Relationship Between The Body And The City 's Building

Jean Kilbourne’s film, Killing Us Softly 4, depicts the way the females are shown in advertisements. She discusses how advertisement sell concepts of normalcy and what it means to be a “male” and a “female.” One of her main arguments focuses on how women aspire to achieve the physical perfection that is portrayed in advertisements but this perfection is actually artificially created through Photoshop and other editing tools. Women in advertisements are often objectified as weak, skinny, and beautiful while men are often portrayed as bigger and stronger. Advertisements utilize the setting, the position of the people in the advertisements, and the products to appeal to the unconscious aspect

The essay will make use of the works of photographic artists who engage in one of the two schools of photography, Pictorialism and Modernism. The artists that will be used for this essay are Paul Strand who has been selected for the Modernist development together with a Russian artistic photographer Alexander Rodchenko and As White remained rooted to Pictorialism, his stance on his methodology and set up in the 1920s and 1930s led to occurrence of the stirring up of quite a number of understudies to handle his visualization style which was fresh and innovative (White, Clarence H., Jr. and Peter C. Bunnell 1965). In the process of talking about the two schools of photography, Pictorialism and Modernism rather than focus on the clash and disagreements that occurred from Pictorialism and Modernism it is more suitable to examine the merits in both the method and styles used in the two schools of

New York is a city that works in mysterious ways, having a strong presence on those who walk its streets daily. It's a city with character, touching those who live there or taste its enigma and yearn for seconds after the moment is gone. Although the journeys this city can put at people’s feet can vary from person to person, in many cases the path that some walk can end up being very similar. This was the case after reading “Tehran to the B Train” by Roxana Sabari and “My First New York” by Colum McCann. These two articles are both taken place in the big city, and when compared side by side, it can be shown that they both show many qualities, such as the location, the struggle both authors go through during their time in the city, and the realization

In the year 1992, a contemporary British artist, Jenny Saville, painted one of her famous paintings of the human body in its raw natural form. The painting by Saville is regarded as one of her self-portrait depictions of her “ugly” body named “Branded.” The painting is an oil based medium of the artist’s obese and disproportional body on an 84 x 72inch canvas. The painting displays the image of a large nude woman and highlights the imperfections of her body figure.

An exhibition never fails in taking the spectator on a journey through the chosen art’s narrative. The vast selection of exhibitions that were available at the National Gallery of Art made it difficult to narrow down the preferred choices. While examining the exhibition list one word seemed to capture my attention. Urban. I had the privilege to be born in a foreign city and to grow up in yet another city. This perspective colored my gallery selection and placed emphasis on the word “Urban.” Located in the West Wing of the Natural Gallery of Art, “Urban Scene 1920-1950” is an exhibition that reveals the four century-old artistic interpretation of the dynamic life that comes with residing in a city. Part of the beauty of the exhibition is the incorporation of less recognized American artists that worked on various printmaking techniques to create these astonishing achievements. The installation utilized minimalistic styles that introduced the viewer to various cities in the US. During the

Sheriff once described the Pilgrimage to Cythera [fig.1] as, “… when you have traversed the rivers, the hills, the garden walks, when you have passed the lakes and the fountains, then the Paradise of Watteau opens before you. It is Cythera”.6 In order to describe this romantic scene, he experimented with posture and movement, shades of color difference, and a glossy surface in this panting.7 Figure poses blend elegance and sweetness.8 By capturing slow movements from unusual angles of the figures, he was able to show the most refined attitude of the figures.9 Various colors are used, the outlines are soft, brush marks add the liveliness to the figures, and the figures are pushed to the background. The techniques such as the haze colors, figure poses that are drawn with different angles, and modeled shapes are described as the preferred Rococo style in eighteenth century that appealed to the Rococo artists’ wealthy patrons.

Having to consider the choices both impressionist and post-impressionist, I have come to a decision. Three works from the impressionist period and three works from the post-impressionist period would be the best choice to make. I will deal with impressionist works in the paper first by identifying the impressionist and post-impressionist works. Then I will describe the choices of the painting to present to the CEO of my company with examples for my decision. While including examples why my choices fit the company’s image, I will a give a clear explanation.

