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States That Manet Bar At The Folies Bergre Painting
1,257 wordsManet's painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergre, was an integral factor in the rise of a new era in art; through the emergence of a contemporary Parisian city, Modern art began to flourish during the late 1800 's. Being a painting of extreme complexity and ambiguity, many art critics have commented on the formal aspects of the painting, as well as the social reactions to this specific, and novel form of art. The purpose and meaning of the mirror behind the lady and the disparity of reality versus r...
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Tale Of Two Cities Sydney Carton
1,409 wordsA Tale of Two Cities By: CHARLES DICKENS Published by: THE NEW AMERICAN, INC. Published in the year 1960 354 PAGES Guillermo Chiu Social Studies Period / G Summary of Novel "A Tale of Two Cities" is written by Charles Dickens and it takes place in France and England during the troubled times of the French Revolution. The characters travels to both country but most of the story happens in Paris, France. The hot spot of the French revolutionists, mostly takes place in a wineshop in Paris, because ...
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Late Nineteenth Century Thames And Hudson
1,715 words... the others, it is a very 'real' expression, she looks tired, disinterested, possibly she has had a very hard day before she went out to socialise. Manet depicted other social activities of the people of Paris. Manet loved painting any fun activity where crowds of people gather. An early painting where horses rush straight at the viewer while crowds of people watch on both sides is Racing at Longchamp, showing a popular social activity at the time. He depicted people skating in the aptly name...
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Young Wife Second Husband
1,814 wordsShakespeare the Chauvinist? Was Shakespeare a chauvinist, or was he just a product of his times? Throughout the years, this question has been discussed many times by many different scholars, and varying conclusions have been reached. In my opinion, Shakespeare was neither a chauvinist, nor a product of the times. The man we know as Shakespeare, (or for those who would argue that Shakespeare was not the actual author, we will say the man who wrote the plays) had an attitude about women, an apprec...
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The Wonderful Wizard Of One Americas Favorite Pieces
1,060 wordsThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz one of Americas favorite pieces of juvenile literature. Children like it because it is a good story, full of fun characters and exciting adventures. Adults especially those involved in the study of history and related field adore it because they can read between L. Frank Baum's lines and see various images of the United States at the turn of the century. An extensive analysis of this compelling book by conducted by many contemporary critics and historians shows that th...
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Current Biography Wasn T
1,811 wordsThe Life and Times of Coco Chanel There have been many women of great influence throughout the years, but in the world of fashion there was one above all the rest: Coco Chanel. After years of triumphs and failures, she gracefully stated, |Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. X Gabrielle |Coco X Chanel was a great woman of her time, from her humble beginnings to becoming the most influential designer of h...
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Satie Erik Erik Satie Paris
363 wordsThe Satie, Erik Satie, Erik The French composer Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, and died on July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1879 but failed to benefit from academic education, which he embarked on again only in his 40 th year, when he enrolled as a pupil of Vincent d Indy and Albert Roussel at the School Cantorum. Long before that, however, he had composed a number of short piano pieces, whose eccentric titl...
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Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Empire
5,535 wordsThe French Revolution French Revolution, cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to 1799. The revolution resulted, among other things, in the overthrow of the Bourbonmonarchy in France and in the establishment of the First Republic. It was generated by avast complex of causes, the most important of which were the inability of the ruling classes of nobility, clergy, and bourgeoisie to come to grips with the problems of state, the indecisive nature of the monarch, impoverish...
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Manet S Intentions Bar At The Folies Bergerex Painting
1,174 wordsEdouard Manet Before attempting to analyse the significance of gender within Edouard Manet+s work entitled |A Bar atthe Folies-Bergerex, one must first identify, and note, the somewhat colourful events which occurred within the artist life, and note the way in which they must have undoubtedly prejudiced his work. Born in France in 1832, Manet was raised by his parents Auguste and Eugenie-Desiree; a society couple, whos social standing resulted from Auguste+s successful career in the Ministry of ...
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South Seas Art Gallery
480 wordsGauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a liberal middle-class family. After an adventurous early life, including a four-year stay in Peru with his family and a stint in the French merchant marine, he became a successful Parisian stockbroker, settling into a comfortable bourgeois existence with his wife and five children. In 1874, after meeting the artist Camille Pissarro and viewing the first Impressionist exhibition, he became a collector and amateur painter. He exhibited with the Impr...
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Committee Of Public Safety Constituent Assembly
1,134 wordsFrench Revolution, cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to 1799. The revolution resulted, among other things, in the overthrow of the monarchy in France and in the establishment of the First Republic. It was generated by a vast complex of causes and produced an equally vast complex of consequences. For more than a century before the accession of King Louis XVI in 1774, the French government experienced periodic economic crises resulting from wars, royal mismanagement, a...
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Franco Prussian War Guy De
4,595 wordsGuy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant is acknowledged through the world as one of the masters of the short story; Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, three travel journals, six novels, and many chronicles. He produced some three hundred short stories in the single decade from 1880 to 1890; a period during which he produced most of his other works. Five of his six novels were published during the second half of the decade. His short fiction has been c...
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Enlightenment In France Kornmann And Bergasse Mesmerism
1,458 wordsIn his book, Mesmerism and the Enlightenment in France, Robert Dranton attempts to explain the mentality of the pre-Revolution Frenchman. He uses th e theory and expansions of Franz Anton Mesmer. In his noble effort, Dranton explains the frantic nature of the educated Frenchman at this time and since he has chosen specific eye to see through, his intention is satisfied. He also shows how the radical branches of mesmerism carried on long after the revolution and affected the thinking of many grea...
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Emma Bovary Middle Class
890 wordsemail: title: The Need For Change Change is a central theme in the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, and is key to understanding the character of Emma Bovary. Through parallel events the reader comes to realize that Emma's need for change is the result of the influence her early life had upon her. At the convent Emma is left to develop into an extreme romantic with high hopes for excitement and dreams of sensuous pleasures that will never be fulfilled. Thus, when life refuses to conform ...
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Money And Power Fifty Thousand
1,420 wordsOld Goriot Success: Love, Money, Power? Isn? t it a fine game to play, after all, to be alone against mankind and to have luck on your side? (p. 125) states Vautrin. Honore de Balzac, in his novel Old Goriot, places us, the readers in Eugene de Rastignac? s mind. The position in which Balzac prepares the readers to learn about Paris and Parisian life is set up brilliantly. What better way to teach the readers that to have them experience the main character? s experiences. The lesson Honore de Ba...
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