Examine how Pre-Raphaelite art engages with the literature of the period to examine social anxieties in mid-Victorian society.

"It is a history of a movement which strove to bring greater healthiness and integrity to every branch of formative art. In the effort to purge our art of what was in the nature of bathos, affected in sentiment and unworthy according to wholesome English tradition, we were following the example of the poets of the Victorian age." (Holman Hunt) Examine how Pre-Raphaelite art engages with the literature of the period to examine social anxieties in mid-Victorian society. Quoted here by Ruskin, Holman Hunt was a founder member, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, of a group of artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The artists of the Brotherhood were all Royal Academy trained but were not content with the art style fashionably collected by the aristocracy of the early Victorian period. Their desire was to rescue art from the triviality and sterility into which they believed it had fallen, they wanted to make it an expression of social and political commitment. The Brotherhood produced many works containing contemporary social or political messages alongside nostalgic paintings inspired by literature, mediaeval legend and religious works. The Brotherhood chronicled their aims thus "To have genuine ideas to express; to study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; to sympathise with what is direct and serious and

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A History of Hairstyling - 1940's.

A History of Hairstyling 940's World War ? dominated the first half of the 1940's and had a huge effect on every aspect of life. It was a time of great change. The war also had an impact on hairstyling; rationing meant luxury products were scarce, especially clothes and therefore more emphasis was placed on the hairstyling and accessories. Hats became popular, especially small peaked caps made fashionable by the GI pin up girls such as Betty Gable. They suited the conservative image of the forties and the service uniforms. Hair was set and dressed around hats and hairpieces, like false braids and fringes. These were popular; they provided more styles and versatility. The Marcel waves and curls of the thirties remained prevalent into the forties. Whether the hair was short, long, up or under a hat it was still set or permed into curls to give a sense of movement and shape while still being very structured and practical. Women took over men's roles in factories, where they were encouraged by the government to cut their hair short for safety reasons. Short, neatly rolled hair was also a service standard as it suited the formal uniforms. Women who would not cut their hair put it up into a topknot / doughnut. Snoods were also worn to keep their hair tidied away; these became very fashionable, especially with the Pompadour style, worn by Maureen O'Hara. The Pompadour style

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Pop Art. I decided to cover the topics Pop Art in Great Britain and Andy Warhol. In the section Pop Art in Great Britain I also included some of my favourite works by British Pop Artists and in the end I added some of the most famous Warhol`s works as we

POP ART AND ANDY WARHOL Übersetzen und Dolmetschen Englisch: Kulturschwerpunktthemen a Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz Datum: 10.06.2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS AIM OF MY ESSAY 3 POP ART 4 SOME WORKS BY THE MOST FAMOUS BRITISH POP ARTISTS 6 ANDY WARHOL - "THE KING OF POP ART" 8 ANDY WARHOL`S PAINTINGS 10 MY PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT ANDY WARHOL 12 ANDY WARHOL`S FAMOUS QUOTATIONS 13 AIM OF MY ESSAY I first got to know about Andy Warhol and Pop Art at the same time, when I was about 15 years old and got a diary with Warhol`s pictures, as a present. I was amazed by the pictures and photos, which said so much about the nowadays society. When that year was over and so was the diary, I cut the pictures out and put them on a wall in my room. My absolute favourite at that time was a picture of two noses, a long, not really nice one and another, beautiful one. I have always thought it shows a woman before and after a plastic surgery operation. On one hand the picture is so simple, that you maybe wouldn`t even refer to it as art in the first place, but on the other, this simplicity in fact is that certain point that makes it so great and creative. I have to admit, I really tried hard but did not manage to find out, what the title was and whether my theory was right or not. On the internet I found this mentioned picture with the text "The

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Georgia O'Keeffe's Flower paintings

