Michael Priddy Angela Brasser‚ Adjunct Professor Art 100 November 8‚ 2010 Le Moulin De La Galette The year was 1876 when Pierre Augustus Renoir painted his Le Moulin De La Galette this piece of art was in the style of impressionism. This was a fairly new art style during these years thus making it very popular at the time. Renoir’s works has endured the test of time with the popularity of his art and is still one of history’s more prominent artists. The painting itself was an open-air
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mythology‚ modern music and archetypal characters to convey the contrasting attitudes to love in his film Moulin Rouge? Truth‚ beauty‚ freedom and above all: love; these are the key principles of the bohemian revolution. Luhrmann represents and portrays these themes in a variety of different ways throughout Moulin Rouge. The film has strong links with the Orpheus myth giving Moulin Rouge a predictable‚ yet classic storyline. Through the use of archetypal characters‚ modern music and classical
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Citizen Kane-Cinematography Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean‚ people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge‚ which symbolises his childhood that he lost. Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance” One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes
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I will be discussing two iconic works of art: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s “La Goulue au Moulin Rouge” (1891) of the Art Nouveau period and Milton Glaser’s “Sound of Harlem” (1964) of the Postmodern period. There are parallels between the two pieces due to the influence of Art Nouveau on Glaser. I was drawn to Toulouse-Lautrec’s poster not just because of the colorful imagery and Art Nouveau style‚ but also because of his story and the subject matter. Toulouse-Lautrec was disabled‚ having stunted
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During the film Steve Spielberg uses music‚ a mysterious shark and camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom‚ long shot‚ close up shots and medium shots to build suspense‚ tension and scare the audience. The music represents the shark‚ especially its movements and its presence. In the title sequence the camera is moving along the seabed like a shark. Spielberg makes the audience believe that the camera is viewing things through the shark’s eyes‚ he uses a camera shot called point of
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Jean Hey‚ also known as the Master of Moulins‚ was a popular Flemish painters in France from the late fifteenth century. One of his famous work was the “Portrait of Margaret of Austria”. It was made out of oil and it is applied on a campus; it was made in the year of 1490. Also‚ the painting was currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York. Margaret was the daughter of Emperor Maximilian I‚ and she the governor of the Netherlands. Also‚ she married two spouses in her lifetime. Hey
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Khmer Rouge Genocide The genocide that occurred by the political party group named Khmer Rouge‚ that was led by Pol Pot to nationalize and centralize the peasant farming society of Cambodia in a short time. The genocide occurred after the seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975. The Khmer Rouge’s believed that many Cambodians had been exposed to outside ideas‚ particularly by the capitalist west. The Khmer Rouge’s captured the educated — such as doctors‚ lawyers‚ and other religious
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features of this scene amalgamate to make it a powerful microcosm of the film by both displaying and representing the main theme of Blake’s inner struggle to escape his thoughts and reconnect with reality. Through the effective use of mis-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ sound‚ and editing‚ this scene demonstrates a unique significance that makes it stand out from the rest of the film. In this scene‚ mis-en-scene functions to propel the viewer into focusing on the development of Blake as an alienated character
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This scene is the intro to ‘the Departed’ directed by Martin Scorcese. It is a compression of time with narration by Costello that gives insight into some of the characters‚ mainly Costello himself and background information such as location. It effectively establishes the position of the main characters and the public’s reaction of them‚ letting us know what the movie is going to be about. I loved the camera work in this scene and the way Costello’s portrayed‚ he is later referred to as ‘the rockstar’
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The movie Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson‚ 2012) tells a story of two children‚ Sam and Suzy‚ who feel estranged and disconnected in their small island community of New Penzance. Wes Anderson’s use of cinematography and other audiovisual elements creates a highly stylized movie that explores the concept of family and the need for people in our lives. In the scene towards the end of the movie in which Sam and Suzy make a risky climb up to the top of the church bell-tower‚ in the middle of a storm‚
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