Kenneth Clark's Assessment Of Nudity In Western Art

"Being once carried to see a steam-engine...he turned pale and grew sick, as if something monstrous and unnatural had been presented to him"(Page number?). He is as delicate of a force as the butterfly he creates. "For Heaven 's sake...as you would not drive me mad, do not touch it! The slightest pressure of your finger would ruin me forever"(page). In his obsessive pursuit of perfection, he cuts himself off from the human experience.

Giorgione showed this by placing a nude Venus in an organic environment. The placement of Venus’s hand on her groin and other hand behind her neck imply the recollection of love, but not love itself. Interestingly, Giorgione placed most manmade things in the middleground or background of the painting. He may want the viewer to believe that nature is, in fact, much more important than any manmade object will ever be. In my view, this is somewhat of a social statement because in this time period it was impolite and improper to bare any skin, let alone be nude.

Mindy was around average size and she was limited in her style options but she didn’t let this stop her. She did not let any stylist tell her how she should dress and attempt to hold her back from looking the way she wanted. The standards of beauty did not oppress her or make her want to change herself, but instead she made her own standards to live by. She not only inspires people to follow her fashion but to also to makes the rules of beauty. Claudia and Pecola both cared a lot about being perceived as beautiful, where Mindy only sought to make herself feel beautiful.

In my opinion, Chi Li views the serpent’s victims as “timid” and “pitiful” (WM 333) because she thinks they lacked the proper strength and courage to bring about the serpent’s demise. She expected them to be clever, as she is, and to be unafraid to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people. I think Chi Li’s attitude towards them is very realistic. Human beings tend their lives in a “bubble”. They recognize what is important to them, what their skills and talents are, and what they believe to be right and wrong.

Physical appearances are not everything, this is something that people neglect to see in today’s society. People are too focused on having this perfect body when perfection is a mere figment of the mind. Perfection does not exist, so the wife shows the knight that even the ugliest beings can have value. Think, can one be happy with a person who is rude and hateful, but yet are physically attractive? In some aspects maybe, but to like such a person is difficult.

This response clearly explains that rape is the worst thing that can happen to a woman because men see women as only her sexual purity, because it is the only part of her they care about. Claiming the rape is the worst thing that can happen to a woman but not a man maintains rape culture 's belief that men cannot be raped and that women solely exist for men’s pleasure. These beliefs are toxic to young adults and children because it encourages males to never speak up if they are raped, because they will be made fun of and called liars, and encourages females to believe that they are only worth something if a man says or believes so. Overall the beliefs that only women can be raped and that men never are can affect people for the rest of their lives and cause victims to suffer in

Like previously mentioned, I find the Parmi Nous a lot like graffiti and that is because it is striving to survive just like graffiti because they do not live up to the standard of what people would generally consider as art and beauty. Thus, the way the art lives represents those among us that lurks in the shadows of more perfect people just trying to survive too. This brings us to the question: Does perfection really matter? According to the Parmi Nous, perfection does not really matter because ugliness would always exist. Thus, people should not exclude others for their imperfection because imperfection is inside of you as

The other side, where sexuality is demeaning and dishonorable, is the body of the white woman. One side is at more of a disadvantage because that side, the one the Native American woman is on, was never looked at as a person but instead as an object. Perhaps an even more stark differentiation is the treatment of white women versus black women’s bodies in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth

If he would be able to remove it, he would be able to divorce spirituality from physicality, which is his constant obsession. From the phrase: “His brightest diamonds were the merest pebbles, and felt to be so by himself, in comparison with the inestimable gems which lay hidden beyond his reach” shows us how Aylmer realized himself how little he accomplished, and the birthmark drives him crazy since it is so far out of his reach to actually accomplish it, however if he could do it: "Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be” is a reference to the goddess Pygmalion when she was sculpted by the gods, fueling Aylmer 's desire to divorce physicality from spirituality further, and be considered a god. Answer 4 The flower represents man 's attempts to duplicate Nature, and even though the flower was described as “perfect and lovely” in the story, the flower can’t rival nature’s creations. The fact that the flower quickly turns black and dies after Georgina touches it can indicate that Aylmer 's experiments can have consequences, and that his wife may die soon.

The people are being denied personal freedom and true happiness in their lives. By avoiding the underlying truth in their lives with the consumption of Soma. The citizens can 't gain any scientific or realistic truth, and the “Brave New World” society destroys all truths such as friendship and love. The truth related to human relationships and emotions such as love, sadness, compassion, and sympathy are some of those truths. Normally, people feel these emotions, and it is what identifies us as humans.

He spoke to me as though people did not bear any distinctive or unique traits within the ethnic group that they identify with. The idea that a man would be interested in a girl solely because of the color of her skin and have absurd expectations to impose upon her is wrong, and it’s disgusting. Yellow fever stems from ideas and generalizations derived from archaic traditions and mainstream media that we are submissive, exotic, and eager to please. It is impossible to Google the term “Asian girl” without Asian specific porn websites, special dating services, and countless inappropriate images. As for television and movies, Asian women are portrayed as flat, two-dimensional characters, with few distinctive traits.

Overall, A Streetcar Named Desire is showing the downfalls of not expressing sexuality while doing the rare thing of showcasing sexuality in the context of a society that dismissed and condemned it. Tennessee Williams was a gay man who knew the frustration of living in a time period that demanded his sexuality be repressed. Through the play, he communicates how high a price individuals had to pay for expressing their desires. In Blanche’s case, her expression of sexuality led to her being committed to a mental institute, and in Allen Grey’s case death. Despite this Williams also imparts to his audience the negative impacts of disguising one 's sexuality behind the guise of what is considered normal and proper.

Each of them presented the subject as unbashful about themselves. Possibly even proud of what they got to show. The images on the doors represent sexuality as shameful, even immoral. The fact that the bronze doors of Hildesheim are a religious work of art may be the majority of the reason why Eve’s sexuality is represented as bad, possibly evil. The sculptures that were created of nude subjects were some of religious reason.

Titian can paint reclining nudes with a virtuosity not found in many, or any, other painters of the Renaissance and beyond. Titian has been described as a master of paint and color to create seductive compositions. In his other dramatic scenes too of the Poesie, such as Perseus and Andromeda, he still provides a contrived and beautiful body spread in the best way to show of her figure. In Europa, he abandons this and he must do it for a reason. She is not sexually idealized; instead she is awkwardly flung about with her torso so scrunched up that any feminine curve that once resided here is now erased in folds of skin and fat.

Crocker: What is going on in your mind, Ominica? Dorian 's life was terrible because of the immoral things he did, not because each action had consequences. Just because he was handsome does not mean he was happy. If you look at the novel, you see him trying to change himself and even tells you (Points to Lord Henry) that he was going to change. Dorian understood why he was being punished and the picture was his physical way of knowing he was doing wrong.