Visual Arts Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born 30th March‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands. Vincent used expressionistic colour‚ line and composition to record his life experiences‚ the people he encountered and the many disappointments he felt. Vincent’s father‚ Theodorus van Gogh‚ was an austere country minister‚ and his mother‚ Anna Cornelia Carbentus‚ was a moody artist whose love of nature‚ drawing and watercolours was transferred to her son. At age 15‚ van Gogh’s family was
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The characters in Rip Van Winkle and Young Goodman Brown written respectively by Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne leave their individual communities and return with radically different perspectives (of their current lives) that change their attitudes and way of life in the remaining of their lives. Both stories are set in early American villages‚ Young Goodman Brown takes place in the 1700’s New England puritan settlement while Rip Van Winkle takes place over 100 years later in an English
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UK rock 1960s: The Beatles from Merseybeat onwards. The essay will describe the key musical and stylistic features of the Rock genre during the 1960s with the ‘Merseybeat’ genre as the foundation of 60s rock. The essay will set out why the Beatles and the social phenomenon of the “British invasion” are crucial to development of the emergence and reception of Anglo-American Rock music during the 1960s. By the early 1960s‚ new upcoming artists started combing various British and American pop and
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Vincent Van-Gogh Ivana Flores Larrinaga. The life of Vincent Van-Gogh. The movie we saw in class was really interesting‚ I really got to know the personality of Van-Gogh and how hard his life was. I really enjoy this video‚ but I stay with two main ideas that really change my point of view of Vincent Van-Gogh. Suffer so that others do not suffer. This idea amazed me‚ I didn´t know that Van-Gogh was a man that loved to help people and that dedicate most of his life predicating the word of God
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sense rather than realistically depict a momentum in the Dutch countryside. It is oil on canvas and the dimensions are 105.5 x 123.4cm. The artist is Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1628-1682). This painting is exhibited since 1942 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.‚ currently at Gallery 49 on the Main Floor of the West Building. Jacob van Ruisdael was the son and nephew of painters and he received his formal training in Germany after passing through different cities in Holland‚ while settling
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Rip Van Winkle After reading Wshington Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle" I believe his point was merely to show how the American Revoultion changed one small village and gender issues‚ and shows the comical relationship between a lazy and careless husband and an over-domineering wife. It was written to be a political symbolism and historical alusion of colonial life under British rule to the democracy of the young United States‚ before and after the American Revoulutionary War. During the time the
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In 1960‚ the united states of America play a vital role because it was something bring new changes and social order in the government. Student Movement‚ Vietnam Movement‚ Women Movement‚ Gay Right Movement and Environmental Movement are the last movements that happen on that era to bring a new change in the U.S. Student Movement in 1960: The student movement worked mainly to fight racism and hardship‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. The students expect to hand power to the people
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Ping Song FNAR C100 Topic Proposal Jennifer D. Scavone 26/10/2013 1. Vincent van Gogh‚ A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage‚ c. 1885. Oil on Canvas‚ 31.3*42 cm‚ Dutch. Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture Gallery 241. 2. Vincent van Gogh‚ Self-Portrait‚ 1887‚ Oil on artist’s board‚ mounted on cradled panel‚ 41*32.5 cm‚ Dutch. Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture Gallery 241. A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage. There are a number of
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The 1960s Music and Drug Revolution The decade of the 1960s is most likely talked about because of the Vietnam War‚ but most over look what was going on in America. Back in the states the faces of angry anti- war activists were on every major street corner you looked‚ they protested for peace and to get their brothers out of the jungles where the vicious war took place. The sixties were also the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement for Black Americans to receive racial dignity‚ economic and
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How the 1960 Presidential Elections Are Similar to the 2008 Presidential Elections During The Cold War in 1960‚ the U.S presidential elections were going on. Either J.F.K or Richard Nixon would become the 35th President of the United States of America. It is one of the most memorable events in history‚ and the world first telecasted presidential election. In 2008 the new presidential elections have begun‚ the race between B.Obama and J.Macain. This is said to be one of the most important elections
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