It is no unknown matter that before the twenty-first century, the history of art has neglected to include the works and contributions of female artists, these women being overshadowed and discounted by their male counterparts, deeming them as not “good enough” to partake in the intellectual discourse that is visual […]
Art Essays
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Marc Adornato is a Canadian, Ottawa-based painter, sculptor, and video, sound, and performance artist who creates works drenched in controversial socio-political themes and embellished in dark humour. He is most known for his 2014 performance piece #MyProtest of which he cycled around downtown Ottawa during rush hour while wearing a […]
No. 1 (1948, 172.7 cm x 264.2 cm) and 4’33” (1952) by abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and musical composer John Cage respectively, are two very different compositions that challenged the idea of sound and silence in the processes in which they were created and also the role of authorship employed […]
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries gave rise to new understandings and appreciations of sexuality in regards to viewing the female form and this shift in societal thought is due in part to two artists. In this essay, I intend to conduct an analysis of Francisco Goya’s Nude Maja […]
Born in 1864 with the full name Henri Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, this impressionist artist received from his parents aristocratic wealth, artistic talent, and genetic complications, as his parents were first cousins. He broke both his legs at the age of thirteen and never fully healed, resulting in abnormally stunted […]
“Is this something we want to be involved in?” was a question the US media asked itself numerous times when, Kenneth Jarecke, American photojournalist, attempted to have his Gulf War photo of a charred Iraqi soldier (Figure 1) published. This question, however controversial, was never posed to the people most […]
On the surface, “O sweet spontaneous” seems to be a light, airy, and simple poem about the admiration humans have for the multiple facets of the earth. Yet e.e. cummings is claiming something more complex as one reads beneath the poem’s layers. There is a mysterious relationship between humanity and […]