however‚ he challenged the church’s ideas. He claimed to have spiritual visions which inspired most of his vivid and imaginative works. His beliefs were expressed through his paintings and illuminated poem illustrations. His painting “Elohim Creating Adam” explains how William Blake expressed Biblical themes in an uncommon and radical way and showcases the dramatic and imaginative Romantic style. In “Elohim creating Adam‚” Blake depicts the line “The Lord God formed man of dust of the ground” from
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contrasting images. The poet has used different colors to describe the beauty of nature."Nature" meant many things to the Romantics. This poem is as true of Romantic landscape painting as of Romantic nature poetry. Romantic nature poetry is essentially poetry of meditation. Oscar Wilde has romanticized the nature in this poem. The landscape of the sea and the sky/ burned like a heated opal through the air”‚ establishes temporal and spatial distance between the enthusiastic visitor and the “fabled” Greece
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The Artist’s Mother exemplifies the American tradition for psychological portraiture that arose during the 1800s. The dark‚ neutral tones and abundance of empty space in the painting evokes a coldness that is matched by the austere expression of the subject of the piece‚ Anna McNeill Whistler‚ indicating distance between mother and son. Additionally‚ very little attempt has been made to replicate depth or three-dimensionality‚ except in the woman’s face and‚ to some extent‚ the curtain on the left
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vocabulary to show images‚ the poet communicates to the reader the extent of his imagination. The language used throughout the poem describes these images in his dream. The location where Kubla Khan resides is an imaginary place known as Xanadu. The landscape surrounding Kubla’s domain is wild and untamed. The first stanza describes the beauty and mystery of Xanadu with rich and exotic images. The poet says “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree:”(1-2). The first two lines talks
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by High Renaissance masters Leonardo and Michelangelo‚ as well as by Venetian painters‚ Dosso adopted a rich yet still subtle colour palette. What set him apart from his peers‚ on the other hand‚ were his atmospheric and “impressionistic” landscape and imaginative treatment of mythological subjects. In 1523‚ commissioned by Duke Alfonso I d’Este‚ Dosso painted Jupiter‚ Mercury‚ and Virtue‚ a profound rendition on canvas of extraordinary scale (44 1/8 x 59 inches). The painting is an illustrious demonstration
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norms from the previous period‚ as well as seeing itself as the fulfillment of the promise of that age. Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style‚ technique‚ or attitude‚ but Romantic painting is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach‚ emotional intensity‚ and a dream-like or visionary quality (Romanticism art‚ 2005). Artist: Caspar David Friedrich Title: Couple Gazing at the Moon Date: 1807 Medium: oil on canvas The artist Caspar David
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extent. These poems will show a whole other perspective of a literal inner and imaginative journey and a metaphorical physical journey. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost provides a look at the choices one has in life‚ how one comes to decide which choices are better‚ and what the consequences of these choices are. In “Journey to the Interior”‚ Margaret Atwood uses the physical terrain of the Canadian landscape as a metaphor for this psychological
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Panoramic view of Gunung Mat Cincang Legendary Brawl In the heart of Langkawi Island sit two prominent mountains called Gunung Raya and Gunung Mat Cincang. And seeming to separate the two is a third mount called Bukit Sawar. Local legend believed the three were actually local giants by the names of Mat Raya‚ Mat Cincang and Mat Sawar. A long time ago‚ during a grand engagement kenduri or feast thrown for his daughter‚ Mat Raya was enraged when he caught his future son-in-law (Mat Cincang’s son)
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Beauty In his poetry‚ Keats proposed the contemplation of beauty as a way of delaying the inevitability of death. Although we must die eventually‚ we can choose to spend our time alive in aesthetic revelry‚ looking at beautiful objects and landscapes. Keats’s speakers contemplate urns (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)‚ books (“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” [1816]‚ “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” [1818])‚ birds (“Ode to a Nightingale”)‚ and stars (“Bright star‚ would I were stedfast
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like transport vehicles and imaginative aircraft by making use of card-board as the principle material. Making models became my passion. Observing these inherent qualities in me‚ my father gradually allured me to the vast field of Architecture. What Architecture gave to me were the subjects of these models‚ rising from those monotonous reproductive models to new‚ self-conceptualized designs. Slowly‚ as my Architectural courses continued‚ modeling in both imaginative and concrete forms began to
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