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The artist I selected was Franz von Stuck who was a german who was a painter, sculpter, engraver and architect.  Franz von Stuck was born in Tettenweis but later moved to Munich where he remained for the rest of his life. He began his artistic career in cartoons but later moved to painting where he received awards for his works.  His style mainly focused in mythology. Many of his works were very large including the piece i picked as well as had high focus in the frames they were kept in which were designed and built by Franz himself.

The work I decided to select just stood out to me not only in how great and large the painting was but also in name. The painting is titled “Inferno” and just as the name suggests refers to the literature written by Dante Alighieri titled Dantes Inferno.  The painting itself portrays symbols of the underworld such as dark colors, snakes, demons and a fiery pit.

The information described by the painting summary suggests that the poses are strikingly modern.  The painting seemed very progressive with the women on the right being of no clothing and very detailed.  The painting seemed to be non traditional and classical in nature and was painted during the modernist era.  It also was about the religion and perhaps trying to break traditional beliefs or ideas of the church by portraying demons and a fiery pit.

My encounter of this work was being walking aimlessly around the large museum trying to find the modernist section as well as taking in the sites of the other sections.  Eventually I came across the room which I believe to be the start of the modern art section although I am not entirely sure. The first painting that caught my eye was this one and the main thing that made me take a second look at it was the title of the paining “Inferno”. Which was highlighted by being underneath the paining and engraved in the beautiful gold hand crafted frame. I immediately thought maybe its based on Dante’s Inferno and after reading the description and taking another good look at the painting it was indeed true based on the same work of literature and I decided that this was going to be the piece I would write on.  The title of the painting was surprisingly the main thing that drew me to this piece and after that it was probably its grandeur as if it were a small piece i might have missed the title and painting completely.

My only question about the painting itself would be why the female on the right was portrayed with no clothing and how he thinks that it ties in with the piece itself.

One of the things I find very interesting about the text is the attention to detail that Henrik Ibsen puts into it.  One of the things that Henrik writes about is that Hedda is constantly playing with her pistols and I can relate somewhat to what she is doing.  In my opinion she is playing with the pistols out of boredom almost like ADHD. I do this constantly and I feel like I am always obsessively playing with things with my hands in order to keep myself entertained.  I think it tells a bit about what kind of person she is even from this little detail.  Another thing I can relate to is causing issues and then only apologizing to try to stop the situation from escalating.  In the text Hedda mistakingly makes fun of Aunt Julle’s hat which she thinks is the maids and apologizes immediately in order to make up for her accident.  I feel like Hedda has a hard time interacting with people in general throughout the play causing arguments and generally being somewhat rude to others.  Hedda overall seems like a very care free character who does not worry about much and enjoys just fiddling with her pistols no matter whats going on.  I can really relate to her because I mostly enjoy just doing activities by myself like working out or playing video games.  I feel like for me its hard to relate the overall text to myself but the character Hedda seems like she has a very similar personality to my own through these few details specified by Henrik.

Hello my name is Robert Hoffmann, I am a transfer student at Baruch and am majoring in business CIS which stands for computer information systems.  Another term for it is data analytics. I just came back from Colorado where I went snowboarding with a friend of mine.  I love hockey but can no longer play most due to an injury to my shoulder but snowboarding is something I try to do as much as possible over the course of each winter.  This is my first semester at Baruch and I am still trying to learn the in and outs of going to school here but its going well so far.  Some things I do in my spare time are go to the gym and play video games.  I am a very competitive person and am passionate about the things I care about.  In my opinion a person should always take pride in their work. I really dislike reading and writing probably two of my least favorite things to do for school so this class is very out of my comfort zone.  Occasionally I will find I enjoy a book or literary work that is required for school but other then that I normally do not read things on my own other then internet posts.  I hope this semester I enjoy one of the literary works that are required to read for this class. Another thing about me is that I do not live in the city I live on long island and commute to school here every day.  The commute is usually around an hour and twenty minutes long which isn’t that bad especially since most of it is just a train ride.  I am almost done with school and I hope I can do well my first semester here so I can finish my degree either this upcoming December or by spring of 2020.  After school its off to the real world to find a suitable job and career for my degree either here in New York or perhaps looking into going to Los Angelas. I hope to have a great first semester here at Baruch.