Vanitas Essays

In much of ancient Greek and Roman literature, the gods are important characters. They help to drive the plot along, either by being benevolent figures, helping the human main characters, or as vengeful monsters bent on obstructing the journey of the protagonist. The gods can have both human and divine qualities. Quite the same, the humans in these ancient texts can be portrayed as having divine qualities, especially protagonists. Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while different in styles

Critically Looking at Art: Audrey Flack - Marilyn (Vanitas) My immediate response to Audrey Flack’s Marilyn (Vanitas) is awe and curiosity. It is a beautiful work of art with vibrant colors and interesting still life items. The painting is realistic but also has a surreal quality. The image of a young smiling carefree Marilyn Monroe elicits reverence, yet also sadness. Monroe is an iconic figure yet her tragic existence and early demise contribute greatly to status as an icon. Marilyn, appears

Study of Marilyn (Vanitas) II is one of the great fine art made by Jewish American artist Audrey Flack (1931, New York) in 1976, and made of oil over acrylic on canvas and it is 2.25 x 2.25 inches transparency was taken by the artist with the Hasselblad Camera and the projected from the slide onto the canvas where it was painted. It is purchased and housed in Arizona University Museum of Art. The reasons of choosing this painting are new realistic method and highly emotional and famine painting,

of communication. This is demonstrated by two artists, Paul Cezanne and Pieter Claesz. Cezanne’s “Still Life with Skull” was created from 1896 to 1898 while “Vanitas Still Life” by Pieter Claesz was created in 1635. Both paintings display signs, symbols and genres, such as still life, vanitas and modernism. Paul Cezanne incorporated vanitas symbols such as skulls and wilting flowers to convey this idea. By using these symbols, he was able to communicate a deeper meaning, one common example is memento

human skull. Next to it is a glass that’s been tipped over, and right next to that is a cracked open walnut. These all allude to the idea that nothing and no one can last forever, and serves to remind the viewer of life’s inherent transience. The Vanitas Still Life was just one example of the many various artworks that were offered up in the Dutch art

Analysis of “Vanitas” by Juan de Valdés Leal The sixteenth century brought about many great artists, who painted in the popular style of the time Baroque. The artist and one of his paintings we will be looking at is ‘Vanitas’ by Juan de Valdés Leal (1660). The work currently resides in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Son of a Portuguese father, Juan went on to become a painter, artist, stone carver and etcher. The remainder of the immense baroque painters of Seville, Andalusia (which

been around and it has been around in many forms. It is used to express how a person feels or it expresses a way of life that must unfold. As we examine the multitude of painted pieces, we find two pieces named Wheel of Fortune by Audrey Flack and Vanitas by Juan de Valdes. Wheel of Fortune was painted by Audrey Flack in 1977. It is a very vibrant piece that it filled with objects of geometric shapes and intensity. The painting has objects in it that tell the meaning of the painting which is that

message behind these objects revolve around the idea of mortality as well as the lack of value that goods contain in order to make the viewer think about how life is short (Tate 5). An example of a still life painting is Philippe de Champaigne’s Vanitas, in this piece a flower, skull, and hourglass are place in a row along a table each symbolising doom (Tate 5). The tulips represents a moment of glory due to it wilting away, the hourglass shows the passing of time due to it eventually counting down

Northern Baroque. The floral arrangements are accompanied by additional life forms including butterflies and caterpillars. Rachel Ruysch followed in her father’s footsteps in visualizing the memento mori using botanical elements in works classified as vanitas. Her paintings are not just aesthetically beautiful flowers but rather elegantly composed works that deal greatly with Flemish symbolism and Dutch

controversial event in the south eastern part of the Unitied States. In 2016, a law was passed that affected the transgender community. Lorretta lynch a U.S attorney general was asked by the Department of Justice to speak on there behalf along with Vanita Gupta. She decides to write this speech on the segregation of genders and how it's going back to the segregation of colors.

The birth of modernism and modern art can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, a period that lasted from the 18th to the 19th century. Prior to the 19th century, artists were most often commissioned to make artwork by wealthy patrons, or institutions like the church. Much of this art depicted religious or mythological scenes that told stories and were intended to instruct the viewer. Many artist started to make art about people, places, or ideas that interested them. Pablo Picasso is know

responsibility for Desdemona's death” (Vanita 342). The fact that Othello is a factor in isolating Desdemona, is because he now has the idea that Desdemona is unfaithful to

in Ecclesiastes 12:8: “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.” This type of painting usually creates a morbid mood and uses the Christian ideology that earthly goods are of no worth to people of faith. An artist that specialized in vanitas was a Spaniard named Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Many of his still life paintings involved monks and skulls, where he also showed his skill of white draperies and the texture of those cloths. All of these elements can be found in Dali’s painting

so-called statements of interest. This allows the federal government to go around the country seeking local disputes, throw its weight behind private lawsuits and push the limits of civil rights law. Top civil rights prosecutor of the Justice Department, Vanita Gupta, said on an interview, “We want to do as much federal civil rights work as possible, and statements of interest are effective, efficient tools.” She also said that she had encouraged her lawyers to look for local cases that presented opportunities

Yousef Alloughani Dr. Tatiana Sizonenko Art History May 17, 2016 Introduction Among the oldest forms of art are paintings. The earliest paintings date back to 300 B.C.E. where people at the time were accustomed to painting inside caves. Painting was done using fingers, knives brushes and other tools that would enable memorization and decoration to stick to the minds of the viewers. For this, paintings were used as sources of entertainment and worshipping. Throughout our lives, we have had a chance

This painting struck me with such awe in the fine detail that was painstakingly put into it, from the people to the curtain background, all the objects, and to the floor where everything looks so real that you can shake the person’s hand or pick up the objects. Every object seems to have a meaning or significance and is there for a reason, as for all of the painting as a whole. The men in the painting look to be brothers, with one to be a traveler and the other person looks like a priest, and they

A Comparison of Othello, “A Pair of Tickets” and “For My Daughter” Emotional abuse is an often-misunderstood form of trauma. It is also called psychological or mental damage, and it is aiming to control, belittle, isolate, and shame other people into subservience. The female characters in Shakespeare Othello, Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” and Weldon Kees’s “For My Daughter” all must learn how to overcome emotional abuse. Shakespeare emphases Othello’s as the abusive husband, while “A Pair

In Carol Clover’s famous essay “ Her body, herself: Gender in the slasher”, she explains that there are 6 explicit parts that make up a “slasher” , “the terrible place”, “the killer”,”weapons”, “victims”, “final girl” and “shock.” Carroll goes on to explain that a final girl is the one who typically has to carry the burden of the experience throughout the rest of her life, is masculinised with a uni-sex or male nickname to fit in with her counterparts, and the person in the film who personifies the

“The Maid” (25.2 x 26.7) fan painting by Su Hanchen Fig 8. chinadaily.com.cn, (2014). The Maid. Su Hanchen (1094- 1127) is the Academy painter serving for the royal family in Northern Song dynasty in Xuanhe era (1119- 1125) under the ruling of Emperor Huizong and the Shaoxing era (1131- 1162) under the ruling of Emperor Gaozong. Su Hanchen was specialized in painting children and women. He’s most famous paintings are all depicting children playing in a realistic and vivid way. This painting of women

Giving rise to the belief that this painting is vanitas still life painting to which the flowers and fruits themselves could hold greater importance outside of beauty. In accordance to this subject-matter the flowers and fruits would act as a reminder of the fleeting nature of human existence and life's