Constructivism. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. List of Artworks: 1. Picasso‚ P. ‘Ma Jolie’ woman with a zither or guitar 1911-2. (oil on canvas‚ 100x65cm) The Museum of Modern Art‚ New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. 2. Picasso‚ P. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907. (oil on canvas‚ 243.9x 233.7cm) The Museum of Modern Art‚ New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. 3. Russolo‚ Dynamism of an Automobile 1911. (oil on canvas‚106x140cm ) Musee National d ’Art Moderne‚ Centre
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The female figures in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Queen Guinevere‚ Lady Bertilak‚ and Morgan le Fay‚ play an important role in the shaping of Sir Gawain’s destiny on his quest of his own beheading. This essay will discuss the most powerful female figure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Lady Bertilak‚ and how her role in Sir Gawain’s quest to find the Green Knight shaped his destiny. Lady Bertilak isn’t introduced in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight until Sir Gawain is already on his quest
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Camelot‚the magician Merlin‚ and the Knights at the Round Table. Arthurian legends incorporated fiction and history and it formed a large part of medieval romances. An important author that contributed to these legends was Sir Thomas Malory. He wrote Le Morte D’arthur. It’s one of the most significant books in all of arthurian legends. Thomas Malory was born on 1405 in Warwickshire‚ United Kingdom. Malory was married to Elizabeth Walsh. He was believed to be a member of the Parliament‚ a knight‚ and
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EMILE ZOLA LIFE AND FAMILY: Emile Zola or Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French writer‚ the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola was born in Paris in April 2‚ 1840. His father‚ François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla)‚ was an Italian engineer. His mother is Alexandrine Zola‚ the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast‚ when Émile was three years old. Four years later in
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Introduction First introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Vita Merlini (c.1150)‚ Morgan le Fay occupies an ambivalent position within the Arthurian legend‚ where she contradictorily acts both as Arthur’s nemesis and caretaker. Yet‚ she largely disappears from the interim texts until she is “rediscovered” in the late twentieth century‚ where she becomes “the Morgan of fantasy fiction”. This rediscovery of Morgan le Fay is in accordance with a general trend in contemporary fiction to re-establish women
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Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) is a twentieth century painting by Henri Matisse and is widely considered as one of the trademark paintings of early modernism. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is also a twentieth century painting by Pablo Picasso and it has been said that he produced this controversial painting with intentions of usurping Matisse as the pioneer of the early modernism movement. Both paintings were simultaneously inspired by and‚ also broke free from Paul Cézanne’s famous painting‚ The Large
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org‚ 2009). He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. Picasso is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and also for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous paintings are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937)‚ his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War (PabloPicasso.org‚ 2009). No painter had been as famous as Picasso leading up to the 20th century. To say that he is one of
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Although both Sir Thomas Malory in "Sir Launcelot du Lake" and John Steinbeck in "Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights" characterize Sir Launcelot as a mad lover‚ Malory uses tone to characterize Launcelot as trustworthy‚ while Steinbeck uses imagery to characterize him as unloyal. In both stories‚ Sir Launcelot were madly in love with King Arthur’s wife‚ Queen Gwynevere throughout the stories. In Steinbeck’s story‚ Launcelot is constantly drooling over Gwynevere and even ends up having a sexual
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from the front and back at the same time. Cubism was first introduced to the world in 1907 by Picasso and Braque. Its introduction‚ into the art world‚ changed the viewer ’s visual representation. This was clearly evident with Picasso ’s painting‚ Les Demoiselles d ’ Avignon (1907). Many found this painting very disturbing and ugly‚ but the painting was groundbreaking in the history of modern art. This painting contributes to a general impression of disorientation in space. However‚ the painting
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Introduction This paper will analyze how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be seen as direct results of inspiration originated from probably the most recognized work painted by Paul Cézanne’s‚ “The Large Bathers”. Analysis The Large Bathers [1] This painting was created by Paul Cézannes and exhibited in 1906 for the first time after Paul Cézannes death. It is considered a masterpiece of modern times furthermore and despite of similar
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