events. Basically Artists paint on the events based on their lives. Such as Cloude Monet and Vincent Van Gough‚ their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great example of outdoor paintings and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The garden of the poets” is based on two poets combining with the garden that he is referring
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Essay #2- “Rip Van Winkle” It is no surprise that Washington Irving has received international acclaim. Irving’s’ writing‚ “Rip Van Winkle” is very sophisticated with a broad vocabulary. There are very extensive or vivid details throughout the story. Irving’s story is written so well it could not become outdated. Though the story of “Rip Van Winkle” is fictional‚ Irving does a good job illustrating American history. For example‚ the change in that small town after the revolution went from tranquil
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Jan van Eyck was able to create a naturalism and religious feeling in his oil painting‚ which made him one of the most famous painters in fifteenth-century. The “Arnolfini Portrait” was painted in 1434 by van Eyck in the style of oil on panel. This piece has various interpretations because of the different objects and layout in the painting. In this painting there are two main figures of a man and women. “Images represent a man and woman standing in a richly furnished room‚ equipped with a brass
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Drawing I May‚ 2014 The Flowering Orchard by Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was a unique artist who worked with a sense of urgency which often caused him a great deal of stress. He was famed for his bold‚ dramatic brush strokes which expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works. Its thought that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death‚ he averaged one painting per day. Van Gogh is generally regarded as the greatest Dutch painter
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Character analosis of Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle‚ the main character in Washington Irving’s fiction"Rip Van Winkle"‚ is a comic figure with an amazing experience. The simple and humorous (sometimes exaggerative) words chosen by Irving show: Rip’s nature as simple and kind-hearted; his attitude toward life as carefree; his marriage as hen-pecking and intolerable; and his resultant character as amiable and comic. Firstly‚ Irving conveys the simple and kind nature of Rip not only in direct descriptive
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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a short fictional story. It was set in the years before and after the Revolutionary War. Rip lived in a pleasant village at the bottom of New York’s Catskill Mountains. One day Rip decided that he needed to escape his wife’s nagging so he went up the mountain with his pet dog. They reach a hollow where there were bearded men playing the nine-pins. Rip doesn’t say anything but instead drinks some of their moonshine and falls into a slumber. When he wakes more
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“Rip Van Winkle‚” is a character that is part of American mythology. The character trait least evident is‚ admirable. In the story‚ we see that his neighbors loved him. Including the men‚ women and children. Unfortunately‚ when he was at home he always wanted to leave. He complained about his nagging wife. It seemed he was all too happy to lend a helping hand to his neighbors‚ but to his own family‚ it was a different story. To me‚ that is not admirable. Not when you have a wife and children. When
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In Rip Van Winkle‚ Irving shows his doubts the American Identity and the American dream. After the Revolutionary war‚ American was trying to develop its own course. They were free to govern their own course of development; however‚ some of them had an air of uncertainties on their own identity in this new country. Irving was born among this generation in the newly created United States of America‚ and also felt uncertainty about the American identity. Irving might be the writer that is the least
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philosophy of the tragic hero can be located in both Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show and Shakespeare’s character‚ Othello‚ in his play Othello. It is the
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Analysis of Description of the Setting “Rip Van Winkle” is a magical fiction written by Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century‚ and‚ of which the main character is Rip Van Winkle exactly. What made me be interested in the mystical story‚ was not only the developing plot that went on compactly‚ but also the various description of all the setting in the story which made the plot of the entire story seemed to contain much more emotional coloring. One day‚ after a long time
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