AnTwan Jacobs “Vincent” by Don McLean 2/12/13 Vincent Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” during one of the most difficult periods of his life‚ while he was locked up in an asylum at Saint Remy. He wanted to paint it outdoors‚ but had to paint the scene from memory. Van Gogh mentioned “Starry Night” only twice in his letters to his brother‚ Theo. Ever since it has been painted‚ it has been the most mysterious and interesting pieces Van Gogh has made. Don McLean wrote “Vincent‚” also known as “Starry
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Katelin DeSieno April 16‚ 2013 Art 101 B01 Compare & Contrast Essay In this essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first is “Grainstack (Sunset)” painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light
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For my compare and contrast essay I have chosen the painting "Sunrise" by Claude Monet. Claude Monet is an impressionist who painted with stress on color and light. Monet painted the "Sunrise" in 1872. This is during the time where impressionism was at its most potent. The scene is of a body of water possibly a river‚ with row boats on it. The time of day seems to be dawn when the sun is just rising over the horizon. Monet uses brush strokes to make shapes but in contrast there are no real definite
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Van Gogh’s Starry Eyes Brings Out a Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is probably his most famous painting. Instantly recognizable because of its unique style‚ this work has been the subject of poetry‚ fiction‚ CD-ROMs as well as the well known song "Vincent" or "Starry‚ Starry Night" by Don McLean. Starry Night was painted in the mental asylum of Saint-Remy‚ 13 months before Van Gogh’s death at the age of 37. This exemplary painting was made using oil paints on a canvas with the size
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doesn’t. Another major difference is that the modern ballad‚ "There You’ll Be" is much longer than the older ballad. There are many words and phrases in S. Foster’s ballad that we don’t usually use in our common literature. For example‚ "many were the blithe birds that warbled them o’er‚" to translate this to the people that don’t speak with these different words; it says‚ "many were the cheerful birds that chirped them over." As you can see so far‚ there are many differences in the way that these
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Wang Jian and Rembrandt van Rijn Ink strokes on landscapes between the Eastern and Western Worlds Outline Thesis Statement As one of China’s most well-known artists‚ Wang Jian (born in Taicang in the Jiangsu province 1598-1677) established a unique style of East Asian artwork compared to that of Rembrandt van Rijn showing a different use of strokes from the Western World. The artistic styles of the East Asian cultures can be distinguished by the brush strokes and influences Shan Shui (“mountain-
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The movie opens twenty-five years ago in Hong Kong. The parents of two twin babies‚ Alex and Chad‚ had borrowed money from Raymond Zhang and Nigel Griffith‚ two lead smugglers. They needed the money in order to build a tunnel between Hong Kong and the mainland. After the tunnel was built and the money collected‚ Nigel Griffith and Raymond Zhang had a gang of hit men massacre Alex and Chad’s family. Frank Avery‚ a friend of the family‚ races into the scene and finds the parents already dead
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The Science of Thunderstorms The Science of Thunderstorms Eleanor C. Radaza Philippine Science High School - Central Mindanao Campus Nangka‚ Balo-i‚ Lanao del Norte‚ Philippines 9217 This paper is primarily written for science students‚ teachers‚ and other interested individuals to provide a resource to enhance their knowledge about the origin of thunderstorms. 1. Introduction A thunderstorm is a storm that is able to produce lightning and thunder. It occurs in cumulonimbus clouds which are large
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Alex Montalbano Vincent van Gogh 1 In the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh‚ you see two prominent swirls in the background in the sky. One swirl flows into the second‚ smaller swirl. Both light blue swirls are flowing to the right through a dark blue night sky. In the upper right hand corner is a yellow-orange crescent moon surrounded by a yellow glow. Also in the background are eleven variously sized yellow-orange stars scattered amongst the blue sky. At the bottom of the background‚ right
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The Larks in the Cornfield There was once a family of little Larks who lived with their mother in a nest in a cornfield. When the corn was ripe the mother Lark watched very carefully to see if there were any sign of the reapers’ coming‚ for she knew that when they came their sharp knives would cut down the nest and hurt the baby Larks. So every day‚ when she went out for food‚ she told the little Larks to look and listen very closely to everything that went on‚ and to tell her all they saw and
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