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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

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

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,

Las Meninas is an old painting that Diego Velazquez made long time ago. It talk about the king’s family and maids. Las Meninas is one of the most important paintings made in the nineteenth century. It was made using oil and canvas. Diego Velazquez is a well-known Spanish painter born in June 6, 1599 in Seville, Spain. He was only thirteen years old when he started drawing. He got married Juana, Pacheco’s daughter ‘a person he worked with for five years’ the couple had two daughters. He lived his

Las Meninas; a painting –oil on canvas- by Diego Velazquez, who is considered one of greatest Spanish artists of all times. Painted in 1656, (10.5 feet x 9 feet), the painting is located today in Madrid in Museo del Prado. The painting is called Las Meninas which means ‘maids of honor’ in Spanish. This upper class painting, which belongs to the baroque period, is considered as Velazquez’s best creation and his master piece as it still raises too many questions and arguments about the techniques