Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Visual Analysis Paper After looking through the artworks on Google Art Project, I wanted to show how different artists imagined what angel’s looked like. I specifically used the word "angel" in my search engine to find three different interpretations of the same idea. I chose the following three pieces that show how different images of angels have been drawn. The first image I chose is A Group of Angels in Glory done by the Italian artist, Luca, in 1607, (early Italian, 17th century…

Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Heard A Fly Buzz” has caused debate on what the fly and the buzzing stands for. Dickinson’s poem symbolism of the fly can be tied back to Christ or it has been seen as a negative symbol. George Monteiro asks the questions, why is that “Fly” in the room, and why is death personified as the “King”? He looks back and compares this to the folklore legends. He examines the religious legend surrounding the death of Jesus Christ and the flies which gathered on Christ’s body…

According to the text Living with Art by Mark Getlein, there are six primary roles that artists fulfill in society: artists “create places for some human purpose” (i.e. monolithic art as Stonehenge, Gobeki Tepe, churches, etc..), artist “create extra-ordinary versions of ordinary objects” (for instance the World’s largest ball of yarn, or Tintoretto’s Last Supper), artists have been used to “record and commemorate” historical events (such as a wedding photographer or Pablo Picasso’s Guernica…