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Georgia
Totto O'Keeffe was born in the year on November 15, 1887. She was one of seven
children and spent most of her childhood on a farm, with the typical farm
animals and rolling hills. O'Keeffe's aunt, not her mother, was mostly
responsible for raising her. O'Keeffe did not care much for her aunt, she once
referred to her as, "the headache of my life." She did, however, have
some adm... Full-text essay
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A
career in graphic design is perfect for a creative individual who has a sense of
design. "A graphic designer is one who creates ideas that are expressed in
words and/or pictures, and generally solves problems of visual
communication," says Paul Rand, a professional designer (23). Employment in
this profession is projected to increase 29% by the year 2006, which is the
highest of any c... Full-text essay
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Over a period of time Greek art of the past has changed and evolved into what we
value in todayís society as true art and services as a blue print of our
tomorrow. As we take a closer look at the Geometric Period and stroll up through
the Hellenistic Period allow me to demonstrate the changes and point out how
these transitions have servide the elements of time. During the geometric period
the Gre... Full-text essay
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To us who live in modern times the ‘melancholic look’ that we find in the
sculpture of cemeteries throughout the world is something we take for granted.
Although its authenticity has been lost to us, this so-called look can be traced
back to 5th century Greek funerary sculpture. For us it is only natural to
associate such a look with death. However, as the above verse elaborates, the
Greeks... Full-text essay
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Guston had three distinct phases or styles during his artistic career, all of
them remarkably successful. After first working as a muralist in a relatively
realistic style, he became prominent in the late 1940s and early 1950s as part
of the abstract expressionism movement. Beginning in the late 1960s, his late
period of clunky, expressive paintings of the human form marked the start of a
revolt a... Full-text essay
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The Harlem Renaissance Period (1919-1940) included many outstanding features and
writers which made for a wonderful cache of literary works by African American
writers. There was an unprecidented variety and scope of publications by African
Americans which brought about a new sense of purpose, confidence, and
achievement unusual to many black artists due to thier troubled history. This
led to thie... Full-text essay
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The body has been used as a sign or symbol in art for centuries. The body was
used to symbolize perfection in ancient Greece, and in Egypt, to give a precise
image for the God of the After-life. Not to mention their colossal monuments
which promote power and glory, and are used to intimidate. However contemporary
artists use the body as a symbol which conveys a whole range of different kinds
of la... Full-text essay
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Humanism is a concept that has changed since the sixteenth century. Its original
meaning was the belief in the validity of the human spirit that coincided with
piety for God. Now, humanism refers to the glorification of man over God. The
passing of time has transformed the concept of love, also. In our present
society, one "loves" pizza or one "loves" a spouse.
Currently, love... Full-text essay
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Towards the later half of the nineteenth century, many artists were pursuing new
avenues in their artistic representations. They were perturbed at the rigid and
constricting regulations of the Salon, and some artists decided to form and
independent exhibition. Cluade Monet and his friends founded the Société
anonyme de artistes, etc. . . and continued to pursue an alternat... Full-text essay
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Islamic art and architecture points to the artistic accomplishments in the lands
where Islam was the dominant religion and from the seventh century on. These
lands were the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, Anatolia and the Balkans, and
central and northern India. All the monuments and artistic objects, which may
have been made with different materials and techniques, have... Full-text essay
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The
ancestors of man were experimenting with art over 12 thousand years ago,
paintings as far back as 15,000 to 10,000 BC have been found in caves. Our
history of painting was slow to mature into the art we know and appreciate
today. The most prolific period was the Renaissance period, with some of the
best known masters being represented by this period. The Italian Renaissance was
as the name im... Full-text essay
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As the fourteenth century ushered out the Middle Ages in Italy, a new period of
cultural flowering began, known as the Renaissance. This period in history was
famous for its revival of classical themes and the merging of these themes with
the Catholic Church. These themes of humanism, naturalism, individualism,
classicism, and learning and reason appeared in every aspect o... Full-text essay
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Tea was first introduced to Japan along with Buddhism from China in the 6th
century, but the Emperor Shomu introduced tea drinking to the country. During
the Heian period (794-1185), tea was made from steamed and dried tea leaves
ground into a powder called macha. In the 15th century, Juro Murata introduced
many of the concepts of spirituality into tea ceremony, including ... Full-text essay
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“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 Métiers. In 1905,
he transferred... Full-text essay
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was born in
Paris on July 16, 1796. His mother managed a fashionable dress shop in Paris on
the Rue du Bac and as a result he spent his first four years with a family near
I'sleAdam, and until 1807 lived in a pension on the Rue Vaugirard. He was sent
afterwards on scholarship to a school in Rouen, but did ... Full-text essay
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When thinking of the physical image of Jesus Christ, one usually pictures a
middle aged white, bearded male. This has been a common image for centuries;
however, it is now the year 2000 and everything is changing. During this period
of change and to celebrate the millennium and observe Christ’s birth, the
National Catholic Reporter decided to sponsor an international conte... Full-text essay
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“Joan of Arc,” was painted by the French realist artist Jules Bastien-Le Page
in 1879. “After the province of Lorraine was lost to Germany following the
Franco-Prussian War in 1821, The Frenchmen saw in Joan of Arc a new and powerful
symbol. In 1875, Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine began to make studies for
a picture of her. In the present painting, exhibited in the S... Full-text essay
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Kara Walker produces mural-sized, paper cutout silhouettes to create a dense
caustic narrative of nineteenth-century, antebellum slavery. She details the
black-paper cutouts with stereotypical characters – pickaninnies, sambos,
mammies, slave mistresses, and masters. My first impression of her work is that
she elegantly portrays scenes from African American plantation life; however, I
became aware... Full-text essay
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I am working on the structure of the human anatomy. Our teacher wants us to feel
