Jazz is an example of what literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. has called âsignifyin(g)â; that is, the rhetoricalpractice in Black English vernacular of repeating with a âsignal difference,â ora comment on the initial version that calls attention to the change.
Art Inspired by The French Revolution. There are hundreds of paintings, sketches, and comics influenced by the French Revolution and especially Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of the paintings were painted by one artist, in particular. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a neoclassical artist who was born in Paris, France.
The background-wall has a sort of spot-light effect, leading toward Socrates. The arch on the left and the dark triangle on the right frame that directional lighting. In David's Death of Socrates the emphasis is established by the man in the white robe pointing his finger to the sky. His body is very prominent and the only one almost completely square to the front, and because also of his emotion presented is excited and alive.