Category: Art

Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist artist. Van Gogh sought refuge from severe depression at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. In 1889, while looking out a window, he became inspired to paint Starry Night. He wrote this to his brother Theo, “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before…

The original thinking of how science worked before was that the elements of fire, water, earth, and air made up matter and would mix and combine to create all things that we can see. The Earth was believed to be the center of space with all the other planets rotating around it, carrying the stars.…

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and “Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski were acceptable, elegantly composed sci-fi stories. The two stories utilized innovation to extraordinarily change the existence of the principle characters. “A Sound of Thunder” included dinosaurs and a time machine in which the characters used to return on schedule. The time machine was…

Music is the art of combining and balancing sounds of various pitches to produce compositions that express various ideas and emotions. Music has been around for thousands of years. It has just changed and advanced along with the society that surrounds it. As well it has been used to express what is going on in…

Did you know Aretha Franklin taught herself how to play piano, but couldn’t read music? She was also the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Hall of Fame. Aretha’s net worth is an astonishing 80 million dollars. Did you also know that one her childhood friends was Smokey Robinson, and that in…

The Renaissance was the period of “rebirth” and creativity that followed Europe’s Middle Ages. Also, the Renaissance was a cultural movement that initially began in Florence, Italy, but later spread throughout Europe. It started around 1350 and ended around 1600. During the Renaissance, people experienced changes in art, inventions, and education. First, the Renaissance had…

Period 4B In this exceptionally expressive extract, Mary Oliver has an extraordinary appreciation for nature in view of its perplexing yet adjusting structure. By being both frightening and excellent, nature fills the world with differentiating substances that can be “passing bearers” or bring “immobilizing satisfaction. ” Oliver utilizes symbolism, parallelism, and differentiating to communicate her…

The literary world has seen the rise and fall of many writers who have provided a significant contribution to the enlightenment of the society on various issues through their works. This has been through poems, songs or skits that both entertain and educate the people. Therefore, the study offers both similarities and differences between two…

The Renaissance is what made the Protestant Reformation and Age of Discovery happen. It was the time of the rebirth. The rebirth was the life-changing point in European history that started somewhere around the 14th to the 17th century. It was the social change that started in Italy and finally spread throughout Europe. It saw…

On April 8, 1483, Raphael was born. He would go on to ranked among the greatest artists to ever live. He became one of the great master artist of the Renaissance period. He was very active and prolific, despite him dying when he was thirty-seven, and many of his works of art remain around today.…