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Michelangelo Artwork Consisted Pope Julius Ii
1,491 words
Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an
optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo's artwork
consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed
humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo's
poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi
even though he was complementing him.
Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his optimism.
Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb
of Pope Julius II and persevered through it's many
revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture
was Michelang...
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Form Of Media Poverty Stricken
627 words
German born Kathe Kollwitz was brought up in an
environment of great political and religious
significance. Her father a socialist and her
grandfather a independent minister who was
expelled from the church. Kollwitz's father
quickly recognised her skill for drawing and
offered encouragement towards artistic pursuits.
Kathe Kollwitz married at 23 to a doctor by the
name of Karl Kollwitz. The couple lived in a
working class district of Berlin for most of their
lives. It was here where Kollwitz dev...
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Hues Of Black Alberto Giacometti Life
998 words
His 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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Conflict Analysis Of San True West
632 words
In the play True West, by Sam Shepard, the
conflict which occurs between Austin and Lee is
most interesting when in regard to business. As
stated in the assignment sheet the essence of
dramatic action is conflict, I find the most
enthralling action sequences in this play to be
those spurred by a conflict based on business
matters. In the beginning of True West the
apparent differences between the two main
characters, brothers Austin and Lee, are their
degrees of success and professional standing...
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Eighteenth Century Hudson River
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Artwork during that Americans did were brought on
by the European style of artwork. America
eventually warped that style into their own
personal style concerning the type of people from
different cultures who had settled in America.
Spanish and Indian cultures were where folk art
came from. They were mainly of church and other
religious focused artwork. The painting style from
the English was also a hand in the definition of
the nations artwork. Also before cameras were
invented an artist would ...
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Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru
1,172 words
From cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B,
reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century,
African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's and or Niggas,
or (what ever label or category is decided this
millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded
music in every style imaginable. Rap's origins
stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has
a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word
expressionism of 60 's activists like the Last
Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri
Baraka), who performed ac...
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Primary Colors Urban Life
1,209 words
... goes of bourgeois, proletarian, and peasant
classes, proved so compelling that Marxist notions
affected public policy throughout the
Euro-American world for nearly a century. The arts
were similarly affected, both in practice and in
theory, by Marxist systems stressing fundamentally
economic forces that underlie all modern
civilization. This influence produced numerous
Impressionist images that present or analyze class
relations, family structures, and individual
anxieties in the midst of so...
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Sky With Diamonds Rock And Roll
809 words
Fashion and music play a major role in influencing
teenagers. Today, fashion and music are very
diverse, with many different styles of dress and a
variety of music. But it wasnt always like this.
Bellbottoms, platform shoes, and Rock-and-Roll
dominated the 1960 s. And with Rock-and-Roll came
the Beatles and Beatlemania. Beatlemania swept
over the United States in the 1960 s. The Beatles
began in 1957 as teenage boys playing in cellars
and drive bars in Liverpool, England, and Hamburg,
Germany. (...
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Jean Louis David Jacques Rousseau
1,384 words
Question: In what ways and to what extent is an
understanding of historical context important in
approaching the works of (a) David and (b)
Rousseau? "The Lictors Returning to Brutus the
Bodies of his Sons", is a painting by the French
artist Jean-Louis David in 1789. Having led the
fight which overthrew the monarchy and established
the Roman Republic. Brutus tragically saw his sons
participate in a plot to restore the monarchy. As
a judge, he was called upon to render the verdict,
and without h...
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Italian Renaissance Middle Class
1,233 words
The Renaissance was the period from 1350 - 1600.
The Renaissance began first in the city-states of
Italy for many reasons. Although most of Europe
had become a big economic crisis during the late
Middle Ages, Italy managed to avoid everything and
their towns remained important centers of
Mediterranean trade and boost their production of
textiles and luxury goods. Town life was bigger in
Italy than in other parts of Europe. Therefore,
most Italians could easily discard feudalism and
other medieva...
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A New Era Of Graphic Design
1,174 words
Paul Rand was one of the most influential
designers of this or anytime. His approach to
design is considered by most as one of the most
modern approaches to design ever. Rand has worked
out of his studio in Weston, Connecticut for more
than the past thirty years. During those years he
was a faculty member of Yale University from 1956
thru 1962, he decided to resign from this position
because the University had demanded that
contemporary design techniques had to be used.
