Claude

of the Works of Claude Lorraine and Dong Qichang Landscape paintings have been created throughout the history of art, especially being honored in the Western and Chinese art traditions. Within both cultures, landscapes have been viewed as sites of beauty, sanctuaries for nature’s treasures,…

Claude Monet, a french painter, painted the Church at Varengeville, Grey Weather, in the year 1882, in the midst of his artistic career. Varengeville-sur-Mer is a small commune in the Seine-Maritime of the north-western region in France. The painting is oil paint on a modest sized canvas about 25 by 32 inches. This oil landscape hangs directly on the wall, at a horizontal orientation, and is in a simple ornate frame. Monet’s painting is currently located at the Speed Art Museum, in Louisville,…

Impressionism began in the late 19th century when Impressionist wanted to capture fleeting moments and scenes from what they had experienced and were influenced by which was the camera. “Art of art’s sake” was how they referred to the expression of art, let art be art and let the artist paint what he sees and is who he is. They began to understand light and color and even pigmentations of oil and other chemicals (1). Yet rather than painting scenes from insides they wanted to paint the world, as…

Division and judgment is a common stumbling block we all face. A lot of things divides us from each other. What if because of social division one is stopped from getting to know her true self? What if the people or the thing that was once looked down upon is exactly what is needed to see life in a different perspective? Mrs. Turpin in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation, is a prejudice and judgmental woman who spends most of her life prying on the lives of everyone around her. Mrs.…

Claude McKay faced extreme racism in the early 20th century yet he fought back and expressed himself with his poetry. Not always exposed to segregation, he was born into a loving family on September 15, 1889 in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. At a very young age, his brother, Uriah Theophilus McKay, began tutoring him in classical literature, communism, and famous writers. Claude spent hours reading William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in his brother’s library. His neighbor Walter Jekyll also…

Harlem Renaissance author and poet, Claude McKay, in his poem “America,” describes the complicated relationship he shares with America. McKay intends to share this relationship, highlighting both the good and the bad. He uses a harsh tone to describe the unforgiving nature of the struggles America poses, while using a more hopeful and determined tone when describing the good the America does. McKay hopes through sharing his love-hate, he is able to connect to his audience, people going through…

connecting her life in high school with her life in college. After moving to a country that speaks a language different than his native language, a man may struggle to develop communication skills in his daily life. Like the hardships of these people, Claude McKay depicts the difficulty associated with moving to a new place, such as struggling to find where one fits in when there is a great difference between one’s past and present homes, in “The Topics of New York” through imagery and…

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse Claude Monet was one of the most well-known painter for impressionism. He was born on November 14, 1840. In Paris, France. His painting Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-an-canvas painted on 1867. The dimension of the painting was 75.2*101.6 cm. This painting portrayed a cloudy day scene, and showing sailing boats hauled onto the sand, with sailors and workers. Claude Monet work depicting contemporary object matter, without idealization. His painting clearly depiction…

strokes, the critics deemed the paintings unfinished and sloppy. Ignoring the criticism, Claude Monet continued to paint these messy masterpieces. He and several other artists paved the way to Post-Impressionism which included the famous Vincent van Gogh. Despite their differing nationalities, both Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh painted in France, were mentally unstable, and painted Impressionist paintings. Both Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh painted in France. Monet was a Frenchman and…

Introduction Claude Levi-Strauss (* 28. November 1908 in Brussles; † 30. October 2009 in Paris) published his travel report Tristes Tropiques 1955 in french language. This report is based on the trips he took to the inner of Brazil in the years 1935-1938. A part of the book describes his search and contact with the indigenous tribes of the Mato Grosso the third largest state of Brazil. The Caduveo who are focused in this essay is one of them. The aim of the essay is to discuss the approach that…