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University Of Virginia Teachers College
2,047 wordsGeorgia Total O'Keeffe was born in the year on November 15, 1887. She was one of seven children. O'Keeffe's aunt was mostly responsible for raising her. O'Keeffe did not care much for her aunt though; she once referred to her as, "the headache of my life. " She did, however, have some respect for her aunt's strict and self disciplined character. O'Keeffe was given her own room and less responsibility. The younger sisters had to do more chores and share close living conditions. A younger sister s...
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Middle Class Family Art World
545 wordsThe middle class family Claude Monet was born into was average in every way. The son that was born into that middle class family was not average, but will be remembered in the art world for many years. He drew cartoons for his family and friends, and would get as much as $ 60 apiece for them. He did hundreds of these and gave the money to his aunt to hold for him. The day Monet accompanied a local artist to paint and saw what painting could be, it was as though a veil had been lifted from his ey...
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One Of Picasso One Of The Greatest
1,091 words... ut with fellow artists in the area, which would exemplify the fact that he was not in a depression or some sort of downward spiral. One of Picasso's most famous pieces from this time was Old Man and a Guitar, which was done with a dismal blue haze and very dull colors. The painting was of an old man hunched over playing a guitar. Since the painting had the blue haze over it seemed very dismal and one got a sense of pain and anguish through the old man. With wrinkles, bare feet, and tattered ...
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Civil War People Today
718 wordsCivil War Art is a big part of history today. People today us it to remember the war. How did people survive, where did people live, why did we fight are all questions and wonders of people today. Artist these days and back than drew about those questions. It gave people a mental picture on how our world was back than. Also what the Civil War was about. Today there are many artists that paint pictures about the Civil War. Civil War Art is very valuable. It brings back the life of the Civil War. ...
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Color Your World Working At Color Your World Donna
531 wordsColor Your World employee of the month Donna Lukas made the impression on her bosses and co-workers as the paint lady. Donna will add yet another piece of her work this month to the Toronto Gallery of Art. She has earned the reputation of being the lady to go to when in doubt of colors. Fellow co-worker Jaclyn Smith remembers an incident last week when she was having problems with picking the colors for her new living room. I had this one color picked out but when she saw it she frowned and sugg...
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Diego Rivera Thousand Dollars
1,361 wordsDiego Rivera is one of, if not the most, famous artist to ever come out of South America. His influence can be seen not only to his own country, but also all over the world. Rivera was born on December 13, 1886, the date of one of many Mexican religious festivals, in Guanajuato. He was the first in a set of twins. His twin brothers name was Jos Carlos and he died at the age of one and a half. As a matter of fact, his whole name was actually Diego Mariade la Concepcion Juan Nepolmuceno Estanislao...
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The Effects Of Lead Poison On Children
1,240 wordsThroughout the world today one out of every six children under the age of six are suffering from health disorders due to a poisonous metal known as lead (Kiwanis, 1996). Lead is a natural occurring bluish-grey metal found in the earth's crust. It has no taste or smell. Lead can easily be found in all parts of our environment today. Most of it comes from mining, manufacturing, and last but not least the burning of fossil fuels (Xintaras, 1993). In the United States lead poison has increased becau...
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Husband And Wife Facing Forward
1,148 wordsThis superb pair standing statue remains semi-attached to the limestone block from which they were carved. There is chipping on the surface of Memi's (man) right arm. A portion of Sabu's (woman) nose and her lips appear to be chipped off as well. On the lower part of Sabu's body there is chipping on both legs and right underneath her pelvic area. There are visible horizontal lines that cut right across Memi's right forearm and underneath Sabu's breasts. These lines may indicate what pieces of th...
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Group Of Boys Lord Of The Flies
1,130 wordsIn society human beings have developed morals and ways of life that set them apart from savage creatures. William Golding's story Lord of the Flies, deals with young men shedding their morality to maintain a society that is capable of surviving. In this tale of human survival Golding selects symbols on an island to represent themes. Of the many symbols he uses, the stripping of the cloths, a conch shell, and war paint are the three most effective. Each of these three symbols represent how humans...
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Shroud Of Turin Jesus Christ
2,091 wordsThe Shroud of Turin has caused much controversy in the latter part of this century, most of it dealing with its authenticity. It is held by many that this is indeed the burial shroud of Jesus Christ, and the image found on the shroud was burned in-for lack of a better word-during the resurrection. This subject has appeared throughout numerous forms of media, ranging from television specials on networks such as Discovery and The Learning Channel, to magazines, newspapers, books and even the Inter...
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19 Th Century Impressionist Movement
1,276 words... forms to teach ethical lessons through historic, mythological, and Biblical themes. This convention, drawn from ancient Greek and Roman art, featured idealized images. Symmetrical compositions, hard outlines, and meticulously smooth paint surfaces characterised academic paintings. In spite of the Academy's power, signs of artistic and political discontent had been seen long before 1874. The early- and mid- 19 th century was a time of political instability in France. Between 1830 and 1850, th...
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Woman With The Hat By Henri Matisse
1,512 wordsHenri Matisse Woman With the Hat, 1905 Oil on Canvas 31 x 23. 5 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat (1905, is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Woman with a Hat is a classic fauve extravaganza of wild color. It is oil on canvas; 31. 75 by 35. 5 inches. The first thing one notices about the painting is the color, its everywhere. The painting looks like a splattering of garish color. Green stands out instantly, as it dominates a good deal of the ...
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Claude Monet Edgar Degas
1,430 wordsImpressionism was the most important Art movement of the nineteenth century, having a great influence on the development of Modern Art. The name impressionism itself comes from a painting Impression sunrise created by Claude Monet (a member of the group) being influenced by Japanese Art 1863 was considered to be the start of Impressionism. However the name of the group did not appear until 1874, when the first exhibition was held. Impressionism consisted of landscapes, seascapes, snow scenes, ba...
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20 Th Century Jackson Pollock
2,056 wordsJackson Pollack was a complex man who brought many things into the forefront of impressionism. Although he led a very short life of 44 years he was known as one of the pioneers of abstract impressionism. His abstract painting techniques and unhealthy psychological being made him very sought after, studied and critiqued. Within his complexity came out a brilliant artist that was widely considered the most influential painter of the 20 th century. Pollack? s first documented adventure into the art...
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Grey Hill Forms Georgia O Keeffe Paint
681 wordsWhen Georgia O Keeffe painted Grey Hill Forms in 1936, she was already at the height of a career that brought her both popular and critical acclaim. In 1929, she spent the summer in Taos, New Mexico and was overwhelmed by the unique visual experience the landscapes provided. She affectionately referred to the land of northern New Mexico as the faraway a place of stark beauty and infinite space. Her sources of imagery lie in the world of nature, but nature interpreted with great freedom. Georgia ...
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Attention To Detail Human Body
1,432 wordsLucian Freud Master of The Flesh Lucian Freud, born grandson to Austrian Psychologist Sigmund Freud, was an English painter known and highly appreciated for his ability to render the human body with such technical precision. He was born in Berlin in 1922, and still lives today. He emigrated to England with his family as a child. He began to receive training at the Central School of Art in London, the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, and Goldsmiths College in London between ...
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Good Idea V 8
1,656 wordsSome Tips on Car Restoration Whenever someone decides to take the initiative to restore a car, it requires a serious commitment. I have seen too many people begin work and never finish. The successful car restorer chooses a car that fits his / her personality and budget, and follows the job through to the end. One must have a love for the process as well as the product, or the project will be rushed and end up to be worthless. I learned this tedious process when I was just fourteen years old, ba...
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Art New York Demoiselles D Avignon
3,050 wordsPablo Picasso Pablo Picasso A Brief Biography Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso was the most famous artist of the 20 th century. He was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Black, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria P...
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Paul Cezanne Modern Art
1,031 wordsThe Life of Paul Cezanne by Inna Sokolyanskaya Paul Cezanne was born on January 19, 1839, in the Aix-en-Province, located in the Southern part of France. Due to his father s job as a local banker, and before this a local import and exporter in the area, Cezanne s family was considered upper middle class. Their rich lifestyle made them unpopular with the local community, who thought of them as sly and selfish. For a short while, Cezanne was convinced by his father to pursue a career in law. Howev...
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Salvador Dali Art Quot
996 wordsFrom the real to the surreal, Salvador Dali embodied it all. Once he was satisfied with his abilities to mimic what he saw in the world, he began to play with objects and space. He comprehended, perfected and finally transcended realism and his work became much more than paint on canvas. In a forward that transpersonal psychologist Ken Wilber did for Alex Grey? s book Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, he stresses that " all of us possess the eye of flesh, the eye of mind and t...
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