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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
535 wordsArt is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once commented Jean Arp -- a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts et Mtiers. In 1905, he transferred to the Weimar Academy and then to Paris at the Academic Julian in 1908, and subsequent to graduation ...
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Women In Greek Art
1,136 wordsWomen in Greek history have had many roles. In Ancient Greece the mythological stories tell of very powerful women. Some archeological finds hint at the same suggestion. Women also represent some of the most powerful of deities. In the Classical Age women were subservient and primarily homebound. Women did the sewing, cooking, cleaning and raising of the children. In Hellenistic times women were becoming more a part of society yet still played the part of the subservient wife and mother. Women p...
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Hues Of Black Alberto Giacometti Life
998 wordsHis purpose was to express the totality of life and find the real through external experiences. He was celebrated for his elongated figures that followed his break from the surrealists. But, who was Alberto Giacometti? Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in the Italian speaking town Borgonova, Switzerland. Being the son of Giovanni Giacometti, an impressionist painter, he was encouraged in art at an early age. Giacometti had great confidence in his drafting ability at the age of 10, and at 14 he...
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Jim Thomson House Baht Per Person Thai
956 wordsThe first time when I heard this name "Jim Thomson's House" in the class of English for Guide, I didn't know what this place is like and there were many questions about this house in my head such as where is it located? who is Jim Thomson? what did he do? why his house is famous? and what are interesting things in there? Fortunately, when the list of my questions finished, my friend who sat beside me suddenly told me, she had ever gone to Jim Thomson's house two years ago. So I eagerly asked her...
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Myths And Legends Rules And Regulations
1,614 wordsThe Haida, meaning The People, once were numbered at over 10, 000. They occupied the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Colombia. Their numbers were numerous and their life was prosperous. In 1774 there was the first European contact (Gunn) and the Haida, unknowingly, let the lion out of its cage, they let white man enter their territory. The Europeans brought trade, but they also brought colonization. A word the Indians did not know would cause them such horror. Smallpox and many other epidemic...
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Greatly Influenced Buddhist Temple
1,258 wordsRice, the staple food of the Korean diet, is eaten at most meals. Millet, wheat, barley, corn, and sorghum are also eaten, especially in the north. The vegetables Koreans eat include potatoes, Chinese cabbage, turnips, and onions. Garlic and red peppers are used as seasoners. Kunchi (pickled vegetables) is a favorite dish. Fish and other seafood's are the usual sources of proteins. To, or rice, is a popular confection. Traditional clothing, made of cotton or synthetic materials, is worn only by ...
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Lived In A Time Area Where The Greeks Great
504 wordsThe Greeks contributed many things to todays society. Their ideas were extremely innovative and they lived in a time of great discoveries. Their influence has touched on subjects such as philosophy, politics, medicine, math, and art, to name just a few. The men who developed these important ideas many years ago benefit each one of us and have an important effect on todays culture. There are many famous Greek philosophers. One of the most famous is Socrates. Socrates believed in a persons charact...
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Geometric Shapes B C
440 wordsWilliam Zorach conceived a sculpture entitled "Victory" that shows an indebtedness to the late classical fourth century B. C. idealized images of Venus, combined with a figural attitude of flight that is perhaps derived from the twisting torso of the conceptions of flight in the winged Victory of Samothrace. The figure exhibits a lustrous surface of sensual light that is reminiscent of the finish on Donatello's bronze image of David. The torso may be viewed at once as a provocative and modern he...
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Museum That One Italian Art Renoir
659 wordsPierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 to a tailor and dressmaker. He attended a Christian Brother's School where he was taught the rudiments of drawing. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were near the Louvre. At the same time, he took drawing lessons from the sculptor Callouette. After serving his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, he worked for a M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860 he became a student of...
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Sculptures Paolozzi Work
297 wordsPaolozzi was born in Edinburgh to Italian parents in the year 1924. He grew up there and went to art school and colleges in Scotland. When he started his career he was a painter and a sculptor on the side but soon he began to sculpt more and paint less developing new ideas and styles. Many sculptures emerged from 1945 but out of all of them Paolozzi seems to be the only to invent a new style of sculpting. Until Paolozzi created his own style you could see similarities between his work and other ...
