Coles Phillips 1911 Life Magazine Analysis

Although books full of words are more efficient in delivering and describing what the author feels, sometimes pictures can give a deep meaning depending on how they are organized. The Veil by Marjane Satrapi’s is a graphic novel that’s organized in a particular way, to deliver a certain message through the pictures. Marjane includes different sizes and frames that serve what she is thinking and feeling. Choosing certain sizes, frames and colours isn’t arbitrary. As each box increases in size, it means that she wants to emphasize the message behind that box, or show her relation to that particular text. Contrast is also one of the main elements that Marjane uses in her graphic novel. For example, on page five, there is a big picture of

Also, Wiesel uses imagery throughout his book to retell his experiences. Imagery is a literary

When a written text is read, the reader can only imagine what is happening and often doesn’t extract a vast amount of emotion. However, with the illustrations and words working together in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it allows the reader to witness and experience all emotions the characters encounter.

If any author has the ability to do such amazing feat so quickly, there is no doubt that he is able to use other literary devices to keep his readers pulled in. It is not every day that an author is able to apply so many different examples to show one simple literary device. Ken Kesey has been able to show that the challenge of including imagery into a novel is much more straightforward than

The characters Sherman portrays, lighting, clothing and expressions are cliché of what is present in cinema, so much that viewers of her work have told Sherman that they ‘remember the movie’ that the image is derived from, yet Sherman having no film in mind at all.[iv] Thus showing that her word has a pastiche of past cinematic genres, and how women are portrayed in cinema and photography and how Sherman has manipulated the ‘male gaze’ around her images so they become ironic and cliché.

For this essay i have been asked to discuss a contemporary image from the last 30 years from fine art,design media or the everyday. I have decided to choose the Painting titled Plan (1993) by Jenny Saville, a contemporary British painter associated with the Young British Artists, known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women.

aims his focal point at imagery to provide vivid and rich details. Literary devices play a crucial

Every girl growing up always use to play dress up in clothes as a childhood past time for fun. Cindy Sherman used that passed time as a way to create art with photography and is known for her talent of this act and taking self-portraits of it. Her ideas come stereotypes of women throughout past and present society. These self-portraits are known to “confront and explore the representations of women in society.” (Jankauskas).

Wilbur makes frequent use of imagery in “The Writer.”  He uses metaphors extensively – for instance, calling “the stuff / Of her life is … great cargo, … some of it heavy”.

The art world has been host to a vast menagerie of talent, intellect, and creativity for about as long as human culture has existed. It has grown, developed, and changed just as humanity has. Naturally, with such an impressively expansive history, various avenues of art are visited time and time again by new artists. Artists seek not only to bring their own personal flavor and meaning to timeless concepts, but to find new ways to approach them. While not every single creator and craftsman can make such a great impact on art or the world, their efforts have given birth to some truly magnificent and unique works. In an effort to create a more meaningful understanding, as well a deeper appreciation, of the nuances, techniques, and design choices employed in these attempts, a comparison will be made between Edouard Vuillard’s Interior With a Screen (1909-1910) and Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907). In this essay, each artist’s approach to the subject of the female nude will be closely analyzed, compared, and contrasted, as will their styles of painting, handling of visual elements, and their use of the principles of design. An interpretation of each work and what the artist intended when creating it will also be provided.

The black lines that seem to frame the woman into a sort of foreground are also present in the implied background, thus melding them into a singular seemingly flat space. The blending of large areas of color leave the space open, and the intent lines of color are the only implication of space or form. “Space is made ambiguously expansive by means of the slight blurs and partial erasures in and around the figures,” (Ashton). This juxtaposition of open and defined spaces easily mirrors the wily nature of women to contain some sort of depth, while at the same time being of shallow character. Lewison makes note of this contrast saying of the woman that, “she is self-consciously seductive, challenging the male to approach while at the same time remaining aloof,” (146). Although there is an understood figure and a somewhat implied background, the work still has the ability to be flat at one glance and especially deep upon another.

Sally Mann’s style incorporates black and white photographs of her children, which are presented with “ordinary moments of childhood, suspended in time and transformed into aesthetic objects, takes on a distorted, even uncanny quality” (Arnason and Mansfield 719). Sally Mann photographed The New Mothers in 1989. This photograph’s most dominant elements are value and space. Having the photographs black and white really enhances the visibility of values. Most of Mann’s work is outside and has a define depth of field to blur out the background and emphasize the focus of the children. This compositional style helps to identify the high and low key values within the photos. The clothes, the reflection of the sun on the girls’ hair, and the girls fair skin are the part of the image that show high-key values, while the rest of the photo in more middle and low-key values. The intense depth of field increases a feeling of space for the viewer. In the photo you can see that the two young girls and their stroller is all in a line horizontally. Behind the girls you can notice they are outside in a open area because of the blurred grass and trees behind them. This photograph’s most dominant principles are movement and variety. The depth of field and lack of distraction in the background of the photo allows your eye to focus and move around with the subjects in the photo. The height of the subjects forms a triangle shape, which is

a. Secondly, the author, Alfred Noyes uses imagery to effectively to communicate his message to readers. His use of metaphor, simile and personification all help convey the message of forbidden love and tragedy.

perception, that the reader can relate to. Williams' diction and visual presentation of words resists the artificial;

His style was that of works that had a narrative feeling to them. The storyteller in him started to become evident when they became available for display in New York City.