Old Master Essays

  • Old Masters and New Cinema: Korean Film in Transition

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    Old Masters and New Cinema: Korean Film in Transition Since the late 1980s Korean cinema has undergone salient changes in its industrial structure, modes of practice, and aesthetic orientation. Its remarkable transformation into a powerful cultural force in Asia has elicited considerable attention from both the commercial and critical sectors of the international film circuit. Recent discussions of Korean cinema have largely been centered on its market expansion and generic diversification over

  • An Explication of W.H. Auden "Musee Des Beaux Arts"

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    the painting landscape with the Fall of Icarus is closely related to the verbal communication of the poem. In fact, the poem is almost a literal retelling of the event depicts in the painting. As you read the Auden's poem, the allusions to the old masters, and to the legend of Icarus and Daedalus guide you to expand the understanding of the poem's theme. "Musee des Beaux Arts" is an especially rich poem for illustrating Auden's way of showing suffering and human unconcern.

  • Naturalism and the Venetian Poesia

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    In the essay “Naturalism and the Venetian ‘Poesia’: Grafting, Metaphor, and Embodiment in Giorgione, Titian, and the Campagnolas,” Campbell explains the role of poetic painting, poesia, in Venetian artwork during the 1500s. Titian personally used the term poesia when he “[referred] to paintings he was making for [King Philip II] with subject matter derived from the ancient poets.” Poesia now refers to a type of sixteenth century Venetian painting, which Giorgione and Titian initiated and used

  • Melancolia I: Allegorical Study

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    Melancolia I After the death of his mother in 1514, Dürer created Melancolia I [figure 5], a copper engraving that is “widely considered the pinnacle of classical printmaking” (Chudnovsky, 2014). Moreover, the engraving is an excellent example of Dürer’s integration of mathematics into his art (Walton, 1994). Accordingly, Dürer was quite pleased with Melancolia I and he produced reproductions of it on the best paper available and gave them away as a form of self-promotion. The allegorical work is

  • Printmaking In The Sixteenth Century

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    century to convey images through time and space. Many artists reproduced a painting by making it a print. In the Renaissance period, the replication culture, meaning artists copied the works of others, prevailed. Many printmakers copied the works of masters in painting for various purposes. As Lisa Pon wrote in her book: “If the Renaissance was a culture devoted to finding new ways and orders, it was also a culture inclined to find the roots of that originality.” She illustrated the influence and independence

  • Letter To My Old Master John Anderson Analysis

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    According to Jourdon Anderson‘s “Letter To My Old Master” (Anderson, J. 1969), slavery and lingering racism were extreme in the 1800s. The end of the Civil War, however, attempted to address some social concerns of the freed slaves, with efforts to make blacks economically independent. Former slave owners demanded services from their old slaves on personal consent, the promising better treatment. Colonel P.H. Anderson wrote to his former slave Jourdon Anderson requesting Jourdon to return to the

  • The Relationship Between Slaves and Their Master

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    the relationships between slaves and their master was one which was designed to undermine and demean the slave. The master exercised complete authority and dominion over his slaves and treated them harshly. The masters’ perception of blacks was that they lacked self-discipline and morality. They justified slavery by claiming that they were training the slaves to master self discipline through work and also train them in the precepts of God. Not all masters were harsh and cruel. Some treated their

  • New Aristocracy of Manufacturers

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    the old one. In his mind, division of labor expends the rank between the workers and masters, because work men only pay attrition on the specific work processes, which limit their views and thinking abilities, but masters consider extensive production view more than workers, which makes masters control more social capital. This phenomenon tends to the new aristocracy. In addition, he argued that this new aristocracy is different between the old one, because the relationship between the masters and

  • Shanshui Analysis

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    of shanshui, it seems to face an endless stream of reproductions of limited number of landscape stereotypes. New masters built their reputation particularly on borrowing and copying freely from those old masters. Still, now when people learn Chinese landscape painting, they start with imitation (臨摹), which means they was confined to copying old masters, thus studying and copying masters’ works are necessary foundations for artists’ creation. From the modern culture condition, creating is what art

  • Slave Masters – Some Good, Some Bad

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    slave narratives that contain first-hand memories of what the culture of this country used to be like if they want to gain understanding about their heritage. The slave narratives of Mary Reynolds and Walter Calloway illustrate that some slave masters provided their slaves with the necessities of life, did not stand for slave cruelty, and were concerned for their slaves' spiritual well-being, while others did the complete opposite. Mary Reynolds, who spent the first part of her life as a slave

