Critical Theory And The Visual Arts

Introduction

Rose Khoja piece "Ecstasy Forest", which has come to be associated with the Social Realist movement, shows a peasant man striding through a plot of freshly tilled soil as he sows his crops. the artwork is meant to be dark and mysterious. notice the human body forms on the trunk of all the trees in this rain forest and the white creek that represents a female figure bending.

Discussion

The painting is is the ideal way to get beautifully blended colors (such as your delicate touch of green in the snow beneath the trees), but one also needs to be very disciplined about using a clean brush to get pure color (as you've done with the autumnal colors in your painting). I can see why you had this painting framed!. Rather than idealizing the peasant man or ignoring him entirely, Rose Khoja portrays the peasant as a stocky, well-built young man wearing simple, practical peasant clothing.

In what manner and to what extent did you intend your work(s) as an argument, experiment, OR intervention?

The Ecstacy Forest contains the styles of three different artist's hands. The biggest difference is between Rose Khoja's figures, and Titian's landscape, but there are subtle questions as well. In the figure below, you can compare details of paintings by each artist to get a sense for their individual styles.

In this painting the painter showed the love and erotiscm. Drawing on the work of sociologists and cultural theorists, Love and Eroticism is a collection of 20 essays exploring the contested nature of sex and love and eroticism. Essentially, this book examines the ways in which love, sex, and eroticism are perceived, defined, and experienced in our contemporary culture.

Describe the tension between your authorial agenda and the ability of your audience to extract alternate meanings.

This painting investigates the concepts of love and eroticism, in his painting The Ecstacy Forest. The purpose is to show how the painter, in his treatment of the intersections between love, eroticism and sexuality in Western cultural life during several centuries, by way of an interdisciplinary and analogical method, makes as well a poetic manifesto in defence of sensitivity against the process of the commercialization of desire in the contemporary world and proposes an erotic re-education of society at this century's end through the rehabilitation of the idea of love.

To what extent does the work confirm that the media is the message? In what ways is this axiom contradicted by your selected work?

Rose's work demonstrates the connections between spirituality and sexuality; human love and sexuality has been prohibited to be expressed by artists under the current Islamic regime in Iran. Rose's paintings break the rules which were forced upon her by Iranian government in her paintings capturing the conflict between the values of her Persian heritage and those of her adopted country. She passes the boundaries, methods, discussion, and disputation on art through a complete departure of the mind toward an imagery world, visionary and self-conscience to attribute to the freedom which ...