Gustave Flaubert

The Atomium originally built for the first major exposition after the World War II, World’s Fair 1958 which also known as Expo 58 in Brussels, Belgium. The Atomium stands 102 metres tall with nine spheres and its stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Actual designed by a Belgian engineer, Andre Waterkeyn, Atomium supposed to stand only for the duration of the sixth-month of the World Exposition…

One day Scooby and his gang were bored. They decided to go visit a place called, France. France was a wonderful place. Scooby and the gang were very happy that they went to France. They crossed the bridge and saw something. What was it? Was it a cat? A cow? Maybe a person? They didn’t know. Soon popped out a monster! Scooby and the gang were so scared they ran away from each other. Then, Scooby was all alone.. They all met up again at the Eiffel Tower. The next day, Scooby went on a tour of…

Gustave Courbet's life begins June 10, 1819, in Ornans near Besancon in France. Art started for Gustave at a young age in a little seminary at Ornans. His teacher, "Le Pere Baud" decided to take his students out to nature to draw. "This was a very audacious step at that time. Up until the period of Romanticism the landscape did not exist in its own right; it was merely the setting for mythological or other compositions." (Boudaille, Georges. Gustave Courbet (New York: graphic society Ltd. 1969),…

While traveling, I have written bits and pieces of my journey on my phone, my tablet, my computer, and my receipts. I have compiled all my thoughts, organized them, and prepared this blog post about my study abroad experience in Florence. It’s 2am and I am writing this on my iPhone as I lie in bed with only my phone illuminating my emotionally and physically exhausted face. I just missed my flight out of Paris to Florence because I misread the time on my itinerary…so here I am writing about my…

TITLE Enchanting Nighttime Activities At The River Seine, Paris LEAD PARAGRAPH If you take a look at our planet from the universe during the nighttime, you’ll easily distinguish North America and Europe as the shiniest regions. By focusing on Europe, the spot in the northwestern part stands out as one of the most brightest. It is how Paris, among many other epithets, acquired its “The City of Lights” title. Day and night in Paris reveal two opposite faces of the French capital. While the…

become the icon of the city, although it wasn’t intended to be a permanent structure. The Eiffel Tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the French Revolution. The tower was built by Gustave Eiffel along with Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. Eiffel was an architect…

Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino is bestseller travel guide book. Sciolino reveal the charm and the strangeness of this road and it is time to make longtime resident of Paris come alive in all it is unique. This book will make the reader hungry for Paris, for cheese, wine and kind of street life that are too fast disappearing. Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, as the author is a joy to live in the Rue des Martyrs in Paris. Sciolino is attentive jelly every one…

The nineteenth century was a time of change in the artistic world. Artist started testing limits to see how they could introduce a whole new world of art. Some people considered the art to be a kind of culture shock and a scandalous way to express the artist talents. Scandalous is something that is considered improper, shocking, disgraceful, etc. (dictionary.com). There were three artist that really started this “scandalous” time period and they were Coubet, Daumier, and Manet. These three…

Paris is one of the world’s most famous locations! It is best known for its amazing monuments and amazing attractions. The city of Paris, France, goes way back to more than 2000 years back in time. Lots of people think Paris has some of the most interesting history to it in all its years. In 52 B.C. Julius Caesar took control of the city of Paris when it was just starting to grow into a huge civilization, and it was just a little fishing village for the new people there. Back then when it was…

David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints. Using varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first…