Heggel Akame Description Paper English Composition I 10/15/2014 Nature has inspired great works of art throughout generations. Man uses the beauty around him as an inspiration to portray a wonderful environment. Theodore Gericault’s; “Evening: with an Aqueduct”‚ landscapes capturing the vastness of the great out door; Childe Hassam’s; “Surf‚ Isles and Shoals”‚ portrays strong wind blowing from the crashing tide‚ and Giovanni di Paolo’s; “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise”;
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Théodore Géricault was a French artist who was a part of the Enlightenment period or Rococo period‚ but more specifically and correctly‚ he was a part of the Romanticist period. Géricault is‚ also‚ an important figure of the Romanticism period. His dramatic themes‚ realistic portraits and haunting portrayals of serious topics helped to pave the way for the themes of rebellion‚ individuality‚ and truth that came with this artistic period. Also without him‚ elements from a pre-existing period‚ the
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idea of making artwork for the public. Work was now able to be created as engaging political and social commentaries. For the first time‚ artwork created an influence rather than simply illustrating a preexisting one. Both Jean Louis David’s work Oath of the Horatii and Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa exemplify this. David’s Oath of the Horatii‚ painted in 1794‚ was one of the first paintings that broke from the idea of illustration and provided ideals that helped influence the public.
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Jean-Louis Forain Jean-Louis Forain‚ the famous French painter‚ printmaker‚ and illustrator‚ was born on October 23‚ 1852. Sometime in the 1860’s‚ Forain and his parents moved to Paris where he started to study under Jacquesson de la Chevreuse‚ Jean Baptiste Carpeaux‚ and André Gill who were all great French artists. Forain had the opportunity to meet Édouard Manet because of his friendship with Edgar Degas. “In 1879 Forain was invited by Degas to join the fourth Impressionist exhibition‚ and he
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Roads and Aqueducts Roads Perhaps one of the more visible signs of Roman influence in modern culture is that of roads. Before Rome‚ roads as we know them today‚ did not exist. In ancient times there were two means of travel: one foot or horseback through the country‚ and ships. In order to connect the capitol to its minors cities and make travel easier‚ roads were built. The Via Appia‚ Rome’s first national highway‚ stretched 32‚000 miles from the capitol to Rome’s southern province of Campania
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Theodore Gericault turned a tragic event‚ into a visual display of government incompetence. In 1816‚ the French government exercised poor judgment‚ by authorizing the unstable Medusa to set sail. The vessel crashed; leaving survivors to turn to cannibalistic means of survival. Gericault captured the tragedy‚ titled “The Raft of the ‘Medusa’” in Romantic style‚ along with compositional structure. The lifelike figures in the painting show detailed anguish and grief; which‚ invokes despair in those
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Dalia Selman 03/24/2014 Response Paper 8 The Modern World Goya and Gericault Analysis The Romantic style art was a response to the restraint of Neoclassical style. Romantics exaggerated the explosion of emotion‚ free spirit and color in contrast to Neoclassical single shaded color and clean cut lines. The Grand Manner‚ declared by Louis XIV limited artists in what type of works they can produce. The Romantic period is the backlash of the artists who do want to paint/write/sculpt the unusual
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Rome’s aqueducts started the new age of our water system. They were the ones who created aqueducts to bring fresh water to their city. The water from the Tiber river was dirty‚ and made the people sick‚ so the people decided to build aqueducts. In total‚ they built 11 aqueducts and together‚ they carried 200 million gallons of water into the city everyday. If you look at a Roman aqueduct‚ you would think it was straight‚ and you would wonder how were they able to move the water? The answer is that
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The Roman aqueducts not only provided drinking water for the Romans but indoor sewer systems that carried water away from the city and also supplied the bath houses with ample water‚ where the inhabitants of ancient Rome spent so much of their leisure time. The bulk of the Roman water system ran below the city‚ burrowed through 260 miles of rock‚ and about 30 miles of above ground bridges and crossways (the arches). The entire system relied on various gradients and gravity to maintain a continuous
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Why not ANDRES BONIFACIO as our national hero? The Philippines also known as “The Pearl of the Orient” like all other great countries had difficult beginnings. Andres Bonifacio and Jose Rizal two of the proponents that instigated our great struggle for freedom‚ they who reminded us of the pride and strength of a Filipino‚ they who showed us that we are people who will never give up and will fight no matter what. One became the voice of the people; leading the propaganda movement that inspired the
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