What Is Lilly Martin Spencer's Poem?

The settings and environments of the documentary Painted Babies position the viewer to respond to how beauty

In Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting The Happy Lovers (appendix: fig. 1), viewers are able to get a glimpse into the light-hearted, playful Rococo period. The Happy Lovers is a 35.5 x 47.75 in. oil painting, that was created between the years 1760–5 in France for an unnamed aristocrat; however, it can now be found in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. The Rococo period was a result of artists resisting the stiff monarchy, and desiring open expressionism–this was particularly emphasized through nature. The two great artists from this period are Fragonard and François Boucher, Fragonard’s teacher. A result of Boucher teaching Fragonard, specifically in the continuation of pastoral, Boucher was a great influence. This is obvious when The Happy Lovers is compared to Boucher’s The Bird Catchers (appendix: fig. 2). Both paintings include subjects of women holding bird catchers and doves, ultimately symbolizing woman’s ability to control relationships. More specific to The Happy Lovers, the woman dangles the cage above the boy, who is carrying a dove, a symbol of Venus–the goddess of love. However, in the bottom left quadrant of the painting there is an even larger cage with more doves, hinting at the idea that women can easily capture many men. This further expands the sensual intention Fragonard creates. In placing this scene within a secluded landscape, Fragonard emphasizes the flirtation and secretiveness between the two lovers–creating an unstructured, blissful

They were running up the road to a barn and I followed them to a little grassy patch. They all went to a shady spot under a tree and laid down under the trees shade. I slowly walked up to them they looked hungry and lost so I went to find some hay, luckily there was a patch of hay nearby. So she went and pulled a patch out of the ground and went back to the horses. The horses were still there laying under the cool shade. I slowly came to the first one. It was small with a white dot around its eye and other white dots on its sides. I started to put the hay down the horse got up and started

Cassatt’s composition is a great example of the impressionist style movement. It is a great everyday scene showing a mother comforting her child. Cassatt is successful in creating a works of art that perfectly describe the everyday lives during these times. Her piece Susan Comforting the Baby uses various techniques to convey Cassatt’s message on the ordinary life of women and

I have chosen a famous oil on canvas painting: Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto made around the fifteenth and sixteenth century during the Italian Renaissance period. Overall, this piece is extremely intriguing to me, I cannot imagine how the artist created it with such detail and precision. Overall, this painting has this happy and positive mood, but it is also makes me curious as to what this painting is about. It also gives me this feeling to smile for Cupid and Venus in the painting, rather than with them, as there faces are conveyed as being happy together. Its colors similarly, just like the overall painting, has this beautiful bright and cheery color that seem to suit Venus and Cupid well.

Tracy K. Smith, a renowned poet and author, writes a beautiful and thoughtful poem named “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” as a tribute to the iconic musician and actor — David Bowie. Her message incorporates the use of time and how it runs quickly and she asks readers through multiple questions, if they could go back in time and take back previous decisions they made when they were younger, would they? She employs the use of multiple questions to integrate the reader into the poem and aid them in thinking about the questions she asks. She asks questions such as, “To be wanted back badly enough?

37-year-old Florida-born Marcus Strickland is a resourceful saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer who has been building solid reputation through his own projects, as well as a sideman for Robert Glasper, David Weiss, Dave Douglas, Jeff Tain Watts, Roy Haynes, Charles Tolliver, and Ben Williams.

Hannah's poetry celebrates the potential of one human being to accomplish something significant against all odds, in the most dire of circumstances. Though Hannah's family was not religious, they identified as Jewish. As Hannah turned twenty-one, even though she was safe in Palestine, she could not escape the dark shadow that World War II cast over Europe. She felt she had to help in whatever way she could. Her response was extreme. but so were the times. It was around this time that she wrote one of her most famous poems, Blessed is the Match. Hannah's urge to write had always been strong. Now the war and its horror inspired her to continue writing in her journal; she produced poems that continue to endure and inspire us today. Senesh's diary

In the painting, a young man and his father are sitting on the running board of the family’s farm truck waiting for a train to arrive to pick up the young man for university. The expressions on both of the men’s faces tell a story all on its own. The young man seems to be very optimistic, while his father is dreading the arrival of the train to pick him up. The father of the young man seems to be upset and in thought. The expression on his face looks as if he is thinking back to when he was young and the opportunities he had or didn’t have, but he also seems to have an upset look on his face because he is letting go of his son, possibly even his only son. His facial expression looks as if he is thinking back on his life and what it was like for him, but also what the future will hold for himself and his son while he is away at college.

The art and beauty in this painting is exemplified through the eyes of Boucher. It starts with a beautiful couple taking a rest after picking up some followers. Their clothing looks very elegant and colorful which shows that they are aristocrats. The man’s eyes are gazing at a shepherdess who gathered her own flowers. Their eyes are locked despite the man having his own woman right in front of him. The light brushstrokes of the dresses, flowers, and trees

The focal point of this painting seemed to be focused on the young lady’s face and her imagination of

What painting is more formidable, and describes the most powerful representational art of young siblings in a household setting, better than Sargent’s The Daughter of Edward Darley Boit? Where were they wearing similar dresses? Were they wearing a uniform? Why were they not smiling? When and how was the painting created? Why was the painting created? What meaning was behind this painting? Sargent was a friend of Boit and therefore creating a painting 1882; which is 221.93 x 222. 57 cm painted oil on canvas, conveying the message of Boit’s four daughters who were completely unique and beautiful in their own way. Sargent uses techniques such as Unity, Variety, Emphasis, Subordination, Balance, Contrast and Forces to bring a realistic painting of these four sisters.

A cosmopolitan young flapper-looking woman occupies two-thirds of Tamara de Lempicka’s (b.1898- d.1980) painting of 1928 entitled “Maternity”, wearing a pink satin draping top that reveals her perfect rounded right shoulder and the peak of her inflated breast that is tenderly held in her left hand by her elongated fingers, which she helps her baby to breastfeed (Figure 2). The baby, whose sex is unidentifiable, is wrapped up in a white polka-dot cover that adorns his/her neck with a perforated floral design, emphasizing the roundness of his/her head that depict a dark full of hair and a red-flesh rounded cheek. The minimal dark grey background that is incorporated in the composition serves as an indicative tool to the viewer, by bringing into

Poetry like so many other things in life is complicated and easily misunderstood, similar to the poem entitled “Poetry” by Marianne Moore. Through her unique way of writing Moore uses literary devices imagery and personification to make the readers question why it is she has come to “dislike”(line 1) poetry. In particular, her word choice leaves a lot of room to wonder exactly why she has chosen to write it this way. A main theme that is represented in this poem is conformity and whether or not it is something to be followed.

Filial Piety is the main focus of the painting. In the painting, several different scenes are showed. One scene shows Filial Piety relationships in a “levels of a contemporary society”(Maxwell, 40). It shows a son saying goodybe to his parents. Another