Essays Tagged: "portraits"

Red guards (mao zedong)

d other activities.The man they looked up to most was a person by the name of Mao.They carried huge portraits of him and also carried banners and flags. Manypeople in the group beat on gongs and drums ...

(2 pages) 91 1 3.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Gospels

ntric StudiesThe four Gospels are neither histories of the life of Christ nor biographies. They are portraits of the person and work of the long promised Messiah, Israel's King and the world's Savior. ... ving, dynamic, unique personality. God became man to work out man's redemption from sin. These four portraits present Him as Lord and Savior, rather than describing all He did and in the precise order ...

(2 pages) 159 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

My Poor House

kitchen, where my mother had a little pot full of it.. The freshly painted walls were covered with portraits of family members and friends, which hung neatly in their fancy wooden frames. The fibers ...

(2 pages) 269 3 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Women's Fashion and Cosmetics

omen rather than liberate them. Make-up is money and timeconsuming, billboard images send out false portraits and high-fashionfootwear is costly health wise and economically.A considerable amount of t ...

(2 pages) 175 1 2.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Leonardo Da Vinci one of the greatest artists pertold in history. He created several tremendous and infamous art pieces including "The Mona Lisa." This was only one of his several extradinary works.

creations unfinished. He stayed in Milan for seventeen years. There he completed six paintings: two portraits of the 'Last Supper', two versions of 'The Virgin of the Rocks', and a decorative ceiling ...

(3 pages) 148 0 3.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Change of Character. This essay is a character analysis of Dee in Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use." The grade was an 85 and could have been higher if the grammer would have been better!

here is a fine line of distinction between the traits and aspirations of the two. Alice Walker drew portraits through her words of three women in a family in the short story. Maggie was the youngest d ...

(2 pages) 221 1 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Hieronymus Bosch.

n began to get even more popular because authors would write about him and other artists would draw portraits of him. Bosch was a Dutch man and many other painters from that area began to try and pain ...

(4 pages) 49 0 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Phillis Wheatley

etic self-consciousness a literary subject in and of itself. She gives us one of the most searching portraits available of the American provincial consciousness.Moreover, her poems ably and imaginativ ...

(1 pages) 90 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors

"To Kill A Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee Essay - This novel is about prejudice and racism.

inson is an innocent victim of prejudice in society.In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee portraits Tom Robinson as a man who is a victim of racial prejudice. While reading the novel, I lear ... inside these black people there was just another human being with a heart.In the novel, the author portraits Tom Robinson as a man who's a victim of racial prejudice. In the town of Maycomb, coloured ...

(4 pages) 60 2 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Titian, One of the greatest Artists of the High Renesance.

white. This made him quest for a perfect red, that would bring out life in his paintings. He did do portraits of famous people, but his love of painting centered in the region of Greek Mythology (main ... an representation displayed more of his outstanding paintings, all having to do with Christ and the portraits of wealthy people. The one that was most interesting was The Cardinal Benba, in which Titi ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Newspaper- Janice Sauco"- art criticism in newspaper format.

depending on the size and medium. The majority of paintings are made from watercolor. She has house portraits, pets, animals, murals, and ocean landscape. There are fantasy illustrations with mermaids ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

This essay is all about an Artist of the Dutch Baroque period, Rembrandt Van Rijn; about his life and how it was important to inspiring other artists...

t Latin School where he learned a great deal about religion that later influenced his paintings and portraits.He enrolled at the University of Leiden. After a few months he discovered that it did not ... vens.An art dealer in Amsterdam, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, started to send Rembrandt commissions for portraits. In the 1630's, at the age of 24, he not only painted portraits, but started making small ...

(3 pages) 73 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Style of Cat 2s Cradle

antages of postmodernism, in other words with absolute freedom to create, in Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut portraits the turbulent society of the post-II.W.W. America in a humourous way in contrast to its co ... who is not aware of what he has done even the day the atomic bomb was dropped to Hiroshima.Vonnegut portraits him as ignorant of morality and responsibility in a humourous way. For instance, in the no ...

(8 pages) 29 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the Beauty of Life"

broke away from the movement in his later years for a more disciplined and structured technique for portraits and figure paintings. Renoir painted the beauty in what he saw; the beauty in life. Moreov ... rson can appreciate the beauty of mother nature.By the mid 1880's was when Renoir moved to painting portraits and figures with a more formal technique. One of these paintings was "In the Garden (1885) ...

(4 pages) 53 0 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Andy Warhol - 20th Century Genius

p cans. In the 1970s and 1980s, he began using photography and silk-screening techniques to capture portraits of everyday objects and celebrities like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monro ... he does not care about anything. Andy Warhol was a writer, philosopher, film-maker and artist whose portraits of soup cans, celebrities and the social scene made him perhaps the best-known figure in w ...

(5 pages) 202 2 3.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

How does Macbeth follow what is expected in a Shakespearean Tragedy?

ness and death to convey most of his ideas.The Tragedy of Macbeth is undoubtedly one of the darkest portraits of a villain that Shakespeare could have ever written. The first sign of a Shakespearean t ...

(3 pages) 20 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A comparison between 'Tirra Lirra By the River' by Jessica Anderson, 'Diana: Queen of Hearts' and 'Starry Starry night' by Don Mclean in reference to the topic of Portraits

Portraits are often described as images and faces of people and how we view them or how they are por ... n or it can also be an expression of a time or situation, a person's behaviour and characteristics. Portraits can be represented in many different types of text including Dance, Biographies, Film, Poe ... responder can immediately get the desired view of the portrait as the composer. In three particular portraits, 'Tirra Lirra By the River', 'Diana: Queen of Hearts' and 'Starry Starry night', we can se ...

(5 pages) 62 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

In Search of Dracula (Chapter 4)

rescu, largely focuses on how he was prince of Wallachia. Furthermore, chapter four talks about his portraits and his artifacts. In addition, it was here where Dracula committed a large amount of his ... nasteries and castles, and fought many battles (29).During his reign in Wallachia, Dracula had many portraits taken of him, and many artifacts left behind, after his death in 1476. After his death, th ...

(2 pages) 30 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

How does Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Matt Groening's "The Simpsons" reflect the negative attitude of their respective society

the church is being criticized by his descriptions of religious figures. For example, in one of his portraits, the monk is supposed to lead a simple life focused on god, but instead, he lives lavishly ...

(2 pages) 38 1 3.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Poetry anyalsis of the "Root Cellar"

re". These words have a pessimistic tone. He hated the place he was speaking of. I believe the poem portraits a place where ghost are inhabited and Roethke is afraid and wishes to not go there.The tit ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry