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    The Mulberry Tree Analysis

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    The title of this painting is the Winter (The Vicarage Garden under Snow) by Vincent van Gogh. The date of the painting is probably January 1885. The medium is oil on canvas, mounted to panel. The scale is 23 x 31-1/8 in. (58.4 x 79.1 cm). Second painting I chose is The Mulberry Tree by Vincent van Gogh. The date of is October 1889. The medium is oil on canvas. The scale is 21-1/4 x 25-1/2 in. (54 x 65 cm). Vincent van Gogh was the second born of six children. His family was in a religious Dutch Reformed Church in the south of the Netherlands. Vincent van Gogh's parents were Theodorus Van Gogh and he was a clergyman. His mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus. This painting shows us that it was taking during a cold winter day. You can see the bare trees in a row and everything and a man who seems is shoveling the snow. In Mulberry Tree shows a tree from a garden. In the centered on the canvas and it is growing along a rock hillside. In the article, Van Gogh: The Mulberry Tree, it stated, “The ground is made up of short quick brushstrokes of white and pale browns”. The strong contrast is creating a dark green and brown of the tree trunk. Need help thesis. The similarities between The Vicarage Garden and Mulberry Tree it was both taking outdoors. The second similarly is the both pictures have a tree. They are both similar because he was expressing how he felt during the time he did these paintings. The three formal elements I chose are: line, color, and pattern/shape. In…

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    In his graphic novel, “Maus”, Art Spiegelman tells a survivor’s tale of his father, Vladek Spiegelman. Valdek was a Jewish-Polish survivor of World War II. He endures many hardships as the graphic novel progresses, including but not limited to the loss of his first son, Richieu, numerous prison camps, and bankruptcy. However, what is unique about this graphic novel is the way it is illustrated—animals replace humans as the characters of the story. Jews are portrayed as mice, the Germans as cats,…

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    The Pearl Summary

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    The main character, Kino, is a poor Mexican-Native American man who lives in the small town of La Paz with his wife, Juana, and his newborn son Coyotito. One morning Kino and Juana spotted a scorpion climbing down the rope that holds Coyotito’s hanging box crib. As Kino tried to carefully remove the scorpion from the rope, Coyotito knocked the scorpion down, causing it to sting him in the shoulder. As Juana tried to suck the poison quickly out of Coyotito, his wailing screams and cries of pain…

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    According to an online article, greed is driven by deprivation which is caused by a need for something that is inaccessible. When Kino discovers the pearl, he thinks that he has salvaged his family from an unruly lifestyle. However, Kino consistently focused on obtaining the maximum amount of money he can when he sells the pearl for the medicine to save his son, which further introduced that Kino is greedy for money. Early in the novel, the author suggests that “It is not good to want a thing…

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    It all begins in Monterey Bay California, where author Johnathan Steinbeck and a close friend by the name of Ed Ricketts seek out boat and crew for a Marine Science expedition. Fishing out of Monterey bay is no strange occurrence, but Steinbeck’s and Ricketts voyage was quite different from all the other boating operations in the area. They were planning on sailing into the Sea of Cortez between the boarder of Mexico, and Baja California. This territory at the time was still being explored and…

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    The Pearl Movie Vs Book

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    In 2009 ,Maya Entertainment made a movie for the Novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck.Both the movie and the book both take place in La Paz ,Mexico. In both the movie and the book Kino finds the Great Pearl and his child Coyotito gets bitten by a scorpion . Very similar things that happen in the book have happened in the Novel For example Kino throws the Pearl in the water to try and make the bad luck go away . However , the movie is very different from the book because it leaves out certain…

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    Van Gogh biography The artist I am researching is Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He was born on March 30th 1853 in Zundert Netherlands. He died on July 29 1890, he was 37 years old when he died. He died at Auvers-Sur-Oise, France from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Van Gogh’s primary form of artwork was paintings. Almost all the paintings of his were oil paintings. His style of art was mostly scenery or things that he saw around him. Van Gogh struggled with mental illness and he remained poor and…

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    Essay On Vincent Van Gogh

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    He has influenced with his way to paint, the light and the colour the idea of XX century painting. He sadly passed away 29 June 1890 due to the effect of his mental illness. He committed suicide from a gunshot wound, in his apartment in Auvers-sur-Oise France at the age of 37. He suffered a series of psychotic attacks, which made him even more paranoid, that these attacks may influence his creativity and mental health. Van Gogh was born in a middle-class family. He was a very serious young…

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    together to discuss ideas and produce better artwork. He spent most of his money on paint rather than food. His health was declining because he lived on coffee and bread. Theo was worried, so he offered Paul Gauguin money to watch over van Gogh. Later that year, an incident led Gauguin to leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with a razor, but ended up cutting a portion of his own earlobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in…

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    said by a great man named Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s personal information, his mental illness, his art style, and my personal thought on one of his magnificent paintings is just a small part of this bright eyed person. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ “This great man was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Vincent Van Gogh’s older brother was also named Vincent Van Gogh but passed away at birth”. Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘nickname’ was Van Gogh. VIncent Van Gogh had so many siblings it is…

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