Provence

My grandfather from Greenville Mississippi, my mom is from Queens New York, and my dad is from a village called Les Baux-de-Provence in southern France. These are my family members who have helped me develop my own culture because they raised me. The food I eat aligns with my dad 's culture the most because he is the chef in my family, I tried to follow his footsteps by learning…

Summary of “Beyond Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Oil” David Parkinson illustrates the evolution of Canadian trade through the article “Beyond Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Oil”. A time before Canada was its own independent country, the Europeans took use and advantage of all the natural resources, riches, wealth and spoils of the land. Without a doubt Canada has widely advanced itself as an independent country due to the resources the country has to offer with its large land fruitful land. The…

Fanny’s Fantastic Food Frolic By Ruth Laurion Bowman and Melanie Kitchens O’meara Fanny’s thoughts, actions, and food reflect on the color gray. She would call it blah gray color. Her mom introduced other colors to her through the Sophie Calle’s photographic project, The Chromatic Diet. This diet suggests eating color-coordinated meals daily, changing food colors daily. The colors that were used to express different foods and feelings are gray, orange, red, white, green, and yellow. The…

Vincent van Gogh Abdulla Al-Ubaidy Block: C An artist by the name of Vincent van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 art works. He was a very talented artist that is known in this day and age. One of his first pieces was “The Potato Eaters”. Many more of his art included oil paintings, water colors, drawings, sketches and prints. He helped develop art in a completely new way at such a young age, which has helped his art become prominent. At the age 27 Van Gogh infiltrated…

Vincent Van Gogh His Style A pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours. It is an offshoot of Impressionism and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and…

Vincent van Gogh once said, “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process” (“Vincent Van Gogh, and His Paintings”). The only thing a lot of people know about Vincent is that he truly did lose his mind and that he cut his own earlobe off. They don’t know anything about his work or his history. Vincent was a unique and unusual man, yet he truly was an artistic genius. Like so many, though, this wasn’t realized until after he had already passed. The oldest of six…

BOOKS: Gnuse, Robert Karl. No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, 1997. Robert Gnuse has been a professor of the humanities in the religious studies department at Loyola University since 1980. In his book, No Other Gods, Gnuse provides a scholarly and thorough look into the emergence of ancient Hebrew monotheism. He synthesizes the former historical model – the idea that monotheism developed suddenly because of Israel’s dramatic conquest – with…

literature, science, medicine, architecture, and social and political change. Émile Zola made progressive moves in the second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents. When Zola began writing and working in publishing, he became…

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” This quote is from famous Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands to Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. He was named for his grandfather Vincent, who was also named for his uncle, a successful sculptor, also named Vincent Van Gogh. Unfortunately, van Gogh like many artists did not become famous for his…

painting in Arles, he suffered fainting spells and involuntary muscle spells. In October, Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin got into a fight and Van Gough threw a fit and cut off his ear. So in May 1889, he was admitted into an insane asylum at Saint-Remy-de Provence. While in the asylum, he created over 150 paintings and hundreds of drawings. He went back to darker colors, like copper and brownish tones. He became interested in “nature under stress”, like swirling trees and mountains. During this time…