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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
535 words
Art 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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20 Th Century Avant Garde
2,580 words
The environment was major contributing factor to
the evolution of Australian art in the 20 th
century. The elemental landscape; isolation and
distance, the imposition of the mythical and the
visionary on the landscape, national identity (the
universal and the regional) and the demise of
Arcadia and romantic idealism interweave
magnificently to present the impact of
surroundings on the artwork of such a then
delicate nation. In retrospect it was the
surroundings / climate /atmosphere / feeling an...
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Australian Art 1930 1960
2,579 words
... ted the harbour theme from Passmore. Olsen
blends an interest in form and in the process of
painting with a strong and non-traditional leaning
towards landscape; landscape for Olsen is a course
in itself. The urban response consisted of Robert
Dickerson, Clifton Pugh and John Brack. Bracks
dry, acerbic view of the world stands in marketed
contrast to the dreamy melancholy of Charles
Blackman. Bracks satirical view of everyday
Australian life finds a parallel in the biting
humour of Barry Hum...
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Body Life European Costume
801 words
Obviously, the form of costume is depending on the
form of human body. This fact separates the art of
costume from design and architecture. Thus,
fashion always has been longing for human bodys
stylizing in costume. The form of costume has
always been submitting to the human bodys form.
Nevertheless, this is also true, that the costume
forms are able to create the perfect human body in
accordance with the fashionable and cultural
standard. The fashion dress history can be divided
into several pe...
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Burke And Locke On Revolution
1,970 words
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,
is a good thing, and as necessary in the political
world as storms in the physical. - Thomas
Jefferson Political rebellion takes place when the
people of a country feel it is essential that a
change in government is made. Different nations
have different ideas about the responsibilities of
government, and as a result there are many
possible reasons for political rebellion. John
Locke, an English medical doctor and philosopher
who lived until 1704...
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Admissions Committee Extracurricular Activities
1,698 words
Personalizing Your Applications The essay section
of your application ("Personal Comments" in AMCAS)
is an important item and must be utilized to sell
yourself. You must gain entry to an interview and
the essay is the only truly personal statement you
will have prior to the interview and the only one
that each member of the admissions committee will
see. It is the one item most likely to distinguish
you from a vast sea of applicants with credentials
similar to yours. It should address points uni...
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Existence Of God Empirical Evidence
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... ce and connection are relations that hold of
real objects, as opposed to abstract ideas. I have
combined the categories of the intuitive and
demonstrative here, since Locke has little to say
about them. Few relations of co-existence are
known through the examination of ideas alone. Of
greater importance are relations discovered to
hold in sense objects. Most of them are subjects
of opinion, and only those which are actually
present in perception are known sensitively. Thus
I may know that my...
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Page 27 Of A History Form Of Money Functions
543 words
The history of credit and banking goes back much
further than the history of coins. Nevertheless
the story of the origins of money goes back even
further still. What is Money? At first sight the
answer to this question seems obvious; the man or
woman in the street would agree on coins and
banknotes, but would they accept them from any
country? What about cheques? They would probably
be less willing to accept them than their own
country's coins and notes but bank money (i. e.
anything for which y...
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Point Of View Plato Aristotle
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Plato vs. Aristotle Comparison of two different
notions of Form in the philosophies of Plato and
Aristotle. The philosopher Plato was the first to
state about uniform, circular, completely correct
movement of celestial bodies. In his works we meet
for the first time the planets named after the
gods completely conterminous with Babylon. Plato
was the first to formulate a problem for
mathematicians: to find by means of what uniform
and correct circular movements it is possible to
rescue the phenom...
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Water Lily Pond By Monet
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Water Lily Pond by Monet Over the years there have
been many respectable artists, however, one of the
most famous of these artists Claude Oscar Monet
always stood alone and was ultimately determined
to follow his own solid road of experimentation
and significant tradition of impressionism. With
tiny, dabbing brush strokes Monet suggested
infinity of objects, eternalized them, and put
them beyond the instant forms. Monet created his
water garden in 1893, enlarging and embellishing
it at later int...
