In the story, Gilda claims that if the man she meets outside the church is a student and poor, she will love him even more. Why the author wants Gilda to loves a poor student? What Gilda’s personality we can infer from this point? Does it also reflect any social issue at that time?
In the reading, the author praises the quality of castrato voice and claims that “the castrato voice…more powerful and brilliant than a woman’s soprano”. However, can a male spontaneously express a female’s emotion through his singing, since “opera’s ability to project emotion was the real basis of its appeal”?
As the industrial revolution modernized the people’s life, the Armory Shows in 1913 also introduced modern art to the public. Throughout the Armory show, artists presented numerous groundbreaking painting skills and new perceptions to artworks. One century later, when the New York Historical society presents the Armory Shows again, the people in the 21st century are still surprised by the painters’ creative ideas conveyed from their paintings.
Elmer MacRae in his artwork Battleships at New Port, employs color to represent the light reflection. For example, the painter randomly uses yellow brush strokes to tell people that it’s dusk already. Also, by controlling the scale and clarity, the painter shows us whatever he perceives from closer to further. The woman and the kid is relatively more clear than those factories which is on the other side of the river.
MacRae shows a new painting skill in his artwork, but Edith Dimock brings a new painting style to the public. With his unique loose brushwork, Dimock does not draw every single detail intentionally, but the audience can still distinguish what the artist wants to present.
In Edith Dimock’s loose brushworks, we still can recognize every individual character, but in the Armory Shows there are some paintings in which the character outline is obscure. Instead of constructing with perfect shapes, the painting The Man on a Balcony, still presents a man’s general outline. From the painting, we can see that the man’s eyes are closed, and he seems to think something. If we look carefully, we find that there is a women’s image in the painting too. As a result, we seem to understand what that man is thinking. As a result, in order to understand the painting, the audience needs active eyes to find out all the hiding messages on the painting.
The author says that, “what was our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism confidence, the belief that that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary”. What cause the culture in 1980 to lose all of those qualities in art? How does modernism take away all the quality from art?
Throughout the whole play, Twelfth Night, what’s the most crucial element to make this comedy such amusing?
Even though I only walked up to the middle of the High Line, I still sensed its unique peace and inspiration. Started from the entrance at the Tenth Avenue, I was surprised by its distinctive landscape. The High Line, accompanied by lovely bushes and grasses on both side of the walkaway, presented visitors a rare natural view in this modern metropolis. Embraced by charming plants, people had already unloaded all the pressure and burdens from their life. As the breeze assuaged all people’s stress, they concentrated on nothing more important than the view on the streets. When I watched the cars moving under the High Line and the people walking up and down the street, I felt the people in this city were always rushed through daily life, never slowed their quickening-pace to anything. At that moment, however, I felt like the place where I stood was excluded from this bustling city, because the people on the High Line were strolling alone with that pleasant landscape which extended forward. And at the same time, they also photographed all the beauty that attracted them, no matter the trees, the plants or the street view. Instead of being engulfed by huge buildings and mansions as they were in the streets, the people on the High Line had a broader perception, because of High Line high above the ground. When I looked at to the end of the street, which appeared to connect to the sky, the luminous sunlight seemed to drive away all of tiredness and once again lighten the energy in my life.
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For both Bidart and Galassi, what’s the similarly between their appreciations to poetry?
People can understand the meanings behind visual arts, such as paintings, by directly observing objects they see. But at the beginning of the Chapter fourteenth, the author admits that he once misinterpreted the meaning behind a dance (189). And also, at the end of the Chapter fifteenth, the author also points out that in order to understand the real meaning behind a dance, people should “watch a great deal of dance (216)”. So compared with visual arts, are dances more difficult to be understood?
As Jerry Saltz states in the sixth paragraph, “the thing that really makes it different: a one-stop art district”, Chelsea covers extensive types of art. What is author’s attitude to Chelsea such distinctive feature? Does author agree that Chelsea gives many novice artists a platform to show their new galleries or does he really criticize that Chelsea present “bad” galleries with a bunch of good works of art?
