The Prodigy

Friday. It will look over the 60 year journey through painting of Frank, and his 70 large artworks accompanied by drawings, prints, photographs and studies. This exhibition starts from his days at the peak of the New York art world as a Minimalist prodigy, when he developed his skills of abstract painting, through his mischief years as Minimalism’s most prominent renegade. Mr. Stella began by painting himself without any expectations and he…

"Maestro" by Peter Goldsworthy is a classical novel which outlines the importance of place as it highlights the identity of characters. Cities throughout the novel are important to the reader as they view these places as what shapes the identity of both Paul and Keller. Important places throughout the novel that show the identity of characters are; Darwin and Vienna. Darwin is a small town and narrow-minded, as it shows the identity of both Paul and Keller. As well as, Vienna as it is beautiful,…

Have you ever heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Mozart is one of the greatest composers in history. Some of his famous pieces include Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute. He is so well known that a film was based on the life of Mozart called Amadeus. In the film Amadeus, it contains a story line that is not completely true because it is historical fiction. In the film Antonio Salieri was the Court Composer to Emperor Joseph II. In real life Salieri and Mozart were never close but this film…

He was an American singer, dancer, songwriter and record producer. Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Michael was a ‘prodigy’ with ‘overwhelming musical gifts’ (Adapted from Triumph & Tragedy: The Life of Michael Jackson, Paragraph 2). With the guidance and rigorous training from his father, young Michael Jackson started his music career with his brothers when he was only…

Growing up learning about the great Classical and Baroque composers, musicians often tend to only hear about the men. Students hear about Bach, Handel and the greats, and find themselves asking if women were even allowed to compose music. During the late 1600’s and 1700’s there were many women who were seen as “ahead of their time.” Three prolific women composers from the Baroque era were Barbara Strozzi, Anna Isabella Leonarda, and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Barbara Strozzi was a…

“We are here! We are here! We are here! We are here!” cried the little people of Who-ville as they tried to communicate with the outside world in Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! The inability to effectively communicate with others can make one feel as small as the tiny people of Who-ville. A failure to communicate is the common theme found in the three popular short stories: Jealous Husband Returns in Form of a Parrot by Robert Olen Butler, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and The Management of Grief by…

French Prodigy Blaise Pascal once stated, “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Pascal essentially suggests that psychological suffering will always be humanity's greatest weakness. Mental anguish can exist as a repercussion or as a cause of a circumstance. This pain derives fundamentally from the vulnerability of the human mind. Humans are susceptible internally, a fact that will eventually lead to their demise as it serves to restrain them from…

Renaissance, which in translation means rebirth, is the name of one of most important era in European civilization. Renaissance itself, is not just a name of a style, but it is frequently used that way. Italy was the main location of the Renaissance and undeniably lots of people historically associate it with Italy, mainly because of the abundant physical presence of the Roman Empire that has never vanished. “The period between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance soon came to be called simply…

a compass and a straight edge, and more importantly was the first to prove the laws of quadratic reciprocity. His family was very poor. He was very talented. His father was a brick layer. He won the Copley Medal in 1838. When he was born he was a prodigy. He started using his skills when he was only fourteen years old. Gauss attended the University of Göttingen from 1795 to 1798. He was made director of where he went to school at. He also worked with Wilhelm Weber for almost six years making a…

I think it has the perfect balance between light and dark subjects, the positive and the negative. It is thought-provoking, attention grabbing and full of suspense leaving the viewers aching to know more about this young Nobel Prise winning prodigy called Malala Yousafzai. It portraits her in an intimate way we've never seen before, and is packed with details and information that are delivered very gracefully and don't make you feel overloaded with new knowledge. One thing that I didn't exactly…