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    Natural colour grading is not often used through the entirety of a film. More often than not, it’s used as a technique of emotion or to manipulate an audiences attitude towards the scene. However, Bruce Beresford, the director of the 2009 film “Mao’s Last Dancer,” chose it as the primary colour grade of his film. The film centralises around the early to mid life of Chinese ballet dancer, Li Cunxin and the progression of his career, life, family and relationships. The film presented the audience

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    The Terrace At Vernon

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    The three different types of color presented in various works in chapter 6 were local, perceptual, and arbitrary. Local color is the easiest to understand as it is the typical color of items that we see when pictured in our head. According to Sayre, “it is the color we “know” an object to be, the way we know a banana is yellow.” (Sayre, 126) A good artist’s example is Jane Hammond’s Fallen, which exhibits a stereotypical fall scene with a twist. Perceptual color is the way it is see from the eye

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    Chris Antemann's Covet

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    one male figure sit upon a white and gold-tiered table amidst a lavish tea service filled with sumptuous sweets. The three figures look at each other sensually, both female figures with their gazes upon the lone male at the right side of the table. Dressed in nothing but a pair of purple and white floral boxers,

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    Andy Warhol Pop Art

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    Lavender skin, canary yellow hair, and cherry red lips. Gaudy might be the first word to pop into a person's mind when these colors are described to them. These bright, contrasting colors, simply have no right to be on the same canvas as one another, let alone create the image of a movie icon. Yet this was the whole point of Andy Warhol’s, Marilyn, painted in 1967. Breaking away from tradition, this was one of many portraits Andy painted in his artistic lifetime, and a prime example of the ever so

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    Some organisms produce energy by photosynthesis. These organisms convert sunlight to energy that is chemical, and this energy is in the form of sugar (Freedman 2013). The sugars from these organisms can be used as biofuels by fermenting the sugars (Bourne 2007). Some photosynthetic organisms are more efficient than others. Based on our reading, I found out that algae plants are the most efficient organism for biofuel because they do not have cellulose and lignin that sugarcane and corn both possess

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    Celia Willner 10 December 2015 American Lit 11 Bartlett White Lies Out of the Blue Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain

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    It Was The Dead Of Night

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    assuming an innocent bystander saw our white Rolls-Royce upside down in the ditch. I woke up in a white room, with my eyes blasted with this bright faint white light and a very termagant women yelling at me which seemed to be his very ostentatious wife. As I was falling in out of consciousness , I noticed a man in the corner with his arms crossed standing about 6,4 wearing a long minc coat which was a color of blood and the loafers were a very immaculate white. I had a very subdued memory of this

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    Stranded Ship on East Hampton Beach Essay

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    Nevertheless, the flag stands erect and flapping in the wind. On the right side of the piece, we view the exact magnitude of the storm through the “white wash” of the violent waves. Additionally, the sky to the right of the ship’s crow’s nest is lighter and hints of a sun trying to break through the lurking darkness. Despite the presence of other visual elements, what clearly connects is that the ocean

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    Symbolism enhances the meaning of even a simple painting. It is when a person looks at the images in the painting and tries to understand why the painter made those images while another person looks at it and just calls it “dumb” without even trying to understand it. The latter person completely loses faith in the painting and misses the actual point. When people first read The Scarlet Letter, they notice not only the characters, but also the objects, which may be non-living, but carry tons of meaning

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    in two light temperaturas in color white. Candella.- The piece connecting the past with the future creating an effect of hundreds of candles and also with LED technology is available in white, black or chrome made in cristal satin or white opal and comes in three different sizes. Downsquare.- From the designer Stefano Ricci, this LED Centerpice has two different variants for the ceiling and pendan and is available in three sizes, finished in black, white and gray. Madison.- This modern and

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