Essays on Lightness

Retroactive I is a silkscreen painting that Rauschenberg made in 1963. He used silkscreen and oil on a canvas to come up with this painting. This silkscreen work is considered the best of Rauschenberg's works of this nature. It falls within a series of similar paintings done by Rauschenberg between 1962 and 1964. This piece of art is drawn from the popular press and is, therefore, a representation of Pop art. Rauschenberg was keen in representing American iconography and Pop culture (Shanes, 175). He was, throughout his career, identified with Pop culture. He developed a style that emphasized on ...

Introduction

Love is the most common and the most uncommon thing ever. The first epithet is characteristic for love, as this thing happens (or at least is supposed to happen) in everyone’s life regardless of life, whereas the word “uncommon” is natural for love as well, as it is as unique in every life as possible. Therefore, stories of Kalidasa and Chretien de Troyes are read with lightness; however the times of their creation have been covered with dust for many long years. Such lightness can be explained with the mere fact that authors touch such eternal topics, which ...

Abstract

In the novel ‘Black Hole,’ teenagers who engage in sexual behavior contract a decision that leads to genetic mutations which are hard to conceal. The disease is a replica of the Aids Pandemic and the struggles which teenagers have to endure during their adolescent years. The importance of the study is to identify how teenagers in the book the black Hole relate to the youth in the current society. Teenagers experience hormonal imbalances which cause them to lose control and are mostly controlled by their sex drives. Sexual attractions are common during this developmental stage of life, and most ...

This painting executed in black crayon by famous French artist who was a major figure of a realist movement. He is largely known for rejecting the Romanticism and appeal of the previous generation of painters. Usually he painted with oil, and Head of a Sleeping Bacchante is a rare case when he used black chalk, but also stumped, lifted and scratched the work to get the needed balance between lightness and darkness. Obviously, dark shadowy gray prevails in the painting but there is still sense of lightness and innocence in the subject matter of the work. Talking a closer ...

1874, Oil on canvas

Degas is often praised with the term Impressionist, as most of them he was focused on capturing the moment, nevertheless, he had a little interest in capturing the play of light or the impression from a landscape, he was fascinated with the movement and seized every moment of delicate dance by ballerinas. Line: The line of the painting is diagonal, composed of figures inhabiting the painting, it is going from the left bottom corner to the right upper dividing the painting into two color palettes. Diagonal line also conveys a feeling of movement. Shape: All the figures in the ...