  • The Benevolent Master

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    Benevolent Master I. The black identity during the nineteenth century in America was one based on a position of inferiority. The inferiority of slaves to their masters was expressed in several different ways, but all were designed to secure a dependent relationship of the slave to the master. Masters often viewed their slaves as deserving of a moral or religious upbringing, and saw themselves as responsible for completing this task. Paternalism transformed the relationship of slave and master into

  • The Delusional Governess in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

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    hallucinations. In the prologue, Douglas gave a detailed account of the master from the governess¡¦s point of view. She regarded him as ¡§handsome and bold and pleasant, off-hand and gay and kind; he struck her¡¨ (James 4). Later on we learn from Douglas that the governess accepted the job at Bly for the master¡¦s sake, and of course the generous salary offered by the master. Without any experience, the governess¡¦s passions for the master supported her to accept the job and confirmed her decision to take

  • The Call Of The Wild

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    Title: The Call of the Wild Author: Jack London Type of book: Fiction Date Completed: September 12, 2001 Summary: The novel, The Call of the Wild, follows a four-year-old mixed Saint Bernard and Scottish shepherd, named Buck. In the beginning of the story, Buck lives in the home of Judge Miller, located at Santa Clara Valley, California. In Santa Clara, Buck lives a luxurious life. At the time of the story, gold is discovered in the North. With this discovery, the value of large dogs like Buck escalated

  • Mastering the Art of Powerful Affirmations

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    Creating powerful affirmations is a technique that is coveted, as once you master this process--you can literally manifest what you strongly desire fast, easily and with a whole lot of fun! The quality of your life improves dramatically--almost overnight! Creating powerful affirmations is technique that is interwoven with the Deliberate Creation process and it is recommended when you are describing and writing your life goals. How to create powerful affirmations is a question many have asked, few

  • Shakespeare's Othello - The Character of Iago

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    contrast to Iago. They are polite, educated, fairly wealthy and can not imagine that something as evil and motiveless as Iago exits. Iago has not only lost his promotion but also his hero in Othello. We sense the irony in « We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed » and see that what Iago says he will do to Othello he is doing Roderigo, he is manipulating him. He gets a bit carried away in his speech about how he hates the Moor to the extent that some parts are hard to understand: 

  • KING TUBBY’S REIGN

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    the ‘Dub Master’ of all dub masters, is truly the Daddy of Dub, in every sense of the word. Not only was he one of the most innovative musical engineers of his time, but an artist, a pioneer, and a teacher to the procession of dub masters that would follow in his shadow. The list is endless of those he influenced first-handedly, including such noble names as Hopeton ‘Scientist’ Brown, Philip Smart, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Prince Jammy, and Yabby You, to name a few. His reign as the ‘Dub Master’ lasted

  • Italo Calvino as Author/Game-master in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

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    Italo Calvino as Author/Game-master in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler In an interview conducted in January 1978, one year before the publication of his novel If on a winter's night a traveler (Iown), Italo Calvino responded to a question about his future writing plans with these words: "What I keep open is fiction, a storytelling that is lively and inventive, as well as the more reflective kind of writing in which narrative and essay become one" (Calvino, Hermit in Paris 190). Calvino created

  • Philip Roth- Master of the Double Identity

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    Philip Roth - Master of the “Double Identity” because he suffers from one What influences one's identity? Is it their homes, their parents, their religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and each identity is unique, or is it? In literature, (or life) religion plays a large role in a character's identity. However, sometimes the writer's own religion and personal

  • My Future Career In Daniel Pink's Drive By Daniel Pink

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    I’ll be doing the same thing year after year, but the repetition will make me find the best flow that works for me. This will teach me to master my skills and become better each year with each child. Acknowledging Pink’s theory of mastery, when someone is doing what they love even on the days they don’t feel like doing it (123). In other words, when someone loves what they do and they still

  • Benefit Of Yoga Essay

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    Benefits Of Yoga Discovering the benefits of yoga Most people have this preconceived notion that yoga is only for the rich and famous. In fact, some people who are a little bit interested in yoga become discouraged even before they start with the discipline because they see it as difficult and very demanding. Yoga may be viewed as some sort of mystical or exotic thing because of its origins in India. The word itself means to unite in the Indian language and so it does unite both body and spirit