The piece of Art‚ Smiling Girl‚ a Courtesan Holding an Obscene Image‚ painted by Gerrit van Honthorst in 1625 can be seen at the Saint Louis Art Museum. I was initially drawn to this image from across the gallery mostly due to the subject’s bright red dress with gold sleeves‚ it was one of the brightest colored images in the gallery. It is about three feet tall and two feet wide‚ it is an oil on canvas painting. As I approached the image‚ I was still intrigued as the image she is holding is of a
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My president‚ Martin Van Buren‚ was the eighth president and vice president of the United States of America. Van Buren was born on December 5‚ 1782 in Kinderhook‚ New York to Maria and Abraham Van Buren. He had no siblings‚ but did have five children named‚ Abraham‚ John‚ Martin‚ Smith‚ and Lawrence Van Buren. Hannah Hoes was his distant cousin‚ childhood sweetheart and wife. They married in 1807 in Kinderhook. He grew up speaking dutch‚ since his family only spoke dutch at home. His father was a
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anything to escape the clutches of the ambiguously bad count‚ even if it meant facing death. It also shows that evil and good repel each other. Religiously‚ Dracula is based on Christianity‚ in which Dracula is a supporter of the devil‚ while Van Helsing‚ Dr. Seward‚ and Jonathan are supporters of heaven. Stoker depicts characters as evil if they are deliberately harming others. A good example is Dracula creates a storm on the ocean to make the crew of the Demeter mad. Stoker describes good
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06/21/2013 W6A1 Case Study of Vincent van Gogh For this paper I chose Vincent van Gogh as my artist. He is one of the more interesting artists I have researched. I had a multitude of different artists that I was contemplating on using. In the end Starry Night managed to capture my attention the most. He had a very unique way of painting. It was very much so different than most of the others that I observed. Vincent Willem van Gogh‚ or simply know as Vincent van Gogh‚ was born on March 30‚ 1853
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Anh Le Humanities 1301 Professor Philip Noguere 02 December 2013 Anh Le Professor Noguere Humanities 1301 02 December 2013 Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Vincent Van Gogh is a unique and outstanding artist who had a dramatic life that affected his paintings. At the age of twenty-seven‚ Vincent decided to devote his life for art because “Vincent believed in the power of art. To him‚ a work of art‚ whether drawing
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writing. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle displayed the pleasurable aspects of colonial life. By creating a character
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In this essay I’m going to compare the language‚ of the poem “Dulce es Decorum Est” and “The Send Off”. Even if both poems are war poems and both are written by the same author (Wilfred Owens) the two poems both have similarities and differences. “The send off” tells of a group of soldiers who are being sent off to the Front. No one knows‚ or really cares about them and the poet is sure that most of them will be killed or‚ if they do return‚ they will have been changed forever by their experiences
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"Rip Van Winkle" is a story written by Washington Irving‚ this story takes place in the New York mountains located in America. Rip Van Winkle lived with his wife and his children in a small village at the bottom of a mountain. Rip Van Winkle is a meek‚ lazy‚ and easygoing person‚ he is loved by all his neighbors who live in his village. His wife Dame Winkle is very naggy and unpleasant to Rip‚ but all his neighbors love him and feel sorry for him that he gets treated so badly by her. Rip Van Winkles
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Vincent van Gogh‚ the painter of such works as Irises‚ Wheat Field with Cypresses‚ and The Starry Night is one of the most influential and famous artists of all time. However‚ he suffered greatly with mental illness‚ including bipolar disorder‚ depression‚ and alcoholism. Throughout his life enigmatic life‚ van Gogh suffered with bipolar disorder. He was known to have “horrible fits of anxiety‚ apparently without cause‚ or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.…and
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Rip Van Winkle In short story "Rip Van Winkle" is a classic American Romantic tale with a mix of gothic imagery (Dincer‚ 220). While the hero Rip displays the character of fantasy hero‚ the setting and the themes of the story comprise of supernatural elements (Dincer‚ 220). In the story the protagonist Rip lives in a village near the Hudson River at the foot of the Catskill Mountains (FFL‚ 2). While describing the setting of the place Irving uses the mystical elements by showing sensitivity of
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