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    My quote that I am going to tell about is by Vincent Van Gogh. The quote is “If you hear a voice within you say‚ ‘you cannot paint‚’ then by all means paint‚ and that voice will be silenced.” Today i’m going to be talking about the attributes of this quote and why it is important to know what it means. What I think this quote means is if you have a feeling you can’t do something‚ then do it‚ and then you will get better at it. Like I used to be bad at drawing‚ but now that I tried I’ve gotten better

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    The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck is one of the most famous paintings shrouded in mystery. This picture depicts a wealthy couple holding hands in the bedchamber of their Flemish home. The couple is unidentified and many assume it is Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini a merchant from Bruges and his wife Costanza Trenta in 1426. The man is where is large black hat with a fur pull over with a black shit underneath and black shoes. The woman is where a white 14th-15th century styled headdress with a

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    are coming down to earth to paint our gym Hope’s colors—blue and orange. It is imperative that we stop this embarrassing display and save Calvin’s arena from being painted the opposing team’s colors. In order to stop the aliens from painting the Van Noord Arena‚ my group and I have come up with a survey that selects only the best and fastest students to stop the aliens’ evil plan and send them back to Hope’s campus with Calvin’s own colors. One of our professors‚ Dr. Jones‚ wants to join our team

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    1 2 10/13/2011 3 The Dutch kept immaculate records which only made the Germans job easier.  Also‚ the  government mostly cooperated with the Germans. 140‚000 thousand Jews in Holland‚  105‚000 were sent to the camps.   75% of the Jewish population 4 All newspapers under German control‚ radios had to be handed in‚ no TV‚ Internet Most people believed that the Jews‚ gypsies‚ communists and political enemies were sent  to Germany for temporary labor in factories and quarries. 5 6 Had to be in

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    Her mother‚ Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984)‚ was a Dutch aristocrat and the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra‚ who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella ’s mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette‚ Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939)‚ who was a granddaughter of jurist Dirk van Hogendorp.[15] At age nineteen‚ Ella had married Jonkheer (Esquire) Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford‚ but they divorced in 1925. Hepburn had two

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    The person who I can thank for getting me into drawing characters is Craig McCraken. McCraken is an animator‚ director‚ and storyboard artist that derived his style from Hanna Barbara cartoons along other 1970s influences like the movie “Yellow Submarine”. With extremely simple and stylized geometric backgrounds‚ this made the actual cartoon characters stand out. How he uses certain color choices of what mood reflected the scene. Its as wonderful as his close friend’s‚ Grenndy Tartakovsky‚ stylistic

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    District 9 raises a host of moral issues including separation through politically-sanctioned racial segregation‚ xenophobia and a for the most part widened point of view of what constitutes regular humankind. Wikus van der Merwe faces a moral predicament in District 9 when relegated to remove the outsiders. Knowing how seriously he needed to keep his promotion‚ and the stupid character of Wikus‚ it simple to see where the lawfulness and support of the removal may be seen. The outsider region is unmistakably

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    representation of a family’s everyday life. The first painting is by Jan Steen and is titled The Merry Family and was created in 1668 and in this painting‚ it depicts a boisterous family gathering or possibly dinner. The second painting is by Vincent van Gogh and is titled The Potato Eaters. It was created in 1885 and displays the life of a peasant family and outlines the lifestyle that these individuals had to endure in this time period such as: living in a small

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    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24‚ 1632‚ Delft Netherlands. Antonie Leeuwenhoek father was a basket maker while his mother was a brewer. Antonie was educated in school in the town of Warmond. When he was a young boy he lost his biological father. Soon after‚ his mom married a painter named Jacob Jansz Molijn. The stepfather Jacob Molijn died in 1648. Atonie went to Amsterdam to become an apprentice to a linen draper. He also lived with his uncle at Benthuizen. Antonie created a

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    This oil painting was commissioned in the year 1530 by an artist known as Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Aelst was a Belgium artist and was about 28 years of age when he crated Saint Jerome in His Study. Aelst was on a high during the 16th century in the Netherlands. He was a court painter for both the Holy Roman Emperor‚ and for Mary of Hungary. Saint Jerome in His Study is a good sized panel oil painting showing St. Jerome thinking in his room on what to do next or what to learn next. St. Jerome is the

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