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    Candida and Paula the daughters of Don Lorenzo (the artist) remains in the place of Intramuros with their father. Surprisingly‚ Bitoy the son of their father’s very good friend arrived‚ Candida and Paula felt so amused with the return of Bitoy. The three then talked about the younger memories they had‚ how much they adored the Friday “tertulias”‚ but it was no more. Candida and Paula could hardlyt accept the fact that Bitoy is now a grown up man‚ who before they only accompany him to the small room

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    Self Portrait by Judith Leyster (1630) and Third-Class Carriage (1864) by Honore Daumier are the two paintings I will compare. Since both artists capture everyday life events‚ I will compare the similarities‚ while exhibiting their different styles related to different time periods. Judith Leyster was known for pictures of everyday life and portraits in her Baroque/Dutch Golden Age style artwork. As reported by Mind Edge‚ “The Baroque movement of the 17th and early 18th century was known for its

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    Catcher In the Rye Motif

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    York City after being kicked out of school for the third time after his brother’s death. Drinking‚ smoking‚ and other self-destructive behaviors largely constitute most of Holden’s time spent over the course of these three days. Salinger uses the motif of avoidance to illustrate that teenagers hide from their problems in order to attempt an escape from the pain of reality. Holden tries to run away from the sources of his problems‚ thinking that this esape will allow them to be solved by themselves

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    Self-Portrait is an acrylic painting on a on canvas. This painting is huge with the dimensions 8 ft 9 in by 6 ft 9 in. The man’s face over powers the viewer with sheer scale as viewers are forced to step back or look up to see him. The canvas portrays a very detailed image of a man in black‚ various shades of gray‚ and white. It can be easily mistaken for a photograph. He has a lit cigarette in the left side of his mouth. The angle perspective is as if the viewer is looking up at him. He does not

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    The Arnolfini Portrait‚ created by Jan van Eyck‚ is a complex oil painting that was created in 1434. It is a representational work because it references real life events‚ which in this case‚ are the marriage rituals of that day in age between husband and wife. For the very first time in history‚ van Eyck became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term. This portrait is very complex due to the fact of its iconography. It is very symbolic and has been interpreted in several‚ countless

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    Motif Of Power In Macbeth

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    acknowledging the consequences until later. In William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy Macbeth‚ the corruptive quality of power influences the individual to go against their nature in order to obtain power by any means necessary. Shakespeare utilizes the motif of blood to show that the steps taken to obtain power will not always yield favorable results and the consequences will stay with the individual. In order to possess power‚ an individual may decide to commit an act that goes entirely against their

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    along with Hamlet heeds little attention to the incestuous Claudius while focusing entirely on the gloomy Dane ’s legendary melancholia and his resulting revenge delays. As Laurence Olivier introduced his 1948 film version‚ "This is the tragedy of a man who couldn ’t make up his mind." By tracking the leitmotif of "thought" throughout the play‚ I will examine the conflicts that preclude Hamlet from unified decisions that lead to action. Shakespeare is not content‚ however‚ with the simple notion of

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    Family Portrait My great-grandmother‚ who is ninety-five years old‚ recently sent me a photograph of herself that I had never seen before. While cleaning out the attic of her Florida home‚ she came across a studio portrait she had taken about a year before she married my great-grandfather. This picture of my great-grandmother as a twenty-year-old girl and the story behind it have fascinated me from the moment I began to consider it. The young woman in the picture has a face that resembles my own

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    Self Portrait Project

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    The artwork I made for this self portrait project incorporates two approaches of both collage and drawing. It shows a composition of these massive figures of me. And each of them is making a different gestures. Composition is one of the most powerful elements that contribute to build my piece. This is an asymmetrical composition because it has similar visual weights in two sides. Figures in both two sides are filled with decorate tapes‚ each of them has different pattern. They all come together

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    decades and he was a pioneer for shooting on-location and the extreme long shot. Of the many John Ford movies‚ there is an ongoing presence and repetition of several motifs. These themes are usually significant to the plot or character development in the film and often represent similar themes from film to film. Some of these motifs Ford uses in his films are dances‚ fights‚ doctors‚ women‚ and arrivals and departures. First of all‚ the dance is present in many of Ford’s films. Dances are used

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