This was completely again...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Early Renaissance
994 words
The "rebirth" of art in Italy, otherwise known as
the Renaissance, was connected with the
rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and
science and the development of methods in these
fields using keen observation. Greater awareness
of classical knowledge created a new way to learn
by direct study of the natural world. Because of
this, religious themes became increasingly
important to artists, and with the large interest
in the Middle Ages came a new idea for subjects
drawn from Greek and R...
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Rock And Roll Order To Create
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It is now 6: 30 A. M. Beatle time. The left London
30 minutes ago. Theyre out over the Atlantic Ocean
heading for New York. The temperature is 32 Beatle
Degrees (Szatmary 113). The transistor radio
reported every few minutes on the morning of
Friday, February 7, 1964. It was a day that would
mark a musical milestone sending shockwaves
through the United States. The plane landed, the
Beatles stepped out, and for the first time
Americans caught a glimpse of these young men with
their long hair and...
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Recreation Of The Eiffel Tower In California
1,183 words
Some may ask, Why should the Eiffel Tower be
recreated in California? A good answer for this is
why not? The Eiffel Tower is the one monument that
can easily be identified internationally without
the usage of words, only a picture of itself. Its
beauty attracts around six million visitors each
year; however, many Americans are unable to visit
due to the fact that it is so far away. If it were
recreated in California many more Americans would
be able to visit and have the experience of
visiting a...
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Critical Thinking Cognitive Development
768 words
Critical Thinking: The Role of Cognitive
Development, Logic, and Emotionality Definitions
of critical thinking range from simple statements
reflecting one's ability to create logical
conclusions based on reasoning to more complex
definitions which take into consideration a
person's emotions, personal feelings, and cultural
biases. According to the U. S. Department of
Education, National Center for Education
Statistics, "critical thinking is a broader term
describing reasoning in an open-ended ma...
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Mordecai The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
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Cunning though he is, Duddy Kravitz fails to learn
the tricks of his trade and, consequently, fails
to become a whole person. In Mordecai Richlers The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Duddy's peers
succumb to his antics, thereby becoming deficient
as Duddy's teachers. Duddy's amoral business
associates are masters of ruthlessness and deceit,
and his family members are enfeebled by the
society they live in. Trained at the hands of
these cripples, Duddy Kravitz is unable to
complete his apprentice...
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Teenage Boy Dylan Thomas
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Dylan Thomas creatively puts together
characterization, atmosphere, and narration to
both write a fascinating life story. A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection memories
from Thomas childhood and earlier years. They are
all set in Wales, which is Thomas homeland. The
stories have a distinct Welsh feeling to them.
Dylan also is very creative with his characters.
They are never developed, like in a normal story,
but rather just introduced. However, Thomas
manages to make sense out...
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Deliberate Alienation Surrealism And Magical Realism
1,453 words
Critical thinking is a terrible thing. At least,
that seems to be a popular opinion. We live in an
age where people are willing to look to anyone but
themselves for advice on what they should think.
Rather than figure out what their own opinions
are, they trust the thinly-veiled slant of the
television newscasters, the
politics-masquerading-as-reporting of magazines
like Time and Newsweek. There are fashion shows
and magazines that tell you what you think is
stylish. Children in grade school and...
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Ancient Greek Greek Art
712 words
As happened centuries later with a handful of
Renaissance painters, ancient Greek art tends to
be thought of in vague terms of vases, statues and
architecture produced "a long (unspecified) time
ago. " Indeed - a long time has passed between us
and ancient Greece, and thinking like this is a
good starting point, really. The vases, sculpture
and architecture were huge - huge! - innovations,
and artists forever afterward owed an enormous
debt to the ancient Greeks. Because so many
centuries and di...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Bipolar Disorder
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What is unipolar illness? When the mood is just
depressed. This is far more common than bipolar
illness. What is bipolar disease? Bipolar
disorders (manic-depressive illness) are marked by
periods of manic, greatly elated moods or excited
states as well as by periods of depression.
Although the manic-depressive psychosis may
alternate from one of its phases to the other, one
or the other phase is usually dominant for a
while. Depression is more often dominant than
mania. Manic-depressive patient...
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