SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME JANUARY 2013 Introduction to the Arts in France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage Architecture Literature Music Painting/Sculpture Cinema Architecture From vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourvière) Orange buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de
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New Movements in the Visual Arts Something of the feverish activity in the visual arts during this period can be gauged by the sheer number of movements and styles that followed one another in rapid succession: Impressionism‚ post-Impressionism‚ Fauvism‚ and Expressionism‚ culminating in the birth of Cubism around the time of World War I. all of the movements form important stages in the transition from traditional artistic styles to present-day art‚ much of which rejects any attempt at Realism
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Christoph Willibald Gluck‚ a French composer who had made the orchestra more important in Opera‚ developed Operas that held sudden loud dynamics‚ tremolos in the strings‚ chromatic motion‚ dissonant chords‚ and blasts from the brass that was unlike any other Opera of its time.1 Gluck‚ in the year of 1762 produced an opera with the poet Raniero de Calzabigi known as Orfeo ed Euridice‚ which held one of the scenes of the story of Orpheus when he was in a cavernous space in the underworld.2 Gluck had
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established in the early eighteenth century‚ which spawned several generations of talented French artists. However‚ at this time gender was a large component of art’s focus and of the restrictions of the artists themselves. Although Caillebotte and Morisot are similar for being impressionists and in representing moments of leisure‚ they are different because of the limitations in subject matter between the artist’s gender‚ the type of subjects shown and how they represent modernity. For the majority
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author of my book is Ellen Raskin. The main characters in the book are Sam Westing‚ Madame Sun Lin Hoo‚ Jake Wexler‚ Turtle Wexler‚ Flora Baumbauch‚ Chris Theodorakis‚ D. Denton Deere‚ Alexander McSouthers‚ J.J. Ford‚ Grace Wexler‚ James Shin Hoo‚ Berthe Erica Crow‚ Julian R. Eastman‚ Amber Otis‚ Theo Theodorakis‚ Doug Hoo‚ Sydelle Pulaski‚ Barney Northrup‚ and Angela Wexler. My favorite character is Angela because she is really pretty and is a great friend to Sydelle when she fractures her ankle
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how she imagined it to be. She becomes depressed and ill and when she finds out she is pregnant‚ Charles moves out of the village in hopes of making her feel better. When the Bovarys move to Yonville‚ Emma meets Homaise and Leon After her daughter‚ Berthe‚ was born‚ Emma was disappointed with motherhood and began to have feelings for Leon. Once she finds out that Leon loves her‚ she become a devoted wife and mother. This makes Leon leave to study law in Paris‚ which then makes Emma miserable. After
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Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who‚ working with Georges Seurat‚ helped develop the style of pointillist. He was born in Paris on November 11‚ 1863. He started out as an architect before deciding that he should be a painter at eighteen years of age. He sailed around the coasts of Europe‚ and painted the landscapes. He also painted the cities in France in his later years. Paul Signac met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat in 1884. He was struck by the systematic working
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Catherine Deneuve as Emilie and French star Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette‚ Un Coeur en Hiver) as her estranged brother‚ Antoine. The rift between these two has existed for three years‚ a time during which they haven’t spoken. When their mother‚ Berthe (Marthe Villalonga)‚ suffers a stroke‚ Emilie brings the older woman to her house to live. Bruno (Jean-Pierre Bouvier)‚ Emilie’s husband‚ resents Berthe’s presence‚ and is even less pleased when Emilie breaks the silence with Antoine and invites him
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Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments values and ideals that had been generated by the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment‚ Reason‚ Science‚ and progress were still important words modern technology as electric lights‚ phonographs‚ and automobiles new view of the physical universe ‚ an appeal to the irrational‚ alternative views of human nature‚ and radically innovative forms of literacy and artistic expression shattered old beliefs Developments in
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le Analysis of Les Miserable’s By Victor Hugo PLOT The story beautifully begins with the miserable life of Jean Valjean. He was imprisoned for nineteen years for the reason of‚ he stole loaf of bread in wanting to feed his sister’s starving children. After receiving the parole‚ Valjean searched for a job. The society doesn’t accept him for he was a convicted. Fortunately‚ Valjean met Bishop Myriel. This Bishop let him stay in his house and gave him something to eat. Behind of
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