[作業-學習心得] Learning Log (2) -- The Death of General Wolfe

Learning log 2  (By 潘衍廷)

Website I visited	Royal Ontario Museum: Iconic - The Death of General Wolfe (http://www.rom.on.ca/media/podcasts/display.php?id=106)
What language content I have learned (vocabulary/sentence/…)	From the sound artist: 1. fabricate (v.製造；杜撰) 2. depict （v.描畫；描述） 3. allusion (n.間接提到；暗指；影射；典故) 4. he didn’t clothe anything in terms of historical garb, but rather used outfits that were exactly contemporaneous to the event. 5. Propaganda (n.宣傳) 6. Imperialism (n.帝國主義) 7. Pinpoint （v.精準的確定） 8. Palette (n.調色板)
My reflections	This painting “The Death of General Wolfe” exhibited at first in 1771 is done by Benjamin West. It is important in Canadian history because this work describes a battle for Quebec between the British and the French. In this painting, General Wolfe, who led the British army, is dying happily because the messenger(who is on the left) is coming with news of the French having been defeated. The Death of General Wolfe has many copies. The one in ROM is the fifth large copy. But the guide in the podcast says that people prefer a smaller one now because they can own them easily. I noticed that General Wolfe’s face is whiter than others. It may be because he is losing too much blood and he was going to die. There is also an Indian in this painting. It is interesting for us to learn history from artworks!