Essay on Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man and The Wall

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, the fifty-six line lyric poem gives off a sarcastic tone that expresses impatience with his neighbor and the “wall.” The poem focuses on a theme of separation, the necessity of boundaries and the illusory arguments used to annihilate them.

Topic 2: Identity is a central concern of contemporary life. Critically examine and discuss how design or art has been used to explore, discuss and express identity.

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At its core, art is about creatively expressing ideas that otherwise could not be expressed. To do so properly, an artist must be able to think differently from the common human being. In some cases, these different ways of thinking stem from mental illness. Three examples of such artists are Richard Dadd, a 19th century English painter, Jacks McNamara, the subject of the documentary Crooked Beauty, and the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. For all three of them, their insanity did not hinder their ability to succeed artistically. Instead, it gave a deeper context to the brilliant works that they produced.

Comparing the albums, The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, there is a noticeable change in the themes, among, the musical sensation that is being portrayed. The Wall was mainly based on Roger Waters childhood. His childhood was disturbing as he lived in an abusive situation. The Wall creates a storyline of abuse, totalitarian society, and alienated teens with mean parents. From those traumatic events he created The Wall to tell the story of how isolated he felt; he was so isolated that he built a wall to block himself from the only thing causing him pain—the world. In the rock opera, The Wall, Pink, the protagonist, lives a treacherous life with abuse from teachers, abusing drugs, overprotective mother, and a failure of a marriage. With

The second part of the ‘These Walls’ mini-series follows the life of a young girl living in a supposed Utopia. The main character, Grace, belongs to a society that is utopian in the fact that it is crime free, disease free, pollution free and almost death free. However, to ensure safety, good health and peace there has been a restriction on freedom as all civilians of Society 12 must follow a schedule and although they are allowed plenty of free time, the schedule still dampens citizen’s freedom of choice as their time is pre-decided. Perhaps the most significant and vital aspect of a Utopia is the independence and lacking conformity which allows people choice and the chance to be true individuals. Society 12 does indeed allow for more freedom then the Dystopia that lays on the opposite side of the walls, also the schedules are in no way harmful and are meant to be helpful and yet they impose a boundary instead. It is also worth mentioning that Utopians should be lawless so that way people could do whatever they wish, but everyone knows that humankind would not act reasonably without rational rules to keep humanity in check which is why there is a major council and in each society a minor council.

Self-portraits have been used by artists for centuries to explore aspects of the self. They are the subjects they know best and artists have reflected this through their treatment of media, subject matter and techniques. Two artists who explore aspects of their personality and life experiences in their self-portraits are Frida Kahlo and Ben Quilty. Many of their artistic techniques can be derived from the same origins. Whilst there are similarities in self-portraits by any artist usually, you will find differences the norm. After all, this is what makes art and art form.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last

          4.Vincent would stay there for two years and transfer to paris for a year and then come back to london.

Throughout his childhood, women continue to contribute to Stephen's development as an artist, though he seems unaware

Pablo Picasso - His Life and His Art Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, painter, sculptor, and printmaker, was born in Malaga Spain on October 25, 1881 and died on April 8, 1973.Today he is considered to be one of the most influential and successful artists in history. Picasso contributed many things to 19th century and modern day art and his name is familiar to all those involved in the many different fields of art. Throughout the seven decades that Picasso produced artwork he used many different types of media. In each piece of art he produced he searched for new possibilities, invented images in them, and reflected events that were occurring in his world through his artwork. Picasso had many artistic influences in his life, including Cézanne,

     However there is also a separation or segregation. In addition to the separation of the two men, Frost contrasts his “wall” of separation with the idea of segregation in our society. He uses this “wall” to display a separation between people in the current social climate. Lastly, there is the recurring idea that the wall should not be there. “We do not need the wall” This sentence implies that the wall separating us as people, needs to

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.

In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus defines beauty and the artist's comprehension of his/her own art. Stephen uses his esthetic theory with theories borrowed from St. Thomas Aquinas and Plato. The discourse can be broken down into three main sections: 1) A definitions of beauty and art. 2) The apprehension and qualifications of beauty. 3) The artist's view of his/her own work. I will explain how the first two sections of his esthetic theory relate to Stephen. Furthermore, I will argue that in the last section, Joyce is speaking of Stephen Dedalus and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as his art.

During his adolescent years, Stephen is forced to stay at home due to his father's financial problems causing him to reject his schoolmates and