Conceptual art Essays

Grande Odalisque is an oil painting from 1814 by Jean Ingres. The painting is of one of the most famous harem girls in the history of art. The girl is young, nude, and beautifully lounging in a luxurious environment with a turban on her head an a peacock feather fan in her hand. This painting is currently located at the Louvre Museum in Paris and can be found in any art history textbook. The word Odalisque in the title is a French term for a woman kept as a sex slave in a Turkish, Persian, or Arab harem

Destruction. Chaos. Loss. Exile. Annihilation. What do these things have in common? They are themes that many authors use in modern literature, or modernism. What is modernism? The term is derived from the Latin “modo”, meaning “just now” (Mastin). Used in literature, it was a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past, taking form in any various innovative movements and styles. It was a general movement in literature that stressed newness and stylistic innovations

The health care system is undergoing radical changes and for each and every service we have specialized personnel and departments available now. Medical social workers specialized in that area of social work and part of the multidisciplinary team usually work in hospital, nursing home or hospice, have a degree in the field, and work with patients and their families in need of psycho-social help. They assess the psychosocial functioning of patients and families and intervene as and when necessary

“Damien Hirst is At The Top of the Modern Art Food Chain” Guardian article by Jonathan Jones This article, composed by British art critic and journalist Jonathan Jones provides an expert opinion on , artist Damien Hirst’s most famous piece. Jones unequivocally declares it as a revolutionary work of art, while proclaiming Hirst as a peerless modern art legend and highlighting his alleged brilliance (par 8,7). Within the 9 paragraphs of this article Jones successfully attempting to devalue the legacies

the dangerous nature of boundaries by using bodies within art? Well within this essay I will explore how artistic works utilise the materiality of the body in order to expose the precarious and dangerous nature of boundaries. I will be focusing on three key ways that five different artists have adopted the materiality of the body to push boundaries. The three key ways that I will be exploring are: audience participation, masochism within art performance and nudity- uncovering or using of the lower

Institute of Contemporary Art was a modern museum of art situated in Boston. ICA wanted the opportunity to share the cultural aspect of art to the world, but had to make a bridge between the world of contemporary art and an audience that was unaware of such art. Art Director, Jill Medvedow went through many transformations during her initial term starting in 1998 trying to strengthen and grow the cultural aspect of art to the city of Boston. Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art was incapable of attracting

Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s. She became internationally known when she married famous singer John Lennon of The Beatles. Ono was one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge from the art world in the 60s. Her breakout performance “Cut Piece”, was the first for feminist art performance. It brought the audience into close contact with the artist, which was a new concept and crossed the traditional boundaries

Today, I am going to speak with you about Studio Joo and it’s creator, Elaine Tian. In 2014, Elaine won the Madeline Sadin Award for ceramics which was presented by the Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. “What I do now is the opposite of my former life as a graphic designer, where mistakes aren’t accepted,” says Tian, who moved to New York City in 2001 after completing her BFA in Australia. Studio Joo is where form and function meet. I was first drawn to her work because it closely resembles

Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism are opposite viewpoints of one subject, culture. When a culture tries to evaluate another culture based on a singular viewpoint it is known as ethnocentrism. But cultures can be evaluated using individual standards since there is not one set of standards that culture fits into. I realize that most people agree with the concept of cultural relativism but there are some problems. According to an article by Henry H. Bagish entitled Confessions of a Former Cultural

Primarily, the centre of the research on Japanese cultural identity for this paper will be of two very different Japanese cultural identity groups; mixed race Japanese citizens and a selection of Japanese subcultures. Although both of these groups have a definite connection with the English language, the nature of this connection is vastly different. This connection also is heavily subjected to prejudice and other’s attitudes regarding an identity, all of which will be elaborated on in the appropriate

African Americans had many struggles in previous generations. Many authors such as Richard Wright and Langston Hughes have different perspectives on how they approach these struggles. In works such as Black Boy and "Mother to Son", the authors provide evidence on if they interpret the struggles in a positive or negative way. Langston Hughes and Richard Wright have positive and negative views respectively towards their lives, and they use metaphors and life experiences to show it. Richard Wright

Although some may think of metaphor as ornamental and inapplicable for use in subjects other than English literature, metaphors are necessary for communication in all fields. The use of metaphor is especially crucial in the field of education, where students cannot be taught without the use of metaphor because one cannot understand completely new ideas without making a connection to previously known information (Reddy). Textbooks readily employ metaphor in order to convey new information to students

importance mapping utilised for correspondence. In addition, utilising hypothetical contention and observational examination, Landau and Meier (2010) upheld that metaphor is thought to exhibit its all-inclusive nature in regular and customary dialect. Conceptual Structure is

“The Metaphor,” by Budge Wilson, is a short story about a young girl, Charlotte, coming of age. It begins with Charlotte as a seventh grader stuck between the two poles of her life: her teacher and mother. During the course of this bildungsroman, there are many techniques the author uses to strengthen and amplify its theme of growing up. Through the use of motif, juxtaposition, and symbolism, the reader is aware of the protagonist’s growth. In the story, the most potent motif is the metaphor

Metaphors add more than flourish to your writing, they can show readers more than what the literal words convey. For example, when reading a poem a metaphor in the right place can show the reader how someone lives their life. As seen in the “Theories of Time and Space,” the author says directions she took to somewhere. However, in “I'm Nobody Who Are You,” the speaker is talking about how being a “nobody” is better than being “somebody”. Now, differing from both previous texts, “The Road Not Taken”

In the American society, metaphors are an increasingly common literary device used to illustrate and reinforce challenging teachings. Before a child even learns about literary devices, they are exposed to a variety of metaphors through their daily encounters with others and the modern pop culture. Metaphors have the potential to be beneficial for society; however, they can simultaneously be detrimental to its growth, especially when misinterpreted and used in a derogatory fashion. Rita Mae Brown

Did you know one sentence can have more than one meaning? These sentences create variety and add color to what could be a plain straightforward sentence. The Chinese and Japanese are masters at visual appeals and comparisons in their writing throughout history. The best example of this type of writing is metaphors. Metaphors have thousands of meanings that explain thoughts or feelings better than regular words could. Metaphors help explain thoughts or feelings better than regular wording could

What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a figure of speech where a comparison is made between two things based on similarity. Metaphors are widely used in literature today and are very important. They can create powerful and lasting images and ideas. Metaphors make the images described by the author more creative and interesting. The best writers use metaphors in their writing. The short story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is a great story pervaded with metaphors. The story opens in the Salinas

Health Metaphor’s Values Throughout our daily lives, we communicate and interact with other people that we do or do not know. While we are communicating, we are saying and using many types of language like examples, quotes, and metaphors. In this world that filled with so many cultures, each culture has its own beliefs, norms, traditions, understandings, and its own metaphors. The cultural metaphors can consider as a cultural system or use of language that shared within people with the same culture

Romeo speaks about the eye. The metaphors about ‘eye’ as a target is found only in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and is not used in Macbeth. Most of the conceptual metaphors about ‘eye’ in Romeo and Juliet is personified, it Romeo thinks that EYE CAN SPEAK, EYE CAN WONDER and EYE CAN ATTACK. While Mercutio thinks that EYE CAN STAB. All these four conceptual metaphors describe ‘ability’ of an eye to do some human actions and thus the verb ‘can’ is used in all these metaphors. The verbs ‘speak’ and ‘wonder’