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… Malevich is a particularly interesting piece. It is simple red square on a white background representing a peasant woman. It is an example of the Malevich's unique style of suprematism, which focuses on motion and feeling. The painting was done near…

… makes them produce such flaws that contribute to their own self-destruction? In Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, Hamlet has numerous flaws, which he fails to overcome. Hamlet’s self-created troubles contribute to his downfall. Hamlet torments people as an…

… the speaker, standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the "still unravish'd bride of quietness," the "foster-child of silence and slow time." He also describes the…

… In William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, the gentle lamb and the dire tiger define childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence of youth and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitions and a selection…

… Hayden who hears a boy being beaten, recalls his childhood when he too was subjected to the same and notices that this form of punishment has been handed down from generation to generation. He uses visual and auditory imagery together to take the…

… Van Gogh was painted in 1888. It is in oil on canvas. The dimensions are 36 x 29 in. It depicts a woman in a refined (tasteful) black dress seated on a wooden chair at a table with a circular green table top, there is an open book in front of her…

… in the 20th century changed drastically from that of the past. Attitudes began to change about what art was. The new attitude was that art it is “what anyone elects to call art.” It seems to me that people began to use their imagination more.…

… but did people really know him? Did they have any idea what was going on in his brain? From the looks of his final self-portrait, I think not. This painting was completed just months before his suicide, while he was living in Auvers, a hospital which…

… Dali El Salvador Dali was a painter of dreams, making them vibrantly real and true to life. Dali\'s art will forever be the epitome of surrealist painting. He even said himself, \"Le Surrealisme…c\'est moi!\" (Surrealism…it\'s me!) (Bogehol…

… and 19th centuries with ideas that opposed previous periods. Romanticism was a period that rejected the principle of order, balance, and idealization that had symbolized Classicism in general. Romanticism was also to some extent a reaction against the…