Georgia O'Keeffe's Flower paintings "Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. ...Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't." - Georgia O'Keeffe "The circumstances of her life are not the example. It is the abstracting- as with the flowers, bones, the simplicity-that should be the example, the abstract continuity of unseen patterns and clues, culled in perhaps unrecognizable form at first, but revealing, when examined, a simple clarity, wholeness." (Taylor Patten) Visit coursework dg in dg fo dg for dg more hypothesis dg Do dg not dg redistribute Georgia O´Keeffe a woman whom no one really knows the whole truth about is one of the most renowned artists of the twentieth century. No one really knows when and where she was

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Sustainable design

HÅLLBAR DESIGN Det går att vara snygg och ha kul medan man räddar världen! Emelie Runnquist Uppsatskurs Konstfack 2010 Introduktion Behovet av hållbar design ökar samtidigt som trycket för utveckling blir allt större och de ekologiska problemen blir allt mer uppenbara. Klimatförändringarna har bidragit till att allt fler människor vill ha en förändring.1 Andra starka drivkrafter är hälsa, viljan att leva i harmoni med andra kulturer och sökandet efter en djupare lycka än vad enbart ökad konsumtion kan ge. Idag befinner sig vår konsumtion av produkter på en förhållandevis primitiv nivå. Vårt industriella samhälle är bara drygt hundra år gammalt och har därför inte haft mycket tid på sig att utvecklas om man jämför med andra processer i vår kultur. Men vi ser en positiv utveckling, de flesta är idag överens om att ett hållbart samhälle behöver ett nytt tänk. Bland konsumenterna växer sakta efterfrågan, det är inte längre varken präktigt eller töntigt, utan snarare trendigt att handla ekologiskt. På många sätt är miljökrisen en designkris. Den är en konsekvens av hur saker är tillverkade, konstruerade och använda.2 Vilket betyder att designern har en stor betydelse i förändringsprocessen mot ett hållbart samhälle. Förr fokuserade man på utsläpp, förpackningar och sopsortering men nu står det klart att

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Dissident consumption, or is it?

Week 10, 17/03/03- Dissident consumption, or is it? Oliver Johnson The Refusers and their place in East-to-West Consumption of clothing. Object: Hippy Outfit in the Street Style section of the Fashion Gallery in Brighton Museum, which has used North American Indian turquoise and silver jewellery, with related patterns on the jacket: analysis of the history of the commodification of SW American Indian crafts, the ideologies of consumer 'refusers', analysis of the specific cultural meanings of these clothes to the wearer in the context of subcultural consumption. OBJECTIVE It is my objective to discern the cultural biography of a 'Hippy/ Traveller' outfit on display at the Fashion Gallery in the Brighton Museum, categorised in the exhibition under the term 1'Renegade' (slide). I shall try and shape my account by addressing three structural issues in turn. Firstly; an analysis of the history of the co modification process, which takes a look at the outfits native American origins. Secondly; the ideologies of the consumer, combined with thirdly; the analysis of its specific cultural meanings. NATIVE AMERICAN ORIGINS- SPANISH CONTROL- EARLY EXPLOITATION The peoples of the Southwest regions of America have been recognised since 1540, when the Spanish 'discovered' this area, as being prolific and masterful exponents of textile weaving. It was not until the latter stages of the

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Discuss how the idea of the Apocalypse has impacted upon the work of artists of your choice

Discuss how the idea of the Apocalypse has impacted upon the work of artists of your choice For this essay there will be an examination into Giotto's 'The Last Judgement' (1304-1305), which is a Fresco within the Arena Chapel and Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgement' (1537-1541) also a Fresco, which is on the Alter wall in the Sistine Chapel. This is in the interest of establishing how two artists have tackled the same subject matter and their relation with the book of Revelation. At the end of this there is an expectancy of understanding toward why this scene is so important to the Church? Revelation is the last book in the bible of the New Testament, it was written around 65 AD by the Apostle John but there are some suggestions that it could have been around 95 AD. This book was written in address to the seven Churches that are mentioned in Chapters 2 and 3 with the intention of being read out to the congregation. The whole point of this book is to scare but encourage the Churches in their trust to God and how they follow by his rule. What's more this is the only book in the bible that gives the reader an insight into heaven, this place that people of faith attain to arrive at gets revealed. It can also provide a sense of purpose to the reader of the bible. There are various arguments as to whether John the Apostle who wrote other books in the New Testament was the same as

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Art and reason in renaissance Italy.