The subject placed center in a billowy white gown against a black background generates a contrast forcing the eye to the gown. Two exposures placed generate an hour glass composition. The use of diagonal line forces the eye to the faces of the two images placing more of an emphasis on the expression of the subject then the fashion in the advertisement. Using light and positioning Man Ray created a series of repeating triangular patterns placing emphasis on the skirt of the gown (L'Ecotais,

In “homage to my hips,” the speaker continually glorifies her hips saying that “these hips are big hips” (1). As exemplified through the speaker’s focus on her hips, the African American Aesthetic physically embraces the lower half of the body and its general shape, focusing on features of the body such as the hips, legs, and feet. Furthermore, Generally, however, African American art embraces the physical body in a natural and purely humanistic way, which contrasts with the Caucasian American Aesthetic and reaffirms the primitive and pure African heritage. Interestingly, in the same way the physical African American idea of beauty reflects its cultural and societal origins, the White American idea of physical beauty glorifies physically European and societally enhanced features such as the face and upper bodice. For example, lines nineteen and twenty of “Portrait d’une Femme” describe female beauty as an object “That might prove useful and yet never proves, That never fits in a corner or shows use” (Pound). The quotations reveal that physical aspect of the Caucasian American Aesthetic is highly objectified as the primary function of beauty is to serve society and be a mark of society. In many ways, the the idea of society and its norms, a changeable standard, and not the inherent natural beauty of the human body. The white physical aesthetic revolves around what the physical body can be made into and or used for, instead of inherent natural beauty. EXPLAIN HOW IDEAS CARRY OVER BLACK WOMEN FORCED TO HIDE NATURAL< YET WHITE WOMEN DEGREADED FOR WEARIGN OR STEALING THOSE IDEAS OF

The human body is the ultimate tool for discovering the environment. Human anatomy is considered to be nature’s peak of perfection and certain features serve as inspiration for many architects. To study the relationship between the human body and architecture, one must not be limited to human body parts resemblance to architectural works but to a larger extent consider human emotions, sensory nerves, the mind and general human psychology. In essence everything that makes us human. In its simplest definition Architecture can be described as an art or practice of designing buildings. It is practiced in a way that accomplishes both practical and communicative or expressive requirements. To relate it to human body then Architecture can widely define the place, the site, the energy, the systems, the building, the flora and fauna. These components that bring aesthetic property to humanity apart from the utilitarian purpose it serves. The perfect balance of a normal human body and the proportions are incorporated into architecture from a point of view of imitation, idealized allusion and the actual human use. Evidence of such human incorporation into architecture is seen from the Ancient Greek Architectures where it was common for tower columns to take shape of a human being like in the colossus of the Ancient

1. Briefly describe the attraction you have selected (site, size, main markets, ownership, type of experience) and the identify the destination where the attraction is located

These series of works of art; as previously stated, the bodies of the women, who are the subjects in this series are not perfect or beautiful in the idealized beauty of the time as shown in Woman Bathing,

Baudelaire once said, “Caricatures are often the most faithful mirror of life.” The art of caricature was established into print in eighteenth-century England as a form of commentary on the current events of the time. Caricature as a style itself is a combination of two separate social inventions. “Caricature Adopting the Italian invention of caricatura-the graphic exaggeration of facial and bodily features for comic effect and combining it with an updated repertoire of visual metaphor, personification, and allegorical attributes. ” Though born in England, the story about to be told in this paper is one of Spanish origin, a story about Francisco Goya. This paper will discuss how Goya implemented painting, drawing, and printing technique to stimulate social critique of and satirize the subjects of his works. Then how does Goya’s methodology transcend into modern caricature and social critique?

Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a set of essays used to explain different techniques used in oil paintings, advertisements, and the way people look at things differently from one another. The abstract image Altera Pars by Wojciech Grzanka is a part of his surreal photo manipulation series called “It’s All In My Head”. In this image a woman clearly with two sets of arms shows that she is control of how and what she feels. Her attire shows mixed feelings on how she wants to be looked at. She is wearing a dress that fades away towards the bottom and underneath she is wearing pants. She stands comfortably in a room that is grungy and dirty. Women and men should not be condemned to live up to society’s expectations of what is right and wrong.

London, England’s capital, is one of the top twenty-five largest cities in the world, located on the River Thames with a history reaching all the way back to Roman times. From the London Eye and Big Ben to the Albert and Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace, there is an abundance of adventures to journey on in the prodigious city of London. Despite all the fascinating monuments and architecture there is to see, London has the reputation of constantly being gloomy and raining. With this reputation, there is plenty of artwork that resembles the image of “gloomy, large London.” Three pieces of artwork that resemble the gloomy and large qualities of London are “In a London Drawing Room” by George Eliot, “A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM” by Amy Lowell, and Monet’s The House of Parliament, sunset (1903).