critically acclaimed author Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray is about a beautiful young man named Dorian Gray, who is befriended by a painter called Basil Hallward and his college friend Lord Henry Wotton. Basil finds inspiration in painting Dorian while Lord Henry seeks to influence him with his philosophy of New Hedonism. Dorian, spellbound by Basil's portrait and Lord Henry's wit and wisdom, expresses the desire to be forever young, and a willingness to give his soul for it. Dorian meets an actress
Aesthetic Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray Ⅰ. Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism 1.1 Oscar Wilde, the Great Master of Aestheticism Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being Speranza). Jane was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a life-long Irish nationalist. Sir William was a Ireland’s leading Oto-Ophthalmologic
Medellin’s most famous son. He’s known for his paintings and sculptures of rotund people and animals, he has achieved international recognition and has exhibitions across the world. One of the best places to check out his work for free in Medellin, Colombia is at Plaza Botero, which is full of his gorditas. Botero was born in Medellin, Colombia. His dad David Botero a salesman who died when Botero was only four years old, his mom Flora Angulo who worked as a seamstress didn’t play a big role in Botero’s
Shakespeare's talk, who was on the edge of modern times; and the journalist is convinced, it seems, that they talked of wine and women and politics, but never about their art, or never quite seriously about their art. He is certain that no one, who had a philosophy of his art or a theory of how he should write, has ever made a work of art, that people have no imagination, who do not write without forethought and afterthought as he writes his own articles. He says this with enthusiasm, because he has heard it
institution. All over Europe, even if belatedly in England, the courts of the Renaissance nation-states conducted an intense campaign to use the arts to further their power. The theater, despite its partial dependency on court favor, achieved through its material products (the script and the performance) a relative autonomy in comparison with the central court arts of poetry, prose fiction, and the propagandistic masque. When Shakespeare briefly turned to Ovidian romance in the 1590’s and, belatedly, probably
Looking At A Fiberglass Sculpture Art Essay Is it possible to learn about ourselves from looking at a fiberglass sculpture? Should it be enough for us to see the physicality of ourselves in order to define our humanity? “Can a monster story teach us something about our own morality? [And] can a tale be a parable holding up a funhouse mirror to the beast lurking in our own hearts?” (Lamoureux, 107). Art is the looking glass of human emotions; it is a reflective instrument that holds neither flawlessness
that she did not care for Lafcadio, however, according to some sources “the evidence suggests the opposite: in her care, young Patrick enjoyed a life of cultured leisure with critically, untrammeled access to books of all sorts.” (Murray, 16) Since early childhood, Hearn loved to read and learn. He was extraordinarily interested in dark tales of the supernatural even from a young age. Around the age of fourteen, Mrs.Brenane married a younger man and Lafcadio was sent to Catholic Boarding School
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lovers is the third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. Richard Aldington explains the semi-autobiographical nature of this masterpiece:When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life. Generally, it is not only considered as an evocative portrayal of working-class life in a mining community, but also an intense
| Influenced by[show] | Influenced[show] | Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. Contents [hide] * 1 Biography * 2 Views on aesthetics * 3 Reception * 4 Metaphysics * 5 Notes * 6 Works * 7 Bibliography | ------------------------------------------------- [edit]Biography Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten and his wife Rosina Elisabeth. Both his parents