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Knowledge of Art

Paintings and sculptures

I know many famous sculptures and paintings but I cannot always remember the artist who created it.

Classical music

The classical music is like the paintings and sculptures, I can pretty say that I know this one but composer is unknown to me. I can summary Beethoven’s biography and I know some symphonies of Mozart because my old German teacher use to play some in class before it begins.

English-language literature

I never read any literature in English they were often translated for my French courses. When I hear English literature, the only name that rings me something is of course William Shakespeare the England writer.

The history of the English language

The English language is cousin with the german because they came from the same place. At the beginning who couldn’t speak about English or german, they didn’t exist yet. They were the Anglo-Saxons fierce enemies of the gothic (who are now the French).

New guitar player

Since 3 weeks I have begun to play guitar, for a new comer into this world, I’m a fast learner. I can for now play some parts of pennywise – Bro hymn, Zelda – ocarina of time, system of a down – aerials and I currently practicing linkin park – numb and deep purple – smoke on the water.

Sharing my talent with class

Sorry for the bad news but I’m still not enough a good guitar player to show my talent to the entire class ;P

Suggestions

We could speak about Alchemy Gothic (http://www.alchemygothic.com/). It’s a company who publish all kinds of pictures about creatures and skeletons. It’s a website who worth to be visited…

Learning about the biography of some famous writers like Shakespeare would be great. Also take a quick look at his pieces less known than Romeo and Juliette. Maybe see Disney first artwork.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sleepy afternoon

“Summertime” from the opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSNU_SEkTI&feature=related

Even when the opera’s are in French, I don’t understand a heck word. It’s still a smooth song.

Six Dots over a Mountain by Alexander Calder:

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/66.790.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/calder3.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/calder4.jpg

Ya I think I know this type of art… Wait a minute, isn’t recycling. Gathering trash and doing visual trash with it… I really don’t like this art sculpture.

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “In Another Country”:

http://apo.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/villanova/hemingway/original.htm

The story mainly speak about men who went to war and came back. Now they meet each other at the hospital. It’s sad to know that the major’s wife died before he could see her.

Strange indians, pony and alcoholic familly

The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjX3oAwv_Fs

It’s an old piece with music and uncommon actors. I don’t appreciate the melody ’cause  the choreography is very, I’m looking at them jumping they are like bunnies in white and orange.

Look at I and the Village by Marc Chagall:

http://palad1n.com/images/village.jpg

I don’t like it, the characters are too strange even me, I could do a better pony. The color chosen don’t tickle my eyes.

Act IV of Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

There’s still a separation between the beliefs of the father and the son because at a moment the dad says that atheism is not good and that God is the only one that could give hope. The story describes a day in 1912 when a lot of things happen. If I understood well, the characters are addicted to the alcohol and drugs.

Gremlin and blog good combination

the 1812 Overture by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

It make me feel in harmony, we could but this song into a drama movie and it should make people feel more the feelings of the thorned character. Than almost at middle we could see the character redress him and take his weapons. Around 4:50 the man enters into the building fifty seconds later he figures out that he made a mistake. Guess I’m gonna stay a student movie director isn’t my strength ;P

2. Look at the following photos of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin:

It’s a popular statue who isn’t unknown to many. I was thinking that this statue was from one of the great Leonardo or Michaelango . I did’t know that the first name of that sculpture was The Poet. It was created for the Decorative Art Museum.The creator wanted to represent at the same time a heroic Dante and a man thinking to his poem.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

It was strange to read a story into a story and i didn’t know some words so i needed to go search and then come back to the text, it took me a while to read it.

Back from far

“Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRvNL-A9gGs

Ah old music used to create a piece, like McDonald say it pretty well. “I’M loving it”. Also, I don’t know if it’s me but the video are featuring each time more beautiful women

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir:

http://www.bookstacks.org/sundry/images/renoir01.jpg

this painting isn’t far away in the time like the first one, it’s a nice painting and find funny to see the girl on the left speaking to her doggy.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens is a great writer, it’s sometimes hard to understand the first time the whole text but reading more than one

time can teach you that it’s speaking about the French revolution.

Triple dot

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet concerto in A major:

It’s a happy song; I can imagine it into a Disney comic with bambis and Thumpers running over the fields. The clarinet player isn’t ugly perhaps it’s what makes the concerto better than Mozart ;P

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David:

The painting is called The Coronation of Napoleon but it’s like the Finding Charlie game. We must try to find Napoleon over this massive crown. Jacques-Louis David made wanted to put many details in his painting like the expression of the woman knee waiting to be pronounce princess or something like that.

