My Family At Paris France

Versailles was designed by craftsmen, architects and artists from all over Europe and took 30 years to complete. The palace was often called the “gilded cage”, Louis XIV would host parties and have nobility compete for his favor. Court life revolved

Castles, palaces, and cathedrals are scattered across Europe. Each one possesses unique characteristics and architecture bearing resemblance of their time. Some castles incorporate Greek influence, roman or gothic influence in design. Other castles and palaces are surrounded by sculptures outside in the courtyard or include sculptures worshiped as an altarpiece. While any one of these things would serve to make an ordinary castle more elaborate there is one palace that possesses all of these: The Palace of Versailles in France. The Palace of Versailles has managed to incorporate classic architecture, exquisite sculptures, and amalgamated the old design with the newer design trends of the day.

“The best things in life are the people we love the places we’ve been…. And the memories we’ve made along the way.” by Unknown. 2017 started off terrible but then soon got better from a little help from God. My family found out we won a trip to Hawaii. My parents were deciding whether or not they should take us kids with, my brothers Chris was 18, Matt was 11, Nic was 8, and I was 15. Then my parents talked and the decided that it would be our last family vacation with just our family saying chris went to college the next year and probably will find a girlfriend. Hawaii I know made me look at life a different was saying everything that just happened to me.

As Edgar Degas once said, “ Art is not what you see, but what others make you see”. The St. Louis Art Museum is a place for artist to display their art and give spectators the option to see art from a new perspective. This was the case for me. As we walked up to the beautifully structured building that stood so tall and wide, my expectations were extremely high. At first glance I notice the bronze statue of King Louis IX of France riding high on his horse. From this statue alone, my expectations of the art museum grew stronger. I have never been to an art museum before, so I wasn’t sure of what to expect. My first expectation was to see huge detailed sculptures right as I walked through the door. That expectation didn’t come true.

This past spring, I had the opportunity to spend the semester in Athens where I was able to visit many museums. One particular visit late in the semester still stands out as particularly moving. I was following my classmates as we made our way through the Byzantine and Christian Museum when we entered one room and one by one everyone’s gaze was drawn upward until the entire class was staring open-mouthed and with craned necks at a 13th century Byzantine dome. We were all left speechless at seeing the dome above us, as if it were still a part of a church. In fact, the entire room was designed in the typical manner of mirror the layout of the church they had originally come from. That skeleton of a Byzantine church resonated with the class, and

El Salvador a country located in central america is where i like to spend my time with my family. both my parents were both born in el salvador. my father was born and raised in the capital San Salvador. my mother was born in San MIGUEL. in the 90s my parents came to the states looking for a better environment to start a family. i have countless of family in el salvador.

Ominous, monolithic wooden doors, slanted backwards to accentuate their apparent height, swing slowly and automatically outward, beckoning the carefully counted herd of visitors into a darkened room lit only with eerie blue light trickling out of hieroglyphic sconces. Doors close behind, the lights dim - so begins the visitor’s journey among the treasures of ancient Egypt. Each visitor’s Egyptian immersion, however, started long before entering the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibit at the San Francisco De Young museum. The ancient Egyptian “mega-myth” – of grandiose and opulent Pharaohs, majestic, mysterious pyramids, sphinxes, Cleopatra, Ramesses, and of course King Tut – is deeply ingrained through popular

My life was split over two distinct culture as my family moved back and forth between Syria and the United States. My family immigrated to the U.S. in the early eighties and moved back to Syria two years after I was born. I completed my first and second grades in Syrian public schools before immigrating to the United States in 2001. I was first placed in english second language classes, which I completed in 9 months. I then continued my fourth grade in regular classrooms. These two years exposed me to various cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds. I interacted with people from all around the world, which cultivated my cultural awareness and shaped my identity. However, I was harassed several times because of my ethnic and religious background. A student once told me “go back to your country, we don’t want you here”. It had never occurred to me that I was perceived as foreign even though I am a U.S. citizen.

King Louis XIV of France's use of the Baroque style is most easily seen and described in and with the Palace of Versailles, a palace coveted and imitated by other rulers. He was quite the trend setter. His hall of mirrors is perhaps the most famous and recognized of its features. Seventeen mirrors, framed with arches, are placed across from the seventeen windows, distorting the reality just as Wolfflin described. This creates the effect of having the hall seem much bigger than it actually is. On the ceiling are canvases; everywhere you look there is something interesting. There are columns of bronze and marble, and the combination of these features mixes many styles and time periods; a feature of Baroque architecture.