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Philosophy Cervantes And Descartes
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Philosophy (Cervantes and Descartes) Even though
that theory of Cartesian Dualism and the character
of Don Quixote in Cervantes famous book are
seemingly not related, there is an unmistakable
similarity between how both Don Quixote and Rene
Descartes percept surrounding reality. In short
they doubt the ontological value of their senses.
Let us analyze the essence of Descartes theory. It
will also allow us to evaluate the figure of Don
Quixote from metaphysical perspective. Cartesian
Dualism, as ...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Matter Of Fact
1,366 words
Analytical/Critical Paper on Descartes Meditation
6 - Last Paragraph The name of Descartes we
commonly associate with the concept of, so-called,
Cartesian Dualism. In his Meditations on First
Philosophy Descartes suggested the parallel
existence of two, fundamentally opposite essences
material body and immaterial mind, where
immaterial mind is fully independent of its body
and even capable of existing without it. According
to him, physical and mental substances have its
properties: extension cor...
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Members Of Society Closely Resembles
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Arguing in the Public Sphere It is not a secret
that the quality of public education in America
has considerably dropped in last two decades.
According to many recent surveys, only 50 % of
high school students were able to pint point USA
on the world map. This tendency goes along with
students increasing inability to identify public
issues that are crucial to the effective
functioning of democracy in this country. Many
sociologists say that the main reason for this is
the fact that children are ...
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First World War Surrealist Movement
1,659 words
Max Ernst Max Ernst remains a potent and
influential figure in the visual arts in the new
century. What characterizes Ernst's art, above
all, are abrupt changes of direction and a
rigorously self-critical attitude. Through a
constant reworking of his imagery and technique he
expresses the desire to visualize the tumultuous
events through which he lived during the first
half of the 20 th century. Max Ernst not only
influenced a generation of artists that
incorporated some of the elements of his s...
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Museum Of Modern Art Abstract Expressionism
1,759 words
Thinking 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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Artificial Intelligence Natural Language
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Can Computer Think? Artificial Intllignc is based
in th view that th only way to prov you know th
mind's causal properties is to build it. In its
post form, AI research sks to can an automaton
possessing human intellectual capabilities and
virtually, consciousness. Thr is no current they
of human consciousness which is will accepted, yt
AI phones lik Hans Moravec nthusiastically
postulate that in th nxt century, machin's will it
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State Of Nature Tragedy Of The Commons
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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then,
is a good thing, and as necessary in the political
world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson
Political rebellion takes place when the people of
a country feel it is essential that a change in
government is made. Different nations have
different ideas about the responsibilities of
government, and as a result there are many
possible reasons for political rebellion. John
Locke, an English medical doctor and philosopher
who lived until 1704, ...
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Jackson Pollock Abstract Artist Paintings
710 words
Essentials Jackson Pollock Matt Frank Essentials
of Art Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock was an
American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in
1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers.
Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked
a cow and he was terrified of horses because he
grew up in California. He dropped out of high
school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to
move to New York City with his older brother,
Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at
the Art Students Lea...
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Museum Of Modern Art Black And White
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A Polychrome Profusion; sculptor George Sugarman,
Fine Arts Building, New York, New York BYLINE:
RUBINSTEIN, RAPHAEL Best known today for his
public art, George Sugarman began his career with
formally eccentric painted-wood sculptures. In a
revelatory New York exhibition, early pieces were
shown alongside the 86 -year-old artists more
recent aluminum work. In the course of 1998, there
were a number of important sculpture exhibitions
in New York galleries and museums, including the
Museum of Mode...
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Secondary Qualities Primary Qualities
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Philosophy Philosophy Berkeley Due, mozilla
Philosophy The initial groundwork for Berkeley's
position is the truism that the materialist is a
skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues,
Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the
materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself).
Philonous draws upon one central supposition of
the materialist to formulate his argument of
skepticism against him; this idea is that one can
never perceive the real essence of anything. In
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