Vincent van Gogh. Fishing Boats on the Beach.
June 1888. Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh Foundation,
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Pietà (After Delacroix). 1889. Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Note:
In this excerpt the characters' names are replaced
with pronouns in italics in order to not reveal the characters'
idenities.
The Eight Greats selected for this section were chosen
because the young characters in this novel (at-risk kids of
San Francisco) would have likely admired these role models.
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He walked outside to find them and a dozen
teenagers standing together looking at the wall of the building. The
street side of the Golden Gate Youth Center has become a
rubberneck traffic jam as motorists slow their cars to a crawl.
Her mural project contains every imaginable color. It features a
brilliant collage of tropical flowers, fierce white tigers,
and swirling van Gogh stars. Delicate butterflies with gossamer
wings flutter to the upper left corner, and a life-sized pair of wild horses
are splashing through a ragging river from the bottom right corner.
The mural also showcases eight portraits: Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Nelson Mandela, Susan B. Anthony, Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy, Gandhi,
and Jesus.
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