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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL Essay, Writing World</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslEssayWritingWorld/Forum9.htm</link><description>Post your essay, short story or composition here. Review, comment or just read for fun.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3260.39585)</generator><item><title>Re:  A short writing about art. Please read and help?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/zncwh/post.htm#482195</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:44:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:482195</guid><dc:creator>Lawrence H. Song</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/zncwh/post.htm#482195</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-482195.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Oh, thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;could make not only active movements of figures but also balance and rhythm between the black shapes and the white negative space; triangle composition repeats right side up and upside down.Â &lt;u&gt;This is a clause that does not modify any word in the sentence&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You mean that the sentence does not make sense at all? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Â &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: A short writing about art. Please read and help?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/znchb/post.htm#482172</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:20:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:482172</guid><dc:creator>Susankay</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/znchb/post.htm#482172</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-482172.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In conclusion, not only does this set of pieces create&lt;font color="#ff00"&gt; a dynamic&lt;/font&gt; feeling with &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;its&lt;/font&gt; diagonal and triangle composition, but it also succeeds in presenting political issues by means of the contrast of black and white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: A short writing about art. Please read and help?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/zncgq/post.htm#482170</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:17:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:482170</guid><dc:creator>Susankay</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/zncgq/post.htm#482170</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-482170.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (1995)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Despite the limitation of colorâblack and whiteâand the large negative space,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;looks active&lt;/font&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;B&lt;/em&gt;y creating diagonal lines between figures, Kara Walker,&amp;nbsp;âa contemporary American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work,&amp;quot; &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;__??? where is the rest of the sentence??.&lt;/font&gt; She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ff;" color="#ff00"&gt;,â&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn1" name="_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ff;" color="#ff00"&gt;[1]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ff;" color="#ff00"&gt;&amp;nbsp;could make not only active movements of figures but also balance and rhythm between the black shapes and the white negative space; triangle composition repeats right side up and upside down. &lt;u&gt;This is a clause that does not modify any word in the sentence&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/font&gt; The pieces are currently on display at the Parsons Gallery. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The artistâs color scheme itself has a strong voice in âa shadow &lt;font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ff;"&gt;drama&lt;/font&gt;.â Walkerâs message for African-American&lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;s &lt;/font&gt;severely treated merely because of their skin color gives contrasts to &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;the &lt;/font&gt;black and white even more distinctly.&lt;a title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn2" name="_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#013567"&gt;[2]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;reveals unfair treatments African-American people &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;received in such a direct way&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;that the audience might feel uncomfortable.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw notes in his book,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Seeing the Unspeakable&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The print&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;was deemed too controversial by the administration of the museum and its advisory group, the Friends of African and African American Art. The work consists of five connecting scenes set in a linear, rectangular format. In the first section is a half-clothed woman with a naked boy hanging from her breast, followed by the small figure of a young girl riding a fox backwards, then a woman leaping across what has been described as a river using partially submerged heads for stepping stones; next, a head and hand rise from the water, and last, a corpulent man strangles an emaciated young girl.&lt;a title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn3" name="_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#013567"&gt;[3]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In conclusion, not only does this set of pieces create dynamic feeling with diagonal and triangle composition, but it also succeeds in presenting political issues by means of the contrast of black and white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>A short writing about art. Please read and help?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/znbdc/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:16:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:481816</guid><dc:creator>Lawrence H. Song</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortWritingAboutRead/znbdc/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-481816.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Â Hi, if you please read and correct this, it would be great!&lt;/p&gt;StartFragment&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://mam.org/collections/printsanddrawings_detail_walker.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;you can see the work the website. Â &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="ftn"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;EndFragment&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;gt;StartFragment&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;gt;StartFragment&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p align="center" style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (1995)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Â Despite the limitation of colorâblack and whiteâand the large negative space,Â &lt;i&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts&lt;/i&gt;Â at Parsons gallery looks active. By creating diagonal lines between figures, Kara Walker who is âa contemporary American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes,â&lt;a name="_ftnref" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn1"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Â could make not only active movements of figures but also balance and rhythm between the black shapes and the white negative space; triangle composition repeats right side up and upside down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Â &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In addition, the artistâs color scheme itself has a strong voice in âa shadow drama.â Walkerâs message for African-American severely treated merely because of their skin color gives contrasts to black and white even more distinctly.&lt;a name="_ftnref" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Â &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;Â reveals unfair treatments African-American people have gotten so directly that the audience might feel uncomfortable.&lt;span&gt;Â &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw notes in his book,Â &lt;i&gt;Seeing the Unspeakable&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The printÂ &lt;i&gt;A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts&lt;/i&gt;Â was deemed too controversial by the administration of the museum and its advisory group, the Friends of African and African American Art. The work consists of five connecting scenes set in a linear, rectangular format. In the first section is a half-clothed woman with a naked boy hanging from her breast, followed by the small figure of a young girl riding a fox backwards, then a woman leaping across what has been described as a river using partially submerged heads for stepping stones; next, a head and hand rise from the water, and last, a corpulent man strangles an emaciated young girl.&lt;a name="_ftnref" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftn3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Â &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In conclusion, not only does this set of pieces create dynamic feeling with diagonal and triangle composition, but it also succeeds in presenting political issues by means of the contrast of black and white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr align="left" /&gt;&lt;div id="ftn"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="_ftn1" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Â Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Walker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="ftn"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="_ftn2" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Â Milwaukee Art Museum. http://mam.org/collections/printsanddrawings_detail_walker.htm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center" style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a name="_ftn3" title="" href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/about:blank#_ftnref"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Â &lt;span&gt;Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw,Â &lt;i&gt;Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara WalkerÂ &lt;/i&gt;(Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 103-104.&lt;/span&gt;Â Â &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="ftn"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;EndFragment&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>