19th Century Analysis

The artwork uses many values and shades of colors. There are four different figures in the painting. One that is a baby covered with this transparent material that is streaming throughout the entire thing. There is a pale women that is admiring her beauty and is not paying attention to her surroundings. She has long, wavy hair which she is fixing while looking at her reflection. The next figure is an older version of her. She is darker than the other women with wrinkles that shows the aging of the lady. The last figure is at the right holding an hourglass on the top of the painting. It is a warning of how much time she has left before death. Her body is all scrawny and her bones are showing. It looks like she represents death with her hair being all fallen out. The pale women is dominant in the painting. The rest of the painting is dark and it looks like the artist only used a few colors for the painting.

Over the course of the last century, we see ourselves looking and comparing all of the new changes that have occurred. Some of the changes have been more significant than others but have affected us greatly in some form. Many would say life today is a lot easier than it was in the nineteenth century. Everything today is just a click away. Many of the changes that have occurred have been major building blocks that have driven us to make life easier and more enjoyable. Three main components that have significantly changed from the nineteenth century to the twenty first century are agriculture, electronics, and traveling.

During the mid eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century the United States of America experienced some difficult times throughout the country. It first had to watch it’s own nation split apart during the Civil War, also the U.S. had just fought for it’s own independence from Great Britain not even a hundred years ago. Then shortly after the war and the reconstruction area began, later moving to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the United States witnessed the Great Depression. Another dark period in U.S. history that virtually affected every one in America at the time in both positive and negative ways. Furthermore, the group that experienced some of the challenging times, both socially and economically during the Great Depression

The Period of 1800-1860 was the era of political revolution, religion and reform. I’m surprised to read Europeans’ view about American politicians. How they praised republican society and criticized American politicians. There was a revolution in government policy. Two new parties emerged, the Democrats and the Whigs. Removal Act was equally revolutionary. The new party system established that matched the economic advancement of both the Industrial Revolution and the Market Revolution. In mid-nineteenth century there were four major cultural movements; transcendentalist reform, communalism, abolitionism, and women’s rights.

The U.S. changed a lot of things, from the year 1770 to 1870. The population went up in an extreme wave. It went from 2,148,100 in 1770 to 38,558,371 in 1870. The population increase was caused by immigrants migrating to the US and slavery as well. They had a big affect on next century. Then Americans created roads, waterways, railroads, steam boats, and railroad cars that are kept cool.

The artist created every figure clearly to show the emotions of the different figures faces. Also, he put time into the detail of the clothing to show more emphasis and create a better work of art. All the figures in the painting are life-sized and are to scale with their

Concerning color, there is a stark contrast between the figure on the painting and the background. More specifically, the figure of the woman is predominantly delineated in white color, especially pale, ashen white, as far her apparel and facial complexion are concerned, while there are also various hues of grey, with respect to her hair and accessory feather. These white and grey shades are vividly contrasted with the prevailing red and crimson hues of the background (viz. the drape, armchair, and table). Moreover, one can detect colors of dark green (jewelry), some beige on the left (pillar), and darker or lighter shades of blue on the right side of the canvas (sky), which all in concert and in addition to the subtle purple hue forming the sun or moon exude a certain dramatic sentiment. Also, there is brown, which often easily segues into gold (viz. books and attire details respectively). The main contrast of colors between white and red would be interpreted as serving the purpose of rendering the figure of the woman, and especially her face, the focal point of the work, despite, paradoxically enough, the lush red shades at the background. Bearing that in mind, the significance of the woman’s face will be enlarged upon later, when discussing aspects of her identity.

In drawing, comes a point and where two point connects forms a line. With a line turns into a shape and therefore you can add depth and value to make it more dimensional and appealing to a human’s eye. The shape and space in this painting is very constrained in a way. The twelve apostles surrounding the Virgin gives the audience a sign of how the virgin is very important. The shape of their bodies may seem

Prior to the twelfth century, European sources discussing Jewish populations predominantly focused on “…the relationship between Christianity and Judaism...” in ways that were openly anti-Semitic. The depiction of Jews as the murderers of Jesus Christ abounded, as did texts detailing often-erroneous Judaic belief in cannibalism and blood rituals. These pre-existing conventions were altered in the twelfth century, although scholars posit multiple directions in which this change may have occurred. In “Adgar’s Gracial and Christian images of Jews in twelfth-century vernacular literature,” Jennifer Shea argues that literary discussion of Jews became increasingly negative as extant trends were extended to a moral commentary and translated into

The 19th century was a time of immense personal reflection. The relation to nature and primitive forms was very popular. It was largely a response to the growing influence of industry on society. Before the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the country was largely an agrarian republic. In a very short time, the country was greatly impacted by the advent of industry, altering the landscape forever. With this new wave of industry came a shift in culture, there was a new faster paced lifestyle that was largely focused on worldly issues. From this new culture came a “backlash.” Many people including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne were not in favor of the disruptive nature of the new society. They wanted to return

In the first half of the 19th century, the economy and the daily life where difference from the North to the South in many aspects in industrial and agriculture transportation the income even in social.

When writing about a work of art, one’s opinion can influence the way in which another perceives the work of art they are viewing. When multiple individuals analyze the same work of art, their opinions pertaining to the work of art can vary greatly. For instance, when observing O’ Keefe’s artwork, multifarious opinions and ideas come to the minds of those analyzing the work of art. There is a common belief that her artwork symbolizes femininity, considering the way in which she utilizes flowers and the implied relationship that some are capable of associating with a female body structure. However, when one expresses their ideas of a work of art they can potentially influence or contradict the beliefs contained by other individuals viewing the

This trait can also be observed in a sense in Shinnors’ handling of the Virgin, with the face being a blank sculptural form, rather than being a traditional representation which would remain readable in a normal physiognomic manner with static emotional connotations attached to the facial features. This treatment of the face as an object and the values that Cézanne strived for in his portraiture have parallels with Shinnors’ handling of the figure. For instance, in Cézanne’s “Portrait de Madame Cézanne”, Madame Cézanne’s lips begin to bond, and the pupils are large black masses which become the dominant shapes of the eyes. Similarly in Shinnors’ “Figure in interior” (Fig 2-4, 1982), the figure’s hand begins to merge with the body, and the anatomy

The relationship in the painting between the mother and daughter give it a definite asymmetrical balance and maybe a little radial balance. A radial balance because of their eyes being the central focus, then the faces, then the holding of each other, then where they are placed on the canvas, and then the bench and the landscape. The colors used by the painter, also creates balance with in the picture. The wine colored dress of the mother, red sash of the daughter’s dress, ruby lips, and the rosy cheeks give a warm feeling to the central focus of the mother and daughter. The cool color of the sky is the same as the women’s eyes as well as the trees and green on the mother’s dress. These balances give unity or a unifying feeling to the painting, especially between the mother and daughter.

To begin, the proportion of the woman’s gaze accentuates perfection. The eyes introduces a sense of nobility to the piece acquiring a softness at the gaze. Painted with a spherical shape, it allows the appearance to emerge mysteriously throughout the portrait and I quote “Through their roundness, therefore, the mind, knowing itself, is sometimes forced to reveal the secrets thoughts of their