Emily Carr Manasie Akpaliapik

I chose this artwork because it was one of the work that remained in my memory throughout the museum visit. Though, I saw other great artwork design in the Menil Collection but I really adored the way the pieces retorted to my emotional side. I really wish if I would have this artwork in my home.

Art is the expression of one’s creative skill, which can be expressed in many different forms. Sculptures, paintings, clothing, music, and poems are just a few of the vast art forms. Artwork comes not only in different forms, but different styles as well, such as abstract, representational, and nonrepresentational styles, which are some of the most common in the world of art. When it comes to the history, medium, and technique of an artwork, there are two specific pieces that really stand out to me. “When Dreams Come True” by Leonid Afremov and “Mariposa” by Beatriz Milhazes are two masterfully crafted works of art that caught my eye almost immediately.

Their individual perspectives in life ultimately shaped their education, experiences and overall point of view. This essay will outline the similarities and differences in subject matter, tone and imagery of these two artists’ bodies of work.

The READing outlined the role of movement and myth as a part of Indigenous histories yet with the arrival of settlers to Canada their colonial notions tried to replace and erase many of these worldviews and understanding. With the colonial attempt to assimilate and destroy Indigenous cultures in favor of European Christianity, Indigenous practices, understanding and tradition were band or lost. As seen through the banning of Potlaches and PowWow celebration, ritual and spiritual practises, destruction of land and the removal of children from communities and placing them in harmful residential schools stripping them of their languages and cultures. There are many, particularly due to their placement in residential schools that have lost the traditions and practices of their families and communities. The loss of these practises within art due to colonialization is a part of the reason why there large gape within Indigenous art histories, as many practise were banned, or not given the chance to learn from their communities. There are differences to pre- and early contact art as many could no longer practise or no longer knew how to make these traditional forms. It is this loss of information within nations that cultural continuance look towards, it is a re-learning of

Emily Carr is one of the most recognizable and celebrated Canadian artists. Her art embodies the fusion of modernist European techniques with a uniquely Canadian subject matter. Although troubled as a woman, Emily Carr became a progressive Canadian artist because of her unprecedented use of modernist styles in a Canadian setting. To explore her painting style first I will examine her role as a woman in the art world. Secondly, I will analyze her artistic inspiration from modernist movements. Thirdly, I will explore how her consistent subject matter of landscapes and indigenous culture. Together, these elements combine to make Emily Carr a distinctive painter in Canada.

3. Note any information you were able to find on the parents of the artist.

Of the many painters at the time, Aaron Douglas, Lois Jones, and Jacob Lawrence were a few of the well-known painters in this era. Each painter had their own specific styles and patterns with embodied meaning in their artwork, giving each of their pieces significance and beauty.

Internationally, sexual assault is more likely the result of conflict with or within a society or nation. Emily Rauhala goes into much depth concerning males as victims of sexual assault primarily in the South African Congo and how this is not as spoken upon. She provides information about detention facilities and prisons that have reportedly used sexual assault as a torture treatment during these war times. “In South Africa’s overcrowded, under-funded prisons, rape and sexual violence are used to define and maintain a strict social hierarchy in which victims are humiliated, dominated and feminized,” (Johnson 2014). Rauhala provides an account of a male in the Congo who tells of his experience with sexual assault and how it has changed his life forever.

Art and society are closely linked together. From the point of view of the social history of art, the artwork is a product of a kind of social relation. Inuit culture is an important part of Canadian culture, but there has a big difference between Arctic and other regions. According to Culler, “what is crucial is not any particular form or content, but differences, which enable it so signify” (Culler, 1997, p58). It unique geographical environment and humanity history background has formed unique traditional region characteristic. This essay will discuss how Inuit artist Pitaloosie Saila through art to makes a continuation of Inui culture, and how historical and personal experiences makes her unique highly personal style. Pitaloosie was

In the poem, “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes”, Emily Dickenuses uses various literary and poetic devices that add to the meaning and moral of the poem. For example, Dickinson uses simile in the poem when she says “A quartz contentment , like a stone”. Here, Emily compares contentment to a quartz stone, which is a very hard stone. This simile means that the hurt person feels content because their feelings are so hard and numb that they can not feel pain anymore. Therefore, they feel contentment as a result of the numbness.

“It was only a short while after our picnic that Mother died.” (Carr 38) I am Emily Carr. I was born in British Columbia the same year it joined Canada, 1871. I am the youngest of nine children. It was five girls, including me, and four boys. All of my older brothers passed away shortly after birth. My father was a strict Presbyterian. My father chose to move us to the Vancouver Island so he could practice English customs but still follow his British citizenship. My father was not much of a talker. Every day he did the same thing. He would work, come home and tend to Isabella, his grapevine, eat, tend to Mother for half an hour and then go read his paper before he slept. “I resented him because he would tend to Isabella before Mother.” (Carr

Every artwork has different significance, history, and structure. During these past few weeks I have retained more knowledge regarding to art and have seen different types of artwork. Among those different types of artwork there are three different types that I will be discussing about, which are the following, the double portrait of Menkaure and Khamerernebty, Lady of Auxerre, and Flavian Portraiture.

I am researching the very highly known Pablo Picasso. He is well known for his paintings. He painted, sculpted, and did many other things. He is known as one of the greatest artists ever. In this essay I will be talking about Pablo Picasso’s life when he was younger, his career as an artist, and my opinion on his works and style of painting.

Judith Fetterley argued in her critical essay that Emily Grierson from a “Rose for ‘A Rose for Emily’” was empowered and victimized by her gender and class. However the girl from “Boys and Girls” and Gertrude from Hamlet had not been as lucky as Miss Emily.

A great artist once wrote, “If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”. This artist was Vincent van Gogh, soon to be an appraised artist known all around the world for his works, such as Starry Night. He is one of the very first artists of the post-impressionist style than is now adored in every continent. However, there is much more to the man than one painting. Creating a full timeline that stretches beyond Gogh’s life, this paper will discuss the life of Vincent van Gogh and the impression he made on the world.