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The Marvelous Sauce painted by Jehan Vibert in 1890 is a part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 's permanent collection. Located in Buffalo, New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is best known for its collection of modern art rather than its number of older masterpieces. Therefore this late Nineteenth-century painting kept hung on the gallery 's wall is worth taking a closer look at. It is a delightful work of art to admire, but also holds a deeper meaning.

Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion house that manufactures and designs haute couture. Such luxurious and high fashions are visibly seen through their advertisements such as their “Armani Code” fragrance. In the Giorgio Armani ad, audiences can see the similarity in the different fragrance ads for men and women such as the same models but in different positions. However, one could see the difference in choice of audiences by closely analyzing the visual and rhetorical appeals. Both the Giorgio Armani advertisements, “Armani Code” for men and “Armani Code” for women look very similar in retrospect due to the intimate and sexual appeal they exude. However, by analyzing visual and rhetorical appeals, one could clearly see the distinct difference in choice of audiences despite selling the same product which is the fragrance. The fragrance for women aims to sell their product to adult females in the middle and upper class. The fragrance for men however, directs their ad towards adult males in the middle and upper

For the past century, the ideal beauty has been revolving in a circle, what was popular 20 years ago, is just working its way to the surface again as the ‘new’ ideal beauty. The ideal beauty has constantly changed and it is impossible to predict where it will be in the

know the feeling one can have when one hears a beautiful song that brings joy to ones heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites ones eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experiences through a person’s character. Beauty is defined as the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. The secret of beauty has been a quest of humans for centuries. It has been determined that women and some men spend up to one third of their income on products and procedures that enhance their looks. People spend way too much time looking in the mirror, scrutinizing, worrying, fretting, and wishing people could change something about themselves. People dream of looking like the girl at work because she has great hair, or the girl people meet at a party because she is skinny, with the perfect nose. This happens because people are constantly on social media. A pretty face is not a complete definition of beauty, nor is the quality of one being kind and compassionate. To contain beauty, someone or something does not have to be physically beautiful. Beauty is everywhere. Take a simple flower.

In Western culture, media portrayal has an abundance of impact on what social and cultural normalities are. More adolescent women are expected to have the best of both worlds in terms of looks. In being seductive, a woman entices a man and focuses on attracting a man through provocative body language. Through fulfilling the role of a seductress, women in Vogue magazine were posed as objects for pleasing men. In an advertisement for Estée Lauder liquid lipstick, a group of them is

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

As you begin Beauty (Re) discovers the Male Body your read of author Susan Bordo spilling her morning coffee over a shockingly sexual advisement of a nude man. Initially, I rolled my eyes and settled in assuming, I was going to read about the tragedy of how men are now being objectified and exposed in adverting like women. As I flip through the pages looking at the scantily clad images I’m not really shocked; this essay was written fifteen years ago; I see these kinds of images going to the mall. What was shocking, however, was how Bordo a published, woman philosopher born in 1947 wrote about these images. I felt myself blush as I read “it seems slightly erect, or perhaps that’s his nonerect size, either way, there’s a substantial presence

Italy can be looked at as the home of the renaissance and consequently the immergence of great art. Artists such as Michelangelo, Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Raphael are some of the greats and are looked at for standards. But what about the artists whose lives are mysteries, and their works that were influenced by the greats? These artists hold just as much importance in the history of art as do the artist’s whose names can be recalled off the top of an average person’s head. During the sixteenth century things began to change in the art world, and that change was the Baroque. This new style of art brought a revolution to how subject matter was painted, it brought upon “… a radical reconsideration of art and its purposes…” (249) and how artists of all ranks could learn to paint the up and coming style of Baroque.

know beauty in any form"(86). We are so conditioned to see female beauty as what men

When initially looking at Vogue, one would simply see beautiful women and lots of expensive products. However, referring to Fowles’s article, the advertisements in the magazine display appeals directed at women so they will be drawn into a

perspective of society. The image of perfect beauty in the mind of humanity has plagued the

In Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (Re)discover The Male Body, she uses advertisement as a form of her argument on how

Beauty is traditionally defined as a concept that focuses on a combination of qualities such as shape, color or form that pleases the aesthetic sense, especially the sight. With this interpretation there is a general standard to what is “beautiful” and what is not that is appealing to everyone. However, there has been an increase in the belief that the judgement of beauty is relative to different individuals and/or cultures and that there are no universal criteria of beauty. Within the novel, Love Medicine, written by Louise Erdrich, there is an emphasis on the more novel conceptualization of beauty. Beauty still induces attraction, but what has changed is what is considered attractive.

She takes a closer look at art and questions it, “As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and, shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in (Barbery 97). Then she goes on to mention some dreadful things about debt and positions in society. Renee is question where art fits in, in all of that. Renee says, “At times like this you desperately need Art” (Barbery 98). She is expressing that through the hardships of life, you still need art. She seems to be giving advice she does not always follow. Renee sees the importance in art and believes its beauty can bring light to life. She evens mentions it could “rescue you” (Barbery 98). Renee proves she has a deeper connection to art and knows how valuable it is in life.

The development has created much controversy because how it decides to present its perception. Humanity is at fault for how the beauty industry decides how to advertise the perfect image. Yet, in the twenty-first century, there has been a turn of events. Those have educated imaginations are realizing how one standard of beauty is not enough for the millions of versions of beauty there are. Despite, wanting to have no standards of beauty, the educated know that this is no physically possible. Frye perfectly summarizes, “ The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in. Obviously, that can’t be a separated society, so we have to understand how to relate the two.” (86) The educated imagination interprets how they want their society without losing the connection to what we live in. The beauty industry represents the society we live in: superficial, materialistic, and self-indulgent. The educated imagination represents the ideal society: accepting of all and self-confidence. Although it cannot be the ideal society, there are still possibilities of a society where beauty is not a forced by people sitting at a board table. The mixture of these two societies can develop into a society where beauty is not only external but internal. Having the educated teach the weak imaginations how to comprehend the repercussions of the beauty industry, but still, understand it is difficult to change a hundred-year-old tradition. Standards of beauty will always be part of society, it is just how will society determine what is an illusion and