Wesselmann’s 1973 painting named Smoker #9, is extremely informational. The painting informs observers that the artist finds smoking to be sexy, especially when the smoking is done by women. This particular painting reveals an immense amount of symbolism; the painting shows a set of slightly opened red lips, and a cigarette loosely fashioned between long, sexy fingers. Through the artist’s wonderful use of colours and shapes, Smoker #9 tells any observer that both the fingers and the set of lips belong to a woman. Both the woman’s lips and fingernails are painted an erotic red, revealing a sense of seduction.
This essay is on the painting “Girl Arranging Her Hair”, painted by Mary Cassat in 1886. The media is oil on canvas. This painting now hangs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Line is an important formal element of artwork because line is essential in a painting to depicting objects and symbols and to define shapes. The line in this piece of art draws your eyes to the top right side of the painting and gradually brings your eyes down the painting focusing attention on the girl. Forcing attention on the girl caught in the act of arranging her hair allows the person looking at the painting to become that girl and to imagine what she is thinking at that personal moment.
It shows the four different shades that the mascara is available in on the side to try to get the target audience attention. Cover Girl is known for their bold advertising using beautiful women with flawless faces. On this particular ad the advertiser choose Rihanna as a model because she is young beautiful and adds sex appeal plus she’s very popular in the music business right now. In this ad, Cover Girl claims that this product will lift up your eyes and give you 4 time’s brighter eyes. Exact Eyelight has a reflecting metallic and a hint of tint that turns out your blue, brown, hazel, and green eyes in the blink of an eye.
Degas also used very light pastel colors in the background to make the ballerina stand out more in the painting, as well as making her seem like she is letting off light and making the work seem, in general, much more relaxing and carefree. Another famous Impressionist painting done during the eighteen hundreds was Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Bal du Moulin da la Galette. In this painting, there is “a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.” Many bright colors are also used by Renoir, giving off an air of happiness amongst the people dancing, drinking, and
Although at first glimpse the background appears to be pitch black, recent analysis indicates that Vermeer had painted a translucent layer of green which has faded over time, over the dark under-painting, to create a lustrous tone that sharply contrasts the warm skin tone of the Girl, amplifying the light tone in the object, thus producing a much more three-dimensional optical effect of the object. This technique provokes a series of thoughts in the viewer: why does Vermeer want us to see only the Girl? What significance does this Girl hold in his life? One can appreciate the smooth texture of the Girl’s facial features, the radiance in her eyes and her lovely vermilion lips. An intriguing detail would be the absence of the line that defines the profile of the left hand side of her nose, which suggests that Vermeer might have painted the portrait with the help of a camera obscura that tends to alleviate the tonal range of the image, causing the lines to disappear.
Unlike Olan, Lotus is viewed as beautiful. She has a "small pointed face and round eyes, the shape of apricots"(180). In Wang Lung's eyes Tunis 2 "she was not flesh and blood but the painted picture of a woman"(180). She has "hands so small and bones so fine and fingers so pointed with long nails stained the color of lotus buds, deep and rosy"(179). Lotus has bound feet, which were found to be very sexually appealing in Chinese culture and showed signs of wealth and beauty.
The close up on Susan Sarandon’s face is used to show how beautiful she is because she uses REVLON. By using her beauty it gives the product credibility and it manipulates people because a famous person is being used and one immediately assumes that the product must be good. Furthermore, alliteration is used. Susan Sarandon’s initials match the initials of the title “Star Style” people will be more compelled to buy the product because she uses it and especially because the words confident and charismatic are used to describe her, again alliteration is shown. The REVLON advertisement use of rhetoric appeals to those who know who Sandra is and like
However, wearing red lipstick meant they were the next best thing to a prostitute. Also, smoking in a public area would have meant that they must have been actresses. The beginning of the Edwardian Era the “hourglass” figure was a very popular figure for a woman. It featured the delicate curves and a woman’s body and defined her spine nicely and evened out the rest of her body. They mostly wore high collars, corsets, trained skirts and huge fashionable hats.
This suggests that people reading the magazine should follow her healthy attitude towards her figure, and that it is desirable to be slim but not skinny. In terms of interests, Heat magazine believes that women are interested in a variety of different things such as celebrity lives, celebrity gossip, fashion, beauty care, music, films, books, and television. They are all quite stereotypical, for example the majority of film, book and television reviews they feature are for what are termed as ‘girly.’ Most of the film reviews in Heat magazine that are awarded their five star rating, for being something worth watching, are usually romantic comedies. ‘Chick-lit’ books such as
The first painting is Woman In a Red Flowered Dress (2012), drawn by Chantal Joffe(1969-present) a British artist based in London. Her subjects are often female portraits in a very large scale. She loves to paint woman portrait, and Diane Arbus is her inspiration. She said: “I find photography massively influential. Specifically, Diane Arbus, who I have been obsessed with my whole life.