The Color Blue Essay

This painting has an evident use of hierarchy of scale, in which the painter portrays Samuel bigger than the rest to show his greater importance. In addition, the other characters are intended to show as weightless, as we can observe that some of the people located in the back do not have legs. The use of color and its variety is characteristic in the Late Antique art, and in this specific painting is used to further understand the story that is being told. David can be recognized among the gathered group of people since he is dressed different from the rest, with a purple toga. The color purple during this period was directly associated with status, for which the artist is believed to have used it to represent David’s royal position. Color can also be seen as a support for the hierarchy of scale, the variety in color is the direct representation of the importance of each character. Samuel is dressed in white, a color symbolizing spirituality and purity, for which he has the divine privilege to anoint David. Another

Stained glass was made during the Gothic period of art history. In the center of the program is the Virgin Mary, enthroned and crowned. The crown means that she is the Queen of Heaven. Cruciform nimbuses/halos frame the heads of both her and the Christ child. This is an indicator of their divinity. Mary’s foot is resting on a stool that is covered by a rug. The throne is held up by the pillars that are held by the angels beneath it. In the segment above Mary’s head is a dove representing the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Christ child sits on Mary’s lap. In his left hand, he is holding an open book with a quote from Isaiah from the Old Testament; his right hand is raised in blessing. The quote is “Every valley shall be exalted.” This refers to the leveling of lands and the creation of roads for the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

Saint Appolinare is the largest figure within the piece and is standing directly over the alter and below the massive cross. The gold jewel encrusted cross is contained within a bright blue circle dotted with gold stars. The green background is filled with plants, shrubs and trees all of which are coloured in varying shades of green.

significant religious symbols, behind the altar was a small black cross with a small jesus nailed

Violets Are Blue by James Patterson is filled with nothing but the unexpected. Patterson portrays his famous character, Alex Cross, in a series of unforeseen events. Alex Cross is a Detective famous for his work on the force. His instincts make him the best at what he does. When a series of bizarre gruesome murders take place in multiple areas, it is up to Alex and his partner Jamila, and his F.B.I friend Kyle to investigate. All while this is happening, Alex has to deal with his own killer stalker called “The mastermind”,A man that has tormented Alex by killing the people he loves. Diving deeper and deeper into the investigation, they realize that the murders have to do with role playing vampire brothers named Michael and William. All under the control of their “sire” named

When music enthusiasts or even music novices such as myself think of the blues, thoughts of hardship, adversity, and regret rush to mind. An individual loses his or her job, they get the blues. A close relative passes away, you feel the blues. Indeed, blues music is all too often associated with trials and tribulations. Yet, the blues itself seemingly encompasses much more than simply a sense of misery and unhappiness. Rather, the blues more so embodies overcoming hardship, moving past adversity, hoping for a better tomorrow, and invoking a sense of genuine emotion. In fact, As Elijah Wald states in “The Blues: A Very Short Introduction,” the blues should be thought of in emotional, musical, cultural, or even commercial terms (Wald, 7). To me, however, the blues is a passionate medium of expression, feeling and message that addresses subjects on race and class. Love, emotion, and sexuality were subjects that blues artists commonly decided to incorporate into lyrics. Yet, what was the true motivation behind this transcendent line of music?

Novelist, Poet, womanist, and activist Alice Walker explores and provides insight on the issues that woman of color experience through her works, The Color Purple An Epistolary Novel and In Search of Our Mother’s Garden. Walker defines “Womanist to feminist as purple to lavender” (21). Womanist theory looks at the heart of a colored woman and the things in which grieves her soul. It uplifts and builds Women of color and helping one to embrace their blackness as well as their gender through understand the power and privilege of being able to be called a woman. Women, particularly women of color possess a certain strength one that gives them a spine that bends due to circumstance but is unable to break. It is the common reality of colored women to be mishandled by humans yet it is even more common for a woman to remain strong within it. That is what makes a woman of color so remarkable. When she is able to stand in her truth as a woman, accept and embrace her flaws as well as her beauty in spite of how the world may see her. A Womanist has a responsibility to herself and those and those around her to not fold or break because of the things that they are most surrounded by that being hate, negativity, sexism, discrimination. A black woman does not only hold the issue of her race but she holds the issue of being women within a sexism society. This kind of reality would be known as a triple-consciousness in having to be American, black and a woman is having to conform and in

Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9, 1944, she was the youngest of eight children who belonged to Minnie Tallulah and Willie Lee Walker, her parents we too hard working black sharecroppers, she grew up poor. (Paul Later: 1994: 2510). She has spent much of her childhood even more restricted than her family’s rural poverty that was forced upon her, when she was a little girl she was shot in the eye with a BB gun (by her brother while they were playing a game of cowboys and Indians), she had this deformity until she went to college and had it corrected, as declared by (Jerome Klinkowitz and Patricia B. Wallace: 2007: 3009). Teased by her classmates and misunderstood by her family, Walker became a shy, reluctant youth.

Before the Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994, a man could not be charged with the rape of his wife because the law defined rape as “the act of sexual intercourse with a female not his wife, by force and without her permission." After the passing of the Violence Against Women Act, domestic abuse went down 60%. Celie in The Color Purple is repeatedly sexually abused by several men in her life. While the novel is set in the 1930’s and 40 years onward, when male domestic abuse is still valid and unquestioned, the book still sends a message about male dominance today. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple uses the harassment and abuse of women throughout the novel to illustrate how female independance and standing up for oneself are important.

The outer circle: symbolises the rock of the holy tomb and at the same time an egg pulsating with life as a sign of life and resurrection

In the Dictionary, black is defined as “being of the darkest achromatic visual value; producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue. Having little or no light”. Most people choose to see black as just a color. That it is just a simple, everyday thing. However, the dictionary goes much farther and defines black as things that we all see and know but don’t really interpret, such as “Soiled, as from soot; dirty. Evil; wicked:black deeds. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy. Marked by anger or sullenness.” Our textbook defines nonverbal communication as “behavior other than written or spoken language that creates meaning for someone.” Although it is not explicitly stated, color is a version of non-verbal communication. Color transmits information about emotions, feelings and moods. A person who wears black is seen as sad, intense, rejected and maybe even fearful. It’s important to know what black translates to, and how these interpretations came to be known.

Certain features of the wall expressions would identify deities from kings and queens and that way allow people to differentiate between the mortals and immortals. The relief (Figure 3) at the Horus of Edfu Temple in Egypt is one example of an expression of a deity painted using a blue color because the deity was deemed to give life and blue is linked to life-giving when one consider the role of the river Nile in providing life. This shows that most of the art was heavily influenced by the general interpretation of various aspects of life and the color in which they appear. For example, while blue was associated with life giving, green was associated with the green environment and new life, while red was associated with victory (Egyptian Myth,

Moving into the first point of view, reliquary is a term uses to call containers of relics. Therefore, the Reliquary Châsse might have been used to contain a relic and present in a church. The material of the box is champlevé enamel on gilded copper with oak core. Despite the cheap material compare to Romansque goldsmith works, the reliquary still gives a golden shine color of luxury. People can also easily find the joint between layers of gilded copper with oak core throughout nicely repeated around the reliquary. By judging the way that reliquary was painted, it clearly demonstrated the hard work of handmade through of the work. In addition, people can take a closer look at the floral design amazing covers the entire work. On other hand, the Book Cover with Christ in Majesty was also made out of

This piece that was created for King Richard II of England and supports the idea that artworks during this period were heavily inspired by religion. This piece is made up of two separate panels, the left of which depicts King Richard II keeling beside the three saints, (from left to right) Edmund the Martyr, Edward the Confessor and John the Baptist, seemingly devoting himself to the baby Jesus. Figures in both panels seem to interact but the background in each panel is differing from the other. The painting shows these figures in front of a forest.

Blue invited friends over for crochet and knitting parties. Tap, tap, tap went the needles. Zoop, zoop, zoop when the hooks. Soon lots of warm alpaca fashions were ready for the new store.