It is the innate search for our own identity that drives artists such as Chuck Close and Vincent Van Gogh to explore their inner psyche through self expression and portraiture. The search for identity begins in how one’s childhood progressed, and Chuck Close had a very different childhood from Vincent Van Gogh. An only child, Close was always odd and with little friends due to his family’s constant relocation in his early years. His parents Leslie and Mildred, a plumber and a piano teacher, cherished their only son and aided him in his artistic endeavours to the best of their ability. When Close was about eight years old his father found a local woman of dubious work to give him art lessons in which his mentor would often provide nude models for him to study from.
His mother who was a amateur photographer made sure that Roy artistic talents were nurtured through drawing and music lessons. DeCarava was one of only two black students at a high school for textile studies in the Chelsea section and one of only a few at the Cooper Union School of Art. Roy had won a scholarship to study art and architecture at the Cooper Union School. After two years there, discouraged by the aggressive manner of white students toward him, he left and enrolled at the Harlem Community Art Center on 125th Street. There DeCarava pursued painting using his brushes to make signs for the Works Progress Administration.
Aaron was and still is known as an inspiration to artist everywhere. Aaron Douglas was born in the year of 1899 on May 26 in Topeka, Kansas. As a child had an interest in art, I read in an article “Growing up in Kansas in the early years of the twentieth century, Aaron Douglas had little understanding of the world of the arts. He knew, however, that he loved to watch his mother as she dabbled in watercolors, and that what his mother drew was beautiful” (“Notable Black”). Aaron had grown a passion for art at a young age.
It carries the sense of history and the flow of each and every single one of the galleries yet it remains flexible enough to let visitors skip the connections and directly provide into areas that matter to them the most. It is a marvelous achievement for an art installation of such a complete measure. The huge painting, measuring about 12 by 20 feet, hangs in a double-sized gallery with two other monumental works: Church's 1859 "The Heart of the Andes" and Albert Bierstadt's 1863 "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak." The three paintings hark back to New York at the time of the Civil War. The gallery “Portraiture in the Grand Manner” carries the kind of glamour of Leutze to the end of the 19th century.
This excluded them from receiving free training at the state-sponsored École des Beaux-Arts until 1897. Drawing classes were an essential part of academic study, they were denied to women in both public and private institutions. Women were deemed inappropriate and even dangerous to their morals as young ladies. Bonheur was most known for her animal paintings especially “The Horse Fair” in 1853. Later after her death in 1899, she received numerous awards celebrating her art and life Receiving Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in Spain, The Order of Lepold of Belgium and the Legion of Honor in France Bonheur being the first woman to ever receive these awards in history.
Why have you stopped drawing? She had the gift alive during the dead years…” His mother supported his gift through everything. When she became ill she made him draw the world as a beautiful place. Asher knew better than that, he knew since a very young age that the world was not as magnificent as his mother made him believe. Growing up she bought him books about artists, painting supplies, took him to art museums, comforted and took Asher’s
“The construction of gender stereotyping of both males and females in the media is based on outdated and unfounded beliefs and therefore has had and continues to have a detrimental impact on society.” (Yes!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyfD1F7k1I Women are subjected to many stereotypes in today’s society. Movies and television shows suggest that all women are airheads, whose sole purpose in life is to please men and rear children. Magazines and other advertisements push photographs of very slender, over groomed and “sexy women” into our minds. Men’s magazines write articles on how to seduce a girl into sleeping with them.
In society people have an arrogant attitude towards young women who go out, party, drink and have fun while wearing short, tight or revealing clothing. Men and society consider them as sex objects or in modern terms ‘sluts’. If a man goes around wearing no shirt with shorts and a muscular body many will identify him as being attractive or ‘hot’, but when a women goes out wearing short shorts and a crop top who is good looking people will not admire her physique and beauty instead they will label her as a ‘slut’. Are we all incapable of admiring female beauty outside of a magazine? What is the difference between a male rapist saying, “ She was asking for it” towards an 18 year old, a pedophile saying “ she was asking for it” towards a 12 year old and a female rapist saying “ he was asking for it” towards a young male.
A female impersonator by the name of Lady Victoria is one drag queen that does take this issue to heart. He states that he “ hates the term drag because over the years, it’s been made out to be something trashy” and prefers to be referred to using more “professional” terms in his eyes. According to this article many interviewees identify being a drag queen as simply a male in woman’s clothing specifically someone named Sushi who identifies a drag queen as being “ somebody who knows he has a dick and balls”, so make no mistake when thinking that a drag
The men that rape women do it to feel powerful and in control. Those men see women as a way to get that power and control. Bad influences and atmospheres lead to those kind of men and they lead to the rapes of women. ( About Date Rape 2002) When a sixteen year old girl, Lani, had finally got a date with her crush , she was ecstatic. But she had given him too much credit as the sweetest guy on earth.