Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
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Elective History Medieval Assignment Henry V Henry V made a significant impact on the outcome of the Hundred Years War. Henry V shifted the focus of the war to the north of France; the areas of Normandy and Brittany were now a central focus instead of lands close to Gascony in southern France. He was the first king to successfully conquer all of northern France and beyond‚ and not stopping at conquering‚ but securing permanent fixtures to ensure that his occupation would remain unchallenged.
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Intro People say that their memories are the most precious things they posses. One may say that memories are “Every man’s memory is his private literature”. - Aldous Huxley. We can say that this can be shown in the works of Andre Aciman in False Papers (Square Lamartine) by and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia. Both authors show attitudes and feelings of nostalgia but have incorporated these feelings in different perspectives and attitudes of what nostalgia is. The question that will be discussed in
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One can find many similar recurring themes in the novels Siddhartha‚ by Herman Hesse‚ and Perfume‚ by Patrick Suskind. Both authors use an aspect of nature as a symbol‚ the river. Since the time of the ancient Chinese‚ Pharaohs‚ Romans and Greeks‚ people have believed that the flow of the river represents the flow in one ’s life. They use the river to symbolise peoples ’ existence. In both books‚ the river portrays spiritual aspects that tell the characters ’ life stories‚ whether they take place
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Trunk-Maker")‚ is the first store in Paris that Louis Vuitton opens. He also begins a design that first flat-topped trunk that was lightweight and airtight by using the "Trianon" trunk.In 1860‚ Louis Vuitton opened a larger factory in Asnières-sur-Seine to contain the increased demand of his goods. After Louis Vuitton opened the factory‚ he created many innovation designs. The example is the first Vuitton wardrobe trunk‚ which include a rail for hanging clothing and small drawers. Louis Vuitton ‘son
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Introduction My friends and I decided to go on a one week holiday this summer to a place we didn’t visit before. We were thinking about the romantic Paris or exotic Madrid. We have a budget of £1000 each and we are four of us. We also have to bear in mind that being in a foreign place we need to have some extra cash left just in case‚ and we also want to buy souvenirs for friends and family and maybe treat ourselves. We had to take into account the advantages and disadvantages of both places
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create a specific sound to accompany Salome specifically. While this music is tonal in its large-scale organisation‚ the ambiguous tonal detours are in the same vein as Debussy’s manipulations of harmonic structure. Ex. 9. Strauss‚ Salome‚ Scene 3 “Seine Augen sind vor allem das Schrecklichste. Sie sind wie die schwarzen Höhlen‚ wo die Drachen hausen!” The investigation of Prélude a l’après midi d’un Faune and Salome reveals the surface similarities in which Strauss and Debussy treat extended tonality
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Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften SE Kultur und Identität in Afrika: Angola heute SoSe 2009 Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger Kubas Intervention in Angola Intentionen und Motive Irena Kpogbezan-Lämmerer Leipziger Straÿe 41 10117 Berlin Tel.: 0176/6300 4127 Mail: laemmeri@cms.hu-berlin.de 7. April 2010 Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Einleitung 2 Ideologie 3 Politik 4 Wirtschaft 5 Fazit 6 Bibliographie 2 4 8 12 14 17 1 1 Einleitung Angola befand sich von 1975 bis 2002 in einem Bürgerkrieg. An diesem
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This paper addresses Berthe Morisot ’s painting‚ View of Paris from the Trocadero‚ completed in 1872‚ and now in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art‚ as an example of the contributions and participation women had to the development of French Impressionism in the 1860s and early 1870s. These points will be made through a brief introduction to her early training and artistic contacts and in the conceptual‚ stylistic and technical analysis of the above mentioned painting in relation to one by Camille Corot
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Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14‚ 1840 in Paris‚ France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre‚ France. In Le Havre‚ Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boudin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter‚ Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destined to form the impressionist
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