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    opportunity that comes my way. Art also reminds me of my happiness, a single piece of art work can capture a moment of emotion or feeling. Artists like Claude Monet really capture emotion well, in the painting, “The Stroll: Camille Monet”, Monet painted Camille standing in the middle of a field, it sounds simple. But Monet did such a good job that there seems to be more, there is emotion. That is what makes art special, emotion, and that I can have my own thoughts about what the artist

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    Bay Saint Louis is a town in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. It is a peaceful town, had a little population, which attracts the tourists. The city attacked by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but it recovered and be a tourist spot again. Bay Saint Louis is bordered to the north by the Jourdan River, the primary inlet of the bay. The eastern boundary of the city is the Harrison County line in the middle of the bay. The Stennis International Airport is the nearest airport in Hancock County. The

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    Impressionism is a style of music that derived in the late 19th century thanks to French composer Claude Debussy. It was almost analogous to the impressionist art at the time, which was supposed to leave an “impression” on the audience, having meaning but never a clear one. The use of “color”, or timbre in the case of music, was heavily used to create the atmosphere of the pieces, achieved by orchestration and texture. This style was seen as a response to Romanticism, getting rid of the forward direction

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    Why Is Rodin Important

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    The Transition from Classical to Modern Pre-Visit Activity Name:_________________ Date:_________________ Class:_________________ Why is Rodin important? Rodin is important because his sculptures made the transition from traditional art to more modern art by illustrating energy in his sculptures. Rodin’s sculptures illustrated energy through the details of the artwork. This was one of the most important parts of his work as he sacrificed the completeness of his sculptures to better capture the

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    stories from Greek mythology and is still present in today’s culture. There’s two possible people that coined the term psychic. It is believed that the term could have been created by either astrologer and spiritualist, Camille Flammarion or chemist, William Crookes. Nicolas Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer born in the mid 1800’s. Flammarion was exposed to two significant movements, the concepts by Darwin and Lamarck, and was here during a time when spiritism was becoming extremely popular

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    Auguste Rodin was born in Paris in on November 12, 1840. He was born into a poor family and his father was a policeman. Although he was a talented artist as a teenager, he lacked encouragement which made him choose a different career. Rodin worked as a bricklayer for 20 years. Then he went to Italy and during his stay he found inspiration there. On his return to Paris, he sculpted his first major piece, “The Age of Bronze”, originally named “The Vanquished”. Rodin said that, “Much as I love the Greeks

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    George Rodrigue is the artist I chose to research on because of his very bland unique of art work. George Rodrigue was born in the city of New Iberia on March 13, 1944- December 14, 2013. Mr.Rodrigue attended an all-male high school named Brothers of the Christian Schools. He started painting small landscape portraits and gradually increased to family gatherings. He studied art at University of Southwestern Louisiana which is known to us today as University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Also, he attended

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    Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin is known for being one of the world's greatest painters, although he was not much appreciated at his time. His work seems to tell stories of his life. In his series of painting done in Tahiti, we can see the many wonders that Gauguin himself explored. Today Gauguin's painting run for millions. For example; Paul Gauguin's Maternite (II) done in 1899 was sold for $39.2 million. That wasn't the case back when Gauguin first started

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    Paul Cezanne Essay

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    the art movement that directly followed Impressionism. One artist, who led the Post Impressionism movement, was French artist, Paul Cézanne. Much of his early work was pure Impressionism and, although he was introduced to the style and guided by Camille Pissarro, Cézanne's works showed a distinctive uniqueness. Cézanne broke away from Impressionism because of the lack of composition; he felt the desire to depict subjects in the third dimension as well as appearing flat. Cézanne did not agree with

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    coast of America from Florida to Texas. It is recorded as the most cost devastating disaster in American history and ranked third as the most catastrophic tropical cyclone in United States behind the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and the Hurricane Camille of 1969. Much of this devastation was caused by failure of storm surge and levee put in place for protection against these natural disasters. Two thirds of deaths in New Orleans were attributed to these failures. Designers and builders of this system

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