Finding Vivian Maier Analysis

In Berthe Morisot’s painting, she uses colors ranging from blue to green to yellow to orange. She uses paint thinly but in big brush stroke but her color was dull. Her brush strokes are in a cross hatching manner. This method of cross hatching creates depth and shadows on the foreground. Intermixed, in her piece are signs of dry brush strokes. Morisot’s figure is enticing to the viewer by staring back at the onlooker. Morisot’s painting looks very freeing as that is what she longs for. She has a sketch like quality about her painting.

    As the time passes she can clearly see the woman in the paper. The woman in the paper is quiet and peaceful during the day, but at night she is imprisoned by the bars in the paper. This is reflection helps the narrator identify her own bars--her husband John. He is away during the day and at home in the same bed with her at night. She also identifies with the woman in the paper by sharing their similar routine. "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be"..."by daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy its the pattern that keeps her so still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me quiet by the hour".

These brief descriptions and use of characterisation of society suggest that feeling of isolation for the narrative that is describing this, is already in an isolated or alienated position so the use of the dark colour just adds more to the isolated feeling and the dark emotions. As the short story advances, so does the suggestion that the main character is alienated or isolated. She is tired, exhausted, but does anything for her daughter “Estoy casi tan cansada como el día en que la puse en el mundo…Exhausta.” The mother seems occupied with her daughter but by herself there is sadness about her, loneliness, the mother is more a solitary character, meaning that she doesn’t need anybody but her and her daughter and being free of emotions and involvements with others. Which only adds to the idea of isolation surrounding this character, an example being “doy de la dirección de casa de las abuelitas, un lugar concertó donde se que todos seremos felices la niña y las abuelas charlando, y, yo fumando un cigarrillo, solitaria y en paz”. But now the character of the mother will become even more lonely as she says goodbye to her daughter because it’s that part in the story where the daughter is experiencing her first day of school

In a photographer’s booth, we see the symbol of light where parents are able to look on themselves from the side and they have a possibility to understand that they are intolerable to each other. “The place is shadowed in the mauve light which is apparently necessary”. Unfortunately, they know it from the beginning but they don not want to accept it because it will disturb already chosen path. “…and finally, shocked by their indifference”. The only son, who is going to start an adult life, able to summarize the parents mistakes and to build his future in the light of love, hope and faith. “…into the cold light, I woke up”. No matter what and when we are always know where is the light but sometimes it is easier to wander in a gloom then to find strength to look at the sun.

She takes advantage of her passion for the darkness as a way of persuading her side of the argument, placing greater favor upon the peacefulness in darkness versus chaos in the light. Also her description of her emotions when she is surrounded by darkness suggests that our busy lives in the light have taken relaxation away from our lives; darkness helps us fall back into simpler times and serenity.

It seemed to amaze her how they could tell her how they did theirs, but wouldn’t teach her how it’s actually done. All her paintings came from her traveling experience. I remember her saying how the clouds looked solid as she looked up and just imagined. She lived until she was 90, she died of old age. I admired the fact where she talked about how early she would wake up and what time she would be back after being out working as an artist because it showed how dedicated she was to her craft. There was a time when her drawings were put up in a museum without her knowing and she found out from someone else and got down to the bottom of

The image effectively uses the strong contrast between light and dark lighting, a technique that is often used to heighten drama or tension around the subject.

TXT- She incorporates symbolic imagery into her paintings in her series of self portraits, especially relating events of her past life and integrates them into the paintings with the help of Surrealism. Pg 367

Despite of the difficulty, Maloof searched and looked for all people who were possibly connected to Vivian Maier. The focus of the documentary film revolved around the journey and the quest of John Maloof in discovering more about the woman who has an extraordinary gift in taking exemplary photographs. The film is mostly devoted to interviews and testimonials from different people who had connections with Maier’s life, mostly the children who grew up in Maier’s care, and from the two contemporary masters, Joel Meyerwitz and Mary Ellen Mark. Vivian Maier was mostly remembered as a tall, awkward, and oddly-dressed nanny in New York and Chicago.

The reflections of the windowed glass company, layered and dimensional, make me question what plane each object occupies.

The bright blue of Mary’s robes ensnare our gaze. This vibrant color contrasts with the neutral tones of browns, whites, greens, and reds. Combined these soft colors emanate a calm ambiance about the painting. The robes of the figures, the Madonna’s in particular are light, airy in a sense. Tri-tone gives a sense of real fabric, and of movement underneath that fabric. Tri-tone and shadowing go beyond the characters however. The architecture in the background expresses a realistic filtered light. We detect an opening in the building by the presence of the tops of trees in the background, and by the light that faintly falls on the face of Madonna. This gentle illumination, once again brings our attention to the faces of Madonna and Child. In comparison, the saints in company are not placed in such a light, figuratively and

In analyzing the character development of Edna Pontellier as a character, she becomes a radical woman of this literary age. Through her development, Mrs. Pontellier exhibits characteristics that would not be deemed as acceptable behavior from a married woman of the late 1800’s as American society is beginning to see a shift into the Industrial Revolution.

American street photographer, Vivian Maier, was born on February 1st 1926. Her dedication to Photography was shown through the sheer amount of images that she had taken during her lifetime, which was more than 100, 00. Although born in the U.S, Maier spent a great amount of time in France. Her early images, taken in France, were with a Kodak Brownie camera in the late 1940's. In 1951 Maier moved to New York and in 1956 Chicago, where she spent the rest of her years. Taking up a job in a sweatshop before accepting another job in the northern suburb of Highland Park where Maier worked as a nanny for the Gensburg Family. There she stayed until the early 1970's. At this time she had begun photographing the unique streets of Chicago, through the

They have squinted eyes and they are judging her. Wanting to make a name for herself, the girl is moving forward in her life and as seen in the image, there are two images of her and one of them in front of the other. It is demonstrated that the girl has decided to let go of her past and pursue her self-interests. The girl has a bright future ahead of her, which is apparent by the image of the sun rising in the background and the sunlight is slowly coming towards her. In addition, the branches in the tree behind the girl are also rising a bit thus adding to idea that the girl’s time to shine is about to arrive. She must overcome the challenges imposed by the people and life upon her and it is conveyed through the climate in the background. In order to survive in the desert, one must have hope and the sun in the background highlights the hope. The rising sun explains that there is hope for the girl and she can achieve happiness. She doesn’t have to worry about the girls in the background and other people in life; she must pursue her self-interests because Spring, the season of rebirth and joy, comes after Autumn. She has been through a lot in her life and even the nature (sun) wants her to achieve a better life. Because she has separated herself from the crowd, she is pursuing her self-interests to succeed in

In the article, the illustration of the “The grey shadows….represents ghost calling [Eisenstein] from the distance of the dead. Shows whether she should haunt the ghosts to get to know them better or let them live in oblivion”(Dagmara Drewniak, 41) this helps “to recreate her family’s story… through pictures which symbolize the gap-filling process.”(41)