The Baroque artist, Gentileschi, painted “Judith Slays Holofernes,” after she was raped and her attacker was pardoned. Instead, the Italian government tortured her for “lying”. The painting is a reference to the biblical story of Judith, a widow from Syria, who takes it upon herself to kill the army general who seized her town. This painting reveals the themes of anger and revenge through the artist and the composition itself. Gentileschi was alive during a time where women’s opinions could not be voiced, so she voiced her anger and frustration through her composition. Judith takes revenge on the army general for pillaging her town, by beheading him. This whole painting basically represents revenge on any male wrongdoer, and greatly relates
The book bless me Ultima by Rudolfo anaya is a story about a boy that begins to question more and more about his faith because of all the sin he has seen throughout the book using the dream on page 243 - 244 Anaya uses oxymoron,connotation and symbolism to convey the meaning that antono no longer believes in his god or any other god at the moment and he needs to learn how how to live without his faith guiding him through the rest of his life. The author uses symbolism to show all the sins that antonio has gone through”first i saw Narciso he help his hand to the gaping bloody wound on his chest … came the mangled body of Lapito jerking crazily to the lager of the townspeople … body of florence flouting motionlessly in the dark water”(243).
This particular painting shows what the living spaces and how proud they are of themselves for making thing better for them and children. Another great example is the painting Indian Hunters Return. This painting shows a successful hunt and the celebration of the days work. Also it shows the life for an american indian in the winter. This
In addition to that, on the wall shows a portrait of his grandmother's former slave family member. Allowing to show his ability to demonstrate different brush styles in one piece of painting. Not to mention, leaving the painting in the left corner blurry and dim and his grandmother detailed and realistic. Portraying that his grandmother's past was left in the past and she is the life of the
The whole painting is in black and white which gives it a lugubrious tone. The angle of the portrait allows the audience to see the facial expression of each person in the painting. Both African American males have a sort of grin on their face, which shows that the painting is in favor of them. The communist, KKK member is depicted as a skeleton that is weak and being destroyed. The man that is stopping the communist member from hanging the little boy has a banner on that says CRC, which is a representation of the civil rights congress standing up for the rights of African Americans during that time.
‘Uprising’, an Expressionistic piece dated 1899, illustrates the revolt of the working-class, with the depiction of an allegorical nude female leading the peasants beneath her, charging forth at an unseen entity. This work explores a concept similar to that of Kollwitz’s cycle ‘The Peasant War’ which features ‘Black Anna’, a woman Kollwitz saw as an important figure in stirring significant social changes. Adopting a landscape layout, ‘Uprising’ is an asymmetrically balanced work that bears resemblance to the work, ‘Die Satanisten. Satan sät die Hexenbrut ' dated 1882. The only observed female of this artwork is portrayed with surrealistic proportions in her most vulnerable state - nude and exposed - whilst wielding a torch in her hands, her back leg swung up in a fleeing motion.
Ancient Rome was a prideful society that felt they were superior to any other race that opposed them. Boudicca and Zenobia were two queens that opposed Rome’s power. Because these queens did not want Rome to take over their land, they battled the great army. In general, one’s race and/or ethnicity is always considered when they are an enemy in a war, but based on the accounts of Boudicca and Zenobia, the Romans seem to pay more attention to their gender compared to their actual race because the Romans felt they were far superior compared to any woman.
“Why for instance, does Anders not find the “Rape of Europa” imitation on the bank’s ceiling to be a gratifying thing? As a literary critic-a custodian of high taste-Anders should have been pleased by the fact that the architect thought it to be suitable to decorate the lobby with classical images rather than something less exalting, less demanding of its patrons”(144-161). This painting is what caused Anders to hysterically laugh, infuriating the robber, which led to his slaying. However, it took Anders being shot in the head to perceive that he could have been a better person. Anders was able to remember the person he once was.
Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks and all those involved by shifting between first and third person perspectives. The novel is mostly a reminiscence perspective written in both present and past tense. The narrator who speaks in first person and analyzes in the third person is Rebecca Skloot, an observer in the novel. The book is “not only the story of HeLa cells and Henrietta Lacks, but of Henrietta’s family” (Skloot 7). The novel is full of Skloot’s observations, experiences, and knowledge from her pursuit of the truth, which is why the novel shifts from third to first person point of view (and vice versa).
In the poem “You bring out the Mexican in me” by Sandra Cisneros, she begins to create a close relation with the reader by addressing the nameless lover as “you”. As Cisneros begins to utilize amplification by repeating “you” in every stanza; she makes an emphasis of the importance that the nameless lover has over her. To begin, by reading the title “You bring out the Mexican in me,” it can be interpreted that the deep emotions of passion that are perhaps hidden, are inevitably brought out to the light by the nameless lover. In the first stanza the word in italics “lagrimas” written in Spanish, translation in English for “tears,” makes the emphasis on the emotional aspect of crying for love.
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.
This paper will discuss the well-published work of, Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken, 1975. Print. Sarah B. Pomeroy uses this book to educate others about the role women have played throughout ancient history. Pomeroy uses a timeline to go through each role, starting with mythological women, who were called Goddesses.
In this painting, which is oil on canvas, Judith is severing Holofernes head in good reason. In the biblical story, the Book of Judish tells of how Judith was stripped of her clothes and raped by Holofernes, whom was the Assyrian General. Judith later gets Holofernes drunk, and enticed him to bed. Only to execute her revenge. By cutting Holofernes's HEAD
Her daughter tenderly embraces her mother, we are able to see her dependency but also her love. This is how Lebrun wants to be seen, as an honorable mother. All the details of this painting, from it’s composition to the reference it makes to the Madonna and Child, put Lebrun in a flattering scene during a
The Young Martyr, a painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, is currently housed in the Musee de Louvre in Paris, France. It was finished in 1855 and was painted during the Romanticism era. Although it is not as famous as the Mona Lisa, it is still a beautifully done oil painting that continues to enchant museum visitors. After the French Revolution in 1789, everything about society in Europe was changing.