A short article of mine, exploring periphery, nostalgia, seascape, and Asian diaspora in Sakhalin... more A short article of mine, exploring periphery, nostalgia, seascape, and Asian diaspora in Sakhalin. Featured in the UC Berkeley's Art History undergraduate journal see/saw.
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020), 2020
Artistic representations always reflect the values and norms of the contemporary societies. This ... more Artistic representations always reflect the values and norms of the contemporary societies. This paper focuses on the genre of portrait paintings and its relationship to the misogynistic social historical context. This paper specifically discusses the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez's portrait series of Princess Margarita Teresa, and the Italian-American painter John Singer Sargent's "Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." Through analyzing the visual components such as composition, proportion and lighting, the paper cross-examine the two artists' depictions of femininity. It can be concluded that these portraits' emphasis on innocence and virginity echo the expectations for females in the patriarchal, materialistic societies. The paper contributes to visual studies of Baroque and Realism artists.
A short article of mine, exploring periphery, nostalgia, seascape, and Asian diaspora in Sakhalin... more A short article of mine, exploring periphery, nostalgia, seascape, and Asian diaspora in Sakhalin. Featured in the UC Berkeley's Art History undergraduate journal see/saw.
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020), 2020
Artistic representations always reflect the values and norms of the contemporary societies. This ... more Artistic representations always reflect the values and norms of the contemporary societies. This paper focuses on the genre of portrait paintings and its relationship to the misogynistic social historical context. This paper specifically discusses the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez's portrait series of Princess Margarita Teresa, and the Italian-American painter John Singer Sargent's "Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." Through analyzing the visual components such as composition, proportion and lighting, the paper cross-examine the two artists' depictions of femininity. It can be concluded that these portraits' emphasis on innocence and virginity echo the expectations for females in the patriarchal, materialistic societies. The paper contributes to visual studies of Baroque and Realism artists.
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