No artist has left a loftier or more penetrating personal testament than Rembrandt van Rijn. In more than 90 portraits of himself that date from the outset of his career in the 1620s to the year of his death in 1669‚ he created an autobiography in art that is the equal of the finest ever produced in literature even of the intimately analytical Confessions of St. Augustine.1 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606– 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered
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and assignment; tend to modify my thoughts and feelings towards the paper. Since the beginning of my education‚ writing essays and papers has been really interesting and fun for me‚ until some teachers brought me down or critiqued my work in a really harsh and tough way. For example‚ there was this time‚ when I was a freshman during high school‚ in which we needed to do an essay involving our activities during the weekend and the hobbies that I used to do. So I wrote down about sports‚ music and other
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Human consciousness in Isabel Archer Isabel Archer‚ the heroine of the novel ‘The Portrait of a lady’‚ is a young American woman who must choose between her independent spirit and the demands of mid-nineteenth century European social conventions. She unexpectedly inherits a fortune‚ which in the beginning of the novel‚ seems to have freed her from the need to marry. After propagating her quest for independence‚ she rejects two suitors‚ Casper Goodwood and Lord Warburton
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From self-preservation of the past self‚ the definition of the double eventually expands to self-criticism and self-observance. The idea of peering into the deepest conscience of oneself is disturbing and uncomforting to man. Freud proposed the double as synonymous with terror for the ego is projected outward as an extraneous being reflecting oneself. Arnold Bocklin‚ in his painting‚ “Self Portrait with Death with a Violin‚” illustrates an uncanny‚ skeleton double to himself in order
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Commentaire de texte : The Oval Portrait‚ Edgar Allan Poe From Selected Tales‚ Penguin‚ Popular Classics The Oval Portrait‚ a short story from Edgar Allan Poe‚ lies in the fact that art and life are deadly linked. The passion for art and painting is described as causing death since the painter’s determination to make a portrait of his wife will cause her death. As in most of Poe’s short stories‚ the setting takes an important place in the story. We could say that it has even an influence on
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Edgar Allan Poe “The Oval Portrait” : THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MAIN STORY AND THE EMBEDDED ONE. “The Oval Portrait” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe involving the harrowing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. The final version of the text is a revision of an earlier story known as “Life in Death”. Poe improved his novella by eliminating narrator’s penchant for opium and modifying the conclusion. It allowed him to achieve purely didactic piece of writing
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First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must
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Portrait photography What is portrait photography? Portrait photography is photographs of a person or a group of people that shows the expression‚ personality‚ and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture‚ the focus of the photograph is usually the person’s face however‚ the background and setting may be included to make the image more effective and meaningful. What portrait photographers main aims are to focus on the person’s face. They aim to give emphasis on the face of the person
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Apparently the fiction of Henry James appears to be about people at the center of high society. On closer examination‚ many of James’s characters struggle to enter high society from less fortunate backgrounds. A repeated theme in Henry James’s fiction is the culture clash between Americans and Europeans. As an American who spent most of his life in Europe‚ he was well-placed to see the contrasts between these two cultures. For example‚ his novels Daisy
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novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray‚” a young man‚ after receiving a beautiful portrait of himself‚ makes a wish that he could remain youthful and attractive for the rest of his days. Unfortunately‚ this simple request comes back to haunt him for the rest of his life. As the main protagonist becomes very bitter and vain‚ due to some outside influence from a friends‚ we see that his actions affect not him‚ but his portrait. The painting becomes ugly and
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