...Amongst the many African American poets, Claude McKay granted many other poets hope on enlightening their thoughts and feelings through the art of his writing. McKay inspired others with writings that elaborated on racism and his view on romance. He spoke out about the lifestyle and obstacles that Africans challenged during a time of racism and poverty. After being pushed into writing dialects by mentors of his own, McKay decided to write poems that influenced other African American poets to step up to the plate and speak out about the unethical issues faced by Blacks during this time. McKay gave others hope through his writings by encouraging them to stand up for themselves. The rights of Africans were withdrawn from them due to the many racial effects they faced. However, McKay was able to witness many of those unjust acts bestowed upon Blacks from Whites. McKay began writing about these life experiences at the early age of 10. He was taught how to write by his oldest brother who obtained a position as a school teacher. He transitioned from the Tuskegee Institute studying in agronomy to Kansas State University studying agriculture. History was one major that McKay developed a high interest in which promoted majority of his writings. He was always eager to read articles and books. Younger poets gained a high level of respect during the Harlem Renaissance in regards to some of the poems written by McKay. Numerous awards were rewarded to McKay for writings that he was encouraged...
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...In “The White City” Claude McKay, a black poet from New York who wrote during the early twentieth century, tells of how a black man, possibly McKay, endures the anger he feels toward the oppressive white world that he lives in. Instead of submitting to his anger, he uses it as fuel which encourages him to power forward into the mighty white city, where he uses the features of the world around him to distract him from his own hatred. Many of the features around McKay only remind him of the oppression that the city has caused and anger him further. The speaker conveys the fury and helplessness that he feels during this time of an oppressive and uncaring society. McKay bottles up his emotions and tries to ensure that no one knows how he feels...
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...“If We Must Die” was written to illustrate the amount of violence against African-Americans during the Red Summer of 1919, where racial tension lead to blood riots across the country. This poem begins saying that if they must die, let it not be messy and awful but to let them “nobly die.” “In vain; then even the monsters we defy shall be constrained to honor us though dead,” this shows that even the people that don't like the African Americans will be forced to like them in the end when they're dead because they matter too. The author, Claude McKay ends this selection with saying that they (African Americans) must be brave and fight back. The purpose of “ A Black Man Talks of Reaping” was to express the bitterness felt by African...
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...three impressionist paintings I have chosen are Monet Family in Garden by Edouard Manet, Garden at Giverny by Claude Monet and Dune Landscape off a Steep Coast by Edgar Degas (Sayre, 2012). The three post-impressionist pieces I have chosen are Bend in the Forest Road by Paul Cézanne and Anglers and Forest at Pont Aubert by George Seurat (Sayre, 2012). This memorandum contains information about the art selections that I have chosen for the office and where I would like to place each piece of art based on my interpretation of the meaning as it pertains to our corporation. I have added a brief description of each painting. The first impressionist painting is Monet Family in Garden by Edouard Manet. In the left side of the painting, Claude Monet is gardening with a chicken and duck. Sitting under a tree in the center of the piece is Claude Monet’s wife, with their daughter lying next to her. Trees and shrubs form the outline of the garden along the sides and in the background. This piece of art has historical significance as it is one of Manet’s paintings in a new style, focusing on light and color all while capturing the moment, called impressionism (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014). Since our company is a family oriented business, I would like to place this piece in the reception area of the corporate headquarters to make this statement. The Garden at Giverny by Claude Monet includes bright color patches of purple,...
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...1. Neoclassism -Oath of the Horatii This painting by Jacques-Louise David portrays the power and dominance of imperial figures that was often seen in the late 1700s. It shows the apparent surrender of one man holding multiple swords to three men, while women cower in the background. The painting shows an understanding of its time period by the women that hide crying in fear and appearing weak behind the men. It expresses control and fear. It appears to be somewhere in Greece or Rome, where the now classical ideas of art originated. As a neoclassic piece, this is an appropriate setting. I feel that this painting does a fine job of showing the common feelings of many during the late 18th century, and that the artist made a good point with showing the helpless women behind the men. 2. Romanticism-The Third of May This well-known painting by Francisco Goya shows one well organized army taking control of a smaller, less organized military. They appear to have already shot a few men and are not afraid to do so again. The scene is taking place on the outskirts of town. This painting really captures the Romantic Movement by showing many common themes in romantic art, such as emotion, passion, and revolution. It also has many of its characteristics, including dramatic scenes, expressive use of color in the blood of the men, and images of death. In my opinion, the painting is frightening. It shows ruthless men and it seems to be a message that revolution will end in bloody...
