CRITICAL ANALYSES

ART OBJECTS
By Jeanette Winterson
THE NAKED AND THE NUDE
By Kenneth McKenzie Clark
HELICOPTER PARENTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE
CORRELATES OF OVER-PARENTING OF COLLEGE
STUDENTS
By Jill C. Bradley-Geist and Julie B. Olson-Buchanan

Submitted by:
Bermonica A. Satuito

November 6, 2015

ENG 1 A-4R
ART OBJECTS

Art Objects is the first and one of the correlating essays of Jeanette Winterson, an
England's preeminent literary talents, in her book Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery
published in 1996. Winterson uses the essays in this book to proffer ravishing premises that are
nothing more than celebrations and justifications of her own work.
Just when you look at the title, one can smell the pun. The word objects may act as an
item or a verb, but take it as the latter. The art says no. The essays as a whole or the book reject
realism. Art objects to the lie against life that it is pointless and mean.
In the essay, the author profoundly illumines her passionate vision in art and the lot of
misunderstanding of it where one often says to a painting or any form of art I just dont get it.
Winterson argues unrelentingly that everyone can learn that there is art and non-art if only the
society takes art seriously, not as mere decoration or entertainment but as living spirit.
As I relish the engaging thoughts of Winterson, I learned the many things she objects to.
It is told in this essay her very first encounter to a visual art and had a sudden realization that her
ignorance belittled her interest to arts. Winterson turns up at the bottom line of societys
understanding of art and tells that what arts do is it pierces our deepest sense of identity. It is her
argument that everyone, in spite of having fear assessing with an art that is different and difficult, is
really desirous of the experience of being moved deeply.

In part, this essay is really poetic, focused, clear and amazing to read. Winterson manages
to put her points perfectly, so beautifully, and that reading her thoughts helps one to articulate his
own thoughts. This essay works on its purpose effectively for it shows the healing power of art.
It is also very insightful and informative not only to writers but also for those who read and do
any art in non-literary forms. Many think of art only belong to particular group of people who
shares something in common but the reality is not; anyone can do and appreciate art when only
he can devote his time to it.
This essay, though containing a lot of preaching and some views are radical, still deserves
to be admired because Jeanette Winterson is one of the writers that is logical and try hard to
invent themselves authentically with mind and heart on the page.

THE NAKED AND THE NUDE

Kenneth McKenzie Clark, author of The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form published in 1956,
was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of
his generation. In the first and second chapter of the book, Sir Clark points out the difference
between the naked and the nude. He insists that the nude must be an idealization, and that this
ideal beauty is a tangible vision though varying from culture to culture, that the nude is "a means
of affirming the belief in ultimate perfection." He speaks as a humanist who is conscious of
aesthetic and ethical implications of his study. It is to the Greeks and to the Renaissance art of
Michaelangelo and Raphael that Sir Clark refers when he wants to convey the feeling of plastic
exultation.
The chapters The Naked and The Nude, and Apollo are devoted to the analysis of one
significant form in the representation of human body. These are about the male and female
prototypes. In here, the author argues the persistence of near abstract design in the nude in every
Western art and he finds these designs of the dominant classical works reasserting after
generations. The organization of the thoughts here are very clever because the author, with his
words, is aware of the difficulties that are bound to arise in connection with vast and broad study.
He seems to hit a good balance between diverging opinions as regards to a delicate topic.
Sir Clark being iconoclastic and scholarly in these chapters is overwhelming. He writes
eloquently that does carefully wrought context; but if he enlarges the context of his criticism
conceivably too ambitious, the result will be entirely successful.

HELICOPTER PARENTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CORRELATES OF

OVER-PARENTING OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

Helicopter parents: An examination of the correlates of over-parenting of college

students is a research by Jill C. Bradley-Geist, assistant professor of management at University
of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, professor of management at California
State University, Fresno California. These professors conducted an online survey of 482 college
students.

The survey included questions about parents behaviors as well as their own

personality, demographics, and GPA. It also provided theoretical workplace scenarios requiring
students to choose how they would respond to work-related problems.
The result was, students who reported the most helicopter parenting scored lowest on the
self-efficacy scale and also gave the least adaptive responses to the workplace scenarios.
According to the professors, parents engage in helicopter parenting because they care so much
about their childs future; by overdoing it, they undermine their childs development. Children
who dont have the opportunity to practice making their own decisions and solving their own
problems growing up will have problems doing those things when they go off to
college. However, parental involvement, in contrast to over-parenting, was positively correlated
with intentions to go to graduate school and satisfaction with feedback from professors.
This is a good survey indeed. It captured all information needed about the chosen topic
and it presented well-established data collection and analysis. This survey research conducted by
Professor Geist and Buchanan gives awareness about these drone parents and to some solutions
that may be applied in this issue. Because of this survey research, one may conclude that parents
must have an open conversation with their children about what they believe comprises a
healthy and supportive parental-involvement. I also thought about instead of trying to remove
potential obstacles in a childs daily life, a parent should help his or her child learn how to
clear these obstacles all by himself or herself; because these obstacles are the things that will
definitely define a persons character and help a child grow independently.

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