Visual/Object Analysis Project One Greg Olson’s “Bon Voyage” is a framed print painting. It measures 13.50” x 11.88”. This image was submitted to Fine Art America in 2012. I find Olson created a quite busy, yet intricate image that evokes many different thoughts and feelings as to its meaning. One can make a connection with God, others can say the image represents the expansive imagination of children. Less than a quarter of a bed finds itself sitting in the right section of the frame. The blankets were blue with hints of purple. A singular white pillow lays against the wooden bedframe. Above the bed rests a variety of purple and blue shades blended inside a golden picture frame. The walls containing the room are the same mix of blue but with the lightest part of the image being the middle, with it getting subtly darker as the viewers eyes stray left or right from the center. Just to the left of the bed, a young boy, perhaps six years of age, holding open a sturdy wooden chest for a large array of animals. The image looks to be representing post 2000. The boy was a pale skin tone with rosy cheeks and blond hair. He wore a loose, long sleeve red pajama shirt, accompanied by red pajama pants. He wore a heavier blue robe over his shirt. The robe consisted of two vertical white lines tracing the opening of the robe in the front from top to bottom. There were also horizontal white lines reaching across of the form of the body. The boy held a blue umbrella with a blue handle and
The first thing I noticed is a young two to four years old white boy on the right side of the painting. His left arm is around a male lion, and his right hand is holding a stick with some blue berries that resemble like grapes. At his right food is female lion and lamb laying on grass. Behind the lioness and the lamb is a hollow trunk of half a tree with yellow tree, a vine with the blue grape-like berries, green bushes, and hill that has orange tree and hollow tree trunk. On the boy’s left side is a white goat with black spots and leopard laying down on the dirt ground. Behind the male lion is a
Steve Jensen has been a working artist for over 30 years. He comes from a long tradition of Norwegian fisherman and boat builders, growing up on his father’s fishing boat. The image of the boat symbolizes a voyage or journey; perhaps it’s the voyage to the other side or the journey into the unknown. An award-winning artist, Steve has shown his work in multiple galleries on the west coast, across the country, and around the
Women in every culture still struggle to be equal to and respected by men. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, every woman featured is oppressed by Afghan gender stereotypes. Both Hassan's Mother & Rahim Khan's Girlfriend are disrespected due to their social class as a Hazara and lack of morality. On the other hand, Amir’s mother, Sofia Akrami, is respected because of her virtue and social class. Although Soraya is from a respected family, she is considered immoral by the Afghan community because she previously had a boyfriend. Women in general are expected to be submissive to men; however, the amount of respect they are given varys by the woman's social class and their ability to conform to Afghan culture.
Kat Hannah’s painting “Nantucket” portrays the idea of humans traveling through the unknown, hoping to make an impact on the imperfections of society.
This artwork is on display at the Zuckerman Museum and is a part of their Gut Feelings collection which focuses on relationships with food. This media is a photograph and it depicts the aftermath of a meal that has taken place in bed. In the formal analysis, the author utilizes the formal elements of space, time, light, and color. Space is especially important due to that part of the meaning of the photograph comes from the environment that it was taken. The picture shows an extremely cluttered space with several items surrounding a piece of negative space in the bed where there is nothing there. The picture also reveals that the space is cramped and whoever sleeps there has a miniscule amount of room since the nightstand is squished between the corner and the bed. The way the photographer utilizes time is peculiar because in the picture there is a digital clock that shows the time at 9:44 and based on the kind of food on the bed (Kentucky Fried Chicken) we can assume that it is 9:44 P.M. instead of A.M. The photographer also manipulates light in a particular way as well. The photograph is relatively dark around the edges and the only light is illuminating from the lamp on the table. The light coming from the lamp is a dim yellow color which leads into the last element of color. In consideration of the
The extraordinary journey of Saroo Brierley returning to his home in India after living in Australia for twenty-five years is expressed with emotion and feeling in A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. The journey of the five-year-old boy from Burhanpur to Calcutta in India is heart-wrenching and terrifying. Because of his encounters in the book, the story feels amazing and unreal. Saroo was influenced by many people in India and Australia, who helped him throughout his life. Two of the most important people in Saroo’s life were Saroj Sood, of the Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption, and Sue Brierley, his adoptive mother.
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The window has a slanted design as well the bed furniture. The bed drawn is an example of form. The shading of the wooden parts and bed sheets imply a sense of three dimensions. The height, depth, and width can be easily measured in the piece of art. The painted bed has a mix of both organic and geometric form due how it’s painted. The texture used shows a feeling of roughness. The repeated strokes of the same and different colors also help in the illusion of three dimensions. Value is used throughout the piece. Light is being shined through the window, and the flooring has dark brown and light brown. The dark brown coloring represents darkness, and the light brown represent light being shined onto the flooring. The bed also follows this pattern. The dark white is darkness, and the lighter white is light being shined on. The colors used are mostly dull colors with white to counter the dull colors. Different hues of blue, brown, and even white are used. The colors used are green, black, white, brown, red, and
‘The Voyage of Life’ is a series of paintings which were painted by Thomas Cole. It visually represents how Cole depicts the journey of life, portrayed by many metaphors in the painting. The persona can be seen travelling down the ‘River of Life’, which has been cleverly manipulated to represent Cole’s perspective on the journey. Each painting represents a different stage of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood and Old Age. Childhood (top left) portrays the coming into the world as a newborn.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, follows the psychological declination and inclination of a guilty man. Hosseini uses characterization and setting in order to better convey the dynamic change of the protagonist, Amir, among other characters. The setting and characterization of The Kite Runner correlate to hint to the reader how the main characters are feeling.
The book Bone Voyage by Stanley Rhine describes, in stunning detail, the work of forensic anthropologists. The author works for the New Mexico Office of Medical Investigations. The OMI is in charge of investigating any death in New Mexico that is sudden, unnatural, untimely, unattended, or suspicious deaths. They work together with multiple agencies in many different jurisdictions. Bone Voyage gives a lifelike, almost sickly, reality to the important jobs dealt to forensic anthropologists.
Fatherhood in this novel is seen by different shade of colour, not knowing what the true shade really is. There are many turning points which show various stages in being a true father. Therefore, being a father is very difficult, having to overcome obstacles and being strong for each other. A well-known saying “like father, like son” is evident in this novel by the different ties of relationship each character had. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini proves that there is need of a fatherly figure when growing up. Having a father-son bond helps the child differentiate right from wrong. The relationship which demonstrates the need of a father figure is depicted by Baba and Amir, Hassan and Sohrab as well as Amir and Sohrab.
This imaginary icon reifies the myth of the American beliefs in exploration and individual freedom as the ship expresses the notion of being daring with the mission to “explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before"(William "Bill" Shatner).
This art work asked people the question, “if you could have a window in your cell, what place from your past would it look out to?” Different people gave different answer about that, the audiences’ free mind helped artist to make this art work completed even make it become more pregnant. Mark Strandquist in this art work has became a participant, he provides an idea to collect peoples’ minds, and then make them become on of art work. The art works become a excellent way to make these people connect with the communities they have and help them to think something
To this day, I can recall every gruesome detail that happened on that single boat trip. Every smell. Every cry. Every death. Everything. Those days have changed my life. Once a free man living amongst my brothers’ in our home in Africa, to a chained man living amongst my masters.