He first became a student of a local Leyden artist whose name has not been recorded. ... It is, additionally, apparent from his portraits dated 1630 to 1631, that Rembrandt gleaned a great deal from the famous portrait painters of Amsterdam of the day. Rembrandt's early portraits are often very close in style to the work of Cornelis van der Voort and of Thomas de Keyzer. ... In fact, Rembrandt did not paint a commissioned portrait until he was established in his career for at least six years. ... As the Baroque period developed and literacy became more of a norm, Rembrandt, like so many ...

• Word Count: 3338
• Approx Pages: 13

His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... In Peer Gynt, the rebel is against society where a young man chooses to live a life of a waste, only to find himself, ultimately, living in a world of lost opportunities. ... In all these plays of this period, "Ibsen deals directly or indirectly with the theme of the individual attempting to realize himself in the face of established conventions." ... George Bernard Shaw points out how Ibsen's characters are people from our own society and...

• Word Count: 3365
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. ... But, on the other hand, the reader worships him as a talented artist, a creator of beauty. ... He was a man without any conception of gratitude. ... A man like Strickland would love in manner peculiar to himself. ... I am a man, and sometimes I want a woman. ...

• Word Count: 6573
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

This process makes us more suggestive to imagery as a form of communication since we could not communicate verbally when we were young enough to have our first memories of being in our mothers arms. ... The color of Vertigo may be analyzed to reveal themes, which are associated with different color. ... Red seems to be Scottie's theme before Madeleine and vertigo as red indicates his reluctance toward women which describes Scottie up to this point in his life. ... during the last half of the film during Madeleine's rebirth might rest in Vertigo's careful manipulation of cog...

• Word Count: 3127
• Approx Pages: 13

The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42