Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental artist who is mainly concerned with the natural world. His artworks can be analyzed through the Postmodern Frame; he uses natural and found materials such as leaves, sticks, rocks and spit to form his sculptures and challenges the notion of the art object as permanent and valuable. He also documents his works through photography, a non-traditional art medium, due to their transitory nature. He intends to amuse the audience and question their use of the environment. One of his artworks, "Midsummer Snowballs" (2000), consists of thirteen oversize snowball sculptures formed out of concealed pieces of natural materials, including river pebbles, ears of barley and feathers.
This creates a sense of admiration for the reader, and also shows the pride that Marquart has for the people of her hometown. Later, Marquart describes the region as being solely a square state, each square measuring six miles by six miles. This again portrays her description of the land occupying this region, giving the reader a more vivid illustration, making it easier to understand and imagine. Through her use of allusions, Marquart is able to thoroughly describe special qualities of the region. She alludes to a poem—“Earthlings”—which quoted, “we are the folks presidents talk to when times require.” This is characterizing the people of the upper Midwest as honorable and of importance to
Instead it marks the seam that joins your existence to everything else. Andrea Jones's essay in this issue is part of a series of essays on the human skin. Her articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Camas, and Snowy Egret. She lives in the mountains of central
Before her abduction, Persephone resides on earth and is alive with the rest of the living world that Demeter has maintained (6-8). Once taken by Hades though, her time is spent in the world of the dead, and in response, Demeter essentially deadens the natural earth (307-315). This shows the two extremes of the paradigm: Persephone living solely in the agriculturally thriving
Artists such as Shona Wilson and Jannis Kounellis have used different approaches in their artmaking practise to represent their ideas in their artworks. Shona Wilson is a contemporary Australian sculptor who utilises natural found materials and ceramic to create abstract artworks. She expresses her connection with nature in artworks such as The Streaming 2003, and Interlace 6 2011. Jannis Kounellis is a Greek artist and is one of the founding figures of the ‘art povera’ movement who expresses his history and memory through the use of natural materials in artworks such as Civil Tragedy 1975 and The Labyrinth 2007. Both artists are able to represent their ideas in their artmaking through the use of different approaches in their artmaking practice.
Ryan Molloy David Sherman Modernism, Atheism, God April 10, 2013 Animal Magnetism in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying In Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the vivid depiction of animal life appears to do nothing more than establish the backwater setting of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi; however, upon closer examination, the fauna take on a surprisingly human essence. Through this anthropomorphizing of sorts, Faulkner resituates human language within the realm of nonhuman communication and exposes the traces of animalism in language itself, revealing the links between animals and the new forms of communication, representation and literary aesthetics that emerged in modernism. Figurative language prevails within As I Lay Dying, particularly the quintessential animal metaphor. Faulkner frequently likens animals to humans. He refers to a buzzard as “a old baldheaded man,” and he describes a horse as “moaning and groaning like a natural man” (Faulkner 119, 155).
Teotihuacan's murals constitute a primary source for understanding the city's religion and social organization. Found throughout the city on the walls of apartment compounds such as Tetitla, the paintings depict a wide range of images centered on two major deities: a female known as the Great Goddess and a male known as the Storm God or Tlaloc. The Great Goddess is usually depicted frontally, with additional motifs pertaining to agricultural fertility. The Storm God is usually shown in profile and is identified by his distinctive face mask and the lightning bolt carried in his left hand. Animals, including coyotes, owls, and jaguars, are also prominent in the murals.
Its often for a function, aesthetic appeal to express, it is a state of mind. Rosalie Gascoigne was a New Zealand-Australian sculptor who often used spare and thrown away material for works. Picking wood, metal and anything she found an interest in at garbage dumps,
In Garbageland, Elizabeth Royte continues to illustrate the atrocities of garbage and our environment. As I have said in past reflections, she touches on things I have never thought twice about and has opened my eyes to a lot of these things. Today, she opened my eyes to the truths about landfills and the hazards they impose. Royte describes her visit to the William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge that, by its title to me seemed like a environmental haven, is actually surrounded by a paper mill, a landfill, and a “checkerboard of oil tanks” (Royte, 55) as the author describes it. Paddling through the water of the refuge, Royte describes the scene around Fresh Kills, which until its closing in 2001 was the largest city landfill in the country.
One strength of this absolutist view point is that it provides us with a very straight forward and simple approach to decision making; as rules are common to all people in all communities they are therefore easier to follow. This provides a structured and simple approach to ethics and morality. A further strength of the Natural Law theory is that these five primary precepts seem to be a common part of human nature, which means that they are easier to follow as they are already written into our way of life. Aquinas states that ‘to disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to condemning the command of God’, this means that to go against your own morality, is to sin against your God. This shows that Natural Law is a simple way to strive towards the greater Good, as we are following basic