The Horn Of Plenty by Alexander McQueen

Dali employs a “concrete irrationality” surrealist style giving us the illusion of realism. Design is precise, using symmetrical perspective employing a geometrical figure’s composition. The painting is well balanced. Presence of the light coming from the northeast gives a sense of a natural landscape. The light and shadow relationship “pops the elements out” and creates contrast. The pain of war is expressed by the grotesque mutating human body ripping itself apart with the anguishing facial expression.

The sublime is a feature present in many art works. It is an aesthetics category that, unlike other categories such as beauty or the picturesque, examines great and awe-inspiring phenomena. The sublime is an aesthetic notion that describes the emotions of awe that people experience when they encounter the immense, powerful, and even terrifying forces of the natural world. Like all aesthetic notions, the sublime produces various emotions with the persons viewing a piece of art. Moreover, many works of art that depict industrial landscapes or scenes rely upon the sublime to communicate to the viewer the sublime nature of modern industry. Indeed, artistic depictions of technology in industrial paintings reflection aesthetic concept of sublime by the scale and focal point in paintings.

Rhetoric is all around us and whether we realize it or not, we are exposed to it all the time. We can find rhetoric in all forms of media from Movies to TV shows from newspaper articles to social media. One piece of media that contains rhetoric is music, more specifically Taylor Swift’s 2012 album Red. Red presents several rhetorical situations including commentary on relationships.

Surrealism is a movement that built off of the burgeoning look into art, psychology, and the workings of the mind. Popularly associated with the works of Salvador Dali, Surrealist art takes imagery and ideology and creates correlation where there is none, creating new forms of art. In this essay I will look to explore the inception of the surrealist movement, including the Surrealist Manifesto, to stress the importance of these artists and their work in the 20th century and beyond. I also will look to films from our European Cinema course to express how films incorporate the influence of surrealism both intentionally and unintentionally.

I believe that my response is based on the way the author received her ideas on what beauty is.

In Tony Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” it explores the discovery of ethnic identities. It depicts the life of Macon Milkman Dead, a withdrawn loner who doesn’t feel accepted by others and is disconnected with his family and heritage. With help from others in his community Milkman takes a trip to discover himself and his roots bringing him closer to the true meaning of his purpose. Milkman in turn realizes that flight represents liberation from a life of restrictions, set in an era of racism and separation. Flight may seem as a positive solution to such a life of problems and discrimination, however, holds very negative aspects in family settings. Abandoning your own and severing those mutual bonds plays a significant role in the life of the loved ones left behind. Most are left recovering from their loss, or completely lose hope such as Hagar. Solomon leaving his wife Ryna and children behind was necessary sacrifice he had to make in order to be free. Solomon is never punished or looked down for his decision; in his song it acknowledges his accomplishment as a great achievement. In “Song of Solomon”, the ability of flight symbolizes the escape from oppression while searching for freedom.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have it all? Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed in life? No one looks at race or anything of that nature just solely on merit and no matter where you come from or what you go through you have the same opportunity as the next person. Merit is the quality of being particularly good or worth especially so as to deserve praise or reward.

As his eyes traced down her body, he savored them. Round. Shapely. Beautiful. She wasn't like the average woman his eyes had learned to glaze over on the streets, and in her difference there was beauty. A whole lot of beauty. Bennett couldn't help but stare, and he could see her fidgeting and twisting beneath his gaze. The dominant animal inside had that effect on people; it was why he was so effective at breaking grown men.

“‘You know more that that,’ my father said. ‘He was beautiful.’” -p. 61 Beauty has no limit to what it can be used to describe. It can be a book written by Mark Twain or Stephen King. It can be a piece of artwork created by Leonardo DA Vinci or Vincent Van Gogh. It can be a mountain range on the edge of Africa or Europe. It can be a lake located in California or Maine. It can even be a fly fisherman from Missoula, Montana named Paul Maclean. Throughout A River Runs Through It, Paul displays many beautiful characteristics, among those being: artistic, wise, and independent.

All of the artwork shows great precision and attention to detail. The colors are vibrant and rich. That is not to say the colors were bright or cheerful (only one painting was particularly “bright”), but the colors were all pure and distinct. Most of the paintings, in my opinion, would fit under the umbrella of surrealism. Walking into the gallery immediately starts to produce feelings of unease and perhaps feelings of being threatened. The individual objects in the paintings are very realistic but mashed together in unnatural ways.

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.

Ron Mueck is a hyper realistic artist whose main focus is on rendering the human experience through the sculpture of people. Mueck stirs emotion with his sculptures and make people really think about the human body in a new way. In contrast to Mueck’s emotional and heavy artworks; Alexander McQueen, a British fashion designer focused on hiding the human experience with clothing, that often pushed the boundaries on what we traditionally think of as fashion is the opposite. McQueen’s fashions and works of art are definitely pieces that make a statement and push the boundaries. He got his inspiration from film, music, and everywhere he could find it. These two artists are both concerned with the human body and how to create a sense of awe with their individual and different audiences. The audiences of the two artists are dramatically different. McQueen’s audience is those in the fashion world, while Meuck’s audience are those in the art world.

Thesis: Many may find that the essence of beauty is primarily focused on what you look like, rather than what is deep within. It is an evil first instinct we all possess. Ugliness; however, is more than just what a person looks like. A person could be visually appealing, yet have evil intentions deep within. Likewise, a person could be deemed as ugly purely based on what they look like, but within they could have the most beautiful heart.

Alexander Nehamas believes that the attracted properties of art and beauty lies within our feeling and emotions. In his account, he explained that even though a higher or more abstract ideas of beauty can be found, the fundamental principles we used to judge the quality of the art is not purely intellectual but, rather, the desires plays as a part of the appreciation. He emphasized that the beauty of the artwork provokes individuals to possess in a way that we want to know more about the painting whether from our lust or other forms of emotion (7). In another word, Nehamas reasons that emotional properties of the beauty attracts observer’s attention. To further clarify Nehamas’ argument, he pointed out that the beauty are capable of being deceptive

The area of art is popularly known for heightening emotions, challenging stereotypes, and ultimately providing insights into how individuals view the surrounding world. The artist and the observer time and time again see pieces in overwhelmingly different ways. Individuals may wonder why this is so. What could possibly create such a drastic change from one perspective to another? When it comes down to it, experiences are the answer. The artist and the observer have different