One Night Only

The Gross Clinic is a painting done by Thomas Eakins, an American realist painter, who also dabbled in photography. Eakins is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Throughout Eakins career he had difficulties with the public and critics. The Gross Clinic, 1875 is an oil on canvas, 96" x 77" and was rejected by the art jury for the exhibition in Philadelphia, because it was too brutally realistic. The painting illustrates the prominent surgeon Dr.…

Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci. I chose Van Gogh because I think that his art although it does have a dark meaning behind it is truly beautiful. My favorite painting done by Van Gogh is his painting titled The Starry Night. I am not a huge art fan but since I can remember this is one piece that I thought was done so incredibly well. The way he expressed the way he felt about death in this was amazing he took something so dark and scary to some people and made it into a true work of art. I love…

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night alludes to a variety of themes that commonly include false identity, role-playing, and love. The general plot of the play could be described as a cross-dressing comedy about a woman, Viola, who tries to gain the attention and love of a Duke, Orsino, with obstacles along the way, including Olivia, the Duke’s love interest. The themes mentioned are developed and sometimes scrutinized by the play’s characters, such as Orsino, Olivia, and Feste the clown. In…

disappointing. The comets colors kept shifting as the sunlight hit the giant ball of ice. It had taken on a reddish purple hue and the crowd cheered as the first of the meteorites streaked across the sky. The crowd oohed and aahed every minute or so as a new one appeared. Each meteor’s trail was different, some were white some blue or blue. The favorites were the red. They seemed wider and appeared to float in the air and sink for a second before fading out. The NiteOwls were at the top of the…

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), the Post-Impressionist artist, is one of the most famous of all modern Dutch Painters, but his emotional and disturbed characteristics sometimes overshadows his work. To fully comprehend the remarkable impact of Vincent Van Gogh has had on art history and our culture, it is important first to examine the artistic and cultural environment in which Van Gogh was acquainted. Van Gogh’s religion was central in shaping both the images he painted and the artistic techniques…

Shakespeare is known for his complex, dull stories; however, in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in 1596, Shakespeare incorporates many comedic elements. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play about a love that goes ary in a forest when Puck starts to use magic and accidentally makes the four lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius, and Helena, love the wrong person. During this time, some Mechanics try to perform the play of Pyramus and Thisbe, which will be shown at the Duke and…

Frankenstein’s family of course, that no one could have predicted. As to Frankenstein’s duty to his creature, he has already missed his opportunity to serve this duty at the beginning of his life when his creation truly needed him. The creature and the situation is simply too unpredictable to warrant action from Frankenstein. Instead, he must focus on his duty towards mankind to stop any further destruction caused by the hands of his creations. This can only be done in part by not creating a…

it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they dance for a variety of reasons. When it comes down to the origins of Hip Hop, they had danced for mostly one reason (even though other reasons…

speak to diverse European nationalities, yet Tolkien 's dislike for purposeful anecdote makes this appear to be profoundly improbable. Family ancestry is an alternate imperative variable that shapes character in The Hobbit. All through Middle-Earth, one 's prospects, character, and social position are connected nearly to the family legacy (Clark, George, & Daniel Timmons…

and he comes into the knowledge that he is just one small hobbit who desires none of the glory of a hero, but one who wishes only for a small hobbit hole of his own with a small garden (881). As Sam finds Frodo he takes on the role of protector, never allowing the whip of the Orc to touch Frodo’s skin because he is under the protection of Sam (889). Frodo being locked in the attic represents what the power of evil is doing to him confining him not only physically, but mentally breaking him down…