Summary Of The Las Meninas

In La Mentira chapter 1, Demetrio returned home to Mexico and discovered that his brother Ricardo suicide himself. He finds a letter from a mysterious woman detailing how she never loved Ricardo and that she is getting married to someone else, how she aborted their child and how she spent all his money and realizes that she was the cause of his death.

The dark blue left eye and light blue right tells me that Pablo Picasso may have used her actual eye color. Her body is almost as if she had her back to Picasso and turning her torso toward him; such as in most contrapposto art. In the original sketch you can clearly see her arms and the detail of her body. She is not looking back at Picasso, but instead looking toward the opening curtain. The hair of the young lady is also more visible as it drapes down her back. By repositioning her arm and adding the mask he completely changed her appearance, not only in her face but her body as well. Picasso gave her a double point of view, as you look at her nose and the angles it provides. The hand under the chin gives it an almost claw like feature, with what seems to be her fingers going to her eye to her the opposite side of the chin. With the sharp angles and mask and all the distortion it would be difficult to truly see just the young lady. It is almost as if she is shards of glass pieced together to make a

In “El Norte”, Gregory Nava states that Guatemala was dark place to live there, and that the people were pick out food with their hands. There was a lot of people working and becoming slaves for picking out the food. Another thing about El Norte is that the brother named Enrique and the sister named Rosa. Enrique was worry about his father for leaving dinner he said to Enrique “The rich came to this village from other parts looking for good land, no one fights over band land”, meaning that people only come to a rich place because the environment good, eating healthier food and they have technology. Once Arturo left enquire to meet with his worker friends, the military people can to find them, Arturo was extremely closed to escape instead the military shot. Enquire hear the gunshot and saw his father head hanging up on the tree, when enquire saw his father hanging up on the tree he was angry sad and want to kill the military people which he did three time. When they were having the funeral for Arturo everybody in the village was praying for him and other men that got killed. Everybody was dressing the same clothes and the music was sounding beautiful when Rosa was singing. The military can back to find enquire for killing them, once they were searching the place military people took his family while they Rosa and enquire were hiding inside the canyon. When enquire and Rosa find each other they both want to get out of Guatemala and head to the “North.” They both were wearing white clothes maybe representing their culture, religious or maybe their she was tired wearing the same clothes and when they left Guatemala the music was back. Enrique and Rosa are on a quest to get out of the ethnic and political repressed Guatemala and attempt to escape to the North where they can live the “American dream.” Will Enrique and Rosa live the “American dream” once they escape to the North? Can an illegal immigrant achieve the “American dream?” To answer these questions the audience you figure out what depend on the viewers.

When you first look at the two painting they appear to be completely different,but on a second and closer look there are many striking similarities. First looking at it they don’t look anything alike they appear to be portraying the same event. Looking at the outline of Picasso’s paintings you see the resemblance of Velazquez painting.There are many similarities between both paintings. One similarity is that both painting have attendants dressing her. Another similarity is she is wearing a hoop skirt. The broach on her chest she is wearing seems to be the same in both paintings. In each painting it has at least one attendant kneeling down and holding both hands. The princesses arms are in the same position

The palace official in the doorway is the actual vanishing point of Las Meninas, which creates a life-like feel to the painting. Velazquez blurs the line between art and reality by painting Las Meninas on a 10.5 by 9-foot canvas and creates a three-dimensional area that the viewer can “walk into” (Earle). The lines of the ceiling and corners meet at the open door where the palace official stands, exactly eye level to the spectator (Wicks). This vanishing point helps to establish this painting as a physical space, rather than a mere canvas.

The legend of La Llorona has been embedded into the Mexican and Chicano/a culture for more than five hundred years, primarily bringing fear, caution, and death to young children. Said to be dresses in all white with long black hair, La Llorona revolves on bringing fear to kids and emphazises the mourne of the loss of her children. Many of the kids who are told this story serves as a threat to not go play by a river or to stay out when the sun has fallen. Reverting back to the time period of the Spanish Conquista when Hernan Cortez was battling for settlement, La Malinche, (also referred to as Doña Marina, Milinalli, or Malintzin) a Nahua woman, was brought to him as a slave amongst twenty others like her. Having caught his attention, Cortez entitled La Malinche to be his translator, advisor, and mistress.

