The English language is nobody’s special property‚ it is the property of the imagination‚ it is the property of the language itself. For poet Derek Walcott the beauty of the English language lies in every single word he weaves together. His poems “a lesson for this for this Sunday is a metaphorical text on the morality of colonizers and those being colonized. The poem focuses on human nature’s inability to stay pure and the need to bend nature to its will. “The lesson is the same” is an extended
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Mona Lisa‚ Finding the Key to the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa‚ a painting created by a legendary painter: Leonardo da Vinci‚ leaves various codes and secrets evident in the painting that adds to its mysteriousness. People today have an obsession to finding out the secrets to unlocking the vault of art history. There are many theories that possibly explain the secrets of the painting: Mona Lisa. These theories are formed by the art experts who are curious on why the Mona Lisa was
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I have chosen the Mona Lisa to analyze. The portrait of Mona Lisa is also known as La Giocondo‚ she was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting was done in oil paints on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci from the year 1503 to 1506. The dimensions of this painting are 76.2 x 53.3 cm. The painting is now in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. The Mona Lisa is a painting of a woman‚ dressed in a dark green dress with her hands overlapping. The background of the painting is a mountainous landscape
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Is It Her Twin or Sister? An art collector in 1913 made a discovery that has baffled many historians for some time now. Huge Blaker‚ an English art collector found the Isleworth Mona Lisa shortly before World War I. The Isleworth Mona Lisa is a painting of‚ what looks to be‚ a young Mona Lisa. This painting has been identified as a Leonardo da Vinci painting‚ but some historians believe that this cannot be true. With some differences in the paintings they believe it may have been another
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Tolerance Museum I visited Tolerance Museum last summer with my friend. It is located in Los Angeles‚ California. First‚ I just went there because my friend asked me to come there with them for fun. But when I came there‚ I really was attracted because of the unordinary museum. The first impression of the museum is that at the entrance we were divided into two groups and we must make a decision to entrance two different places inside the museum. It looked like a game and visitors were so excited
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Point #3 in Body (Point: The full picture) The woman is shown seated in an open area‚ and behind her is a vast landscape‚ which recedes to an icy mountain. Some winding paths and a far away bridge is also perceptible in the background. The Mona Lisa is perhaps Leonardo DaVinci’s most famous of paintings. It is an oil painting‚ painted on poplar wood. The painting is most famous for the smile of the woman‚ which people have been trying to decipher for a long time. Many believe that the portrait
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Mona Lisa Smile December 10th‚ 2012 Part A: Using the movie as a source‚ how have roles changed in respect to how women are viewed in society since the 1950s? How have things not changed? Since the 1950s‚ roles have changed in respect to how women were viewed in society. The film Mona Lisa Smile depicts the traditional ideology of a woman’s role in society as a domestic homemaker as well as the new idea of an educated woman. Education was utilised to teach respectable women how to prepare
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A Portrait of Mona Lisa Courtney Wilder ENG121: English Composition I Prof. Laloni Christenson July 22‚ 2013 A Portrait of Mona Lisa Art is a traditional work that is painted in many different pattern of objects. Many people create portraits of art as an expression of how they feel. In the modern world‚ art is shown in different cities‚ subways‚ parks and etc. The greatest art was created in the early century and was called a masterpiece. This portrait was
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The Mystery of the Mona Lisa As Donald Sassoon emphasizes in Becoming Mona Lisa‚ the Mona Lisa has managed to maintain its status as the world’s most recognizable work of art. The author notes that many who visit the portrait find themselves wondering just what makes it so special. The lady in the portrait is not particularly beautiful and the painting itself is beginning to look its age. Yet despite all this‚ art historians continue to write and argue over the painting‚ and tourists continue
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The Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous of paintings. It is an oil painting‚ painted on poplar wood. The painting is most famous for the smile of the woman‚ which people have been trying to decipher for a long time. Many believe that the portrait is that of Da Vinci himself‚ while many also place a lot mystic connections with this painting. The portrait depicts a woman’s bust‚ with a distant landscape that is visible in the backdrop. Leonardo used a pyramid design
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