Fascinated By Arbus

She attempts to bring this photo to life, giving it a true identity, through the world of science and through the stories her family shares. The Immortal

As we know, the result of “Art is” is “Art is” which returned in an ephemeral form at the Studio Museum. All forty photographs are on display on the basement level of the galleries, which are supposedly reserved for pieces in their permanent collection. The room just outside, whether coincidentally or not, is filled with photos of students - reflecting personal memories. How the museum decides to play with this, is by missing them with old-timer photos of Harlem from the

Arnstein discusses the level of participation from the standpoint of the recipients. She lays emphasis on how redistribution of power and enabling environment are vital in enabling citizen’s participation and that “without redistribution of power, it is an empty and frustrating process for the powerless”. In her typology, she outlines eight rungs of a ladder; they being: citizen control, delegated power, partnership, consultation, informing, placation, therapy and manipulation. According to her, citizen control and delegated power is about giving away decision-making, resources and control where there is clear lines of accountability and two-way communication between those giving away power.

Eventually one day, a family friend of the Olmstead parents (Mark and Laura), suggested having them, Marla’s paintings, be hung up in their coffee shop, as a sort of joke, but instead of just being a joke, people took the paintings seriously, even coming to ask for prices. From there, the paintings’

After walking into the museum, you see the first exhibit- modern art. Ripping off a band-aid quickly is a great example of how it felt moving through this exhibit “analyzing” this “art”. While walking around, each piece just got more and more complexing but what was more of a conundrum

The room is cover with black and white photos of the 1930s and 1940s. The lighting of the room felt appropriate to the setting. The photos were place inches away from other photos on the wall. The painting of the wall, which it was gray and baby blue, made the photo have a serious tone to the exhibition. The entrance of the Manzanar exhibit starts off showing the beginning of Japanese immigrating to America. Walking down there a section that shows news articles with hand drawn images of Japanese Imperialism. These drawings were racist and it feud controversy. The rest of the exhibit is photos of Japanese Americans living in internment camps, or suffering prejudge from the public. The best part of the exhibit is the backroom, in which its shows the photos of Ansel Adams. Adams was a popular photographer and he was exposing the condition of the internment camps. People critizes Adams for being a “Japs lover”. This destroy his reputation of being a professional photographer, but his work is later recognize and accepted by in the American Public. One photo that caught my attention was a photo taken by Dorothea

In conjunction, Brunelli, the biased gallery owner representing Marla, is also interviewed, aiding to the documentary’s quality. Despite being biased, though, Brunelli is a credible source, because he is a professional painter and a gallery owner-both pertaining to Marla’s position as what Time called her, a “pint-size Picasso.” Brunelli comes off as a negotiable, workable, and understanding gallery owner, and as a kind man, caring for children: in the footage, Marla is even on his lap, at one of the gallery events (,and Brunelli looks happy). However, the gallery owner is a painter, specializing in photorealistic work, who claims to have always viewed modern (,abstract) “art” as a sort of joke. He comes out to say that he is only exhibiting

When the narrator first invites Rockwell to his studio to examine his paintings, Rockwell’s unconventionality is illustrated through his dissimilar beliefs and values from the narrator. The narrator’s exceptionally well-organized, detailed personality is illustrated when he “poured three fingers in the glass, handed it to Rockwell, and another three fingers for [himself].” This action indicates his seemingly calm behaviour and efficient, conventional lifestyle that he currently maintains in order to forget about his past. His supposedly calm, composed behaviour is also demonstrated through his actions of painting where he would “leave [the paintings] like this for the month or so preceding a show” so that he could later on add other details later on. The narrator’s calm, well-organized behaviour illustrates the façade he puts on in order to assimilate into reality. However, even though the narrator appears to accept the reality he is currently living, he actually lives in an ulterior universe where he constantly indulges into his own paintings in order to maintain his despairing, unfortunate past.

Cindy Sherman’s, Untitled Film Stills from 1977 are a series of 69 total photographs that were comprised in order to appear as though they were actually taken from film reels. Sherman appears in every one of these shots, and finds a way to create a common thread throughout each of them despite the fact that the characters that she is portraying are vastly different from one another. She accomplishes this by using similar clothing, lighting, setting, and compositions as those that would be found in American B-movies from the 1950s and 1960s.

During her wanderings around New York City, Arbus began to pursue taking photographs of people she found. She visited seedy hotels, public parks, a morgue and other various locales. These unusual images had a raw quality, and several of them found their way into the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine. These photographs proved to be a spring board for future work.

To add on, her grin implies positive intentions, rather than negative ones; a scowl shows shame which implies negative actions. In contrast, the principal and supposed mother in the background peer at the grinning girl with worry and shame. Despite the serious, anxious adults that condemn the girl’s rough actions, the schoolgirl still smiles proudly. Rockwell’s art piece persuades the audience to sympathise with the girl using the bright, yet childlike colors followed by the schoolgirl’s proud

Aside from the Brooklyn Museum, the only museum I had been to in the last four years would be the Met Breuer. As I was instructed to visit the Diane Arbus exhibit at the Met Breuer, I imagined the same type of scenery any museum would look like; high ceiling, large frames, and a collection of detailed and colorful work. It occurred to my surprise when instead I saw an identical collection of same sized frames, of just people, in what seemed to be black and white. As I took a deeper glance, I noticed almost none of the people photographed were smiling. It appeared that they were candid photos, yet they all looked directly at the camera. Arbus’ photos were drawn to unusual public places and scenery in black and white with some surreal contrast portraits. I noticed the raw images of peculiar people often brought focus on those who may be the outliers of their society; transgender, dwarfs, nudists, circus clowns, and even children. There were various particular themes that struck a chord with me, however, among the many images I came across during my search, I found Arbus’ portraits on transgender people provoke the most emotion and intrigue. The wide variety of each portrait as well as the ways she chose to portray them told a story of both lives and culture within her lifetime. Being particularly interested on transgender people, I was captivated with the complexities of her work and the way that she transcended so many boundaries which constantly had me question the theme she

There are many conflicts between different groups debating on who’s religion is better than the other’s. If they could all come together and forget about their simple differences, they would come to realize that their beliefs are strangely alike. Nowadays, most of the news that are heard are about conflicts between religions, at the moment, it’s the problem between ISIL a terrorist group claiming to be muslims against the infidels which are every other religion except Islam. Now, most of the time Christians will bash on a religion that’s not Christian. These christians that make comments about religions are hazy about the subject.

Anderson was interested in the development of the artist- type, the inner desires of repressed people, the failure of people to communicate their true selves; the way conventions and tradition have twisted and distorted the individual (Doneskey 1-3).

The actions involved in the development of imagery and symbolism in the characters are, for example, Blanche's sitting, her whisky drinking, her jumping, etc, actions which show her nervous personality of a stressed woman. " Blanche sits in a chair very stiffly with her shoulders slightly hunched and her legs pressed together…as if she were quite cold…" (page 6). Then her falling