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Act 1 Scene 1 introduces the readers to the main characters-Capulet’s wife, the Nurse, and Juliet- and their relationships through the conversation between the three. Juliet, at this early stage in the play, is shown as an immature girl; she is naïve and unknowledgeable in the ways of love and the world. The Nurse refers…

I am writing to inform you that you are hereby charged with the heinous crime of murder, as the cause of many deaths and misery. You are at fault for all that has happened in the fair Verona, Italy, and are now dually charged with the following crimes: Two counts of murder in the first…

Georgia O’Keefe Georgia O’Keefe, a renowned American painter, created stunning paintings of flowers and landscapes. However, her unique style led many to interpret her artwork as having sexual connotations. According to Joachimides (47), O’Keefe’s depiction of flowers, presented frontally and in an enlarged scale, was unprecedented and evoked images of the female psyche, often connected…

One of the great illustrations of the transition from the former styles of Byzantine to the new Renaissance style is Giotto’s “St. Francis Giving His Cloak to a Poor Man” (Mather). As one can observe, the fresco varies from the earlier style in terms of the obvious shift in perspective. The shift is a new…

A feminist trajectory identified after carefully reviewing this semester’s reading relates to the emergence of a post-feminist ideology and theory. Post feminism theorists pos it that Second Wave Feminism has achieved its goals while being critical of Third Wave Feminism goals. Initially, the term post-feminism describes feminist critics of the second-wave feminism movement. However, today…

About the artist Anish Kapoor, one of the world’s most distinguished and significant contemporary artists, was born in Mumbai to a Punjabi-Hindu father and an Iraqi-Jewish mother. He has studied art at the Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design. In the 1980s he surfaced as one of the several British sculptors…

The three stages of Cubism with examples It is very clear when you look at these three images, how Cubism developed toward Abstraction. Carefully look at the first image, then follow on to the next and then look at the last one. See how the picture space opens out completely in the last one and…

In the eery evening of October 16, 1834, a huge fireball blew up through the roof of The Houses of Parliament. Creating an enormous blaze, to the horror of passerbys, it caught the attention of Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner rushing to Parliament Square with his sketch pad, sketched the inferno as it blazed through…

The arts refer to various disciplines whereby the artist aims to express himself. Each discipline has its own unique characteristics and means of expression. Painting is the art of applying a medium like paint, coal and other pigments unto a surface such as wood or canvass. Techniques of execution in painting include oil, fresco, goache…

The concept of love is widely explored in literature, ranging from captivating. Odes about admirers to sorrow-filled compositions describing the loss of a sweetheart. Taking a charming spin on love, E. E. Cummings’ poem, “since feeling is first,” uses comparison to show that romance is propelled by the theme of purity, ultimately persuading his audience…