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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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Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Worked
634 wordsWithout question the most recognized work of the Renaissance is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Named for Pope Sixtus IV della River (1471 - 1484), the chapel is simple in shape. Its measurements repeat those given in the Bible for the temple of Solomon. But, despite the Sistine Chapel's structural simplicity, its ceiling is one of the pinnacle achievements in art history. After more than four years, Michelangelo completed his masterpiece ceiling in October of 1512. On it he portrayed the nine st...
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Sigmund Freud Anna Freud
640 wordsThe Freud museum is a small house museum which was formerly the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped the Nazi annexation of Austria. Thus Nazi persecution of Freud led to the extraordinary environment in which he had developed his epoch-making theories being transported, in its entirety, from Vienna to London. It remained the family home until his daughter Anna Freud (1895 - 1982) died, and it was her wish that the house should become a museum to commemorate her fathers life an...
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William Henry British Broadcasting
1,131 wordsBetween 1844 - 6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photogram's, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the usage of the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid his sketches by tracing the image projected onto the paper through the prism; it was h...
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Perez Sanchez 200 Perez Sanchez 201 Guernica
1,141 words... ering may have been used to symbolize the helpless suffering that was endured by the people of Guernica. Another important figure that dominates the painting is the mother holding the dead child which "may have been inspired by a photograph. " (Chipp 92) Guernica is unique because Picasso painted images through his eyes and with brush strokes, his paintings were logical in his mind and not influenced by outside sources. In dealing with this image in one of his sketches he again strikes a per...
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1,037 wordsAs I walked up to the future interior designer of the Ahmad family, I wondered the extent to which Nusrat Ahmad had taken her designing career. I saw Nusrat sitting on the lush green sofa in the corner of her family room, thinking that one day she would be strategically placing sofas in other people's houses. Belonging to a Pakistani family, I wanted to question the extent of approval she received from her family and relatives and inquire about other South Asians artists in today's community. Ju...
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Painting Presence Exhibition
693 wordsFried did not share this belief. For him, the work of art was supposed to compel conviction, and the primary character of non-art was its relation to theatre. The literalist sensibility was theatrical, because it was concerned with the actual circumstances in which the viewer encountered the literalist work. These instances were situations that included the beholder, in which physical participation became necessary. Writing about Minimal works Fried pointed out the distancing character of these ...
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Native Americans Hunter Gatherer
598 wordsNative Americans or the indigenous people of America comprise a great number of distinct ethnic groups, tribes, and states. However, despite their cultural diversity and the fact that cultural features peculiar to ethnic groups significantly vary from one tribe to another, here are several main features that are shared by indigenous people in their American Indian Culture (excluding Mexico), prior to European contact in 1492. These features include hunting and gathering societies, agriculture, s...
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Small Empty Boat Fishing Boats With Hucksters Bargaining Turner
993 wordsVisual Art Paper Humanities 201 Paper Art is one of the most amazing crafts humanity ever had. It is just unbelievable how much emotions can motionless picture to reproduce. We can for hours watch the most uncommon and mysterious paintings trying to memorize each detail. Some of the paintings seem to be alive, they are breathing and living creatures trapped by the hand of artist in the canvas. I always have such feeling when I see the works of the Joseph Mallord William Turner. That is why I wan...
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Florida History Palmetto Leaves By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1,458 wordsFlorida History Palmetto Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe In this research we are going to examine the issue of Florida history presented by the well known writer of the 19 th century, Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her book Palmetto leaves. One of the core issues addressed in the book was the issue of the education for the ethnic identities in Florida. The author was one of the activists pushing forward the idea of the necessity of the education for all the people including the blacks and other natio...
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Factory Floor High Priced Information
510 wordsI always have to toot the horn for information verses skilled labor. Coming from a fairly leftist working class person, it may seem a bit odd, but we have to roll with the times. Besides, the same types of people that would be the top dogs in the old union version of production should have the approximate brain capacity needed to implement the theory I am about to lay upon you. In my line of work, ornamental metals fabrication, there are some pretty weird shapes that need to be manufactured. Onc...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
563 wordsI chose Leonardo Da Vinci as the greatest renaissance personality. I chose Da Vinci because he made many contributions to the time period. Da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, and a philosopher. A lot of the famous artists and thinkers of the time weren? t recognized as being great for many years after their death. The kings and other important people of the time recognized Da Vinci as a great artist. This is why I chose Da Vinci as the greatest renaissance personality. Leonardo Da Vinci was bor...
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Works Of Art Escher
324 wordsMaurits Cornelius Escher was born on June 17 th, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. His father was a civil engineer. Escher? s great skill for art and drawing was realized at an early age. This led his father to decide to send him to study at the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. But, when he was 21 years old, Escher gave up architecture to study in the field of graphic arts. Escher spent most of his life travelling in Europe looking for inspiration for his works. In 1921 he g...
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1,507 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara would allow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of social activity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends; anything seemed ready material for inclusion into the particular order that the moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even in his approach to his own wo...
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700 wordsGeorges George Seurat Georges Seurat Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He loved to draw as a young child while his mother, Ernestine Five, raise him and his siblings. They lived in Paris and his father, Antoine-Chrisostome, spent most of his time in a cottage in Le Rainy. In 1875, when Seurat was only sixteen he began taking a course with a sculptor, Justin Lequien. Several years later, Seurat studied with Henri Lehmann at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts. During the next tw...
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556 wordsGustave Courbet was born in 1819 to a farming family in Organs, France. He was on his way in 1841 to Paris to study law. He than changed his mind and began studying art and painting. He learned to paint by copying pieces of master artists. Courbet started and dominated the French movement toward realism. This was a different type of art to many. The viewers were used to seeing pretty pictures that made life look better than it was. Courbet on the other hand portrayed real life, ordinary people a...
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Design Process Coming Years
629 wordsIntegration of CAD and the Internet After recently reading two articles about the future of CAD, it is very apparent that the Internet is going to play a major role in the design process. One article dealt with the future of CAD in general and what is expected to be seen in up coming years. The other article was a how Auto desk is already preparing for the future with their new release of AutoCAD 2000 i. The titles of the articles are Design for the New Millennium, and AutoCAD 2000 I connects to...
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James Clerk Maxwell Kinetic Molecular Theory Academy
275 wordsHave James Clerk Maxwell Introduction Have you ever left a football outside? If you have you probably noticed it got smaller. And when you took it inside and set it next to a furnace or a vent blowing hot air, the ball tends to get a little bigger. This process can be best described by the Kinetic Molecular theory. James Clerk Maxwell thought up this theory. Maxwell is a scientist who led an interesting life and along the way developed the Kinetic Molecular theory. James Clerk Maxwell was born o...
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Leonardo Mona Lisa
1,238 wordsGeniuses come few and far between in history. Hippocrates came in the late BC period. Einstein came in the late 1800 s-early 1900 s. Leonardo came in between the two of them, but is not recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant human being. He was a master in the fields of painting, designing, engineering, and science. Most people know him merely as an artist, and some know him as an inventor, but not too many people know him for what he really was. This is because his life and his acco...
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Observer Review Reflections Shadows By Saul Steinberg
844 wordsObserver Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Observer Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Steinberg And Aldo Buzzi Fragments from the cartoon philosopher Reflections and Shadows Saul Steinberg and Aldo Buzzi Allen Lane? 9. 99, pp 101 This strange and tiny book derives from conversations between Saul Steinberg (1914 - 99) best known as the least obviously comic of the New Yorkers cartoonists and his friend the Italian writer Aldo Buzzi. The venue was Steinberg's country house in the Hampt...
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