Portrait of an American Family

soothing, and familiar image of relaxed family settings. Behind her, however, are subtle reminders of white power. The white figure of Jesus Christ on the Cross hangs above Motley’s grandmother- a symbol of sacrifice and endurance in trying times. On the wall, slightly out of frame in the top left corner, is a portrait of a white woman. The woman is the old slave master of Motley’s grandmother, whom she described as being kind to her during her slavery. The portrait was a gift to Motley’s grandmother

unconventional family and Southern lifestyle in the1930s. Harper Lee was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama (Sparknotes.com). According to the author’s official website, Harper Lee was a descendant of famous Civil War general, Robert E. Lee, and daughter to a former newspaper editor turned state senator and practicing attorney.

embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.” The culture this work represents is the Neo-Dadaist movement known as Fluxus. Fluxus was a very loosely organized group based mostly around New York City. Like Dadaism, Fluxus artists didn’t believe keeping art in museums. Unlike previous art

feeding. The first artwork is by Mary Cassatt and is titled Mother Rose Nursing her Child. This painting was created in the 1900s and it depicts a woman breastfeeding her child. The second piece is a contemporary portrait created by Catherine Opie titled Self-Portrait Nursing. The portrait depicts a modern mother also nursing her child. When comparing both of these pieces of art I plan to focus on the beauty of motherhood and the bond between mother and child. In this paper I will discuss the social

history, people have always obeyed rules present for their lives by society in order to maintain status and respect in their communities. In the 1800s, women were practically slaves to their husbands and family and were set to devote themselves entirely to that cause. In his 1881 romance novel, The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James provides a challenge of the concept of female individuality in society through the protagonist, Isabel Archer: who emphasizes how miserable obeying the status quo makes her, but

Maybe it 's my lack of artistic taste, but even after the realization, I was still unable to arrive at the same interpretation of the woman in the portrait as Weschler. Legacy, on the other hand, is clearly defined and nearly constant even as a large span of time has passed. Vermeer does include legacies, but with limited use, cutting off a reliable source to back up his argument. The use of interpretations

legally own slaves, therefore freeing slaves. Before Abraham Lincoln ended slavery, many slaves found freedom for themselves by running away to the northern states where slavery was illegal. Eastman Johnson, an American painter of the nineteenth century, depicts an African-American family fleeing slavery during the Civil War in his oil-painting titled A Ride to Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves. A Ride to Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves was painted by Eastman Johnson in 1862. Johnson was accompanying Union

Bibliography Oswaldo Guayasamin is an Ecuadorian painter, who was a native to the countries capital of Quito. As a young child, Oswaldo’s family struggled financially with his father’s carpentry job serving as the majority of their income. Oswaldo is the eldest of ten children, and had to mature quickly. From a young age, Oswaldo developed a talent for art and attended the School of Fine Arts in Quito, graduating with a focus on painting and sculpture. Oswaldo was extremely close to his mother and

Dorothea Lange proved that her art is authenticity as she depicted the Great Depression of the 30s and the Japanese Internment of the 40s without filters; moreover, Lange 's photographs embodies the failure of the American ideal in periods of poverty, dejection and discrimination. Lange 's family inspired her later career in photography by exposing her to endless possibilities of creativity. After studying at Columbia University, Lange boldly decided to become a photographer although she knows nothing

Eduardo Gijon Professor Metoyer CMMEDIA 110 2016 03 08 The Impact of Photography on the American Civil War With photography being created only 20 years prior to the start of the American Civil War, the impact photography had on the war and current time was immense. It was used as a tool by military and political staffs to document battles, planning stages, and take snap shots of the present. While many photographers attached to the combating armies were considered neutral, their works were also