Babette's Feast

Improved Essays
Tekisha Alston
French 145-003
Eric Anderson
8 March 2015

Final

What is art? Well art is one its own kind. It can be whatever you want it to be. To me, there is more to art than fine sculptures and creative paintings. There are different forms of art and each style varies and changes a person’s perspective on its piece. True art speaks to a person whether it’s through music, poems, drawings or paintings, art can be used or painted as a form of communication or new language that speaks with transparency. Think of art as different genres of music. What is the message? What images do you see or picture? What feelings do you capture from the painting? And for the creator what is your motive or emotions when creating your master piece you so call art? As stated in the beginning, art can be whatever you want it to be.

In a film called: “Babette’s Feast,” Babette a French woman who flees from Paris after her son and husband are murdered in a civil war. Babette is then sent to a small town where she works as a maid for two Puritan sisters without pay. Towards the end of the film, Babette returns the ladies generosity by cooking them a full course, real French cuisine.
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The Romans brought, “comfort material, luxury, and wine-growing, which became widespread” (FR, 46.) Till this day, older traditions and European influences are still kept in France. For example, vineyards are common among regions in France. During the French Renaissance in the 15th century, “the Italian renaissance blended with French elements (FR, 54.) Italian painters greatly amused and inspired Francois I, who was a skilled artist

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