20 résultats pour "gothic"
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Modern Art
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American Gothic
American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.
while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...
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Gothic Art and Architecture
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, was begun in 1163 and completed for the most part in 1250.
and by external arches, called flying buttresses. Consequently, the thick walls of Romanesque architecture could be largely replaced by thinner walls with glass windows,and the interiors could reach unprecedented heights. A revolution in building techniques thus occurred. With the Gothic vault, a ground plan could take on a variety of shapes. The general plan of the cathedrals, however, consisting of a long three-aisled nave interceptedby a transept and followed by a shorter choir and sanctuary,...
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- American Gothic - - art.
- The Gothic (oal d'anglais)
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The gothic
These scenes then contain the typical gothic elements of mystery, fear, gloomy, in places where you would not be there
- A Gothic Story
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American Gothic painting, why is this painting one of the most famous american painting?
The models he used were his sister Nan, and his dentist Doctor B.H.
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dossier TALES OF IMAGINATION
Then I will talk about the inspiration of the gothic and what does it reveals about the state of mind of the society. The gothic became popular at first because during the 18th century, there was a refusal of the clacissisme and sentimental novels. That's why the novel of Horace Walpole have a huge success. But HW was inspired by a strange dream in his house because of the disturbing place and the strange atmosphere. As we said before, the writer shows us his world when he write, so Ho...
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Church (building)
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Church (building), a building designed for worship for groups of Christians.
nearby was a basilica; the two are now combined in one building, known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The original Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, replaced bythe present church during the Renaissance, was a huge processional basilica with projecting wings—transepts—forming a Latin cross in plan. The domed, centralizedform persisted in the Byzantine and Slavic East, where medieval churches, small in scale, often took the form of five domes arranged on a Greek cross plan. IV MEDIEVAL EUROPE...
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Sujet de littérature OIB: Gothic literature
The use and effects of setting in G writing : INTRO Gothic literature = developped during romantic period ("darker current of romanticism?"), with an admiration for Middle Ages and its gothic architecture (architecture is important). Gothic : archaic forms, rfces to architecture (abbeys, churches, manors, graveyards): a gothic novel's setting & location are usually essential parameter (a lonely mansion, an eerie castle, deep woodlands, graveyards → strong connections with loneliness/ isola...
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen
English author Jane Austen crafted satirical romances set within the confines of upper-middle-class English society.
up their personal pride and prejudices before they can enter into a happy relationship together. As do Austen’s earlier writings, Pride and Prejudice displays the themes of appearance versus reality, and impulse versus deliberation. Elizabeth, trusting her own impulses, makes a mistake about Darcy and his apparent arrogance that deliberation and further experience eventually cause her to correct. Of Elizabeth, Austenwrote: “I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appea...
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Commentary The adeventures of Huck Finn
same hundrun is emphasized by the use of the modals « would », « could » and the verbal form « used to ». So, this everyday life is depicted by the narrator as « lovely ». The child describes his habits as sacred ones. The way it is depicted seems mechanical : everything has a time to be done and is done by the time the children are allowing it. For instance, they are eating first, then having a nap, then shaving « soon as it was night ». The actions are ennumerated, which emphasize the idea o...
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Roman (Sprache & Litteratur).
4 17. JAHRHUNDERT: DER BEGINN DES MODERNEN ROMANS Ursprünglich als Parodie auf die grassierende Mode der Ritterbücher verfasst, markiert Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605 und 1612) den eigentlichen Beginn des modernen Romans. Rein vordergründig ein Abenteuerroman über einen Landedelmann, der durch exzessive Lektüre der Ritterbücher und Identifikation mitderen Helden zusehends in eine Traumwelt und in Konflikt mit der Wirklichkeit gerät, gelang dem Autor hier ein Werk von eno...
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Berlin - geography.
boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten. Other important central areas include Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, now united as the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, andPrenzlauer Berg, now incorporated as a part of the Pankow borough. Tiergarten contains a large wooded park, a zoo, and a variety of public monuments as well as the large, modern Congress Hall and the Reichstag building, which wasbuilt from 1884 to 1894. The Reichstag and the surrounding area have undergone renovation to accommodate the Bun...
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Qu'est ce qui peut faire échouer le dialogue ?
(I- Echec volontaire ) Lorsqu'une ou plusieurs personnes dialoguent un échange a lieu: mais si une des personnes refusait de parler ? Effectivement , si les participants refusent volontairement d'échanger il ne peut y avoir de di scussion . Prenons l'exemple du mutisme d'un accusé lors d'un procès: si lorsque l'avocat lui pose un certains nombre de question celui -ci n'y répond pas , il met fin au dialogue sans même qu'il n'ai réellement commencé. Le destinataire peut alors avo...
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Canadian Architecture
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L'Anse aux Meadows
In around ad 1000 Norse Vikings sailed from Greenland to North America and set up a village on the tip of what is now
the island of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
IglooSome Inuit peoples in the Arctic regions of Canada live in domed houses of snow, or igloos, which provide good insulationand protection from wind. The word igloo comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.”George Holton/Photo Researchers, Inc. Canada’s original inhabitants are known as the First Nations. At the time of European arrival, about 40 nations were scattered across Canada. Many of them lived alongthe coasts, where they could fish. These nations can be classified into five major gro...
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Middle Ages .
Saints were very important in Late Antiquity. They were considered both models of virtue and powerful miracle workers. One of the most well-known saints of the periodwas Saint Anthony. Anthony gave away all his possessions and left his hometown in Egypt to live alone in the desert and pray. Anthony was one of the first Christianmonks. The word monk comes from a term meaning 'alone.' Gradually Anthony attracted followers, and he eventually became the center of a whole community of monks who wis...
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Portraiture
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Portraiture, visual representation of individual people, distinguished by references to the subject's character, social position, wealth, or profession.
CaracallaCaracalla is a Roman portrait bust in marble of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, probably done circa ad 215. Theson of Septimius Severus, Caracalla (as he was known) was a brutal man whose qualities come through in this piece withits dramatic realism. The bust, which is now in the Louvre, Paris, evidently served as the inspiration for Michelangelo’sbust of Brutus more than one thousand years later.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York The first representations of identifiable ind...