Kirby Sattler

The animals in the painting that are beside Kahlo both seem to represent something. The monkey on the left looks unaffected by the situation that she is in and plays with the thorn branch. The cat on the right looks a bit agitated, with its arched back and its ears which are flattened back. The cat looks like its staring at her and maybe at the thorns too. It sees the branches piercing into her skin, focusing on the wound and aware of the situation. The cat seems to be focusing on the pain Frida is feeling from the branches. Having these animals beside brings contrast, they are dark compared to her clothes which are bright. This contrast brings the observer’s eyes onto her to make it the main focal

Abstract: This paper is a report on the findings of the geometry in Native American art. Many Native American tribes have mastered the art of weaving baskets, blankets, and pottery. All in which their inspiration is taken from geometric shapes and symmetries. One very important element in the creation of the geometric patterns in their art, are the numbers four and three. Many tribes consider the number four as showing completeness, thus translating it into their art. Changing times also demand change in designs and learning new forms of art.

Knowing that I am an arts ' enthusiast, she searched for local events pertaining to art and stumbled across tickets to this event on the OMA websites list of attractions. The intended exhibit of the Antiques Vintage and Garden Show was a bit of a snooze and we ended up spending over two hours in the room designated for the Pre-Columbian art works instead, which happened to line up with the time period of the art works studied in this course of Art History. Through my experience at this exhibit it was revealed to me the importance of the natural world in every Mesoamerican cultures form of art. Specifically, this was proven by the fact that the materials utilized were part of each cultures stomping grounds, literally, in reference to clays and ceramics, also by the subjects and scenes depicted in such works revolved around the natural environment at hand, and lastly shown by the value of animal life depicted through their representation and symbolism.

Nature is around us, willingly or unwillingly, and it’s up to writers to be able to express their feeling for nature in any way possible. Different people have different ways of perceiving and interpreting nature. Some may view it as calming and peaceful, while others may perceive it as torturous. Nevertheless, the authors from the essay and the poem definitely have a good relationship with nature. As they describe in depth their feelings towards nature, it becomes more clear the differences that these authors have with their relationship with nature. Even though these authors have expressed their feelings toward nature in different ways, both authors have expressed their relationship (to nature) with imagery and sensory words.

In the book “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors have been used to represent the character’s unapparent and underlying thoughts, feelings, status and class. Through the motif of colors, Fitzgerald depicts the feelings of the character as he refers to a specific color while describing each one of them. The colors make a deep impact on the readers as they contain a profound meaning throughout the novel. There are around five main colors in the novel appearing frequently: white, yellow, green, blue and grey, which help the novel look more gaudy and idealistic.

The writer, Richard Louv, in his argumentative paper, Last Child in the Woods, supports his argument that relates to the separation between people and nature. To support his argument, he uses rhetorical devices in order to motivate the readers to reminisce about their past and how nature applied to it. Louv’s purpose is to manifest the feelings of the reader’s past to connect with his ideals of nature.

“The Open Window” is an oil painting by Henri Matisse made in the summer of 1905. It is a perfect example of the new art current which inspired French Art at the beginning of the century known as Fauvism. It represents the view from the window of the hotel’s room in Collioure in which the artist stayed.

Frank L. Baum used various colors through out his novel. These colors were used to describe different people, places and things. The colors were symbolic of those things. They symbolized how the world was during his time. I will be talking about 3 of them. The color black, white, and green.

The 1920s and 1930s was a time when everyone was inspired by jazz and urban, black expression. It was a moment when modern African American culture took people's imagination. Archibald Motley, an visual artist, born in 1891 in New Orleans, LA and raised in Chicago, IL was one of the most widely recognized African American artists in the 20th century. And one of the most important 20th century artist in Chicago. He contributed to artistry of black culture and history in many different ways. Not to mention, Motley was a great importance during the Harlem Renaissance time period, known as a symbolic painter. Greatly known for his paintings of jazz culture in passionate city scenes and black social life. Motley made many contributions to life in

Although Olsen lived with Indigenous people, she still claims to have no particular expertise on knitting or Indigenous life. Yet, there has been a new trend in non-fiction writing on Indigenous topics to include Indigenous voices. This phenomena can be observed with non-Indigenous written books, such as Catherine C. Robbins’ All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) (2011) or Martine J. Reid’s Bill Reid and the Haida Canoes (2010). Using Indigenous voices allows for different perspectives to prevail in the narrative. By employing knitters’ quotes, Olsen is honouring the creators behind the famous

Thomas Cole was in influential painter during the Romantic art period and who, with his love of nature, established the Hudson River School. His landscape works encompass a theme of the beauty and wildness of nature. Cole created several paintings and also some series of paintings. His work focused on the Catskill mountains and surrounding areas, where he lived. Many allegorical and symbolic references are found in his paintings because his art tells stories.

Produced in the early fifteenth century around the time when the Duke of Bedford married Anne of Burgundy in 1423, the Bedford Hours is offered as a tribute to this match that established the political alliance between England and France. Though the donor of the book is unsure (whom Janet Backhouse suspects to be Anne’s brother, Philip of Burgundy), what is certain is that the book was produced by the Bedford Master and his workshop in Paris. The Bedford Hours is filled with miniatures of different sizes, and each page of miniature has its own scenes(s) and elaborate decorations in the forms of border medallions, initials, and commentaries. Among them, the outstanding image of the Annunciation with scenes from the early life of the Virgin Mary is especially compelling. First of all, it marks the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin, and the Hours of the Virgin is the heart of every single Book of Hours. Second of all, it also possesses a lot of elements that are different from not only the

During my visit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan I encountered a painting created by Dallin Maybee. He is from the Northern Arapaho tribe, this tribe is from the Great Plains. This artist specializes in ledger art. A ledger artist creates art on ledgers. Native Americans are known to use ledgers for their artwork. Ledgers are usually old documents used in the past for notes or other writing uses. Ledgers are very important to the Native American community. Ledger are easy to get access to. Alex Plamer from smithsonian.com notes how tribe members painted on these ledgers to record situations they faced:

Throughout the novel of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color plays a major role. Each land had its own color and the color represented its land. For example, the land of the Munchkins was blue while the land of the Winkies was yellow. Baum liked to use color theory in a variety of the stories he had illustrated. The colors would symbolize each city. Introducing color throughout the novel was Baum 's way of being stylish and creative.

When people think of street art they generally visualize a juvenile delinquent defacing someone’s property, only to be rebellious. They cannot imagine that street art represents something bigger than just rebellion; that it even changes the way some individuals view their world. Street art is made to symbolize extreme sentiments that the artist feels, even if others do not understand. So is the beauty of street art, it is extremely intimate. As for the other point, they cannot imagine that street art can be made by individuals other than delinquents. They deny the fact that there have been cultured street artists such as Banksey, Jenny Holzer, and Shepard Fairey, some of which even have degrees from high art institutions.