... format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. Both Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" and Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" send a clear message to the reader that art can exist in the modern world; however, for each poet, it exists in two entirely different manners. For Thomas, modern art moves ... in the audience - it is an unforgiving trip inside one man's brutally oppressed world that leaves the audience wrapped in chaos. That is not the case in Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts." Auden's idea of art in the modern...

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... and other artists and business leaders of Philadelphia. It is the oldest art museum and school in the nation (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Academy only admitted male students, but later women pupils, as well. The Academy ... 's primary instruction when it was first incorporated was the study of casts of classical statues in the Louvre (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). It continued educating its students in a classical manner and drawing from the live nude model was introduced around 1812, followed in succeeding ... co...

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... his work.. He longed to be accepted as a skilful traditional artist and placed great importance on having his paintings accepted into the official exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts - The Salon, which was widely regarded as the most prestigious art event in the Western World. Although this is a very Realist viewpoint, the actualisation of Manet's Absinthe Drinker lacks diligence ... ...

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