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    will have"), support or maintain the survival of workers is often the spiritual world of Christianity Figure 2 for the French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir's "Moulin Rouge", created in 1883 years. The work depicts a grand open-air ball in Montmartre, a meeting of the French semi-upper-class society.

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    World famous and most attraction landmark is the Eiffel Tower and it built In 1889 by the Engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Other most popular monument is the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur.it is located in Montmartre and it consecrated in 1919. it has the most gorgeous magnificent views of the City, from over 400 metres above the

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    the story The Murders of the Rue Morgue, which is a very mysterious story, the main action commences when the narrator and another man named C. Auguste Dupin meet together because they are seeking for the same book at an ambiguous library in Rue Montmartre. The two men read about a murder in a newspaper headline, then one night they’re staying at a hotel and hear a shriek from about the fourth floor above them in which they call the cops in backlash to that. Once the cops had broken into the apartment

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    A cultural movement that emerged in the early 1920’s, Surrealism started as a literal movement but evolved into something much more. Best known for it’s dreamlike scenes of irrational and often surprising substance, the movement spoke to the unconscious mind of humankind with the semiotic balance between reality and fiction. Artists of this era turned and merged everyday objects into contradictory and irrational works of art, giving rise to new forms of thought and creation (Mikos, 2013). Andre Breton

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    A narrative reading of Amélie (2001) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a quirky portrayal of modern-day Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. We see the progression of Amelie’s character from childhood to adulthood. The opening sequence of the film gives an insight of Amelie’s childhood and establishes the main characters and their

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    in cafes and in brothels. Three years later, Picasso won a gold medal for his work, “Customs of Aragon”. This work was displayed on exhibit in Picasso’s home town. In 1901, Picasso set up a studio in the northern section of Paris known as Montmartre. Picasso had mastered traditional forms of art by now.

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    Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who was known as “the grandfather of jazz violinists” because of his all-string jazz band that he had begun/initiated in 1934. Grappelli was born on January 26, 1908 to Ernesto Grappelli and Anna Emilie Hanoque in Paris, France. While his father was Italian, his mother was French. Grappelli’s early years were quite unfortunate. His family was very poor. His mother died when he was four years old which left him in the hands of his father, who was later

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    Art Appreciation It’s fun to see art evolve and how it is very different from the art we see today. As much as I really like all the art movements due to their unique and individual styles and techniques, ALL of them really stand out to me and I enjoy looking at them. Impressionism is one of my favorite movements. It was an artistic movement that originated in France in the 1860s and 1870s. In addition, it introduced the new technique of ‘En plein air’, where artists paint outside in order to

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    Art is the best way humans can express their thoughts and realities. Many people do not see art in a linear fashion; whether a painting is from the 1800s or the 1900s many people would consider them the same. Art has gone through many changes since its conception many millennia ago. Due to this, one cannot scrutinize all of the art movements in the same fashion. Two of art’s largest movements, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, are commonly lumped together in the same category. Although these

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    Painting is representational because, the oil that is on the canvas depicts a young white Persian boy who is holding a pipe in his left hand and also wearing some type of headband of flowers around his head. Picasso lived in Le Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre when he created this mister piece. Picasso called the young white boy Little Louise, he had spent much time in the studio while he was creating this painting. (Lu). There are many people that say that the boy who

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