During his long ocean passage to Australia in 1852, Eugene von Guérard reported that conditions were far from ideal, and “meals were late and bad” (1). He had boarded a sailing ship at Gravesend, England, to seek his fortune in Victoria. At the gold fields of Ballarat, he described mining as “arduous at first” and causing “much backache and blistering of hands” (1). His gold mining efforts in B...

the critics and the literary figures believe that abu al atahiyeh (213 or 209-230) is the leading poet of arabic ascetic poetry, and this poetry is embossed on the temple of arabic ascetic poetry. his innovation and creativity on ascetic poetry have made the researchers draw various interpretations. some believe that he has been inspired by hassan basri, and some claim that he has cherished the...

“O morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug,” wrote Franz Kafka in The Metamorphosis. “He lay on his armorhard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely...

" I thought that I was going to be a doctor, and I majored in science and later in mathematics. But when I got out of college, I decided to study art, " divulged Romare Bearden in a 1968 oral history interview. In New York, " I went to study with George Grosz at the Art Students League. " The German-born artist guided Bearden's understanding of draftsmanship and classical technique, introducing...

In recent years, there has been a trend on simulating impressionism with computers. Among the various styles of impressionism, we are particularly interested in simulating the style of pointillism, especially the style presented by Georges-Pierre Seurat, as he was deemed the founder of pointillism. The reason that his style attracts us is twofold. First, the painting process of pointillism is e...

878 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 5, May 2006 “I very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home,” recalls Andrew Wyeth about his education after the third grade (1). The ailment that kept him away from his peers during childhood and adolescence was a “sinus condition,” later diagnosed as tuberculosis. “I played alon...

“T I drew, using a mirror; it is my own likeness, in the year 1484, when I was still a child,” wrote Albrecht Dürer about his first self-portrait, sketched with great confidence and skill when he was 13 years old (1). Fascinated by his own image, he continued to paint it throughout his life. His faithful dog once barked and wagged its tail at a newly completed self-portrait of his master, relat...

“D and fables I fashion,” wrote 18th-century Italian poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, “and even while I sketch elaborate fables and dreams upon paper ... I so enter into them that I weep and am offended at ills I invented” (1). Metastasio might have been describing the work of his contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, whose art blended history, mythology, legend, and scripture in a grand man...