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.
The visual realism of the feet indicates they ‘belong to a real woman; we are at the same time given both a sense of style and of attractive pain. No woman who has ever worn stilettos can look at Overstepping without smiling. This single image has it all. It describes the female body and the way it is fragmented and operated in the goods of appearance as well as the personal cost of those changes. In the photograph the women has her toe nails painted in the colour red.
There is a lot of color imagery in this poem, the first stanza especially. It mentions 6 different colors, all describing the lies. It’s about an African American girl that may tell little lies that don’t really mean much. She would lie about where she lived, and where she bought her clothes, but would also lie about being African American. Right below the poem is the history of Natasha Trethewey, and she was a girl that was just light enough to pass for white.
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. The ad uses a special bright light in a perfect angle in order for the deep setting of the eyelash to stand out on the model’s eye to force you to take notice of its claim. They put each different shade on the bottom of a white bottom to show all the different shades to try to convince you to buy it. The creators of this advertisement were trying to convince women that if you buy this product you would be lighting up your eyes with the new Exact Eyelight Mascara and have the eyes that they have always wanted plus bringing sex appeal as well. The brightest and most decisive part of this ad is the model eyes.
Kilbourne shows a good point about this article and that is no women should ever be used to please people for their needs. Kilbourne does not show any kind of weakness. Abusing women is terrible and that is her whole point of this article. One of her quotes that stood out to me is, “I suppose this could be a woman awaiting her lover, but it could easily be a girl being preyed upon” (Kilbourne
I also believe by using Ellen DeGeneres a knowingly open Lesbian that usually wears menswear as she is not wearing your usual dress that most Cover Girl wear. The advertiser is trying to reach the lesbian audience. Showing Ellen with both arms holding her jacket as the wind blows her scarf aside with a huge smile, expresses to the audience the confidence and emotions that she feels good about herself. By using Ellen a more realistic and average person than the normal Cover Girl; I believe they are using the window affect in this ad therefore the advertiser incorporates pathos. The advertiser used
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.
| |pursed lips | |followed by: “I mean, it was more than pretty.” (pretty & metal??) | |(while Queenie = goddess, Sammy’s attracted to this one) | |sun-bleached hair | | | |up in a bun, unraveling | | | |prim face | | | |head held high | | | |blue eyes | •
For example, when women disagree during a conversation, they may say “‘You may be right, but could it also be that…?’” or “‘Oh, I’m sure you’re right, but I saw it a bit differently’”6. Thus, the style of women’s communication is more sharing and collaborative in nature. In conversations, women have a selfless attitude in that every person should get time to talk about their ideas and feelings7. Their style can be described as the time-share approach to communication. These communication characteristics of women are encapsulated in Deborah
On her nearly-bald head she used black ash to draw in square hairline, and then painted her scalp pitch black. Thus when shampooing her hair, the charcoal was completely washed away, and out shone the half-bald, shiny crown of her head, fringed with thin wisps of hair fluttering down her back. She would hobble to and fro helping my mother fix dinner. I never dared glance her way. (4) But Mother's raven hair was like a length of satin falling over her shoulders.