Sentences with phrase «peasant life»

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».

He is best known for depicting horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents.

Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Segantini is most well known for his paintings depicting natural settings, from peasants living in nature to detailed mountain landscapes.

A star in the firmament of late - 19th - century artists sometimes dubbed as British Impressionists, Sir George Clausen's highest prices (around # 500,000) have been for his 1880s scenes of rural peasant life, flecked in sunlight.

Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

In this parable we find again the sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life so characteristic of Jesus.

And out in the near countryside there was a burgeoning peasant life.

What could they, urban students, claim to know about peasant life?

The Posada del Puruay Hotel is a 15 minute drive from Cajamarca, at the foot of the Peruvian Andes, on the banks of River and surrounded Puruay peasant life.

After experimenting with Futurism and Cubism, when he depicted scenes from peasant life through basic geometric shapes, Malevich turned to pure abstraction.

As Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School in London from 1876 — 1893, he made a dynamic impact on British art education both as a painter and etcher, and exerted a decisive influence on the representation of peasant life as can be seen in The Tinker 1874.

Juergens's early paintings show the influence of his Munich training in their dark tones, interior settings, and themes of peasant life treated in genre scenes and portraits of rural character types.

He was an excellent portraitist and genre painter, and his fascination with the landscape and peasant life around Lake Balaton increasingly occupied his attention and formed his main themes.

The 300,000 Mexican peasants living within the preserve can barely afford to buy food and resent International tourists who care only about the butterflys.

Dead peasant life insurance has led to many class action lawsuits against companies abusing this strategy of purchasing corporate owned life insurance, also known as COLI, on its non-key employees and has also led to the IRS establishing specific guidelines and requirements for all employer owned life insurance policies purchased after August 17, 2006.

In the case of the parables, Jeremias achieves a history of the tradition, and then is able to show that the earliest forms of the parables are dissimilar to emphases of the early Church, (they are parables and not allegories, they reflect Palestinian peasant life, etc.) and of ancient Judaism (above all the esehatology).

The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.

Adolphe Schreyer was a German artist best known for his paintings of horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents.

Notable for the diversity of his painting style, his work includes academic portraits, Millet - like scenes of peasant life, and Monet - inspired nature scenes.

Policies that would bring dignity and significant improvement to peasant life would do little for the GNP, but they might do much more than new factories for the indivisible salvation of the whole world.

The book includes subplots of love stories and conspiracies, along with interludes of a peasant life marked by a spiritual wisdom and uncomplicated human decency that the sophisticated have discarded with contempt.

There've even a museum dedicated to peasant life, called the MTR.

Faced with the options of either staying a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

The contrasting final chapters, «The Mountain Glory» and «The Mountain Gloom» [70] provide an early example of Ruskin's social analysis, highlighting the poverty of the peasants living in the lower Alps.

The soul was regarded as related to the land, in the doctrine of «blood and soil», which partly was used to exploit the belief that the landowner and peasant lived in an organic harmony.