In this case for our group project, we were informed to relate the story of La Llorona and how does the book So Far From God, author Ana Castillo, relate to each other. In addition, there is a specific character that reminds us who is related to La Llorona. For the people who does not know the story of La Llorona, she had two children and lived a happy life with a dashing husband. However, she starts to realize that her beauty is not being looked upon from her husband. Since knowing she does not get the attention like she use to before, her anger has lead her to throw her two children in a river. Realizing her mistake, she tries to find her childrens. With no sign of them being found, she is found dead at the river. Due to this horrible ending,

The third of the paintings stemming from the Baroque period done by Velázquez is one of his many works for the court, setting the tone in the particular area, while not extending much further (49, Bazin). The court employing Velázquez was that of King Philip IV, with the focus of this painting being the king’s daughter. This particular piece has not only the artist himself depicted, the children of the court scattered about, but also a mirror in the back showing the King and Queen standing as the painter is depicted to be painting their portrait. Each point of attention draws way from the former, then pushing to the next in a cycle of focus. Once Velázquez started using almost strictly the style of portraits, he mastered the art using the available means to the fullest. The painting at hand in particular uses his mastery of portraiture to the fullest in varying who is being painted and their positions on the canvas (59-60, Bazin).

“Hey! Calm down and chill!” I yelled over to my dog. Manchitas might be a chihuahua, but he can really pull me when he wants, but that isn’t much since I’m just skin and bones. He frantically started digging and whining. I’d never seen him like this. Today, was my only day off of work, so I decided to take him on a long walk. I live in Miami, Florida and working as a forensic anthropologist, I am always busy.

Lore; noun; a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject, or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth; traditions and knowledge passed on; Many cultures have some type of lore that the people of that culture tell. For example, in Mexico, there is the lore of La Llorona. There are plenty of stories of how she could not stop crying for her kids at the river. Moreover, there is also lore about witches in Salem. People tell stories and write books about lore that is passed on.

Though “Our Lady of Guadalupe” style is softer and more delicate than any other paintings. They create energetic subjects and has a vertical emphasis. The viewer clearly sees a landscape and a tumultuous battle in the sky that curves around the central figure of the Virgin

In Picasso’s piece there are many curved lines, which seem to suggest a sense of comfort and ease, while the horizontal lines in the piece suggest a distance and calm. All of these feeling would appeal to the people who had witnessed the devastations of the war only several years before the painting was made. The long continuous lines guides the viewer’s eye in certain directions, and keeps the viewer interested. The shapes in Woman in the Blue Veil mostly consist of  round shapes like ovals, which represent a kind of continuous movement.

Las Meninas is a work of art that left a lot of viewers in perplex, questioning themselves about illusion and reality, due to its complexity and paradoxical composition. It would leave a conflict between the viewers and the human figures depicted throughout the painting. Because of those convolutions, the painting is considered one of the most enigmatic, yet analyzed work of art in Western paintings. Moving onward we can

Another interesting perspective captured in the painting is facial elevation and position. The meninas’ heads are at different elevations to that of Margarita. Their attention is towards Margarita yet their perspectives are different. María’s eye view is higher than Margarita’s eye view yet the painter makes it appear as if María’s eyes are looking up on Margarita. Moreover, Isabel’s elevation appears to pay homage to Margarita by her angle of inclination, eye direction and facial expression. .

Girl before a Mirror, an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, shows two sides of a girl; one which is illustrated with a dark tone and one with a vibrant colorful tone. This painting is bright; colors are at full intensity and are arranged next to their complements, producing a visual relationship between shape and form. Forms are used to draw the viewer’s eye across the canvas where circular shapes, repeating throughout the work, are compensated by the pattern of diagonal lines of the background. The viewer observes the girl’s profile and full frontal image, looking into a mirror and noticing a different image of herself. In order to achieve this effect, Picasso uses a range of formal elements that highlight the