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Vallon Pont D'arc Pont D'arc Cave
415 wordsAt the foot of a cliff in the Apache Gorges, in south-eastern France, amateur speleologists discovered the world's oldest painted prehistoric cave. Discovered on December 18, 1994, this cave features art that dates back thirty-one thousand years. Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hilaire, were the amateurs who discovered the cave that has come to be known simply as the Chauvet cave. The explorers were in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France some thirty feet below ground. While expl...
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South Africa Mountain Ranges
1,179 wordsSouth Africa is the southernmost part of the continent of Africa. It is one of the earth's oldest and stable landmasses. This is why there are no folded mountain ranges. The only mountain ranges that are similar to that kind of range, would be those in the southern tip. This is where the north-south ranges meet an east-west range in the Paarl area. The rest of the country has been slightly pitted so that interior lakes like the Okovango Delta have no outlet to the sea. Most of the country is at ...
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Laws Of Nature Moral Standards
603 wordsThe human race has advanced over many years, and during this time, moral standards have developed. These moral standards, distinctively different from the laws of nature, are standards set specifically for humans. The play Rhinoceros, written by playwright Eugene Ionesco, associates this difference in moral standards and laws of nature. Ionesco uses Jean, a French businessman, to display the differences between these two ways of life. In Act I, Jean believes in the values of the society, moral s...
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Oudry Painted Menagerie The Getty Museum
1,259 wordsOudry's Painted Menagerie; The Getty Museum Introduction The exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie (May 1 - September 2, 2007) at the Getty Center is the mutual project of curators, conservators and art historians. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings. Originally, the project was initiated in 2001 (Schwerin, Germany) in result of the reemergence of two Oudry's canvases, one depicting a rhinoceros and the other a lion. The paintings were not available to the public for more than 150...
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Difficult To Understand Piece Of Art
2,391 wordsSpirituality in Art Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life. Nick Bantock People do hundreds and thousands of things every day: get up, get dressed, wash up, have breakfast, get on a bus to get to college, write abstracts and essays, communicate with other people and hardly ever realize that any item of their usual daily program can become an art if they p...
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Beginning Of Act Taking Action
745 wordsI awoke sweating. Breathing heavily, I glanced over at my clock and read the time. 4: 00 AM. I wasnt sure if this was reality or not so I ran my palm over my scalp. No bump. A sigh of relief came over me. Phew, I said, it was only a dream. This is a dream I have had often throughout the past couple of years. Each time, the bump in my dream gets bigger and bigger and each time I wake up Im more and more frightened that the dream was real. I will not be a rhinoceros, I tell myself over and over. I...
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