Frida Kahlo and Jean-Michel Basquiat were raised in a similar society with alcohol and tragedy influencing their actions and artworks. They both interpret their emotions and experiences into their pieces. Both artists reflected in themselves into their artwork. Frida interpreted her struggle through life such as her physical pain from an accident during her teenaged youth which resulted in a fractured spine in three places, fractured pelvis, a dislocated shoulder, two broken ribs and broken bones in her right leg and foot, and Basquiat displayed his struggle of being poor. One of Kahlo’s famous paintings, ‘The Two Fridas’, was created in 1939.
Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer. Steinbeck achieves this through using contrasting imagery, portraying Lennie with animal traits, and presenting Curley’s wife’s death as a release from her misery. Steinbeck provides conflict with texture, light, and sound to assist the reader’s emotional quarrel. The feel of Curley’s Wife’s soft hair put side by side to the rough old and brown of the ranch displays many of the differences. Steinbeck has subliminally mentioned isolation and conflict that Curley’s wife’s creates with her soft hair; here it is quiet apparent, “Feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it is.” (Steinbeck 90).
She talks to herself about Tom saying, “That boy! In that blue light, the shadows on his face and neck were like bruises… So sick yet so wonderful.” This shows that Coral picks up on Tom’s illness and shows that Coral perceives more than the average person would. She is in tune to his suffering due to the fact she focuses on her own grief. Coral’s soliloquy is possibly her most important scene. It reveals that her son was killed at war and that she is unable to surpass through her grief.
I have chosen to research Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe because they are very inspiring women artists. Frida Kahlo pushed the boundaries of what was expected from a traditional Latin American female artist. She led a life full of emotional and physical pain. From an early diagnosis of polio, to a life altering bus accident, to a marriage riddled with infidelities, Frida's often-difficult life was the inspiration for her art. Her exploration of herself and the world she lived in broke social norms, artistically, and politically, causing both outrage and awe from those who viewed her paintings.
Here are a couple other reasons to consider. The content of many of Plath's poems plays on rich and specific raw emotions. She did this through crafting specific images and symbols with carefully chosen words and figures of speech. Generally choosing everyday experiences and items to write about, she did indeed write about some of the pain in her life including the "The Jailer" about her husband Ted Hughes who had cheated on her, and "Daddy" about her father who abused her. These topic choices come from truthful circumstances, but readers generally really sympathize with Plath because of her suicide and what led her to it.
Alisa Key August 16, 2010 AP English 11 The Scarlet Letter The progression of Hester throughout The Scarlet Letter was dramatic and varied greatly. In the beginning of the book she was feeling ashamed, isolated, and shunned by the townspeople. To her, the “A” stood for more than adultery, it stood for “ashamed.” She was being imprisoned by the judgment of others; the lock was a simple scarlet letter. She was living while being haunted by her past. Even seeing her own daughter, Pearl, would sometimes bring up the emotion of her sin all over again.
I will examine to see if the artist was trying to make a close observation of a piece in the painting, drawing, etc. to represent something realistically. When looking at this I will want to search out to see if there is an emphasis on the design elements, examples are lines and shapes. While looking for symbols I will also run across visions to see if the artists is trying to show energy and movement concentration. I want to look out for the expression of the feeling and/or mood of the artwork.
The theme of the story was that Phoenix would go through many hardships, disrespect, and loneliness for the love of her grandson. One major hardship would be that Phoenix is most likely blind. In the story Eudora implies, “Her eyes were blue with age,” and “She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her.” The fact that
She makes it clear that she knows how hard it has been for her to overcome many obstacles to get to college and be where she is at now. She comes from a family that values a good work ethic and working as a farm worker is more important than reading books and at times sacrificing education. Castellanos argues, “At a young age-between eleven and fourteen-I began my intellectual and spiritual rebellion against my parents and society. I fell in love with books and created space of my own where I could dare to dream” (pg 341). In her culture being married and having kids was her duties as a Mexican.
This expression of emotion when observing art leads to better comprehension of the artwork and the artist’s emotions that he experienced and expressed while creating a particular piece of art. For this paper I am arguing that expression of emotions through feelings felt by an individual when viewing or hearing some form of art is what allows for an individual to have an aesthetic experience. There are different ways that emotions can be expressed, both through feelings and behavior. This may appear redundant at first glance, but one can feel something or have some type of experience completely to oneself in one’s mind without the need to have those emotions expressed physically through one’s behavior. Expression and how it is defined conforms to many different contexts.