Koeh Sia Yong’s “Persecution” Art Review
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, this quote is undeniably suited to the scene shown in “Persecution”. I believe “Persecution” fits into the theme of Art and Society as the painting represents the result of political conflict and human selfishness. Society can be defined as a large group of people who live together in an organized way (Cambridge Dictionary, 2019), however, the painting is a stark contrast to that. Where the people in the painting live in chaos. War…...
How John Berger Changed Our Way Of Seeing Art
The work opens with ‘’Seeing comes before words, the child looks and recognizes before he or she can speak’’. With this statement, John Berger addresses what he believes to be vital to the understanding of the world humans inhabit. Any child can examine his or her surroundings and from this perspective is born. ‘’But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world…...
Meme Analysis: Rage Comics
Many people may always say a picture is worth a thousand words; well the information held within the rage comics represents much more and exemplifies the perfect example of this saying. The Rage comic meme is about a series of comics that can be made by anyone using the common rages faces, which are also memes. These comics are web-based and usually describe real life scenarios from the rage comic creator. The first amateur Rage Comic originated in 2007 on…...
Motifs in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If this girl can give soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world” (59). Sibyl has inner beauty and Basil realizes that, but Lord Henry and Dorian only see the…...
Changes- Tupac Shakur Influences on Society
“We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. , but it’s time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and every one of us can be like them. I don’t want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what’s on my mind. ” --Tupac Amaru Shakur (T. I. P). This quote…...
Analysis of Two Pictures by Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is among the America's the majority of renowned documentary professional photographers. Yet her works can not be thought about as "simply" documental. Lnge's capability to demonstrate the inner world of her heroes and her skillful photographic methods placed her operate in the middle in between photography and art. In this paper I will try to review and examine 2 Lange's photos: "Human Erosion in California" ("Migrant Mother") and "Kid and Her Mom". I am going to analyze them…...
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is a common saying that rings true. Which is why many newspapers decide to compliment their articles with visual elements such as photographs, drawings, or political cartoons. However, many people feel that some of the images newspapers decide to print are in bad taste. Huge Hewitt, an Evangelical Christian, compared a political cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban, to a drawing of Jesus with a crown of TNT atop his head at an abortion clinic. Because both cartoons are equally distressing and offensive, wether you are Muslim or Christian, I doubt that a newspaper in the United States…...
How Has the Personification of India and the Indian Woman Been Reflected in the Various Paintings of Mother India?
“I am India. The Indian nation is my body. Kanyakumari is my foot and the Himalayas my head. The Ganges flows from my thighs. My left leg is the Coromandal Coast, my right is the Coast of Malabar. I am this entire land. East and West are my arms. How wondrous is my form! When I walk I sense all India moves with me. When I speak, India speaks with me. I am India. I am Truth, I am God,…...