While the medium of calligraphy has commonly been ink on paper, contemporary artists continuously stretch and challenge the boundaries this traditional art. Two artists in particular represent such efforts to provide new shape and life to calligraphy: Hassan Massoudy and Mattar bin Lahej. Transforming calligraphy from a static art, Iraqi artist Hassan Massoudy introduces theatrically-inspired form and movement to his letters, while Emirati artist Mattar bin Lahej transitions calligraphy to the third dimension by his sculptures. Despite the visual differences between these two artists’ works, both reflect to re-explore the expressive capacities of the word. Hassan Massoudy, born in 1944 in Najef, Iraq, he moved to Baghdad at age 16 to become an apprentice for professional calligraphers, but left in 1969 for Paris due to Iraq’s volatile political situation. Studying …show more content…
Through his “choreographed” letters, Massoudy gives physical form to emotions and ideas. For example, in his work “I love a flower that is slow to blossom,” (See Figure 2) he shapes the word “flower” with curves that resemble petals. The word “flower” is repeatedly written in green ink to form a leaf, or a garden speckled with red and yellow flowers. The quote written out in a straight line evokes the image of a stem. In “Love understands all languages,” (See Figure 3) Massoudy focuses on the word “heart” and contrasts broad strokes alongside thin lines. By varying stroke widths, he creates strong movement and dramatic effect, expressing the all-consuming power of love. The color red is also representative of passion. Interestingly, the broad brushstrokes resemble the mast of a ship on sea, perhaps emphasizing the truth that love transcends geographic boundaries. In this way, Massoudy gives the word physical form capable movement and emotion—much like an actor on
Three dimensional art is defined as media which “occupies space, defined through the dimensions of height, width and depth” (SAYLOR). These art works can be geometric or organic in nature (NORTON). Three dimensional art forms include sculptures, crafts and architecture. Three dimensional art form is fascinating to me because of the amount of realism and beauty it embodies, as well as for its functional and aesthetic value. For this assignment, I chose two beautiful pieces that illustrated the characteristic of three dimensional art and the processes it took to produce them. The first art work I want to analyze is a sculpture done by an Iraqi artist from Kalhu (modern day Nimrud) entitled, “Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions” (Sayre, 420).
Waleed Aly uses several features of language to convince the viewers to his perception through appealing to emotions and logic. He includes inclusive and emotive language to ensure that the issue plays on the reader’s feelings, addresses everyone and makes it appear more significant than it actually is. For example, “I’m sickened by the violence” or “I’m crushed for the families that have been left behind.” He incorporates a hyperbole which exaggerates and overemphasizes the crux of the statement to produce a grander, more noticeable effect. Through the phrase “We’re all feeling a million raging emotions right now” Aly creates a larger-than-life effect and overly tensions his point. Another technique is a call to action, “We all need to come
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA as it is commonly known, is among the world’s largest art collections in North America, and to be specific enough the most prevalent artwork in the western United States (Compton 165). This massive art museum has a collection of over 100,000 artworks, which extends from the ancient times to present days (Gilbert and Mills 174). These collections, which are mainly from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin-America and America itself, are grouped into several departments within the museums buildings, depending on the region, culture, media, and time period. This paper analyzes the different genres of art and explains the main features that make the Islamic artworks distinguish themselves as historic masterpieces, by using stylistic and interpretive analysis methods.
In December 2010 Shirin Neshat gave a TedTalk asking its audience to consider how they perceive Iran. As an artist in self-imposed exile from Iran, Neshat uses the TedTalk, “Art In Exile,” to talk to a western audience about the Iranian peoples’ struggle to shake off the negative preconceptions many have in the west. Neshat uses her artwork to explore this issue and aims to highlight the role of Iranian artists, how western views on Iran are changing, and the strength and importance of Iranian women in their country’s fight for freedom.
...tion of both methods can be used to show France’s idea of what love is. Patrick John Ireland argued that France’s idea of love “is a human force controlled by man with great difficulty; it is a spontaneous, natural, and all-consuming power, the experience of which leads to an almost blind passion at times” (133). To be in love, one must be entirely devoted and passionate to one another to the point of blind passion. This is so for Yonec (the Princess jumps out of the tower) and Lanval (Lanval’s complete rejection of the human world until he is brought into the world of his lover). Not only does France portray love as natural and all-consuming, but also shows the private and unearthly nature of love that cannot be contained to the realm of the human world. Rather, love transcends the boundaries of the human world and enters into a world where love reigns supreme.
