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    The Carnegie Museum of Art houses many fine art paintings that span throughout the centuries‚ including famous works by countless artists in different styles‚ from renaissance to contemporary. One famous work includes a piece by Vincent van Gogh’s Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers)‚ painted in 1890 in Gallery 8‚ Scaife Galleries of the museum. It was acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaige Family‚ and its acquisition number is 68.18. The painting’s dimensions are

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    responder understanding of relationship with others plus the world around . The use of distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my understanding of the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy’s and the painting ‘starry starry night’ by Vincent van Gogh. This has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in Maestro and the use of colour‚ shading‚ lighting and placement in ‘starry starry night’.In saying this‚ this gives evidence as I do strongly

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    Cypress Trees

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    Wheat Field with Cypresses‚ 1889 Vincent van Gogh created a series of paintings while in the asylum in Saint-Remy in early June 1889. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work was known for its tactile beauty and bold colors. Van Gogh had a substantial influence on 20th-century art. After years of psychological afflictions and mental illness‚ he died at the young age of thirty seven‚ due to a gunshot wound‚ most commonly accepted to be self- inflicted. The term Post-Impressionism

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    Why do artists make self-portraits? Why would someone take the time to create a work of art that merely resembles themselves? To answer this‚ one must understand the famous artists of the past‚ both visual and literary. When analyzing a self-portrait‚ one notices that it often goes beyond the visual characteristics of the author. Minute details that can be easily overlooked frequently delve into the artist’s personality and can sometimes make the viewer look deeper into themselves. To answer

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    What I Do Best

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    Essay Assignment: What I Do Best Everyone has at least one specialty. Someone is good at music‚ the other is good at sport. Everyone has the different specialty. Among this group of people‚ some of them will merge their specialty into their life like musicians‚ artists‚ engineers‚ interior designers‚ etc. For me‚ I think I’m good at painting. When I was 6 years old‚ my mom was always paint with me. Painting can led me relax‚ and expressing my mood on paper. After I finished my works‚ my teachers

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    Section A 1. Discuss Rita’s sense of being a half caste in Willy Russell’s play. At first Rita is more of an outcast in both social classes. It is when she decides to go to the Open University that she becomes a half cast. She doesn’t seem to fit in when she attends her literature classes. The way she talks‚ looks and behaves differentiates her from the rest of her classmates. Even though her husband does not approve of her studies and that most students are demeaning towards her‚ she is determined

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    cubism work as Van Gogh’s is a post impressionism work. Van Gogh used bright color in his work to bring the piece alive‚ Picasso however uses black‚ white and grey to give his work a serious sad feel to it. Van Gogh forms things such as the tree and the village so we know what they are when looking at them. In Picasso’s work we see the faces and thing in the picture but have to take a closer look to really understand what we are looking at compared to Van Gogh’s painting. Van Gogh uses space well

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    Patriarchy in Society

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    Patriarchal society and its effect on language and literature. Patriarchy as an ideology: Pam Morris‚ in her book Literature and feminism has defined ideology in two ways. The first is that ‘ideology’ is a consciously held system of beliefs which people knowingly choose or reject‚ like a religion. The second definition says that an ideology is used to refer to the way we perceive reality. The second term rests on the assumption that as we enter society‚ we absorb and assume its perceptions

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    Owen Marshall

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    the vital element that clarifies the author’s purpose. Owen Marshall’s writing is no exception. Marshall says he has “always been interested in people who don’t conform” and many of his stories develop this idea. “Requiem in a Townhouse” and “Mr Van Gogh” are both good examples of his stories in which the setting is critical to the understanding of this theme. The main setting in “Requiem in a Townhouse” is the actual townhouse. However‚ before the reader even hears about the townhouse‚ we are told

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    Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Edward Hopper grew up and lived in the inter-war period. He grew up in a well-off middle class family and decided he was going to be an artist as early as 16 years old (Smith‚ 1986). His parents supported him however pushed him towards commercial art because it had more promise and structure. He first attended the New York School of Illustrating but later transferred to the New York School of Art in 1900. At this school he worked under artists who influenced him to

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