The Eastern Façade of the Louvre was the one of most important architecture in the seventeen century. The Façade is the main entrance for royal palace in its original proposal. However, Louis XIV, who decided to build this architecture with his finance minister, moved to the Château de Versailles as his royal palace. Nowadays, this side of the Louvre is an inconspicuous entrance of the Louvre Museum. As a palace entrance, the eastern Facade of the Louvre responded the traditional chateau in France by the space’s quality and its French classicism style. However, the pyramid shape of I.M.Pei’s design is too attracting the people’s attention to let people ignoring the real entrance which is the Eastern Facade of the Louvre, even if the Eastern Louvre is the one of the most important architecture in the seventeenth century.

Ever since I was little, whenever I looked at my mom I always noticed the long scar on the side of her chin. It’s deep and slightly curved, and it almost resembles a small mole if you do not look close enough. It compliments her face nicely. I compare it to a unique beauty mark, something that sets her face different from the rest. She got the scar when she fell roughly on her face back home in Rwanda. My mom never really talks about her life in Rwanda, mostly due to the Rwandan genocide, but when she does it is filled with stories of happy family moments as well as stories of fear as she was separated from her family and forced to fend for herself. Recently, my aunt was diagnosed with a brain tumor. When we heard the news my mom immediately

I chose to do a virtual tour of the Palace of Versailles. I am fascinated by the royal family so the Palace of Versailles is deemed suitable because it is the home of the monarchy of France. I began my virtual tour of the most famous room known as the Hall of Mirrors. As you walk through the room, you can see chandeliers after chandeliers lined the center of the ceiling and to the sides. The room is structured like a barrel vault with round arch windows symmetric to the mirrors reflecting the garden. Golden sculptures of women are placed in between the mirrors against the marble wall. The vaulted ceilings are covered with illustrations of the success of France painted by Le Brun. He also decorated the rooms so his artistic vision can be seen everywhere. My initial reaction of the room was that it is very elegant and magnificent. I’ve never seen anything so spectacular before. Every aspect of the room is a work of art on its own. The paintings that covered the vaulted ceiling were very

The Palace of Versailles, a great architecture feat that took 36,000 workers and 20 years to complete. A testament to Louis XIV power an ambition it shows the height of French baroque principles. As such, it should be noted that Louis XIV did establish the French classical baroque style that we see today. within the palace. As you first reach the palace, you will see the grandeur and the grandiose scale of the place. It is designed from outside to be shown as a place of higher superiority and class. But as you step inside you will see the elegance of the interior. With the interior. as the one shown in the place of Versailles, the elegant interior is shown to be one of the major important things to classify an architecture as baroque. Also,

Just like any other immigrants coming to the United States, my family was in search for a better life. My parents both came from Asia; my dad was from China and my mom was from Japan. Being a first-generation American, I was considered Nisei. I lived in San Jose California and stayed there my whole life. My parents were hard working people and showed me what it meant to be truly American. I was an only child and was twelve years old when the United States was attacked by the Japanese military. My dad owned a store and my mom helped Japanese people come to America. She would provide temporary housing. I always remember playing with the kids coming from Japan, I could never understand them but they were really nice. After a few months they would pick up a few words. The neighborhood kids loved playing with them as well their parents. Every now and then my family and other Niseis would experience some forms of discrimination, like waiting in lines longer at the movies, stores, and restaurants. Not to mention that all kinds of cultures received the same treatment. But for some reason the African American group had it a little harder than we did.

Let me introduce one of the most simple, yet profitable contemporary pieces of artwork in the world, Balloon Dog. First arriving on the scene in 1994 Balloon Dog raised the brows of many people. Some in a good way, and some in a bad way. Most viewers, though, saw the artwork for the beautiful piece that it is. Others believed that it was too simple, or not unique since Koons himself did not make it. This artwork falls under the category of a contemporary artwork. There are five different colors of Balloon Dog that include: blue, magenta, orange, yellow, and red. Jeff Koons went above and beyond with this piece. He met most of the important criteria of art and that is why this work has blown up. Meeting the criteria of a good work of art is