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.
1 He was one of the first major artists to use art as social commentary. 2  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot-A French landscape painter who moved from Romanticism to Realism. 3  Honore Daumier-A French painter who was more famous for his caricatures of famous people while alive.