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    themselves and the wider world in their paintings. Kahlo’s artworks such as he “Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego in my thoughts)” and “Henry Ford Hospital 1932” provide an insight of her life and her obsessions with child-bearing and her husband‚ Diego Rivera. Likewise‚ Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for the Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion” and his “Self-portrait 1971” conveys the suppression of his sexuality and inhumanity of one man to another. Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego on my thoughts)

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    Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait The “Arnolfini Wedding Portrait” by Jan Van Eyck is a painting believed to be a portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife in a room‚ presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western Art History. There has been much debate on this painting. Two scholars’ in particular have two very different interpretations of the “Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.” Erwin Panofsky wrote an article

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    people. But also images can play an important part of telling a lot about someone because there is always a story behind an image. Many images come to mind when thinking of things that represent who I am. The imagery I would include in my metaphoric portrait would be a stage‚ Disney World‚ and a plane. Generally‚ the stage is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of a metaphoric image that represents me. During high school‚ I was very involved in the theatre department and always felt I could

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    Portrait of a serial killer

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    PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER PAGE 2 A serial killer is a person‚ who has committed a series of two or more murders‚ as separate events by one offender acting alone. Common found characteristics of serial killers include: There are four basic types of serial killers. Power and control-Experiences sexual gratification by humiliating and controlling Visionary-

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    The Kiss Painting

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    being too sensual and erotic‚ and his symbolism too deviant. Klimt established the vienna session with the purpose of rising of level of the arts and crafts in austira through close ties to art nouveau. Today‚ they stand out as the more important paintings ever to come out of Vienna. The Kiss‚ painted in 1907-08 was a oil canvas‚ 180x180cm ‚ During his golden period‚ Its probably klimts most famous work. It depicts a couple‚ bound up in various shades of gold and symbols‚ sharing a kiss against a

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    Piero vs Van Eyck

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    of physical space and this is made obvious by his masterpiece‚ The Legend of the True Cross: Constantine’s Dream‚ c.1455. Opposed to van Eyck‚ a Dutchman‚ who prioritized furnishing his painting with a ride array of textures‚ as seen in his masterpiece‚ The Betrothal of the Arnolfini‚(The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait)‚1434. In fifteenth century Italy‚ art had its own style‚ artists from that region and time period were commissioned by the Catholic Church to recreate biblical stories and paint

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    Portrait Lady

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    Page No: 3 1.Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context. the thought was almost revolting an expanse of pure white serenity a turning-point accepted her seclusion with resignation a veritable bedlam of chirrupings frivolous rebukes the sagging skins of the dilapidated drum Answer the thought was almost revolting – The thought that the author’s grandmother was once young and pretty raises a doubt in the mind of the author. He finds it too hard to believe. an

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    Portrait Essay

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    Xavier Garcia Mr. Vela English-122 19 February 2013 The Soul of a Black Man “The problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” In his groundreaking book‚ The Souls of Black People‚ W.E.B. DuBois spoke with a great candor that had not been seen before him about the social and racial issues of being an African American in American society in the twentieth century. DuBois was the first African American of his kind; An activist for civil rights‚ a sociologist‚ historian‚ Pan-Africanist

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    A Portrait of a Killer

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    The Slavenka Drakulic essay “He Would Never Hurt a Fly” is about a young man named Goran Jelisic‚ a Bosian Serb‚ who is on trial for executing thirteen prisoners in a Breko police station and Luka prison camp in 1992. Drakulic portrays Jelisic as a handsome young man with a “serene face‚ lively eyes‚ and [a] big reassuring grin… the kind of person who would give up his seat‚ on a street car‚ for an invalid to sit down (1117). Drakulic is surprised that the man with such boyish features could be

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    Akhenaten Painting Style

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    1. Compare and contrast painting and sculpture from the Fourth Dynasty with that of the reign of Akhenaten.You must use the provided examples (your textbook) to support your essay. In the Fourth Dynasty the art consisted of mainly architecture and sculptures. The famous pyramid structure during this time were more smooth on the sides because of their new layering technique‚ a good example in our book is figure 3.8 Model of the Great pyramids on page 57. One additional feature of the landmark of

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