The End of Humanities Core: War
Pablo Picasso's Guernica Oil Painting 1937 Going into the course, I was very much a pacifist. To me, war was unnecessary violence that...
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Neoclassicism: Ivo Saliger's The Judgment of Paris
German Neoclassicism is the revival of classic heroism but with oil on canvas as the new medium and features symbols of modern German...
Kirchner's Self Portrait as a Soldier: Degenerate by Hitler
At the peak of his reign, Hitler found it necessary to profoundly make evident of his already evident anti-semitism. He organized two art...
Full Metal Jacket: The Philosophy of Private Joker
Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is incredibly robust and rich in philosophical issues, specifically speaking: ethics, personal identity, and...
American Progress is a Myth Against Ideologies
Not to say that I was blind to the constraints on my agency since my blog post commencing Winter quarter, titled “Myth of American...
Composition Analysis: The Manchurian Candidate
The scene of Captain Bennett Marco’s nightmare of the garden party begins with a panning shot that ultimately ends at Marco’s face. The...
Hillary Clinton: "Rosie the Riveter" of Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton, showing to be a strong candidate in the current presidential debate, musters up a muscular foreign policy seemingly in...
This One's for You Phil
You fibber, there was no roll call sheet.
Nurse
Through the use of contrasting light, symmetry, space, and symbolism, this image demonstrates the dehumanization of soldiers. Amidst this...
Myth of American Progress
The myth of American progress is not foreign. Rather, it is expressed repeatedly in works of literature, art, and entertainment. It can...
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