Marya Williams English 120 Professor Israel Written assignment 2 23 October 2012 Analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” The poem entitled [What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why] by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ is a very forward thinking sonnet of its time. Most sonnets are dedicated or about one single person. This one in particular is about the memory of several lovers. This poem is written in iambic pentameter‚ with
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Though always considered a notch below a world-class institution‚ the Dallas Museum of Art significantly improved its standing within the art world when it received the undeniably world-class modern and contemporary art collections of three prominent local collectors (the Hoffmans‚ the Rachofskys‚ and the Roses); the collections‚ gifted together in an unprecedented deal‚ totaled more than 900 works and with subsequent acquisitions has grown since the announcement to more than 1‚200. The Edward Larrabee
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Museum Visit Report Jon Fairbanks Norton Simon Museum February 21.2013 Why did you visit this museum? I decided to visit this museum because I have been to the Getty museum and wanted to try something new. I have gone on tours of the famous Green and Green home in Pasadena and truly enjoyed it. I felt that a visit to this museum would be beneficial. How long were you at the museum? I was at the museum for approximately 3.5 hours. Which parts of the museum did you visit? I did a whole sweep
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Name: Isaac Tan Yu Heng Date: 1/12/2011very good work 10/10 Subject: Art - How innovative or original can a successful artist be? Art is considered to vary across culture and also through time. Art considered as a masterpiece by this group of people might not even be appreciated by another group of people. Art changes through time and the value of a certain artistic piece might increase or decrease through time. Art is what defines a culture‚ thus it is regarded by many as the main (not sure
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et ‚ Renoir ‚ Cézanne ‚ Baudelaire .. and many others are famous impressionist artists that marked the nineteenth century with their work. Trying to maintain close ties with tradition‚ and establishing the aesthetic outcome of an artistic creation ‚ they all used their own words and images to paint the world from their own point of view ‚ regardless of what other people could think . Van Gogh was also one of them . His painting ‘Starry Night ‘‚ published on 1889 ‚is nowadays one of the most known
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The Paper Fan is a piece of art that in its time has been in the presence of princesses‚ ninjas‚ and college students. Taking on several roles both in an imaginary and reality. Each experience aging the paper that stretched across bamboo frame. Opening it reveals a water color and ink print covering the face of the fan. Painted is a family of birds before a background of greenery. Fully expanded the width reached to fourteen inches and standing in length at nine inches. Width shrinks drastically
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Fauvism Fauvism started as a loosely associated group of artists who used explosive colors to portray emotion. They were not constrained by the Realists color palette and used this new found freedom to explore and experiment with other styles‚ helping to cut a path to 20th Century Modernism. Fauvism respected expression on a individual basis. An artists’ emotional response to all things natural‚ or intuition were far more important than classical training or lofty subjects. Another goal of the
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the most acclaimed painters of the Northern Renaissance who amazed his viewers with paintings of prosperous landscapes and showing the brighter side of the low class society of peasants by them enjoying the here and now of everyday life instead of them being in the misery of their labor. According to most art historians‚ Bruegel was born around 1525 in Berda which was one of the small neighborhoods in the town of Bruegel. Although there was unknown information
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Eye of the Artist When comparing and contrasting the painting‚ American Gothic‚ and the photograph‚ Rural Rehabilitation it is clear that different styles of art show different views of reality. For example‚ in a painting‚ everything is seen through the artist’s eye. They choose what you see and how you see it. While in a photograph‚ you view a less biased reality. In the case of American Gothic and Rural Rehabilitation‚ we see warm‚ almost fuzzy colors in the painting as opposed to stark
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New knowledge about the Minoan culture has been revealed in the Island of Crete. In the video‚ Sandy McGillivray believes that the Knossos palace‚ the largest Cretan palace‚ was more of a temple rather than a palace to harness the power of the sun. He realized that each of the doorways aligns with the rising sun on different key days of the year‚ and believes that it is a solar temple‚ like the Egyptians who worshipped the sun‚ moon‚ and stars. In the palace‚ there were many potteries and fresco
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