Mary Novik

For the Formal Analysis Essay, I have chosen the following artist and work of art to discuss: Faith Ringgold (African American, b. 1930), God Bless America, c. 1964, oil on canvas, approx 31” x 19”. The subject of Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America (Figure 1-22) is to inform us about the physical and emotional torment of African Americans prior to and during the Civil War. The painting symbolizes a white woman portrayed as a racist who is denying “blacks” to vote. The painting also shows the American

Annunciation and Visitation, the Annunciation is less contoured than Visitation. And even though Virgin Mary is on both the left and the right, the lines on the robe of right side Mary are clearly more defined than the left side to emphasize body language. But also, there is a difference between Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary when we focus on Annunciation. Angel Gabriel has more definition than Virgin Mary as there is a more ‘S’ shaped figure with Gabriel as he bends his right

stable, low and very bare” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. “Ava Maria Plena Gratia" is a description of Mary’s conception of Jesus when the angel Gabriel visited her, while “I saw a stable, low and very bare” describes the events after Jesus’ birth in the manger with the farm animals and his two parents around him. The two poems both describe events that contribute to the Nativity, as well as the symbol of innocence, which is shown differently through Mary and Jesus. Mary has been given many titles,

Maternity can be found in scripture, with the help of some logic. The Divine Maternity refers to Mary as the mother of God. The Bible prepares us for Jesus to be born of a woman in verses like Galatians 4:4 and Matthew 1:23. Luke 1:35 takes place when the angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her she was to bare a son and he would be the son of God. If Mary is the mother of Jesus and Jesus is God then Mary is the mother of God. Another thing to keep in mind is that Gabriel was sent by God to speak in

People today view Mary as the most privileged woman who has ever lived, which can easily be the case, but not many people think about the price she had to pay for that title. Mary is one of the most important, and interesting people in the Bible. Mary is a central figure in the Gospel of Luke. Mary is also honored in the book of the Qur’an, as she is the only woman mentioned by name in that book. In Matthew, Mary played a very submissive role, she was never mentioned by her name, she was only mentioned

in this biblical scene between Mary and her cousin Elizabeth. To those unfamiliar with the biblical story of Mary and Joseph, the title plays an important role to the understanding the context of the work. Without any prior knowledge, The Visitation, hints that these figures are visiting one another only for a brief period of time, hence the greetings between the four figures with halos. Concerning the subject matter, The Visitation depicts the biblical figures, Mary, Joseph, their donkey, Elizabeth

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a Hebrew woman, from the lineage of David. This fact was crucial to the understanding of Jesus as the messiah who was going to come according to the Old Testament, from the line of David. Furthermore, fertility was a big theme of the Jewish people because they were all expecting the Messiah. If a woman was not fertile, it meant that she was immediately left out from the possibility of being the mother of the Messiah they were expecting. However, Jewish people rejected

the donkeys body and very loose brush strokes when creating the trees as well as Mary and Josephs hair. This paint in this art is saturated and opaque. The colors are duller and don’t show much saturation other than in Joseph and baby Jesus’s bright red robes. Because the colors are dull the painting looks a little gloomy , but they’re face expressions do a good job at showing us calmness and not so much sadness. Mary and Jesus skin are so light they could almost be translucent. The donkey is black

Haunted by the her own memories, Lily Owens finds comfort in the humming of the bees. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd writes about the life of young girl whose spontaneous decisions lead her to her mother’s past. Lily’s life has revolved around the lack of a mother. Her father, T. Ray, is a harsh and unloving peach farmer who punishes Lily unreasonably and does not fulfil his father like position. Lily’s adventure begins after catching a few bees in a jar. She empathizes with

tobacco spit on three white men. Lily breaks her out of prison and they begin hitchhiking toward Tiburon, SC, a town Lily had seen on the back of a picture of a black Virgin Mary which her mom had owned. They hitch a ride to Tiburon and once there, they buy lunch at a general store, and Lily sees a picture of the same Virgin Mary on a jar of honey. She asks the store owner where it came from and he gives her directions to the Boatwright house. They then meet the makers of the honey: August, May and