Meghan Leon Professor El-Attiq Ali 2/16/15 HUM Art Analysis Christina’s World is a painting set in 1948 by American painter Andrew Wyeth‚ and one of the best known paintings from the late 20th century. It illustrates a woman lying on the ground in a treeless‚ mostly orangey field‚ looking up at a gray house on the horizon with barns and small sheds across from the house. The young woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson. It is said she suffered from polio (a muscular deterioration) that paralyzed
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Provision of formal care and support for informal care Provision of formal care. Italy has a strong tradition of care within the family‚ and this is probably the result of two concurrent circumstances. In fact‚ while some authors may argue that Italian people share a range of values which structures the preference for care solutions operated within the family‚ on the other hand‚ it is true that services in kind provided by the public sector are insufficient‚ thus they do not constitute a concrete
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Music Appreciation Radio Report Instead of attending a concert and writing a concert report‚ I decided to do the radio report. On April 24‚ 2007‚ I listened to the station WWOZ 90.7 FM from seven to eight p.m. It was hosted by Jivin Jean and Neal. The theme of that session was the 50’s Rhythm and Blues. Because the Jazz Fest is approaching‚ they decided to feature some of the artists that would be performing. In which they varied from Percy Sledge to the Fister Sisters. The first
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Pieces of artwork contain an assortment of pictorial conventions that tells us the story about the object. Such is the case for Marble capital and finial in the form of sphinx. This work was believed to have been from the Greek culture during the Archaic period in ca. 530 B.C. This marble capital and sphinx was initially placed on the grave of a youth and a little girl. The sphinx is a legendary creature that has a lion’s body and a human head. This figure was acknowledged in a variety of forms throughout
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Physical Environment- Art Essay Artists are influenced by a variety of factors that show reflection in the works they create. They express their emotions and feelings in a visual way because they are appreciative of what they see; hence the environment they see every day -whether being natural or manmade- can be a major influence for many artists. Eugene von Guerard (traditionalist)‚ Howard Arkley (modernist) and Andy Goldsworthy (post-modernist) are three examples of artists from three different
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cPoetry Appreciation In this essay I am going to compare and contrast ‘When we two parted’ a poem of George Gordon‚ Lord Byron’s written in 1815 and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s last lesson’ written in c1838‚ both poets are British and of the romantic period. ‘When we two parted’ is an elegy of the loss of love‚ Byron is reflecting and analyzing a relationship that has already ended. His grief‚ anger and despair‚ intensifies his use of first person‚ which maintains a strong impact on the
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The musicians are divided into four main groups called sections: (1) the string section‚ (2) the woodwind section‚ (3) the brass section‚ (4) and the percussion section. The various instruments in the string‚ woodwind‚ and brass section are pitched in different ranges‚ like voices in a choir. In the following discussion‚ the instruments in each of these sections are listed in the order from those of the highest range to those of the lowest. Some percussion instruments are also
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Review Questions 1. What were the three forms of English madrigals? Describe each type. - Madrigal Proper‚ in this form‚ the madrigal was through-composed. It used quite a bit of word-painting‚ which is the matching of music to the words in the text. There also is The Ballet‚ which is a piece in which dancers tell a story through their movements and the music. Lastly‚ there is The Ayre‚ with is a form of madrigal that is performed in a number of different ways‚ including with or without
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Casual Listening The piece of music that really attracts my attention these days is the song named We Own It. I first heard this piece of music when I was sitting in the cinema and watching Fast and Furious 6 on Monday night. It is one of the official soundtracks of the film‚ owned by Wiz Khalifa. What really captured my attention‚ at the very beginning‚ was its rhythm. I felt really excited and I was kind of obsessed with it. Therefore‚ I did some research about this piece of soundtrack after I
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"Flow My Tears" and "Lost Your Head Blues" “Lost your Head Blues” was written and performed by Bessie smith‚ known as the “Empress of the Blues.” She lived from 1894-1937. The songs Smith sang along with her performances allowed her the opportunity to become popular in the 1920’s. While the songs she sang were revolved around her life‚ and not that of the community‚ many folks said that the stories were relatable to them. “Lost Your Head Blues” in particular was a sad love song that became a popular
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