Life with Consequences
ML Walker has a knack for arousing viewers creativity by creating art using strong metaphors, especially the game of chess and illusions. Chaos and Order and Faith is a Verb are two classic examples of Walker’s ability to cause the viewer to rethink what is on the surface and dig for a deeper meaning. Human decision-making has an impact on all aspects of life and can be very challenging. Chaos and Order gives the impression that there are positive and negative impacts in all decisions that we make while Faith is a Verb links the idea of the eternal effect of the decision made both positive and negative.
The immediate perception of the two paintings is very spiritual, but a closer probe finds the cause and effect decision-making
has in life long commitments. With both images the artist demonstrates a solid strand of the complexity of decision-making. The chess games in each give the impression that strategic decisions make up life. These strategies, good or bad, positive or negative, negate the outcome of every individual’s future. Chaos and Order shows good and evil both concentrating on game of chess that they are playing. Each move they make is critical indicating the importance of every move/decision made in life. By showing the person stepping off the game piece, Faith is a Verb continues to challenge the audience to see that the decisions made in life no matter how big or small should be taken one step at a time. One hand over the eyes and one hand and foot outwards give the feeling that decisions are not always apparent and the outcome of the future is not always crystal clear. The falling/floating binary gives the feeling of limbo. Chaos and Order gives the illusion that the primary focus of the painting, the beings and the chessboard, are floating. This symbolizes the infernal regions of life destiny before decisions are made. Faith as a Verb uses its being to express a feeling of failure if the being falls making that decision to take that giant step in the direction to the right. This step to the right leaves the audience feeling that the being is going in the right direction with its decision-making. Faith is a Verb and Chaos and Order show us how the choices that we make have an impact on our future. As life moves forward, it is pertinent to have faith in the decisions that we make. These decisions both positive and negative have lifelong consequences.
...t would help bring into understandable light the mystery of the Church’s teachings. Finally, achievements in re-creating human emotion would ensure the painting’s, and therefore the Church’s teachings would leave an indelible mark on all of its viewers.
Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero to many. He is a figure of importance because of his involvement in the civil rights, his power of persuasion, and his work toward equality. Marshall Frady is the author of Martin Luther King, Jr.- A Life, a biography about MLK. Frady was a TV and magazine writer, who spent most of his time with King in the 1960’s. Frady covered all the marches, speeches, and trials that accompanied the early years of the civil rights movement (Viking). He was an American journalist and author, mostly known for his work on the African American civil rights movement in the America South (Viking).
While buried, so deep beneath the cavity of adversity, finding hope is nearly impossible. But, it is the ability of decisions that aids as the last gleam of hope retrievable. After facing many struggles, it becomes almost involuntary for someone to put up a guard. With using that strategy, and the transgression of time without progress, there’s a certain ignition of comprehension. Change needs to occur, and a complete remedy of that
The very fact that the painting changes, places this story in the realm of the supernatural. In The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings by Theresa Chung, supernatural is defined as: "Any experience, occurrence, manifestation or object that is beyond the laws of nature and science and whose understanding may be said to lie with religion, magic or the mystical" (480). Af...
...t see or hear or smell the truth of what you see- and you, looking for destiny! It’s classic! And the boy, this automaton, he was made of the very mud of the region and he sees far less than you. Poor stumblers, neither of you can see the other. To you he is a mark on the score-card of your achievement, a thing and not a man; a child, or even less- a black amorphous thing. And you, for all your power, are not a man to him, but a God” (95). Here, the veteran tells them both that they are blind to what is really going on in the current American society. Mr. Norton, or the white man, is like God. And our narrator, the black man, is one of God’s many followers- trying to appease him with everything that they do. Ironically, the mentally handicapped veteran, labeled stupid and insane by society, is the only person to be able to see the truth; he is the only one not blind.
