Macabre Author. Disturbed Artist. Unhinged Alaskan
Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, eine de France et ses enfants (1787) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was born in Paris in 1755; before her father died when she was only twelve years of age, Le Brun received artistic training from him benefiting from his skills as a portraitist. He encouraged her [...]
As a travesty of history, we have all of the events that surrounded the holocaust—because the truth of the matter is that antisemitism, reshaping of an entire body of cultural literature, and the ensuing power struggle came well before the beginning of the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. Hitler’s vision was both carefully planned out, and easily executed upon the establishment of the Ministry for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment in March of 1933, by the newly appointed Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
A mammoth vision of deep espresso stain, she towered, undisturbed, and pensive as an overflowing well of knowledge. Four deep shelves heavily laden with bodies, thick and thin, a forest of corpses; rigid bones in dust jackets. Mysterious symbolisms that communicate the concepts, beliefs, opinions, and imaginative powers of the human race—her contents suggested the [...]
A Powerful Figure in a Patriarchal Era of Artwork Judith and her Maidservant (1625) by Artemisia Gentileschi Born on July 8, 1593, Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is now considered one of the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists. Gentileschi's career as a painter began at age fifteen, in an age where women had few opportunities to [...]
The Renaissance was a time where great artists surfaced throughout the creative world—Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), was one of these great artists during the Early Renaissance; throughout his lifespan, he created numerous wonders. While his posthumous reputation suffered until the late 1800s, he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets, and art critics founded in 1848. The Pre-Raphaelites stimulated a reappraisal of Botticelli's works and as a result, his paintings have been held to represent graceful linework in the Early Renaissance painting movement.
A speculative fiction on what it would truly be like if walls could talk.
Another late news update, this is what I had happening between August 26 to September 25—and let me tell you, I definitely didn't have a break! So, if you've been wondering what the Unhinged Alaskan has been up to, then wonder no more, you can find everything that I've been writing about here in this [...]
This week we're going to explore the visual aspects of artwork in its many elements, whether that be line, shape, tone, color, pattern, texture, or form. I was tasked with finding artwork that resonated with me, presenting my opinion of the pieces, and analyzing the elements that appeared throughout the works in an effort to explain what made the pieces so special. So, without stalling any further, I present to you three lovely works of art that
The Witch Who's Black as Pitch—Oh foulest witch, you inspire so much spite.
This was another assignment written for my creative writing class this semester. It was written while focusing on sound devices in poetry.