Similarly, City Night (1929) is a forty-eight inch tall painting of geometric and sharp edged urban architecture towering over the glowing moon. The naturally rounded moon is contrasted to the manmade straight lines of the city. The pedestrian perspective and ominous scale places the audience between sharp towers. The environment and people that surrounded Georgia O’Keeffe stimulates her to add it in her work. Specifically, Alfred Stieglitz was obviously a great influence in Georgia’s life; being each others muse and benefactor. The 1926 painting “The Shelton with Sunspots” has photographic influences. The warm toned painting produces a sun glare that is seen through a camera lens. The momentary action of catching the sun tiptoeing behind
Georgia o'keeffe’s series of the Jack in The Pulpit contains several paintings depicting a specific type of bloom, including her “Jack In The Pulpit NO.4.” The first impression of this piece is that it is an abstract form of art, however this is not the case because it is representing a specific type of flower. This gives the piece a very specific subject that is being depicted. This is easier to identify once the Jack in The Pulpit no4 is placed back within the context of the series of painting that O’Keeffe painted using this flower as the subject, showing the importance of understanding context when looking at art historically instead of simple appreciation. The painting also appears to be idealized as O’Keeffe began with a view of the
In the story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, a strange substitute teacher teaches in 4th grade class in Five Oaks, Michigan. Her name is Ms. Ferenczi. She is strange in the way how she is super superstitious and tells strange stories and believes them as well. This story is told from the point of view from one of her students, Tommy. In the beginning, the class’s real teacher gets sick. The next day, Ms. Ferenczi shows up as substitute. The day after the next day, Ms. Ferenczi appears again and decides to reward the class for being a good class. This time, her reward was a fortune telling with a tarot pack. The problem was was that one of her students got the death card. That kid told on Ms. Ferenczi and got her in trouble. Tommy heard about this and got in a fight with the kid because Tommy liked and defended Ms. Ferenczi. In the story, Tommy’s behavior and actions showed that Tommy liked things that were strange and new because Five Oaks is so boring. Ms. Ferenczi is just the opposite since she is strange and mysterious. That is the reason why Tommy defended Ms. Ferenczi. Some of Tommy’s behavior across the story show that when he likes something, he defends it and also.
“Untitled” displays a dimly lit bedroom in a typical home. The light from the blue moon
Close observations of O'Keeffe's flowers show that she never really pursued the realistic approach. She didn't paint every petal and detail. Instead she gave her flowers a life of their own, and expression that changed significantly
Georgia O’Keeffe was born to the parents of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe on November 15, 1887 near Wisconsin. Georgia was the second oldest child and by the age of ten she knew she wanted to become an artist someday. Her first aspiration was doing abstracts. She was selective about what she painted, but often times she would paint to please others and not herself. Her paintings were thought of as sexual paintings because of the way they were drawn and painted in which she would say is one’s own opinion. Georgia O’Keeffe was best known for her flower canvas and southwestern landscapes. Her husband who is a famous photographer by the name of Alfred Stieglitz used to paint nice portraits of her. She was very fond of him, they both liked what each other did as far as how they were making ends meet, and he just didn’t want her to sell any of her paintings. He would often times tell people “No” so they wouldn’t buy any of her paintings because he wanted them all to himself. She had an interest in nature and used bright colors in her paintings.
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers best conveys the character traits of courage, ambitiousness, and supporting family even when times appear to be distressful. This book takes you through African American history with the excitement and thrill of fiction. It allows you to witness the glory of African American evolution, from a period of slavery to modern day. The reader witnesses courage as African Americans try and fight for freedom and equality in an unforgiving society. African Americans try and defy the society’s perspective of them in an attempt to reach an optimal level of success. They work to divert from their typical expectations, and strive for success even when the possibilities are minimal. They strive to build a better living besides being maids and factory workers, and they attempt to remove every obstacle in their way of success. They desire to go above what is expected of them, so they can achieve at a prodigious level in a segregated society. Even as technology advances, the reader witnesses the character’s sense of community. They always believe that family is crucial to success even in times of distress. If they abandon their community, then they abandon the only people that support them. In this time period, their community was composed of the only people that cared about them. The African American society emulates these traits throughout this book, as the author inserts you into their fight for equity and freedom. The Glory Field takes
The book I read for my Political Science class was In God's Underground, by Richard Wurmbrand.