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...Comparison/Contrast Research Paper: Topic Proposal Assessment The Impressionist style of painting developed in late nineteen century in France. Until this time color was thought to be characteristic of the object itself, but, the French Impressionists change this conception. Being able to take their tubes of paint, the impressionist artists started doing most of their work outside from their studio. The Impressionist artists “studied” light and how light is reflected or absorbed by the subject they were painting. They observed and sketched endlessly, and tried to recreate light itself with paints and brushes. The French Impressionist well known for his process of exploring light and color and painting under different light conditions is Claude Monet. Monet started painting outside the rural French countryside. Here he made the series of haystack paintings, and each one was painted in different times of the day and seasons of the year. The primary subjects of the series of paintings are the haystacks, that Monet used to explore of how light, color and form changed over the course of day and different weather conditions. Two of his series works can be found in the Museum Of Art in Chicago, IL, and they are: Stacks Of Wheat (End of Day Autumn, executed on oil on canvas and work size is 27 7/8”x 39 ¾ “, 1890/91) and Stack Of Wheat (End of Summer executed on oil on canvas and work size is 23 5/8” x 39 3/8” 1890/91). In each painting, the color of the haystack is different because...
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...Rather than select a single painting, I chose to focus on a series of paintings by Claude Monet. I am drawn to his work, and I was having a difficult time choosing one painting to discuss content, so I opted for one of his series of painting. The title Haystack Series refers primarily to twenty-five canvas paintings in his Impressionistic style. The images depicted in these painting are of haystacks, large piles of hay, shaped with a conical top, and typically left out in fields. The shape protected the innermost hay from the elements. Monet could see haystacks from the door of his home in Giverny, and as such, began painting them in his series style. Although the paintings may look like nothing but a simple haystack, that haystack is representative of many things. Just the visual represents the beauty of the French countryside, but there is a deeper meaning to each haystack. The haystacks emphasize the prosperity of that region of France. There in Normandy, France, small farms and villages needed that hay to survive. Farmers harvested it up into late July, but it sat, stored in those haystacks, sometimes until March when the threshing machine arrived at that village or farm. Because this is a series of paintings, I cannot leave out what I feel is the most important part of the content—the light. Monet was known for his depiction of light through colors and brush strokes, and the Haystacks Series is no different. This series features the main subject in different...
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...Les Bonnes Femme (The Girls) is a great film with shocking twists. It starts out slowly with Jane and Jacqueline meeting two guys who they hangout with for the night. That is until Jacqueline, who isn’t much of a partier, decides to go home. Jane, being the outgoing, fun and easy one, decides to go home with the two guys, which ends as a terrible night for her. At work all of the girls begin to notice a man on a motorcycle to has been stalking Jacqueline since a few nights before. The girls hardly show any concern for the stalking man. On another day the group goes to the pool and they are having a great time until the same guys that Jane and Jacqueline had met a few nights before show up and starts harassing them. Then out of nowhere the motorcycle stalker scares the two guys away. After rescuing Jacqueline they begin to talk for the first time and set a lunch date. The next day Jacqueline and Andre, the motorcycle stalker, go out to lunch and confess their love for one another. After lunch they go for a walk in the woods where a very unfortunate event occurs. This film has very similar features to films made by Alfred Hitchcock. Parts of this film have a touch of his movie Psycho. It has similar stalking traits. They both start out very differently than they end. You would never expect the type of endings from the beginning of the films. They also have the same musical methods as of setting up the mood of the scene, whether it is scary or happy. Another similarity is the way...
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...the surroundings from trees and mountains to towns and cities. Landscapes show many naturalistic aspects of the world around us from nature itself to the various architecture and cities, and what we see and interpret can be expressed differently on a canvas. Both Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire and Field of Poppies are landscape paintings depicting different subject matter within 30 years of each other. Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire was created in 1861, during the transition between Romanticism and Realism, by Albert Bierstadt. This landscape is made with oil on canvas when Bierstadt went to visit New Hampshire, United States of America. Field of Poppies was created in 1890, during the French Impressionism, by Claude Monet. This landscape is made with oil on canvas during the summer in the poppy field near his house in Giverny. These two paintings shows what the artists saw in their surroundings from the lake to the mountain, and from the field to the trees. Both paintings depict how the artists demonstrate their own interpretation of the landscape in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Bierstadt’s Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire retains the idealized, realistic view of the landscape by depicting every detail he sees compared to Monet’s Field of Poppies where the landscape strongly incorporates expressive brushwork, playful colors, and soft lighting. Both of the landscapes use oil on canvas allowing brushwork to either be visible or...