...s difficult to understand without the help of an active imagination. If imagination spurs art, then art and chaos can be easily intertwined. Hawkes has produced a story, a piece of art in itself, that incubuses chaos, but it also contains an explanation of chaos as artwork and how the two relate. Often people only see the final product of both chaos and art; it is possible and easy to forget about the process and the plan behind them.
Sober ultimately makes an analogy between the weather-vanes and a person’s ability to act freely. Before Sober’s analogy can be understood, his decision-making process must first be explained. A person’s decision-making process can be broken down into its parts. Sober thinks beliefs come from the belief-generating device that in turn, uses evidence to make a belief. Desires are harder to explain than beliefs because what the desire-...
Through what we have studied of the artist, we know that he sees various things in his
Imagine pondering into a reconstruction of reality through only the visual sense. Without tasting, smelling, touching, or hearing, it may be hard to find oneself in an alternate universe through a piece of art work, which was the artist’s intended purpose. The eyes serve a much higher purpose than to view an object, the absorptions of electromagnetic waves allows for one to endeavor on a journey and enter a world of no limitation. During the 15th century, specifically the Early Renaissance, Flemish altarpieces swept Europe with their strong attention to details. Works of altarpieces were able to encompass significant details that the audience may typically only pay a cursory glance. The size of altarpieces was its most obvious feat but also its most important. Artists, such as Jan van Eyck, Melchior Broederlam, and Robert Campin, contributed to the vast growth of the Early Renaissance by enhancing visual effects with the use of pious symbols. Jan van Eyck embodied the “rebirth” later labeled as the Renaissance by employing his method of oils at such a level that he was once credited for being the inventor of oil painting. Although van Eyck, Broederlam, and Campin each contributed to the rise of the Early Renaissance, van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb epitomized the artworks produced during this time period by vividly incorporating symbols to reconstruct the teachings of Christianity.
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Have you ever wondered about the things we can’t see? The things that are there but they aren’t? Many people need to see things in order to believe them, and others will believe no matter what the signs may tell them. M. Night. Shyamalan wrote and directed a movie that shows a man loss of faith and struggle to get it back, and he does so by using symbolism, flashbacks, and conflicts.
Popularity of the Mona Lisa is perhaps tenuous because a psychological mechanism recognized as the “mere-exposure effect” has likely played a role in shaping cultural preference for paintings. According to Prof. Cutting from Cornell University, students are grown to like the paintings which they have seen more in experiments, and thus even unconscious familiarity breeds affection (Intelligent Life). The scientific experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. In the history, the preferences of wealthy and influential collectors bestowed prestige on certain works, which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in anthologies. “Scholars”, Cutting argues, “are no different from the public in the effects of mere
... Had Lawrence not utilized the story frame, the reader may not have realized the purpose behind the connection between the reactions of the monk and the stableman. The reader would not have concluded that spirituality within the beholder affects the way in which individuals see the world. The need for these two groups of people to believe in a higher being or protector helped them to endure hardships; by showing these actions, Lawrence brings new light to the meaning behind faith.
When I saw Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring about five years ago at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., I felt something about the painting that I had never felt before when looking at artwork. I felt as if this girl, this young woman in the painting was real, hiding in the museum behind this canvas. She was in the flesh. Her skin was still dewy from three hundred-something years ago, the light across her face still glowing. She was in the round, her eyes followed mine, she was real. She was about to speak, she was in a moment of thought, she was in reflection. This girl was not crimson red or titanium white, she was flesh. Vermeer caught her, a butterfly in his hand. She was not just recorded on canvas, she was created on canvas. She was caught in a moment of stillness. Vermeer creates moments in his paintings. When viewing them, we step into a private, intimate setting, a story. Always, everything is quiet and calm. I realize now it is no wonder I had such a strong reaction to Vermeer the first time I saw him: he is a stillness seeker.
The mind creates the emotions and ideals responsible for art. The brain is capable of imagining glorious things, and art is the physical manifestation of these ideals. These ideals are usually intense emotions with aesthetic power (Wilson, 220). Art organizes these emotions in a matter that can easily express the ideals to...