I pronounce Jacques-Louis David the Creator and Inventor of finding Napoleon!

3. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

It’s different from the ones before because this time we don’t speak about a guy who is asking himself what he must do the entire piece. It is great that the author speak both about Good and Evil.

Nummer 6

1. Listen to the “Hallelujah” chorus by George Frideric Handel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXmIjpGsGc

 

It’s too smooth, are we gonna reach the rock bands one day 😛 I would be great lol. I’m not a fan of chords song but this one is not really the best one seen in the course. The only classical music who could be put into my playlist his dark melodies like apocalyptica from era.

 

2. Look at The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gianlorenzo Bernini:

http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/images/lowrez/bernini_st_teresa_avila.jpg

 

On this statue the angel seems to have fun looking the woman in ecstasy. It is like if the angle was envying the human and at the same time like if he wanted to punish her with the arrow’s head. It the marble statue who makes me ask questions. Asking myself if the angel would kill the woman by jealousy or only because he have been ordered to.

 

 “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public” by Jonathan Swift

 

 It’s an interesting text, with a rich vocabulary and it’s easy to understand the story. There’re less confusing parts then a Shakespearian play, it’s what making the story greater ‘cause it’s really insulting to do not understand something

 

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“Little Fugue in G Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach:

When I’m listening this piece, I see the count Dracula playing energetically on his organ, to seduce his new prey and lick her blood. Prefer this piece that the first ones you presented us.

Officer and Laughing Girl by Jan Vermeer:

The shadows on this painting is well done, it’s great to see a old map with lot of details behind the lady. It’s a painting really realistic not realistic like di Vinci could do but probably the second painting the most realistic presented in this course

To His Mistress Going to Bed” by John Donne

It’s like a poem who could be recently wrote, but I guess, it’s been a while that the author have putted it on paper with his nib. It’s a good picture next to this romantic poem, guess further we go into the course better the text are going. We started with text who couldn’t be read by anyone and now we have masterpiece who could inspire us to write love letters to the ONE.

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Tu se morta doesn’t impress me; it’s boring, the rhythm is too slow and too unpleasant. It’s probably the worst audio piece you presented us on the internet. The others ones had more rhythm a good beat even if they have been wrote centuries before the car.

There’s a lot of detail into this marble statue, Michelangelo must have studied the human body as well as Leonard De Vinci to curve all the muscles on the chest. Naked like this I hope, he didn’t want go swim ‘cause his idea gonna sank….

Gosh! it’s confusing to read this, I tried to read the first page and my eyes were trying to go out party somewhere more comprehensive, I prefer the old stories like last week with nobles, knights, magicians and ladies oh ya!

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“As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending” by Thomas Weelkes:

I think the classical music have been invented to calm down the folks because no one would want to make a murder on a classical beat music. It’s a good classical music but I prefer the Agnus Dei from Guillaume de Machaut it’s like an old monk mantra.

Leonard da Vinci’s The Virgin and Child with St. Anne

This painting makes me feel like a child, because I remember me playing with my legos, mom watching me proud of super car that could fly away in my imagination. I have already seen this painting in a philosophy course, why spoke about the problems of Leonard who had 2 mothers and also the swan form into the blue dress. Strangely more we progress in the time more the paintings become more beautiful and with greater details.

 Chapters I to VII from Book I of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory

I love the topics about knights and kings, it’s making me return into my childhood. This text is more readable than the last one (”The Wife of Bath Tale”) and it’s the same subject with magicians, kings. The bad comment about this text is that I would want to have an audio file to hear it with the English accent like Beowulf’s story.

Second steps

Agnus Dei from Guillaume de Machaut

It make me feel peaceful, it’s a got music to relax in your bath with candles. It’s none aggressive and really smooth like when some people put mediation songs and concentrate on themselves.

I like this music better than the one presented in class, I suggest any teacher play Agnus Dei from Guillaume de Machaut in class, at least I hope they don’t expect the students is gonna stay awake 😛

 

The kiss of Judas – Giotto

This painting is probably the first illustration of a homosexuality in the catholic’s church history; perhaps the Italians godfathers have been inspired of this, when the begun to give the Death kiss.

This painting is like the painting why seen in class, it a bit dark, it’s like if the Jesus and Judas’ kiss is gonna create a civil war in the group.

 

The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

I love this old story written in English, I didn’t think they were only a small difference between the Old English and the New English, the pronunciation is almost the same.

I never read a real Shakespeare’ piece but I sure, it is closely similar. Furthermore I love stories about kings and fairytales.