Alice Mead published Year of No Rain on May 8, 2003.She wrote a book about three friends; Stephen,Wol, and Jairo, She made wrote about them going through hunger and thirst in their village and they can’t attend school because the village’s school due to the civil war between the northern soldiers and the southern soldiers,when the bombs exploded Stephen's Mother told him and his two other friends to run away so they won't be captured by the enemy soldiers.They’re on a journey and they all have to help each other survive. Sometimes you need teamwork to get over an obstacle.“Your mother should have let Naomi come with us.They kidnap girls, I heard.”He thinks She might’ve gotten kidnapped by the soldiers and it would've been better if She came
Reading the book, The Other Side of the River, by Alex Kotlowitz, the author writes about the relationship between two towns in Michigan, and the death of a young boy named Eric McGinnis. The two towns, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, are called the “Twin Cities”, but are ironically not related in any way. St. Joseph is 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and is 92 percent black. Throughout the book Kotlowitz questions the residents from both towns and how they are affected by the environment around them. The author also starts with the climax on the first page of the book – the death of Eric, and uses this as an technique to tell the story of the disagreements between the two towns.
The Glory Field is a novel by Walter Dean Myers that follows the Lewis family through racism and segregation. It starts with Muhammad Bilal being captured from Africa in 1753. It follows through to see young Lizzy escape from slavery on the live Oaks plantation in South Carolina in 1864. After the Civil War, the family is given is plot of land they refer to as the “Glory Field”, which represents hope for the family during their hardships. Lizzie’s son, Elijah, and his cousin Abby help the sheriff find a missing blind boy out on an island. After the hard journey the sheriff takes all the credit and threatens Elijah, who flees to Chicago with Uncle Joshua.
1) I believe that there are many ways that the author has chosen to set-up a man and animal as competitors in the story “On The Roof Of The World” by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts.
In general, most art is fueled by its appeal to emotion and ability to evoke empathy through relatability. Nancy Spero’s piece Hours of the Night displays both the ability to aid people in understanding the realities of
At first glance, the similarities between Vincent van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe appear minimal at best. A young van Gogh died penniless and largely unknown in a remote backwater in the south of France, while O’Keeffe lived out a long and illustrious life as one of the most famous artists of the early twentieth century. Where O’Keeffe was the object of admiration and fascination, van Gogh was the object of pity and derision. Where O’Keeffe was heralded in her lifetime for capturing the spirit of the desert landscapes of her beloved New Mexico, van Gogh was a was a man without a country, driven by destitution and illness to wander Europe in search of peace and some measure of stability. Despite their differences, however, O’Keeffe and van Gogh share vital similarities. Both van Gogh and O’Keeffe used art to advocate for the inclusion of the disenfranchised and the forgotten (namely, the poor and the ill in van Gogh’s oeuvre and women in O’Keeffe’s); both revolutionized how the natural world is seen; both are characterized by aesthetic styles which are highly sensory and sensual, representing psychological and physical states in such groundbreaking ways that they change the modern world’s understanding of what it means to be human.
The Starry Night Poem Analysis The Starry Night, written by Anne Sexton, makes me think about raging fires, destruction, death, hell, and demons. The word choice in the poem is very colorful, yet overwhelming and dark, which perplexes, yet astonishes the reader. This poem feels very depressing, but on the contrary, active and raging with life. The sky is alive and intense, yet the town is silent and solemn. The idea of a monstrous death is welcoming and yearned for by the speaker.
Susan Sontag discusses the difference in viewing art in physical form versus viewing in through a lens. Throughout the essay “In Plato’s Cave”, Sontag thinks both Plato’s cave images and photographs represents, “the mere image of truth” (Sontag 3). With that, Sontag repeatedly uses the terms “truth” and “reality”, but does not define what these terms mean to her. The impression Sontag left for these terms is that “truth” or “reality” stand for nothing more than what we can see. Being said, the difference between what we can with our own eyes and what we can see with a camera is reduced to the physical/mechanical differences between the human eye and body camera/lens.