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- 4701: Georges Seurat - Hi Painting
- ... did notice the foreground is not stable. On the left of the painting the water is not supported; the trees are placed against a green which, from this angle, rises above the water only with great difficulty. The resulting evocation of the movement of the water and the falling away of the ground is well understood by the painter, but far less clearly understood by the spectator who has nothing either ... previously drawn from nature. The dog will remain the only creature in the painting, apart from the pug and the monkey which were there for spatial depth. Once the landscape was finally fixed Seurat had great difficulty filling it with people. This was more important in the painting than the depth or surface pattern. He wanted to create a magical atmosphere that the artist was able to create from the abstract ...
- 4702: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao s letters helped establish in Magellan s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage. Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a military expedition to Morocco. On this expedition, Magellan would suffer a wound that would make him limp for the rest of his life. After returning ... three remaining ships sailed out of the strait and into the ocean. Magellan named the ocean the pacific, which means peaceful, because it appeared calm compared with the stormy Atlantic. Sailing across the Pacific involved great hardship for Magellan and his crew. They were the first Europeans ever to sail across the Pacific Ocean, and it was far larger than anyone had imagined. They sailed for 98 days without seeing any ...
- 4703: Frank Lloyd Wright
- The greatest artist this country has ever produced seems to at last be coming into his own. America s other great artists our painters, sculptors, composers don t really rank with the tops of all time. They re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing. (Robert Campbell) One of America s most ... lives that had marked the earlier destruction in 1914). Wright s financial problems were so severe that his creditors foreclosed on Taliesin in 1926 and evicted him from his home in 1927. Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation, to generation, from age, to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances they change. That is architecture. (Frank Lloyd Wright pg. 106) Despite ...
- 4704: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in 1954 (Rood 187). On July 2, 1961, Hemingway was found dead with self inflicted wounds at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (Rood 188). A great lose for all literature lovers and admirers. Hemingway had many kinds of writing style, from his style compared to Cezanne painting style to that of his style having short and simple sentences. Sheldon Norman described ... severe discipline he said (Lesniak 192). People compare his writing style to that of Cezanne s painting style. A Cezanne like simplicity of scene is built up with the touches of a master and the great effects are achieved with a sublime economy. At these moments, style and substance are of one piece, each growing from the other, and one cannot imagine that life could exist except as describe (Lesniak 193 ...
- 4705: Emmy Noether
- ... to follow, but those who caught on to her fast style became loyal followers. Noether's teaching method led her students to come up with ideas of their own, and many went on to become great mathematicians themselves. Many credited Noether for her part in teaching them to teach themselves. Peace-loving Noether was soon to wish for peace again. In 1933, Hitler and the Nazis came into power in Germany ... s college was very different for Noether. For the first time, she had colleagues that were women. Anna Pell Wheeler, another woman mathematician, was the head of the department at Bryn Mawr, and became a great friend of Noether. Wheeler understood about how Emmy had to struggle to have a career in mathematics in Germany, and about being uprooted from her homeland. Noether was still a caring and compassionate teacher. She ...
- 4706: Einstein
- ... 1941. He lived in Princeton for over twenty years. He soon faded out of the public world, lived his own life, and died. Einstein died on April 18, 1955. We still remember him for his great acts toward war, toward the improvement of this world, and for his great sense of compassion to his fellow man. Hopefully, in time to come, Einstein and his theories will not be forgotten.
- 4707: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, the author states, "Poe's narrowness is like that of a sword, not that of a bottleneck: it is effective rather than constricting. Nothing adventitious is in his great stories, only the essentials, and the minimum of characterization, plot, and atmosphere. By ridding himself of everything except what is precisely to the point, he achieves unity of effect. " (66). Also there is also a ... Poe more in depth, I now have a much greater respect for him and a slightly different perspective of his stories. While it is still evident to me that narrative style and settings have a great deal to do with the development of Poe's short stories, I also realize now that we can't overlap and intertwine with other aspects of the story, making them equally as important. I will ...
- 4708: Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
- One of the greatest and most mysterious authors in history is Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in Boston in 1809. A great deal of information is known about him but yet very few are verifiable. Poe has a reputation of giving false information to the media. The place and date of which he is born is controversial ... supposedly ruined him. His parents allowed him to carry extravagant amounts of money, which enabled him to get into all manner of mischief, according to his masters. John Allan took his family and moved to Great Britain to set up business in 1815. The Allan family stayed in Britain for five years where Poe did not excel in school but his performance did not drop either. The stay in Britain was ...
- 4709: Edward Vii
- Peaceful yet popular and very well respected, Edward VII plays an influential part in bringing Great Britain, France, and Russia together in 1907 into the Triple Entente. One of the most wittiest and inventive satirist s writers in England is a journalist most noted for his fiction pieces, known as Hector ... the Duke of Cornwall (www.spartacus.com). In 1863, Edward married Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The Prince and Princess have six children (Encyclopedia Americana). In 1901, Edward is the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland and empire of India (Encyclopedia Americana, 544). Edward takes place in many public duties, has a close interest in politics, and has an intrest in the military. He opposed attemps to reduce ...
- 4710: Eliot Ness
- ... the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle age when he was born. Due to this Eliot was a remarkable well-behaved boy, full of integrity and enthusiasm. Eliot was an ... networking of police in a city. He also left an undeniable mark upon the city of Cleveland, virtually ridding it of corruption on all levels. The downfall of Capone was the most obvious of his great achievements. Yet Ness left behind one contribution which few men have managed to leave. A legend. Ness aspired to become a hero in the true sense of the word. Throughout history true tales of heroes ...
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