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Glass And Steel Saarinens Twa Controversy
587 wordsThe architects that I am comparing came from two different parts of the world and yet, in some ways the message (s) behind their work and the incorporation of engineering, geometrical and sculptural elements into their designs and their new identity as Americans brings them closer together. Low Ming Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917 and came to the United States for his further education. Because of his fathers influence on him, who always encouraged Pei in designing, he attended MIT and it ...
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Art New York Work Of Art
1,870 wordsMan-made objects produced for acquisition depend on the ability to carry an image of style. The consumer is persuaded that ownership will enable them to inherit this style transforming their lives into perfect, happy reflections of the people featured in advertisements. These objects can be applied to any aspect of life as a fast answer to the question of style. The media promotes and reflects the current mainstream culture's standards for life style, class and importance of appearance. The medi...
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Art Deco Gothic Architecture
1,424 wordsIn this essay information will be given in order to compare and contrast data about three different styles of architecture. The three styles are Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Neo Gothic. In order to fully give a clear explanation of these styles, information about architecture will be given first then the three styles will follow with comparing and contrasting points in between. First, to inform about architecture, one must explain what it is. Architecture, referring to building is defined as The p...
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Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass
394 wordsChartres Cathedral is the cathedral church of Notre Dame (Our Lady) in the city of Chartres in northwestern France. It is one of the foremost examples of High Gothic French architecture, and is widely noted not only for its innovations in architecture, but also for its many sculptures and celebrated stained glass. The oldest parts of the cathedral are taken from a Romanesque church, which was destroyed by a fire in 1194. The present day cathedral was constructed on this church? s foundation, wit...
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Greek And Roman Primary And Secondary
1,062 wordsElements of Structure: Color is an important way of expressing feelings and moods. The use of color by an artist can convey sublime messages to the beholder that could not have been done with a thousand words. Color is just one of the many elements used by artists: there are five basic elements in any painting or sculpture line, shape, color, texture and value. This project describes some of the techniques that artists use to convey their thoughts, including color. The line is the simplest of th...
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Vel Zquez De La
2,523 wordsCosta Del Sol It is possible that the Neolithic revolution, the discovery of agriculture the passage of nomadic to sedentary peoples, reached Europe by way of Africa through what is known today as Andalusia. This historical center of influence, an east west displacement, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic began with a revolution that introduced the usage of metals and the arrival of colonizers from the east. A confluence of fertile lands, of metallurgy and fishing activities took place in th...
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Baroque Style Architecture Achieved
309 wordsThe Baroque style of art and architecture developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17 th and early 18 th centuries. The baroque style is characterized by an emphasis on unity among the arts. The baroque artist achieved harmony in painting, sculpture, and architecture and created new spatial relationships. In painting and sculpture this was achieved by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism, usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating an unequaled sense ...
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Great Deal High Tech
872 wordsGreek and Japanese Architecture For a great many years, architecture has been a breaking point for different artistic eras in history. Some of the most famous? works of art? have been chapels, temples, and tombs. Among the most dominant and influential eras of great architecture are the sophisticated, stoic Greeks-Roman periods and the more mystical, elemental Japanese eras. These two very distinct and very different eras have more in common than you may realize. When work began on the Parthenon...
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One Of The Most Famous Marcel Duchamp
2,110 wordsMuseum Marcel Duchamp Matt Giles Museum Project Duchamp Stripped Bare, Even Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887; thus, began the life of one of the most famous of the Cubists, Dadaists, and ready-made artists (Paz, 181). His work was important because of his love of new and different taking art in a new direction each time he created. I force myself to contradict myself so as to avoid conforming to my own taste (duchamp's-children. fine). This explains his attempts at different types of art...
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Pope Julius Ii Lorenzo De Medici
899 wordsMichelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de Medici, the magnificent. Michelangelo's future was shaped to a large degree by his life in lorenzo's household. Lorenzo...
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