Throughout the Golden Age of Spain, art and literature were used to express the events of this transitional period in European history. Love is a centralized theme that often conveys subliminal messages about moral, social, and historical issues throughout a plotline. Within pieces of literature such as Fuenteovejuna, the definition of love is questioned in each of their own different contexts. How love is defined as either selfish or selfless in Fuenteovejuna determines what message Lope de Vega is presenting to the audience.
Between both William Shakespeare’s 1610 play, “The Tempest” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 short novel “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the portrayal of love is a present theme in both genre’s that through the distinctive forms, is expressed in differing ways. Between the relationship of Miranda and Ferdinand in “The Tempest” and the narrator and husband John in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” love is presented uniquely and exposes the creative development of literature within differing genres throughout history. Throughout this paper I will be looking at the both of the mentioned literary genre’s, combined with the presentation of character, language and form, in an effort to evaluate ways all of these attributes contribute to the writer’s distinctive depictions of love and relationships.
In today’s world many things can resemble something from the past. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Bruno Mars’ “Grenade”, both show similarities and portray how love’s strength can affect people’s daily lives. By looking at the pieces of literature, the careful reader can see how both authors express similar ideas of love by emphasizing how people will do absolutely anything for someone they love.
Although both sculptures, LOVE and The Kiss, are about love, they touch upon different aspects of love. The LOVE structure illustrates love in general, as a whole. The word love can be interpreted into the love a parent has for their child or even the love of an object. On the other hand, The Kiss can be interpreted as ecstasy or even lust. Although The Kiss seems to be viewed as the more romantic of the two, LOVE demonstrates love better because the...
Lovers stopped in time, unable to proceed to the lip locking trophy of affection. A simple four letter word that has changed the world by its beauty and awe. What are these interesting pictures of words and love? The Kiss, a dramatic scene unfolding before everyone created by Auguste Rodin, and LOVE, the simplistic sucker punch created by Robert Indiana, are wonderful creations that have both an impact and a meaning. These two sculptures have graced the art world with all their beauty leaving some breathless. They mean so many different things with different imagining, reside in separate parts of the world, but some sculptures are more well-known. In this case LOVE is more Known.
On a stifling summer night in Connecticut, I found myself attempting to bring life to wilted roses. Restoring grace with florid colors and fluttering brushstrokes, I crafted my own narrative from crumpled leaves and somber petals. Color soaked into the fibers of my canvas and gave it a heartbeat, pulsating in time with the movements of my right hand.
Mersault believes that life has no meaning other than existence itself; so what is the purpose of love? He does nothing more than think of Marie’s physical features, like her hair, smile, skin, and laughter. Mersault runs into Marie on his way to the beach for a swim and soon after he already describes her physical attributes, “I helped her onto a float as I did, I brushed against her breasts”(Camus 19).
Delight me, tickle my senses, I dare you! To be delighted-- isn’t that something we all wish to enjoy. Taking a walk in Edward E. Cummings’ poem, titled; “[S]omewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond”, where he embraces his reader upon revealing a rainbow of “colour[ful]” techniques-- making my mind dance over hills of wild flowers (Cummings 742). With each new flower giving form to a jumble of abstract emotions, he conveys a more pronounced diction. And though I may color myself a portrait with perfect admirations of love, history has a funny way of telling me differently.
What pops into your mind when you hear the word love? When people hear the word love many people think of romantic love. The word love has many other interpretations such as loving your neighbor, loving of one’s nation, and loving of God. People need to avoid thinking about something as important as love so superficially. Both John Donne’s “The Canonization” and “The Sun Rising” use metaphors to deal with whether the nature of love and whether it is really mysterious. While Donne’s “The Sun Rising” focuses on romantic love, his poem “The Canonization” delves into the many facets of love beyond the mere romantic such as being consumed by love, dying by it, and being reborn through love.
Themes of romance and love have been central to world literature at least since the emergence of Ancient Greek drama. Drawing on this classic theatre tradition, modern drama substantially reformed representation of love and romance by embedding it into a complex social, cultural and philosophical context that reflected modern social transformations.