Humanities blog

     I went and visited the Crocker Art Museum located in Sacramento, California. I was surprised with how many beautiful pieces of art were presented from so many different era's and locations.    After consideration, I choose to research and analyze the painting titled Working Stiff   by Ruth Miller Kempster. Miller was an American artist, born in 1904 and passed away in 1978. This painting was done with oil on the canvas, created in 1934. The subject of this painting involves the height of the Great Depression. The museum label stated, "Dominating the composition is a young man with a downward gaze. His strong, once-working hands, now seem to have little to do" (Crocker). This man in the painting is seemingly unemployed and exhausted from the toll the great depression provided.  Working Stiff By Ruth Miller Kempster  Crocker Art  Museum        I choos...

"One of the most important innovations of the seventeenth century was opera" (Cunningham 391) After reading and watching  Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais'  Marriage of Figaro, I chose to analyze the character Susanna. I found Susanna to be filled with superior intellect and whit through her actions and traits presented in the Opera. Susanna role is the countess' maid, who is very fond of her and she must resist his seductions. She is engaged to Fargo, the protagonist in the play, who is apart of the count's help. Susanna is considered to be in lower class being that she is a maid, but she knows how to strategize this to her advantage.  Susanna is a strong love interest for many in the plot. She is engaged to Fargo, but knows that Count has a strong attraction to her. She uses this to her advantage, which gives her more power in her ultimately powerless position as a maid. She moves the plot forward, by exposing Count's desires through staying true to her beli...