The Night By Ferdinand Hodler

There is a time in life where you did have to make a difficult choice but always remember that as you get older life does not get easy. Where in the book of Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a memoir about Elie himself, he talks about his painful experiences in the holocaust as a jewish person. He describes his struggle dealing with his father, himself, his beliefs, and the people around him. Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a kid who started losing faith in God to finding himself reconnecting back. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the theme in life that not everything that happens, you get to have control over it sometimes the best thing to do is to wait for changes. The change is apparent when at the

They may be border in thick, Reich frames, and always have a smooth, finished quality to them. Many of his works pay homage to the great artists such as Bosch and Ingres, or the little girls in his works can struck a haunting connection to the nymphs painted by classicist artists. It is this connection to history which again reflects a person's comfort with the known and familiar, and turns it into something confronting by pulling it from its original context.

Franz Marc was a German artist and printmaker, and also one of the key statistics of the German Expressionist movement. Franz Marc was born in February 8, 1880 in Munich and past away in March 4, 1916, eventually Marc was only 36 years old. Wilhelm, the father, was an expert landscape painter; his mother, Sophie, was a strict Calvinist. Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907, he spent time in France, intensely in Paris, visiting the city’s museums and copying many paintings, a conventional way for artists to study and improve technique.

Some of the prominent artists of this movement were/are: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschaka, Alfred Kubin, Vincent Van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz, Wassily Kandinsky and Edvard Munch.

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

Darkness at Noon, written by British novelist Arthur Koestler in 1940, is a criticism of Stalinism and the methods used by the Communist Party in the USSR. The novel was set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Even though the story depicts actual occurrences, it does not specifically name either Russia or the USSR, but the characters do have Russian names while other generic terms are used to depict individuals and associations. For instance, the Soviet government is alluded to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is alluded to as "the Dictatorship." Joseph Stalin, a terrorizing dictator, is represented by "Number One." The novel is a strong and moving picture of a Communist revolutionary caught up in the terror

Night is a story that reveals some of the worst of the human race. It is a re-telling of a young Jewish boy, Ellie Wiesel, coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. The book is quite short and very clearly written, but it is still a very hard book to read. The young boy who is also the author of the book makes us, the readers, accompany him through many in-human and near-death experiences. These are written in such detail that anybody taking the time to read the book will be left with an in-depth knowledge of what we as humans are unfortunately capable of and a desire to contribute in any way possible preventing this part of our history to ever repeat itself. This, I believe, is the authors goal, to teach us, make us aware through his own experience, and hence give us a reason to hopefully prevent it in the future.

When I first saw this painting I knew it was the one I wanted to do for my formal analysis paper because of how abstract and unique the piece was. This painting can be taken in so many different ways, which is one thing I love about abstract art; not everyone is going to see the same thing. It fits into this class because it was from 1912, not from any recent time period. Kandinsky’s painting shows that since before 1912 people often times judge others, or objects, from their appearance rather than their inner

Wolfflin designed four pairs of qualities, which help us to see the many design elements when looking at paintings. For this paper I have chosen three paintings, Three totems Thorton Willis 2015, The Ambassadors Hans Holbein 1533, and Cross on the Mountain Caspar David Friedrich 1821. When I saw these three paintings, I noticed that they each were designed very different. Knowing that each one was different made me notice the unique qualities within the three paintings. Three Totems, Thorton Willis 2015, is a painting of three yellow rectangles which symbolize the poles, with a purple background.

n response to the assassination of the communist leader Karl Libbknecht during the Germany uprising movement, Käthe Kollwitz created this woodcut heightened with white And Black Ink piece. After WWI, many artists started to use printmaking instead of original drawing or painting. They believed their political statements could be quickly sent out in this way. So did Käthe. As an anti-war supporter, she switched her art style from etching to printmaking. After Karl’s death, his family asked Käthe to create an art piece to memory his life. Käthe was not a communist, she even supported SPD than KPD.At first, she experienced a lot on drawing and painting to create this piece. But she was not satisfied with her early finished work. She thought etching

Born in Omans, France in 1819 and died in 1877 in Switzerland, Gustave Courbet was a French painter whose work was motivated by his political point of view, private life and his small country living. He began college in 1837 and in 1839 went to Paris to gain more knowledge to paint. He began painting from the late 1840’s to early 1850’s and then to traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Amsterdam all the while painting mostly portraits. He changed in his painting technique when influenced by Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro and the free brushwork of Fran Hals while visiting in the museums in The Hague and Amsterdam.

“In a Dark time” by Theodore Roethke gives a retrospect into the inner turmoil’s of finding oneself through a haze of doubts in till reaching a moment of clarity. Each section of the poem describes a different emotion, or inner thought that spirals from fear of death, to emotions of desire. The use of imagery between nature and uncertainties of the narrator give a glimpse into Roethke’s own mind during the time he wrote this poem. Without hundreds of pages Roethke created a poem that connects readers to their own self-doubts and struggles of finding ones way again.

The range of media he is working through spans from painting, graphics, or photography, collages and artists’ books, to body and performance art. Rainer, like no other artist, embodies the rebellious spirit of post-war art. Quitting the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna after a few days of studies, he followed his own artistic path, executing series of Surrealism-influenced drawings at the turn of 40s and 50s, as a co-founding member of the artistic group Hundsgruppe.

Ronald Reagan once said, “We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.” I read the book, Dancing in the dark by Morris Dickstein. This book was about the great depression, and the impacts it had on American life. The traditional thought of poverty, people dying of hunger and people lying in the roads, has been erased. America has abolished poverty by the traditional standards but the thought of poverty and what it is has changed. In America we consider poverty to be spending all your money on bills, so you have no money left for food to feed your family. We consider poverty to be just being poor. One-Third of our population makes less than $38,000. This is not enough to be able to be above the poverty line. Anything below this

According to Judith Butler’s theory, gender is a social concept and not a natural part of being, therefore making it unstable and fluid. Gender identities are produced through what Butler calls “performativity,” the repetitive acts of expression that form and define the notions of masculinity and femininity. These repeated performances are engrained within the heteronormative society and impose these gendered expectations on individuals. In this respect, gender is something inherent in a person, however Butler writes “gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said to pre-exist the deed.” In Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night identity is undoubtedly central to the characters’ stories, specifically the strict social constructs of gender that is snarled with one’s identity. Tokarczuk’s novel presents a mosaic of stories that put into question heteronormative gender roles, while offering an alternative way of existence. Analyzing House of Day, House of Night with Judith Butler’s gender theory demonstrates the characters struggles within the rigid constructions of gender and how some ultimately deal with moving past such restricting expectations.