ART AND REASON in RENAISSANCE ITALY. Renaissance Italy was at the centre of what can be determined as a period of 'rebirth' between the early 14th and late 16th Centuries. Essentially, the renaissance was 'the age of reason and enlightenment' and this was reflected in the emergence of art as an intellectual pursuit. The Italian Renaissance was a budding period, unveiling the notion of reason and thus producing some of the most intellectually advanced artwork in the world. The output in Renaissance Italy was monumental, whether it was philosophy, mathematics, art or science; some of the most important discoveries were made enabling Europe to move out of the middle Ages and into modern times. Voltaire stated the Italian Renaissance was a great age of cultural achievement in the arts, philosophy and politics, possibly matched by no other. The new availability of ancient Greek and Roman texts is often attributed entirely to the renaissance's 'rebirth' in art, philosophy and science. The re-introduction of ancient scriptures and opening of libraries spread ancient philosophy, literature and science. With this came a realisation of what had been achieved by the Greek and Classical past, creating a great ambition to develop ancient theories. 'The classical ideal became a stimulus, a challenge, a model.'1 It wasn't long before the Italian Renaissance surpassed a mere revival of

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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles (Aaron Copland) How accurate is this statement in relation to the development of popular music in Britain?

'If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles' (Aaron Copland) How accurate is this statement in relation to the development of popular music in Britain? The Beatles were a phenomenal success throughout the 1960s as they began a new era of music that changed the state of play in the music industry. Their simple chord structures, epitomised on 'Love Me Do', and intricate vocal harmonies led them to being a huge success in Britain, as well as the rest of the world. There was a "charge emitted by their music" (p1, MacDonald, 1998) and the new genre of music undeniably inspired other bands to write and perform in a similar style. However not all credit can be given to The Beatles for the development of popular music in Britain. Popular music from America was the initial influence as it "found its way into the UK via the ports" (BBC - h2g2) and as Liverpool was the main port into the UK from America, inevitably the music initially had an effect on musicians in the Merseyside area. This particularly had an effect on a four-piece skiffle group formed in 1956 by John Lennon, The Quarry Men, who over time developed and formed The Beatles in 1960 (MacDonald, 2002). They were young and brought a new image that was idolised by teenagers. The "four young men behind the music" amazed people and their image resonated "with a youthful and halcyon ideal of those

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Discuss the use of the Uncanny by artists or designers in their work.

Discuss the use of the Uncanny by artists or designers in their work. The uncanny is "...that species of the frightening that goes back to what was once well known and had long been familiar." (Freud, S. 124) In order to discuss the uncanny within the realm of Art, it is necessary to understand what the uncanny is. The uncanny has been a topic of interest since the 19th Century, therefore establishing the people behind the theory entails the analysis of Freud and Jentsch with particular reference to E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Sand-Man'. This is where the use of the word in this context originated from. This understanding can then be applied to artists or designers that used this in their work and for what reasons they did so. Sigmund Freud in 1919 wrote his essay 'The Uncanny', with the intention of discovering why a feeling of the uncanny can occur in some instances and not others. He felt that the uncanny was the feeling of what once had been repressed and then remembered in a new surrounding and so giving the familiar a sense of the unfamiliar. However the topic of the uncanny was first approached by Ernst Jentsch in 1906 with his essay 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny'. This was due to E.T.A Hoffmann's 'The Sand-Man', written in 1819 in German and is part of a series of short stories entitled 'The Night Pieces'. This would be classified as German Romantic literature. The

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