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- 5931: Walt Disney
- Walt Disney, American cartoonist and motion picture producer, has made a big impact on today's animated motion picture industry. His great talent as a cartoonist and producer has inspired many of today's great film-makers. Here is a short summary of the early beginning and career of probably the greatest animator and film writer of all time. Walt Disney, in full Walter Elias Disney, was born on December ...
- 5932: W.B.Yeats And Leda And The Swan
- ... language, we can see that the poem does indeed have a rhyme scheme, following the ababcdcd efgefg pattern. In the octave, Yeats creates an image of time nearly standing still, with all these events of great magnitude happening to Leda. The reader may almost see the scene as a series of still photographs. The immediate immersion into the action puts the reader in a similar position to Leda, struggling to make ... and somewhat muted, as though we were watching ourselves from a distance. The immediacy of the situation, however, remains. Yeats sets the tone of the poem by contrasting the beauty and strength of the swan; "great wings" (1), "feathered glory" (6), "brute blood of the air" (11), "indifferent" (13), with the powerlessness of Leda; "staggering" (2), "helpless" (4), "terrified" (5), being "mastered by" Zeus (11). There is also a theme that ...
- 5933: Swan Lake Vs. Revelations
- ... on. In Swan Lake there was only instrumental music. This made the performance a little less interesting. It seemed to be missing that one thing that could have turned my opinion around. Revelations was a great experience for me. I enjoyed watching it. I can tell that it is considered the all American modern dance classic. The choreography of the piece was amazing. I was particularly moved by the selection entitled ... more simple reasons are because of the better music, it was shorter and it did not seem to lag, and the dance moves were more appealing to me. I think that Alvin Ailey did a great job reworking the performance. I would definitely recommend this performance to my peers.
- 5934: Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Private Ryan War cannot be faced. It is too dreadful. It is the great emptiness that stands before life, transforms itself into a million shapes of unutterable horror, then returns to mocking silence. It is the nightmare from which we can never awake, because the nightmare is the truth ... the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War II to reveal its brutal reality, creating a phenomenology of violence unsurpassed in the history of cinema. "Saving Private Ryan" is a very good film, not a great one, but it will forever change the way people imagine the most important event in 20th century history. That is no small achievement. The film's most extraordinary sequence is its depiction of the landing ...
- 5935: Romanticism In Music
- ... in the employment of a wealthy family. He was allowed the opportunity to pursue his musical interests C and abilities by a group of Hungarian noblemen. While studying, he formed friendships with some of the great leaders of romanticism such as Chopin. One of the most influential moments in Liszt=s life was the appearance of the violinist Paganini. This made him aware of the possibilities of being a virtuoso instrumentalist. Liszt , being one of the greatest pianists of all time exceeded this. He was energetic and outgoing, being that that is what great musicians are made of. Liszt was popular with the ladies, almost like a nineteenth century Elvis, and he encouraged all kinds of Aunnecessary@ behaviour from his audience C such as ladies tearing his handkerchief to ...
- 5936: Report On Opera
- ... Kammer, Singspiel, lyrique, light and intermezzo. Opera is today the generic term used for a variety of different pieces, ranging from: Aida, La Perichole, Night Flight, and West Side Story. With its new face and great variety, opera now has a lot more to offer to a younger, changing audience. Two such pieces are Rappresentatione Di Anima et di Corpo by Cavalieri, and Romeo et Juliette by Gounod. This first piece ... Ultimately, Heaven and Guardian Angel conquer Soul and Intellect, while Death will conquer Body. Through a series of dramatic interludes involving a vast mixture of upbeat, higher-pitched notes, and slower, deeper-pitched notes, the great battle and internal conflict tears up the stage. Although the main theme of the piece is the glorification of God and the victory of virtue, indeed the music glorifies Life as a whole, and something ...
- 5937: Renaissance Art 2
- ... famous sculpture of David, Michaelangelo demonstrates the nude idealism. Another of these types of artists was Raphael who also followed the same pattern as observed in his famous painting the Madonna of the Goldfinch. Another great artist that followed the same concept was Titian. In his international style, he drew religious and secular paintings that stressed several ideas about life and ascertained its achievement in the high Italian Renaissance. He also ... freedom. These genius artists such as Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Titian began to gain status thus creating deep prestige for the arts. Furthermore, through the various themes, morals, and ideas that each paintings carried, great changes for the society and religion throughout the magnificent period of rebirth were able to take place.
- 5938: Propaganda In Film
- ... through propaganda, and the most effective medium that he found was film. It appealed to everyone, young and old. Hitler once stated that "The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses." The movies of German filmmaker Fritz Hippler were shown to audiences around the ... to promote the idea of military preparedness. Another film, Civilization, 1916, reflected President Woodrow Wilson's view and campaign slogan "Keep us out of War". Following World War I, few films were made about The Great War until the late 1920's. With the coming of of sound, messages could be more effective. All Quiet on the Western Front depicted the excitement and danger of war and the public came to ...
- 5939: Portraits Of Ingres And Reynolds
- ... and white shirt, as well. These colors working together allow you to make certain assumptions about him. He looks like a working man, which he was. Louis-Francois Bertin (1766-1841), was one of the great leaders of the French upper middle class, a businessman and a journalist (Rosenblum, 134). This would explain the one striking color in the piece, the red. Bertin is sitting on a red cushion, red being ... he married for her money, was plain and unpleasant. He maintained a small residence in the street behind the Burgoynes, and he found Anna Maria a delight and a refuge from the gloom of his great house in Cavendish Square. For her sake he lent Captain Burgoyne, a compulsive gambler, a large sums and never demanded repayment. The day after the birth of her boy, named John, Bingley stood as godfather ...
- 5940: Parthenon
- ... our superiority in architecture it's this building. These might have been some of the thoughts that ran through the mind of the Greeks during this time period. The one thing that gave the Athenians great pleasure was the temple they built, which was also a cause of envy and amazement. The Greeks enemy was even quoted saying, " the Greeks must be outraged," they cried. "They must consider this an act ... is not just a building that survived many wars and people's depredation; the Parthenon is a depiction of the Greek's culture and architectural skills. This is a look into the soul of a great culture that lived hundreds of years ago.
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