Les Valeurs Personnelles. The artwork chosen for this paper is Les Valeurs personnelles painted by Ren Magritte in 1952. It was done in oil on canvas, measuring 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
Les Valeurs Personnelles . The artwork chosen for this paper is Les Valeurs personnelles painted by René Magritte in 1952. It was done in oil on canvas, measuring 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. 2. This painting highlights the tension between reality and fantasy by transforming everyday objects into representations, which is characteristic of Magritte's style of surrealism. Surrealism, beginning in the early 1920s, was a movement founded by artists and writers against reason and traditional forms of expression governing European culture. Les Valeurs personnelles, known for its play with reality, is one of the key surrealist works that break with the usual standards to reach a deeper reality. 3. Rene Magritte, the Belgium surrealist painter, was born to a textile merchant family in 1898. His artistic development was initiated by two events--an encounter with an artist painting in a cemetery and his mother's suicide, the latter of which seemed to be the source of his works painted in 1927-1928 of people with cloth concealing their faces. Uninterested in traditional European art, Magritte found his inspirations from the works by Jean Metzinger and Fernand and experimented with Cubism in his early works. Later, his work experience as a designer of advertisements and as a fine artist under the contract with the Galerie le Centaure in Brussels, together with his interest in the
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Educational policy lecture
LECTURE AT ANNUAL NEW YEAR SCHOOL ON THURSDAY 30TH DECEMBER 2004 By: B.C.Campion(ACIS) TOPIC: Vocational/Technological Education for Accelerated Wealth Creation: Critical Issues Facing the Nation Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen: Vocational and technical education is always an important catalyst in wealth creation in all countries. At upper secondary and lower tertiary levels, it prepares middle-level personnel and at the university level, engineers and technologists for higher management positions (UNESCO, Undated). Trainees of vocational and technical education are equipped with competencies for specific occupations or productive activities in the various sectors of social and economic life notably agriculture, industry and commerce. These sectors are very important pillars of wealth creation. Countries that have achieved middle-income status have given special attention to education in general and in particular, vocational and technical education. I have the conviction that our country will achieve very little in our march to a middle-income status if we do not give the needed attention to vocational and technical education! Additionally, certain critical issues need to be addressed for vocational and technical education to play a meaningful role in wealth creation in the country. The issues are many but it is unrealistic to deal with all of them in a
Outline and critically evaluate the principal arguments presented in Yi-Fu Tuan "Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective"
Outline and critically evaluate the principal arguments presented in Yi-Fu Tuan "Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective" Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-American geographer whose traits have greatly influenced humanistic geography. Tuan gains his observations from the hustle and bustle of the everyday world and is always on the lookout learning and indeed searching for new meanings towards a persons place within society. He emphasises this by saying " I think the expression "I am the camera" fits me, because I am always looking". He is as much a psychologist as he is a geographer, concerning himself above all with the way that human beings respond to their physical environment. Tuan's discussions have become invaluable for modern day geographers by trying to explain "space" and "place" and attaching some meaning towards them. Tuan believes that a place is a person's emotional attachment to a certain location with insinuates that certain area to a place. He believes that a place is irrelevant of address or co-ordinates but rather that a place is one persons attachment to a place be it socially, emotionally or culturally. He states that when these emotions come in to play a location is turned into a place. This place could indeed have positive memories such as the house you grew up in as a child or indeed negative ones such as your old school and of an unhappy education. Indeed Tuan
Essay with Tutor's comments. I will compare two artists plates, outlining the key differences between them Plate 1.3.24 Cezannes Jug and Fruit (1885-87) and Plate 1.3.30 Zubarans Still Life with Lemons, Orange and a Rose (1663).
