George Bernard Shaw: A Great Playwright’s Life
On the night of July 26th, 1856 one of the greatest playwrights in history, George Bernard Shaw, was born. Georges's mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly, was an aristocrat, while his father, George Gurly, was a poor alcoholic. Shaw had two sisters, Elinor Agness, who died of tuberculosis at age 20, and Lucinda Frances who died of starvation at age 40. Both were spinsters and had no children. In Dublin, the theatre was the only thing that interested and had something to…...
HistoryWilliam Morris
Rooms Comparison in Pygmalion
In Shaw's Pygmalion, Prof. Higgins and his mother Mrs. Higgins are both members of the Victorian upper class, but they represent two very different lifestyles and attitudes. Shaw clearly illustrates their distinct ways of living by describing the rooms in their separate homes in which the play takes place. Not only does Shaw use these rooms to show the differences between mother and son, but he also uses them as a way to characterize each of the two characters. Prof. Higgins's room characterizes him…...
William Morris
The Visual Representation of the Trinity Church through Photography
Trinity Church was founded in 1733 as an episcopal church and constructed, in Boston, in the 1870s. Trinity Church was constructed on a 40,000-ft. lot encapsulated by four public streets, making it visible from all sides; it is considered by architects and architectural historians to be an architectural masterpiece. The church, designed by H.H. Richardson, is considered a renowned example of "Richardsonian Romanesque" style architecture. This style is a form of Romanesque Revival architecture and is defined by medieval influences,…...
PhotographyWilliam Morris
The Hotel Imperial
The Hotel Imperial is located on Vienna’s Ringstraße (the Ring Road that encircles Vienna’s historic Old Town) at Kaerntner Ring 16. The building was constructed in 1863 as the Viennese residence of the Prince of Württemberg and made into a hotel in 1873. The Scottish theologian Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912) was a Congregationalist scholar associated with Oxford University. The Hamburg-American Line offered weekly express service between New York and Europe. An 1896 brochure boasted the company held the record for the…...
William Morris
Art Only Exists to Create a Spiritual Message
“Art only exists to create a spiritual message.” This was the philosophy that Czech artist Alphonse Maria Mucha lived by. The style Mucha and many other artists worked in at the time were Art Nouveau. He dabbled in a wide variety of media, such as commercial products like cigarette papers and also large detailed illustrations. Every piece, he created, whether it be small or large always provoked a feeling of spirituality. Mucha was also very important in the socialist movement…...
William Morris
Arts And Crafts Movement Essay
In this essay I will describe the Arts and Crafts movement and how it evolved. It began during a period of unrest within Britain in the post-industrial revolution times. The movement served to bring basic crafts, which we take to be artist skills today, to a level of the fine arts of painting. We accept that crafts such as textiles, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery making and woodwork are large areas of art on the same level as painting and sculpture. This…...
AestheticsCultureVisual ArtsWilliam Morris
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