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Upper Class Class Woman
873 words
Pierre Auguste Renoir was a late nineteen- century
French impressionist painter whose works were
often ridiculed throughout his life, because of
his sensuous celebration of women and nature. He
was considered to be one of the most famous
artists of his generation, due to his
representation sensuality and pleasure in his
paintings. When his paintings were first
exhibited, they were considered to be shocking and
culturally taboo, however after time society
became more accepting of Renoir's style a...
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One Of The Most Important Taking Pictures
1,702 words
The world of photography, especially in
journalism, is a complex weave of structure,
sight, composition, light, and texture. So there
is no wonder that some photographers must face a
very important decision - staging versus fate.
While both illustrate the skills involved in
taking pictures, these "directors" must often
choose their style (fate / staged ) for both
shots, no matter how hard one tries, will still be
able to be broken down. Meaning, many viewers will
deconstruct the photograph. If t...
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A Comparison Of The Baroque And Modern Flutes
2,200 words
A comparative study of the use of the barque and
modern flute in composition, with specific
reference to V Sonata IV for flute and continuo by
J. S Bach, and Sonata for flute and piano by
Hindemith The baroque, or transverse flute is of
great interest to me, mainly because of my own
flute playing experience. Since listening to a
concert which included both a modern orchestra and
a baroque orchestra playing together in a
specially written composition, and separately, I
have considered the baroque...
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Body Composition Physical Fitness
399 words
According to Money's Medical, Nursing, & Allied
Health Dictionary, Body Composition is defined as
the relative proportions of protein, fat, water,
and mineral components in the body. It varies as a
result of differences in body density and degree
of obesity. Basically body composition describes
the percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in a
persons body. The percentages of body fat a person
has determines their overall health and fitness
when compared to factors like age, weight, and
sex. Body co...
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Leonardo Da Vinci High Renaissance
892 words
The Last Supper was a very powerful Biblical
event, in which Jesus and his disciples gathered
for one final dinner together. According to the
Bible, important events took place during the Last
Supper, including an announcement by Jesus that
one of his disciples would betray him and the
first communion. To artists in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, it was necessary to give
proper deference to such notable occurrences. Both
Leonardo da Vinci and Jacopo Robust, known as
Tintoretto, took upon...
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Marxism And The Labor Theory Of Value
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... list thinking. The second difficulty pertains
to the hypocrisy of Roemer's view on consistency:
it is one thing to level a charge of inconsistency
against Marx's value theory, and quite another
thing to claim that it is not useful to criticize
the inconsistency of neoclassical utility and
production functions - particularly when those
inconsistencies are part and parcel of Roemer's
own approach. The whole question of consistency
is, in fact, far more complex than Roemer's focus
on formal log...
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Haydn Mozart And Beethoven
675 words
H 2 >The classical period (1750 1810) 1750
1810 is what we call the classical period, and
really any music not composed in this era is not
classical music. Most of the well known classical
composers come from this time such as Haydn,
Mozart and Beethoven who I have written about
know. Here are some short biographies of their
lives. Franz Josef Haydn (1732 - 1809) In Haydn's life he wrote 108 symphonies for 36
weeks starting when he was 27. Most, if not all of
Haydn's music ...
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Woman With The Hat By Henri Matisse
1,512 words
Henri 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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Film Components In The Composition Of Vertigo
1,648 words
When making a good film, many key elements such as
lighting, color, editing, visual design and sound,
come into play. Another very important element is
composition which refers to how subjects are
arranged in relation to each other and to the
sides of the frame. Framing, mise-en-scene or
staging, and photographing all play a significant
role in the composition of films, thus creating a
desired meaning of the film creator. Through the
unique composition of the Alfred Hitchcock film,
Vertigo, the ...
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Art Theory Leading Into The 18th Century
1,356 words
The argument of color verses design originated in
the Baroque, but extended much further into the
eighteenth century in terms of theory. Roger de
Piles was the father of this argument based on
colori's versus diego and the Poussinists versus
the Rubenists and so on. He joined the Academy in
1699, right on the verge of the Rococo and
basically formed the argument for color, rather
than classical design in his Cours de Peinture par
Principes in 1708. Up until Rubens artwork, the
classical style of...
