“The Swing” Analysis Presentation Date of Creation: 1767 Alternative Names: L’escarpolette Height (cm): 81.00 Length (cm): 64.20 Medium: Oil Support: Canvas Subject: Scenery Created by: Jean-Honoré Fragonard Current Location: London‚ United Kingdom Displayed at: Wallace Collection Owner: Wallace Collection Basic Information The image or painting I chose to analyze is called “The Swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and it was completed in London 1767. This particular piece I would consider
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Cultural Differences between Swing and Bebop By: Maria Kratz Misericordia University RUNNING HEAD: MUSIC AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Swing and bebop are jazz music styles that are very similar and hard to tell apart. Both are styles of jazz that originated with African music and started in New Orleans. Swing was highly influenced by jazz musician‚ Louis Armstrong.Bebop was highly influenced by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. When I think of swing‚ I think of the big bands with
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Throughout the book; Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe‚ Berry covers a lot of the issues such slavery and bondage. She shows how complicated life is for a slave and the slave holders. The gender‚ labor and social relationship throughout Georgia around the mid-1800s. Many words were used to describe how gender played a role throughout the book: “skilled and unskilled”. The two counties that was in the book was Wilkes‚ and Glynn Counties. These two counties had different slave systems. Wilkes
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The Swing by Pierre Renoir The impressionist movement started when Claude Monet and other artists held an exhibition in Paris in 1874. People like Edgar Degas‚ Claude Monet‚ Pierre Renoir‚ Camille Pissaro created their most important work between 1870 to around 1910. The critics gave the exhibition the worst reviews possible. "The critics considered Impressionist paintings an insult to viewers because they were expected to accept apparently unfinished art as a real’ painting." The name was
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The Swing ¡§Inviting¡¨ is the word that comes to mind when I look at the painting The Swing. This masterpiece was Jean-Honore Fragonard¡¦s most famous Rococo piece painted in 1766. The most prominent reason I enjoy this painting is because there is some sort of story line or drama unveiling here. The painting is starring Barton de Saint-Julien and his mistress who is swinging on a twiddled vine looped down from a tree and co-starring is an older gentleman who is left back in the shadows as if
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Weston Miller Miller1 Mr. S. Torok CHC2D1 Friday‚ April 19‚ 2013 Swing Kids The 1993 drama “Swing Kids” starring Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale is overall a very good movie. The film is set in Nazi ruled Germany in the year 1939 and tells the incredible story of three boys and their love and fight for swing music. Swing Kids is a remarkable display of directing and acting talent. Thomas Carter’s eye for camera technique lends the feeling of actually being alongside the
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Swing kids is the movie directed by Thomas carter in 1993.The movie visualizes the life of people living in Germany during 1939s.Depicting to the life story of 1939s Hamburg‚ Germany the swing was the main form of recreation that could make young kids forget everything about the dominance of Nazi government. It shows how miserable was the life of the people and how Nazis used to control over the people. By specializing certain characters in the movie‚ the movie depicts the lightness and darkness
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the Nazi’s should find swing music to be more beneficial than unlawful‚ for the sheer fact that it will increase revenue towards the war‚ and decrease criminal like behaviors. Individuals express their emotions in a variety of ways. The most common way one expresses their emotions is through music. Music allows one to express his/her feelings‚ reducing anxiety and depression‚ and remains a constant when nothing else is. For that reason‚ it would be smart to reinstate swing music into Germany. Think
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slightest extent of misunderstanding‚ is to start at the very beginning. My question for the history books‚ is where did swing music originate? Upon further research I came to the conclusion that the United States is a relatively young country‚ and I decided to extend my question to take in the influence the world has had on the development of swing music in the United States. Swing can reasonably be referred to as an international project that was born in America. It was not accomplished simply‚ quickly
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Swing Kids Before and during World War II was a tough time to live in Nazi Germany. The new laws and way of life during this period affected society of all ages in numerous different ways. New political and social groups were formed both to support and oppose the Nazi and the Gestapo leaders. One of these groups was known as the Swing Kids who listened to Jewish and black swing music and danced at illegal clubs against the Nazis. The movie‚ “Swing Kids”‚ explains this group of teenagers. The
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