Assignment 2 - Learning from Feedback Original assignment - TMA01 part b with tutor comments CEZANNE Within this Essay, I will compare two artist's plates, outlining the key differences between them - Plate 1.3.24 Cezannes Jug and Fruit (1885-87) and Plate 1.3.30 Zubarans Still Life with Lemons, Orange and a Rose (1663). [J1] Although both pictures are of still life objects, they way in which they have been painted are quite different and therefore give the viewer quite different experiences. Composition [J2] The composition of both plates are Cézanne's Jug and Fruit (Plate 1.3.24), and Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (Plate 1.3.30) [J3]is important in establishing a sense of perspective in each painting key in giving a different perspectives of the plate. [J4]Cezanne has achieved a sense of depth by the use of scaling the fruit - the pieces of fruit are different sizes giving a 3 dimensional perspective to the picture. It almost looks like the pears to the front of the picture are rolling off the table and that one could grab one. Cezanne has also achieved a real sense of depth in this picture by his use of atmospheric perspective in the use of the blue colouring at the rear of the picture against the darker table. This contrasts with the composition of Zurbarans plate painting[J5]. He as he has used a different type of composition in that
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The Doors of Royal Palace of Ikere in Nigeria The door panels depicted in the first image and lintel were engraved for the majestic castle at Ikere in Nigeria. They appear to mark the Ogoga (Ruler) experiencing the British executive, Master Ambrose, for the first time during the start of nineteenth century. The British administrator is depicted sitting in a knoll on the panel on right hand side. There are soldiers surrounding Ambrose, fettered captives and porters bearing packages of cowry cases, gathered as taxations. A 2nd executive from Britain, portrayed on horseback above Ambrose, has been distinguished as Major Reeve-Tucker, nominated 1st moving commissioner for Ondo state at the bend of the 19th century. The self-respecting image of the Ogoga postures on a European-style chair on the panel of left hand side. Senior wife of second British abides right by the side of him; additional married woman and kids, castle functionaries and strivers are demonstrated above and under. The header depicts birdies assaulting the eyes of faces. This individual ritual killing was believed to be crucial in the idolization of particular idols. The door was engraved by Olowe of Ise (about 1875-1938), a famous creative person who produced carvings for majestic sponsors. He was domestically famed at the instance and nowadays is considered by numerous as among the most substantial Yoruba
Feminist Art. Representation of Womens Bodies in Art , Rap and Film.
Merlos ________________ Feminism v Women In today’s society most people don’t know the difference between being a women and a feminist. It might be because history doesn’t bother to tell herstory. In academic environments women don’t make the cut to be included in textbooks or curriculums. Throughout history women weren’t considered “important” enough to contribute to society. They were inferior in every aspect; the inequalities that women suffered gave birth to feminism. When analyzing art, literature, theatre, and performance at the microscopic level, one can differentiate between what came from a women and what came from a feminist. Through the analysis of different women artist, authors, performers, and comics’ one will be able to know why these works of art are feminist or not feminist. What makes someone a woman? A woman is a female human being, someone biologically born with a vagina. Most people think that because someone is a woman, that automatically makes them a feminist. However, a feminist can be a man or a woman. It is not strictly for women. According to the Webster dictionary, feminism is the “advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” Feminist try to achieve equality among men and women. In order to understand the differences between women products and feminist products one must know
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Comics form has the capacity to represent multiple times and places simultaneously. Consider how and why this capacity is harness towards and expression of memory and trauma Hilary Chute defines Comics as ‘a procedure of mapping: mapping time into space’[1]. Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, as Autobiographics, both attempt to construct an array of subjective memories into the temporal, physical form. They draw on the cross-generational memory of their father’s lives and deaths, yet ‘the deceased…present a greater challenge to reconciliation [of the temporal] via narrative endeavour’[2]. The representation of memory that is somewhat lost or somewhat fragmented means that the author’s own identity and subjectivity as artist and second-generational creator plays far more of a crucial role. The author’s own process thus becomes another nuanced temporal setting attached to the narrative. Elmwood describes these works as sites of ‘sites of projection, investment, and creation’[3] The photographic image is visually indicative of the comic time; like ‘the panel, [it] shows a single moment in time’[4] In Maus and Fun Home the photograph is literally demonstrative of one moment, but is indicative of both it’s own captured moment and the moments of the author’s process, be it recreation, reconfiguration or placement. Spiegelman and
For this weeks task I had to read a quite difficult extract from Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard about how fashion is regarded in todays society
For this week’s task I had to read a quite difficult extract from ‘Fashion as Communication’ by Malcolm Barnard about how fashion is regarded in today’s society, whether it is trivial or not and highlighting how important it is in today’s economy. The first idea exposed is that fashion is ‘fit only for the intellectually disenfranchised’, suggesting that everyone working in the fashion industry lacks intelligence. Having chosen to study Fashion Marketing I completely disagree with this statement, but I am fully aware of the prejudices held against it. When I decided to pursue this course I realized most people did not consider Fashion Marketing a serious career, but the truth is that it takes a lot of dedication and hard work to succeed in this industry and most people do not understand what it really entails. What struck me most was a quote from a letter in The Guardian’s Women’s page arguing that ‘fashion is irrelevant to serious minded persons’. As Anna Wintour says in The September issue ‘Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart it doesn't mean that you're a dumb person’ and even if you make a choice that you think completely leaves you out of the fashion industry, you are nevertheless engaging with it. Fashion is a way of expressing yourself;
Comparison between two paintings Paul Czanne, Bathers, c. 1894 1906, oil on canvas Palma Vecchio, Bathing Nymphs, c. 1525/8, oil on canvas
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