A Visual Analysis Essay

The first painting depicts a young woman lying in a field on a farm in what appears to be an awkward position. She may be experiencing some type of internal or emotional pain which may have temporarily halted her ability to move. The field is very close to what one might assume is her home. The painting appears very somber and melancholy and I would hypothesize the young woman is longing for something she might have recently loss; possibly a relationship or significant material possession. The woman gazes towards the house as if she is waiting for something. The colors in the painting are very neutral and the feelings provoked are those of sadness. Another hypothesis could be she is pondering her life path and struggling to

The Gavorrano oversized arch mirror is like adding another window to your space. If hung or placed across from a real window it will reflect the view and the light making it feel like two windows. The Gavorrano mirror is made with a reclaimed pine frame that features a lightly aged gray wash finish and wrought iron Muntins. It’s big and beautiful 48" x 80."

The small, ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child and the rich, animated fresco panels from the Magdalene chapel create a sense of reverence and promote personal prayer. The statuette incorporates both ivory and wood. The figures of ivory rise up off their wooden base. Altogether, the piece stands 200 millimeters tall. The statuette dates to the early fourteenth century in Paris, France. During the fourteenth century, ivory pieces (both religious and secular) grew in popularity, allowing craftsman to forge beautiful works of art. Ivory ornaments hold an air of quality craftsmanship because the material carries a great value and versatile nature. A devotional object made of ivory becomes precious in the

Theme: To describe theme in my video I used numerous pictures and a song that was done by Nirvana in the 90’s since that is the main character’s favorite band. For instance, I used the blonde girl rocking the headphones because Nico has blonde hair and loves music. I used the worn out Chuck Taylor shoes because that's how the character feels, pulled in every direction and tired. The picture of Kurt Cobain displays a lot of things, one of them being that the story is advertently surrounded around him, and his band.

In this C-print portrait photograph of a Saint Joseph ballet dancer from Orange County, California, the subject matter is the person, Stephany. She is pictured wearing a very intense red hue Guess sweater, an almost blank expression on her bare, natural face, and she is standing, posed with a slight lean inward to the left but her gaze is straight ahead. Her facial expression is soft, and there is a complete lack of subject matter in the background. The contrasting value difference in the Guess sweater she is pictured wearing and the whitish-gray empty background keeps your eyes focused on the subject.

Rendered in this composition are two children warming themselves on a rug in front of a fireplace that emits a warm glow. Their hands are splayed towards the heat absorbing its warmth into their palms. The image is like a snapshot of a moment in time. The fire grate holds a position at the left edge partially out of the frame. A pair of slippers rest behind one of the children and to the far back of the image, blurred, a possible female form lays. This formal artwork created on canvas with oil paint approximately 147 x 110 cm, captures the essence of youth and the bliss of ignorance. The children represented in this painting show no concern with being seen nude. There is nothing for them to hide, they are safe in the confines of their home and kept warm by its hearth. The entire painting itself carries very strong sentiment that’s realism can be felt by the

This chapter looks at the various stylistic aspects in the prints which can be identified as Chinese or portraying Chinese origin and a plenty of factual detail and local narrative.

Smoking cigarettes leads to mental diseases and casualties in the United States with more than 480,000 individuals in the United States dying from cigarettes and about 41,000 deaths from second-hand smoking (CDC). After John Rolfe introduced the commercial crop in Virginia in the 1600’s, tobacco became the leading exported crop for the colony. Tobacco’s initial purpose was for “pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff,” (CNN) and to cure individuals with health issues. With the abundant amount of tobacco, smoking became inexpensive and easy to access across the nation. Along with the accessibility and reasonable price, smoking became a huge issue for individuals ranging from teens to adults. An advertisement campaign, called TheTruth, created this visual advertisement of the teenager smoking a cigarette and the smoke of the cigarette illustrating a gun facing the teenagers head. From analyzing the advertisement, one can conclude about the high fatality rate of young teenagers smoking in the United States. The advertisement campaign focuses on the effects smoking has on teenagers in America. The creator of the visual uses a contrast between dark and light colors to portray negativity behind teen smoking, the use of symbolism to depict a gun from cigarette smoke conveys how each objects functions similarly, and the display of the text on the right hand side of the visual invokes fear to teen smokers.

It is generally believed that tobacco, which is smoked by a numerous people mostly men, is pernicious. Firstly, most of people often smoking have stained teeth, for tobacco has tar, a chemical that coats their teeth lending them a yellowish tinge, and a terrible breath, caused by its residue covering smoker’s roof of the mouth. Secondly, tobacco is known to can cause cancer, not only lung cancer but also it can lead to cancer of nose, mouth, trachea, stomach, kidneys, bone marrow, blood and more than that because there are more than 41,000 chemicals, in which a large percentage are known to cause cancer, in cigarettes. Thirdly, the manifold of chemicals in tobacco is predicted to that many of them remain in people’s lung after smoking and all

For many years, cigarettes manufacturers had used deceitful and untrue adverts about smoking. Rather than highlight the dangers associated with this practice, they presented smoking as fun, a sigh of maturity, rebelliousness, and even independence. These ads were aimed at

It is always a hard decision to choose which products may be best for you or your family and is often facts that persuade you to buy the initial product. In this paper, I will analyze these two visual texts in terms of imagery, lighting, color, framing and people in scene. Thus, in this paper comparing how these two companies video ads appeal to the consumers and get them to purchase their products. These two visual texts have both share a common theme where they may be different in idea they formulate the same conclusion on cleanliness. Where as in one you perceive the idea to be about detergent for clothes and address how it takes out the old stains and the other hand the second visual text is about tracking dust in your home.

So, I am sure there are some of us out there that have seen in a magazine or on a commercial or in some sort of advertisement a bulked out muscle head or in other words, the body of perfection that most could only hope to achieve by going to the gym. Next to that a promotion for a brand new state of the art bodybuilding supplement called PumpHD that was formulated and created by BPI Sports and the product is supposed to physically make you look and feel stronger. The very next day the decision is made to research this new product and get on the computer and go to their website. First thing they make sure we see is the home page with big, bold, and colorful letters that have the name and

Vogue Magazine’s advertisement plays on the American subconscious and what it means to be attractive. The primary visual element of the advertisement, the centered photograph, focuses on contrast to catch the eye. This concept of contrast does not remain tethered to the visual aspect of the photograph. The ad manipulates understood societal norms and conventions of human perfection to make ad convincing. Vogue Magazine capitalizes on dramatized visual and seductive textual elements to send its message about beauty or attractiveness.

Researchers have said that the warning labels do not reach all the smokers and goes unnoticed. Therefore, the US Food and Drug Administration has finally decided to join the bandwagon of other countries that have used large graphic labels on tobacco products, after September, 2012. It has been concluded by the researchers that vivid and scandalizing images on the cigarette covers are more likely to motivate smokers for quitting. A vivid image of a man suffering from cancer accompanied with a warning like "Smoking can kill your children/love" will certainly affect more than a mere text-warning.

Frequently, death, doom and destruction are what come to people’s minds when cigarettes come to mind. I have personally witnessed the evils of smoking, some of them being small and others large. Problems anywhere from respiratory problems to severe health crises and even mortality can occur.