Essays Tagged: "Gertrude Stein"

Georgia O'Keefe: Sky Above Clouds-- An essay about O'Keefe's 1965 painting Sky Above clouds IV.

a model of the modern liberated woman, compared by some to the dancer Isador Duncan and the writer Gertrude Stein (Honour and Flemming 695-96). O'Keefe is considered one of the earliest abstract pain ...

(5 pages) 170 0 4.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

an essay on Hemingway's "A clean and well-lighted place".

Paris. It was here where Hemingway encountered many of the greats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos and Ford Madox Ford. It was Stein who took him under he ...

(4 pages) 181 0 2.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemmingway's In Our Time - an essay comparing the lost generation and the people in Hemmingway's short stories.

" a group of people defined by expatriate writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein who wrote about the tough psychological and physical scars of war, and about the apat ...

(9 pages) 118 1 3.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Picasso

cted the major figures of the avant-garde at this time, including Matisse, Braque, Apollinaire, and Gertrude Stein. He had already produced numerous engravings of great power and began his work in scu ... Slowly, he incorporated the simplified forms he found in these sources into a striking portrait of Gertrude Stein, finished in 1906 and given by her in her will to the Metropolitan Museum. She has a ...

(7 pages) 231 1 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Post WW1 american literature

riters of post WWI Paris hold a prominent place in the history of American literature. Described by Gertrude Stein in the epigraph to Earnest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as "a lost generation," the ... r rest (Stein 122).As Linda Wagner states in her essay "Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein," the expatriate believed she could involve the reader's consciousness and affect a g ...

(7 pages) 140 1 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Pablo Picasso

, the art dealers Ambroise Vollard and Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, and the American expatriate writers Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, who were his first important patrons; Picasso did portraits of t ... a new phase, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian, and African art. His celebrated portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) reveals a masklike treatment of her ...

(7 pages) 220 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Ernest Hemingway: how his life impacted 2 of his works.

d posthumously in 1964. In Paris, Hemingway used Sherwood Anderson's letter of introduction to meet Gertrude Stein and enter the world of ex-patriot authors and artists who inhabited her intellectual ... roduced. In the 1920's, writers such as Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein decried the false ideals of patriotism that led young people to war, only to the bene ...

(18 pages) 277 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Ernest Hemmingway.

tings.Hemingway was introduced to some great writers and artists while in Paris such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce and others. These artists would soon become Hemingway's fr ...

(1 pages) 43 1 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Fan, Summer, 1911, by Picasso The assignment was to relay the steps of Picasso's experiences which led him to this point, Summer, 1911.

ause of what you did in Africa, you'll never see beauty in painting again.Picasso began Portrait of Gertrude Stein in winter, 1905-1906. She had posed 70 or 80 times for Picasso; he could not get it t ... -1906. She had posed 70 or 80 times for Picasso; he could not get it the way he wanted it. He liked Gertrude Stein; she was an affront to society being an open lesbian. Her writing was completely radi ...

(8 pages) 81 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - A Look At The Characters' Lives

Painters such as Picasso, Miro, and Matisse were there, as was an indomitable American woman named Gertrude Stein, who had established a famous salon where painters and writers such as James Joyce, F ...

(13 pages) 106 0 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein`s worksFor many readers and I am not an exception, Gertrude Stein remained a puzzle. ... new ideas about the use of the grammatical principles, the sense of time were the major principles Gertrude Stein implemented in her works. She was very sure of her vision and her methods, as she onc ... at I trying to do and I know when I succeed."She is also one of the cleverest writers. All her life Gertrude Stein searched for wisdom and she was afraid of what the wisdom would do to her.She was one ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Biography of Ernest Hemingway.

erious writing career while spending time with other American expatriates, including Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. In 1926 Hemingway published his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, a depiction o ...

(1 pages) 12 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Paris and Gertrude Stein, A Love Story

ence for peoplearound the globe. The expression "Lost Generation" is a term coined by thewell-known Gertrude Stein, designating the many young writers who fledAmerica to the extraordinary Ville des Lu ... On their arrivalin Paris, the only shelter they had was of the best-known american writer inParis, Gertrude Stein. She was an idol, a star, a goddess among theseyouths, and believed herself to have t ...

(5 pages) 31 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Ernest Hemingway's underlying attitude towards Gertrude Stein in "A Moveable Feast"

"Miss Stein, The Rustic Hag"Although Ernest Hemingway sees Gertrude Stein as a mentor and motherly figure, he mainly portrays her as a self-righteous, domineer ... ays her as a self-righteous, domineering, and critical woman. In the beginning, Hemingway described Gertrude Stein as cordial and friendly with "beautiful eyes and a strong German-Jewish face" which r ... strong German-Jewish face" which reminded him of a "peasant woman". These physical descriptions of Gertrude, by Hemingway, can be interpreted as his conception of her being an old, matronly-unwed and ...

(1 pages) 14 0 3.7 Jan/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

"Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein - a fragment analysis

let in and there places change then certainly something is upright. It is earnest." (G.S., TB., pg3)Gertrude Stein is best known for her experimental modernist unique style. The uniqueness lies in the ... cked meant that the more people were losing their original perceiving power.By using imagist means, Gertrude Stein creates the same thing. She forces the reader to reread a poem, free his mind from an ...

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Hemingway

Ernest became acquainted with many prominent writers of the time. Two such writers, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, influenced Ernest a great deal. Hemingway's son, John Nicanor, was born after they s ... it was published by Scribners. In this story, Hemingway ridiculed the work of Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein, two writers who had helped and influenced him. Hemingway met Scott Fitzgerald throug ...

(5 pages) 6 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Untitled

with his own fiction. In Paris, Hemingway was introduced to an intimate circle of writers including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. As one would ima ...

(26 pages) 42 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The price of objectivity (crit

istakes, never having the subjectivity to learn from her mistakes. All of these can be summed up in Gertrude Stein's now famous quip, that they are all a 'lost generation'.And why is this generation a ...

(3 pages) 880 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Pablo Picasso

innings of cubism. Some of the artwork done by Picasso during this period are Glass Vessels (1906), Gertrude Stein (1906), Self-Portrait with Palette (1906), Nude (Bust) (1907), The Dance of the Veils ...

(4 pages) 23 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Death In The Woods

derson?s prose is stripped of sentimentality and yet conveys emotion. He was strongly influenced by Gertrude Stein and used poetic repetition and variations in words, phrases, and sentence structure t ...

(5 pages) 16 0 4.8 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists