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Dreams are only fulfilled in fantasies. In Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat and Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, both authors explore the importance of sacrifice, drive and perseverance in achieving one’s dream in spite of all the obstacles. Through the use of imagery of colour, characterisation and setting, Hallstrom and Chazelle share insight on what it is like to have a dream in today’s society, that there are many obstacles for disheartening, but that all the hardships are worth it. Judgement and criticism

La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs, who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors. Later in a story reflecting the Greek story of Medea, a woman has children by the conquer Cortez’ and when he is called back to Spain and decides to take

La Boheme is an opera that takes place in Paris in the 1830’s. The story follows four friends with various artistic occupations struggling to get pay the rent. The play opens with Rodolfo and Marcello sitting in their attic apartment. Colline and Schaunard enter. Colline failed to sell some books. Schaunard has made several dollars as a musician for an English gentleman. They trick their landlord Benoit so they can avoid paying rent. They take the rent money to Café Momus. Rodolfo stayed behind to

Las Meninas is a painting by Diego Velazquez created in 1656. Diego Velazquez is recognized as a leading Spanish Golden Age artist and the global attention enjoyed by this painting may be attributed to his status. It is the enigmatic and complex composition of the Las Meninas that raised a lot of questions in regards to its illusion and reality and gave rise to a debate about the uncertain relationships between the figures that were depicted in the painting and the viewer. Because of these artistic

Page 1 of 4 ZOOM Harlie UnderhillDecember 4, 2017Spanish 1B - HudsonLas MeninasThe Las Meninas is a piece of artwork made by Diego Velázquez in 1656 in the Cuarta del Principe in Almcázar in Madrid. It is one of the most famous paintings in the Spanish history. Velazquez was trying to bring this painting closer to Spanish History. The artwork is a painting of the infanata and her attendants. She has two maids around her, and José Nieto in the doorway. Behind the infanata there is a canvas

In Las Meninas by Velazquez there is quite a bit going on in the painting. The princess is being accompanied by her attendants and the royal dwarves. Velazquez is painting a picture, possibly a portrait of the King and Queen, the princess, or painting the one that we are currently looking at, Las Meninas. Finally the King and Queen are visible in the mirror in the back, where the point of perspective ends. There are multiple possibilities as to whom the subject is; the princess, the King and Queen

Musical theatre has been a form of art and entertainment for hundreds of years. The early example of opera plays is Dofene, performed in 1597. La boheme was written and composed by Giacomo Puccini. The play is based in a french play ’Scénes de la vie de boléme’ by Henri Murger published in 1851. The world premiere was in Turin, Italy in 1896. This was close to the end of the 19th century where the theatre was turning from romanticism more into the genre of social realism. In contrast, Rent was written

Dissecting Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez Diego Velazquez was a master painter in the Golden Age of Spain. He combined his paintings with sensitivity to the life he observed around him with a palette of light, color, and richness. His famous painting Las Meninas, captured audiences thought out the ages. This painting has a lot of symbolism and history about what was going on at the time the painting was complete. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599; during this time

In the Chapter Las Meninas Michel Foucault examine the power of representation over reality. he gives us a very engaging analysis for the painting Las Meninas. He shows us his analysis in a way that make us the reader feels like we are looking at a mystery, and also at the same time, make us feel like part of the mystery. At the first part of the book, Foucault is studying what the painter in the painting is actually looking at. Whether it is looking at us, or looking at something that we cannot

La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini from his own screenplay co-written with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film portrays a naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by a brutish strongman (Anthony Quinn) who takes her with him on the road, encounters with his rival the Fool (Richard Basehart) and ends with their destruction. It stars Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, Anthony Quinn as Zampanò, and Richard Basehart as Il Matto,