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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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City Of Troy Twelfth Century
1,404 wordsWorld Civilization to 1500 Research Paper When Heinrich Schliemann emerged from Turkey in June of 1873 with a hoard of treasure, the whole world took note. He claimed to have found the ruins of ancient Troy. Schliemann had rejected the prevailing scholarly doctrine that Homer was a mythmaker, not a historian or scholar. Even today, some people argue that the actual ruins of the historical city of Troy are in Croatia, not Hisarlik, Turkey, as Schliemann claimed. This position is outdated now, jus...
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Wanted To Make Love And Lust
1,161 wordsThere were a lot of good movies to choose from. I thought long and hard on which movie to choose. Finally, I chose Cruel Intentions. I rented this movie when it first came out on videotape and I really enjoyed watching it. I guess I liked it because it was taken place in my time and my generation. Cruel Intentions is one of many movies made based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Laclos. The movie stars Sarah Michelle Gellar who plays Kathryn Merteuil. Ryan Phillipe who plays Sebas...
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Thin Wood Strips Made Out Of Thin Wood Picture
468 wordsOut of Africa, the theme surrounding the art sculptures and masks at the American River College Art Gallery, can be viewed from February 21 st through March 16 th from 11 am 5 pm. The exhibit contains a collection of artifacts, mainly masks, owned by private collectors in the Sacramento area. Since the artwork is privately owned, information on the artifacts and the artist is somewhat limited. In rare occasions do the owners of these artifacts know anything about the artwork in which they could ...
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Makes You Feel Story The Narrator
1,168 wordsSucking You In: The story of John Updike John Updike has been known for his short story and novel writing all throughout the last 30 years. He has something in his text that can just grab the reader and literally pull them into the story. Using his vivid imagination and his unique style of writing, he makes you feel like you are actually there. Weather it is in the middle of a sporting event, or on top of a snowy mountain preparing to start your voyage down on nothing but two thin pieces of meta...
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Basketball Player Brick Wall
1,157 words... to study it in college. But I am not studying it because I am good at it. I am studying it because I love it. Throughout all of the short stories that I read, I noticed a very consistent style in John Updike's writing. He uses many common methods in all or most of his stories. One of those methods that Updike used very frequently, but also very effectively, was imagery. This is when an author writes something and you can actually see, feel or taste it. In the short story Gesturing the phrase...
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Amenhotep Iii Sun Disk
1,270 wordsThe Pharaoh Who Was Called Akhenaten A research paper submitted to Mr. Tour in partial fulfillment of the requirements for World Cultures Akhenaten will always be remembered as a great heretic ruler, who uprooted traditional Egyptian religions, and conjured a monotheistic religion that is very close in nature to Christianity and Judaism. His political power was not his strong point, but with the creation of the religion, and the vast change in art forms, Akhenaten will never be forgotten. Amenho...
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Art Deco Term Craft Make
633 wordsArt (rt) n. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. Craft (kr ft) n. Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency. To make by hand. To make or construct (something) in a manner suggesting great care or ingenuity. Craft, the w...
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Banana Plantation Motagua Basin Quirigua
712 wordsOne of the last lowland Mayan cities to collapse, existing well into the 9 th century, Quirigua, lies today in the still grasses of the Motagua Basin. This 1, 200 years old Mayan city is the focus of the article. The ruins of Quirigua are found amidst a banana plantation established at the turn of the century by the United Fruit Company. Some of the executives of the United Fruit Co. were interested in archaeology and decided to keep the central plaza from being plowed over. The surrounding smal...
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Museum Of Modern Art Abstract Expressionism
1,759 wordsThinking outside the Box Clay, in its wet, malleable state, is fast moving, responding instantly to the touch. It demands spontaneity, speed and the instinct for improvisation. Cheap and abundant, it leaves the artist free to take risks, to waste his material, even to destroy his work with the exhilaration of a kid popping balloons. Over the years, Peter Voulkos has taken this humble material long associated with utility and craft and created a new kind of art. Harnessing destruction as a creati...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Peters Basilica
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Greek Architecture B C
651 wordsGreek Greek Architecture Greek Architecture Greek influence is visible in everything that we have today. Our laws, cities and even our system of goverment all come from aspects of greek civilization, but maybe what we have been influenced the most gy the greeks is in architecture. Maybe the reason this is, is that it was a new form of architecture that had little to do with function and everything to do with looks. Ago example is the Greek temple. They were built in honor of the gods, but the ar...
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Roman Art One Made
323 wordsBeginning my endeavors into Greek v / s Roman art I thought, whats the difference? It didnt take long to see just what the differences were. The fundamental values of Western Civilization: humanism, individualism and human dignity were inherited from Greece. One of the most important characteristics of Roman civilization were its abilities to gather alien influences and to put them all into one unified culture. True one of the most determining influences was the Greek, still the artwork from Rom...
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Science Technology Money Science Technology Adams
430 wordsThe Education of the Henry Adams reviews Adams s and the United States s education and growth during the 19 th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (and. org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans b...
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19 Th Century House Of Commons
944 wordsTitle: History of the Elgin Marbles Content: A history of the Elgin Marbles that are now in a Museum in England but were originally apart of the greek Parthenon The Elgin Marbles were taken from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the 19 th century, and placed in the British Museum. They are considered by many to be one of the most important features of the Acropolis of Athens (were they there). The Greek government has demanded their return on several occasions, and the British government has refuse...
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Thames And Hudson Female Gender
1,996 wordsIS A GOD A FEMALE How hard would it be for religious society today to accept that the Great being worshipped is not male, but female? As difficult as one can imagine for people to see God as a woman this does not seem the way it should be. After all, it is the female gender that carries and delivers each and everyone of us. So exists the mystery of why anyone should have trouble understanding, believing and finally accepting that at one point in time, many years ago, women were the ones that wer...
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Pope Julius Ii Sistine Chapel
1,414 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti, born in the sixteenth century, was perhaps one of the greatest artisans of all time. He was an accomplished artist, sculptor, architect, and poet who demonstrated his great skill with the creation of many astounding works. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its natural state. He is remembered today as the man who had sculpted the David and the Pieta, which are two of the most stunning sculptures to come out of the Renaiss...
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Dead Christ Virgin Mary
417 wordsMichelangelo is considered one of the greatest artists in history and was a great leader during the Italian Renaissance. Not only was he a great painter, but a sculptor as well. His most famous sculptures all depict variations of the same scene: the Virgin Mary and the body of the dead Christ after his calcification. These four sculptures, collectively called the Pietas, are all very unique. Pieta 1 was sculpted in 1499, when Michelangelo was only 23 years old. It is the most intricate and beaut...
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Pop Art Mass Culture
211 wordsPop Art, visual arts movement of the 1950 s and 1960 s, principally in the United States and Britain. The images of pop art (shortened from popular art) were taken from mass culture. Some artists duplicated beer bottles, soup, cans, comic strips, road signs and similar objects in paintings, collages, and sculptures. Others incorporated the objects themselves into their paintings or sculptures, sometimes in startlingly modified from. Materials of modern technology, such as plastic, urethane foam ...
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Tutankhamun Tomb King Tut
1,357 wordsThe ancient Egyptians were noted for many things, one of which would have been their artwork. Egyptians used many medians in their artwork that enhanced the details and beauty of every piece of art. Their artwork is fascinating and mysterious, which pulls in the viewer into wanting to learn more. One of the most important and unique Egyptian artworks belongs to King Tutankhamun, a young pharaoh of Egypt. A brief history of the discovery of King Tut s tomb and the importance and beauty of certain...
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