works of art about the American Revolution have focalized the attention of readers on the American victory, reveling in any moments of American glory. The turbulent pre-revolutionary moments made for great stories, and retrospective propaganda was a very popular art form in the 19th century, allowing people to glorify the origins of America. Seemingly majestic moments are depicted in paintings such as George Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze. In Leutze's painting, George Washington
Argo is a Biographical film/Drama. In the opening scene, it showed the Shah having complete power and control. He tortured people and the people hated him and wanted to kill him. The mood of the opening scene is anger from the people as they are very frustrated and furious. The main conflict of the film is to get the six Americans out of Iran. Throughout the film, there were many problems that ended up restricting the 6 American's back to America. The protagonist (Ben Affleck) or known in the movie
This document is a painting which has been painted in 1964. It’s one of the most famous paintings in the sixties all over the world because it was one of the first paintings which have denounced the violence of the Segregation. Norman Rockwell, an American illustrator, was involved in the desegregation and by this painting, aimed at make Americans aware that Segregation is based on wrong ideas such as the superiority of whites on blacks. His most famous masterpiece, which is here, is entitled The
venturing into the American frontier came the upheaval between the frontiersmen and the Indians. Artists such as Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) sought to capture the beauty of the untamed wilderness and life in the American frontier. Moreover, Miller also sought to demonstrate that positive interactions between the Indians and European Americans were possible despite tensions on both sides. Trapper’s Bride, painted in the early 1840s by Alfred Jacob Miller is a small oil on canvas painting that measures
and Modernism. Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting by Artermisa Gentileschi during the Baroque era of art in Italia. This painting is her visual of a scene told in The Book of Judith. In the scene Judith has gained access to Holofernes’s tent and he later passes out from being intoxicated giving Judith the advantage to be able to decapitate him in turn saving her home land (Buckley, Peter J., M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry). This painting shows the conflict men bring on to the countries
The painting titled “A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie” created by Albert Bierstadt, features a scene from the base of Mount Evans, in the Rocky Mountain range, in the United States. The second part of the title is created as an homage to his late wife, Rosalie H. Osborn. The scene contains a myriad of colors that ultimately culminate in a scene causing excitement within the person viewing it. The bright colors of the clouds and the lake contrast beautifully with the dark vibrant greens
her bosom forever, becomes an outcast from the community with her daughter, Pearl. Merle was often known for painting scenes of mothers and children. He illustrates the scene of Hester and Pearl sitting in the town square as part of her punishment. The townspeople walk by, pointing fingers and making shrewd remarks. Merle’s painting, his biography, and other renditions of the novel and painting will be later discussed. Hugues Merle (1823-1881) was a talented French painter during the middle of the
realists (as well as the poet Baudelaire’s promotion of ‘modernity’: a modern way of thinking) they rejected academic art and its historical, religious and mythical themes (Thompson). Instead, the impressionists set out to paint modern, everyday Parisian scenes; capturing sights on-the-spot to depict the fleeting ‘impressions’ of the moment. Everyday life, however, was very much influenced by the ideologies and social rights of an artist’s gender. By exploring the subject matter of visual artworks, I will
idea of the paintings displayed. One stood out to me online however, it wasn’t until I saw it in person the magnitude of the true beauty of the painting. Martin Johnson Heade’s, Passion Flowers with Three Hummingbirds, exudes something special to vis ualize not only for its bright floral colors, but the heart of the painting is the three hummingbirds in their natural element. I’ve always loved nature, and have enjoyed some bird watching in my time. This would be a type of painting I would hang
When analyzing the components of the American Dream, success, hard work, perseverance, and luck all can be considered. During the late 1800’s hardworking immigrants from all walks of life had a dream of clearing their own way to a better future through the newly developing United States of America. Although some would argue that the immigrants and frontiersmen of the early eighth century were quite different from one another, they all had one equal goal and dream. The right and hope that they would