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...11/2/12 UNHP Port of Dieppe, Evening by Claude Monet I have chosen to write my paper on Claude Monet’s painting “Port of Dieppe”. This painting is in the Dixon Art Gallery and Gardens and part of their Ritchie Collection. After researching a little, I found that Claude Monet was a French painter that lived between the times of 1840 to 1926. He was a founder of the French Impressionist Paintings. He had a number of paintings throughout his life, but to me his painting “Port of Dieppe” sticks out more than any other painting I have seen in the art galleries. This painting was completed in Eighteen Eighty-Two, and is an impressionist style of painting. You can see this with the many short strokes Monet has used to make up this entire painting of a seaport with the skyline above a city and boats throughout the water. This painting somewhat can remind one of the painting “Starry Night” from Vincent Van Gogh. I say this, because of the style of painting that it is. All of the small strokes and blurry features of everything in the painting give it a weird look. It is not a detailed picture of exactly everything that he can see, but at the same time there is a lot of detail in every stroke that he has used to make up this entire painting. This is something that attracts me to this painting. The colors in this painting are very vibrant too. From the title and as you can tell in the painting, it is late in the day as the sun is going down. The sky is made up of many different colors...
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...Laroa, Charla Jane H. BSCE-III MWF 9:30-10:30 BAL DU MOULIN DE LA GALETTE Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876 * Subject – Scenery, focus on people in intimate and candid compositions * Function – to depict a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette * Medium (Material) – Oil * Style - vibrant light and has saturated color * Judgment – a typical scene from Paris 1. What is it about? The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. It was an open-air dancehall and café that was frequented by many artists living there. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening. Renoir attended Sunday afternoon dances and enjoyed watching the happy couples. For him, it provided the perfect setting for a painting. This canvas shows Renoir's friends, Frank Lamy, Norbert Goeneutte, and Georges Rivière gathered around the central table. 2. What is it for? And who is the intended bodies / audiences? Especially for working girls and their young men together with a sprinkling of artists who enjoyed the spectacle and also found unprofessional models. The dapple of light is an Impressionist feature but Renoir seems especially to have welcomed the opportunity to make human beings, and especially women, the main components of picture. 3. What are its materials? Or what are the materials used? Renoir...
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...7 Introduction Claude Bernard was a French Physiologist who was best known for his works and discoveries during his lifetime in the field of digestive processes, the liver and the regulation of the supply of the blood though the vasomotor nerves. The most renowned and important discovery of Bernard was related to use of the secretions of the pancreatic tissues to break down the molecules of fat into smaller particles so as to aid the digestion process and the other specific discovery was that the principle process of digestion does not take place in the stomach rather it takes place in the small intestine. His next discovery unveiled the ability of the liver to split the reserves of the glycogen energy into sugar particles so as to use them as a quick source of energy for the body and to maintain the levels of the sugar in the body. Finally, Bernard discovered the control of the vasomotor nerves on the blood vessels, and how it responds to the changes in the temperatures while operating in an environment. With this the Bernard was able to advance his work on blood vessels and tried to understand the ability of the body to constantly maintain the internal temperature. This led him to formulate the ideas in relation to the constancy of the internal environment of the body. In the 19th century his concept of constancy of the internal environment (milieu interieur) was officially presented. In this paper, we are going to analyze the statement made by Claude Bernard in 19th century-...
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...The artist Monet is an impressionist painter whose work influences many, including myself. His graceful art style frequently inspires an abundance of sketches and motivates many of my art projects. The hardships Monet faced during his encourages me to push through any challenges that come my way and not let anything stop me. His life and early career causes me to work hard to achieve an successful life. Claude Monet’s art, hardship and life story has had a significant influence on me and my work. First and foremost, his art work helps develops others . Claude Monet was one of the first artists to start painting impressionist paintings and his style was copied by many other artists. The delicate, calming colours and his deliberate brush strokes...
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...paint it just as it looks to you.” ~ Claude Monet. In the early 1860’s to 1886, French Impressionism took root in society. It was the first complete and radical change in art since the Renaissance. The Impressionists rejected the Renaissance’s balanced composition, idealism, and chiaroscuro, which was a classic technique used for light and shadow. Light and color meant everything, therefore it was easy to see why they abhorred black so much. Simply because it was considered the absence of color. They based their painting technique on how the human eye...
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...When looking at all four art pieces, knowing the culture that both Vermeer and Monet experienced, they feel peaceful and simple but evoke the question of how did they achieve the peace their experiencing? They communicate a story. The milkmaid pours the milk dutifully and with care, but almost too slow as if savoring the moment of the simple task and the peace that comes with it. The girl’s lips are parted as if to tell the viewer to enjoy the simplicity and peace of the moment before it’s gone and the trials begin again. Monet’s paintings of the waterlilies entrances the viewer long enough to create a moment of meditation and peace, until the moment is over and the trance ends. While the works tell their own story, the viewer’s own story is being contemplated and reflected upon. What periods in life have produced trials? Where have the periods of peace come from and how long do they last? Are the moments of peace more enjoyed, more appreciated because of the trials? As these questions flood the viewer’s mind the answers form as the works of art begin to transform and bring forth meaning. First off it is important to realize that one does not ever come to a piece of artwork without preconceptions (Heidegger, 1971). That is personal experiences, previously formed perceptions of the world, and background cultures are what makes someone who they are and it can never come without bias or influence from the world around them. But that is what makes each experience and transformation...
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