating that it actually moves people? Some of the world’s greatest photographs captures extraordinary humans rebelling the government or people getting hurt by their own government. Two photographs in particular, have captured this; the Tiananmen Square picture, also known as the “Tank Man,” and the Kent State Shootings. These photos caught acts of bravery, courage, pain, and emotion. Even though photographs don’t say anything, they tell us everything. In 1970, the
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When first approaching the painting the most evident object seen is a tall cross in the top right corner of the canvas. Upon further study, there are many elements that draw the eye to the cross. I believe the artist has intended to make the cross the focal point of the piece. It is not by the name of the painting, which has lead to this conclusion, but all the design decisions displayed in the artwork. The painting is a narrative, representational artwork that illustrates a town or village nestled
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Linear lines are used in dance to evokes ideas or emotions that are unnatural, or in other words, artificial, because straight lines appear so rarely in nature. The objects are related to the Rand’s ideals are all given the trait of being composed of straight lines; for example, Reardon Steel’s straight railroads, the geometric pattern of light rays in Dagny’s apartment, and the tall skyscrapers in New York. I’m not sure whether Rand’s intent was to make all of her protagonist seem emotionally desensitized
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Rossetti 1, 3-4) Here, C. Rossetti compares the canvas with a mirror, which in turn juxtaposes the portrait with its physical subject. Similar to the coin in “A Sonnet,” this comparison at first contradicts the artificiality C. Rossetti attributes to art, as it suggests that the painting is so real and life-like that it is indistinguishable from a reflection in a
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A picture with a purpose either good or bad can take on many different meanings. One single still image can have ability to change the opinion and beliefs of the masses, when reality is transformed into a tangible picture. It often takes on a new meaning for the person holding it, not just a random moment in time. It’s a still shot of an entire group of people who don’t know you personally, but yet hating you for the person you love. As seen in the picture from the Washington Post following the
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The working girl was a popular subject for many painters and Isabel Bishop was one of them. Ellen Wiley Todd goes into how Bishop’s work focused on the young working girl and how the times help shaped their attitude and appearance at the workplace. In some of Bishop‘s paintings Todd goes in depth of why the subjects are the way they are. For example in Young Woman, 1937 is shows the subject walking with confidence. This confidence might stem from the possibility that she could have been a “stenographer
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