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Lean Body Mass Anabolic Steroid
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Androgenic-Anabolic Steroid-Induced Body Changes
in Strength Athletes BACKGROUND: Some strength
athletes use androgenic-anabolic steroids (AAS) to
improve body dimensions, though the drugs' long-
and short-term effects have not been definitively
established. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to
investigate the short- and long-term effects of
AAS self-administration on body dimensions and
total and regional body composition. DESIGN: This
prospective, unbounded study involved 35
experienced male streng...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
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George Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American
composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category
of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young
and could not realize many of their plans and
ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and
creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant:
he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for
theater and cinema, and became an author of many
popular songs, which are still being played in our
times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a
family of...
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Cecil Beaton Firstly Beaton War
1,850 words
Beaton had taken pictures from the jungles of
Burma and the hillside of China. Cecil Beaton? s
career as a royal photographer spans almost fifty
years, from 1930 until 1979. In that period, he
photographed nearly thirty members of the House of
Windsor. A severe stroke in 1974 left Beaton
paralysed in his right arm, but against all odds
he taught himself to photograph with his left
hand, resuming his photographic career three years
later. Beaton died in 1980. Firstly, Beaton? s
experience during ...
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Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
1,557 words
Dmitri Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905,
started taking piano lessons from his mother at
the age of nine after he showed interest in a
string quartet that practiced next door. He
entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg,
later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he
studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923
and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov
and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the
Chopin Internatio...
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Synoptic Gospels Johns Gospel
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The genius of the Apostle John resides in his
ability to penetrate to the theological
foundations that undergird the events of Jesus
life. He reaches to the deeper baptism and the
calling of the Twelve are doubtless presupposed,
they are not actually described. Even themes
central to the Synoptics have almost disappeared:
in particular, the kingdom of God or the kingdom
of heaven, so much a part of the preaching of
Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels and the central
theme of His narrative parables, is...
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Musical Composition Classical Period
632 words
The classical period (1750? 1810) 1750? 1810 is
what we call the classical period, and really any
music not composed in this era is not classical
music. Most of the well known classical composers
come from this time such as Haydn, Mozart and
Beethoven who I have written about know. Here are
some short biographies of their lives. Franz Josef
Haydn (1732 - 1809) In Haydn? s life he wrote 108
symphonies for 36 weeks starting when he was 27.
Most, if not all of Haydn? s music was inspired
such as hi...
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20 Th Century Rite Of Spring
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Igor Igor Stravinsky IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor
Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest
composer of the 20 th Century. Several composers
have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments
in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has
dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near
St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17,
1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera
singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor
Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He
grew up hearing his father...
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Academic Achievements Fifth Grade
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Asian students perform better academically than U.
S. students throughout the entire school year. In
order to prove that Asian students do perform
better, Harold W. Stevenson and his colleagues
proposed a series of large cross-national studies,
beginning 1980. Stevenson discussed his studies in
the article Learning from Asian Schools. The
studies compared Chinese, Japanese, and American
children who sampled from first grade and fifth
grade classrooms in elementary schools in
Minneapolis, Chicago...
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Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali
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The painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus was
created in 1937 by oil on canvas by Salvador Dali.
This painting uses a lot of images to say what it
means, for example, a person, a hand, water, a
starving dog, a chess board, a canyon or cliff,
and people. This is not to fill the paper or
distract the viewer from the suggested meaning or
point, but to support the idea that hope and
despair are reflections of one another; on
opposite sides of a coin, spinning in mid-air,
waiting to land and fix or des...
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Stark Contrast John Singer
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A Survey of Romantic and Realistic Paintings
Fantasy and reality occupy our worlds everyday.
One sees this world around himself and he retreats
to what he wishes it was. Why shouldn? t he paint
about it? The portrayal of fantastic and realistic
notions occupied the activity of painters from the
mid 1800? s to the 20 th century. The period of
Romantic painting lies roughly from the mid 1700 s
to the mid / later 1800 s, while paintings from
the movement of Realism are grouped from the mid
1800 s t...
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