the structure through gestures and get the proportions correct. We have just
finished working on the Human skull, have worked with the whole figure, and now
we are moving on towards the hands and feet. The fine detail, of course, can not
be captured exactly as is, but the objective of our assi... Full-text essay
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Lately, the president of the United States Bill
Clinton, has pursued some policies that have been very unpopular not only with
the general public but the electorate as well. Besides the whole Monica ordeal
he feels that these unpopular policies will effect the results of the next
election. The presidential advisors have formulated countless plans but no plan
has seemed to ... Full-text essay
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The
subject matter of Maddona and Child was a very popular one for artists of the
sixteenth century. Rapahel, and Giovanni Bellini both painted numerous versions
of the Maddona and Child. While both of the artists viewed the subject as a
religious and highly emotional expression, their portrayal of many other aspects
differed greatly. While Raphael portrayed what seems to be a loving, warm
relati... Full-text essay
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The following paper is a comparison of Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow and
Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned. Madonna of the Meadow was painted by Raffaello
Sanzio, otherwise known as Raphael, in 1505. This time period is known as the
Italian Renaissance. The painting was oil on panel and stood 3 ft 8.5 in X 2 ft
10.25 in. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Ita... Full-text essay
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I went to a Malaysian restaurant with my family last weekend to try some new
Asian dishes we never tasted before. The name of the restaurant is Yazmin
Malaysian Restaurant. That restaurant is located on Las Tunas Drive, San
Gabriel. We ordered the curry noodles, the spicy chicken wings, the curry
squids, and the satay. Among the foods we ordered, I would like to describe a
dish that is called... Full-text essay
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Deep
within the jungle of Mexico and extending into the limestone shelf of the
Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temple and pyramids of the Maya. While
Europe was still in the midst of the dark ages, these amazing people had mapped
the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and
were masters of mathematics. They invented the calendars we use today. Across a
huge ju... Full-text essay
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Michelangelo, the second of five brothers was born on March 6, 1475, at Caprese,
in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. The
same day, his father noted down: "Today March 6, 1475, a child of the male
sex has been born to me and I have named him Michelangelo. He was born on Monday
between 4 and 5 in the morning, at Caprese, where I am the Podestà." Whe... Full-text essay
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To see a scorned, beaten, and crucified man lying dead in the arms of his mother
is an image, which can inspire overwhelming emotions within the heart of an
observer. Yet, for the longest time I've had such difficulty looking at
Michelangelo's Pieta or any piece of art in this way. To me, art has never been
about expressing oneself or conveying a message to others, but sim... Full-text essay
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Herbert Herbert’s thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the
machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and
sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art
during that time has become a central factor in our culture due to its dominance
in public art, museums, media and literature. Herbert brings in background
information... Full-text essay
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Monet's use of color along with use of intricate brush strokes and composition
is outstanding. The vast variations of brush strokes and color placement
techniques are what make his work so unique and individual. Grand Canal, Venice,
1908 is a prime example of Monet's talents in these areas. The structure of the
painting is very loose. There are few hard lines in the compos... Full-text essay
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The comments about Monet’s painting, Impression: Sunrise, gives an insight to
the artistic vision in Waugh’s Vile Bodies and Greene’s Brighton Rock.
Monet’s Impression: Sunrise is a famous and prime example of Impressionism.
The impressionist style of painting is characterized by “concentration on the
general impression produced by a scene as an object and the use of unmixed
primary colors and sma... Full-text essay
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Early is the best time to start children with an enriched musical background.
The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music, the more enriched
and fulfilling the child's experience of music is going to be. This is even more
beneficial for talented children. A child cannot receive the full benefit of
music and will not learn as much or at all without the first three stages of
preparato... Full-text essay
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Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. He was the fifth and
youngest child of a textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he studied
piano and composition with two of Korea's foremost composers. The family moved
to Tokyo, Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean War. Paik studied
music, history, art history, and philosophy at the University of Tokyo from 1953
to 1956. He... Full-text essay
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The
term neo-expressionism describes the art movement that dominated the art market
in the early and mid 1980’s. The word “neo” refers to a revival of
previous ideas or trends. Expressionism was a style from around the time of
World War 1 that was highly personal, and was often executed with violent
fervor. Neo-expressionism is similar, and also generally uses bright colors,
recognizable objects ... Full-text essay
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The
depiction of the nude female model by a male artist in oil painting has played a
significant role in the western tradition over the last 500 years. The oil
painting of the female nude is subject to the artist’s interpretation of her
form. She is affected by the artist’s desire for his model, as well as his art
and she is torn between the artist’s inability to be both lover and painter.
Hubert... Full-text essay
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Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, is considered
one of the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was a inventor of forms,
innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, and one of the
most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20,000 works. Training
and Early Work Picasso was Born in Málaga on October 25, 1881, he was the son
of José Rui... Full-text essay
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Paul Cézanne
was born in Aix-en-Provence, a small town south of France. As a young boy, Cézanne’s
passions lay in his poetry and his friends, including Emile Zola (Preble 402). Cézanne
is included in the time of the Post-Impressionists. Cézanne wanted “to make
Impressionism into something solid and enduring like the art of museums” (Preble
401). Cézanne did not have a typical, (as I define as... Full-text essay
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A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous
works are replete with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry, Paul Klee, b.
Dec. 18, 1879, d. June 29, 1940, is difficult to classify. Primitive art,
surrealism, cubism, and children's art all seem blended into his small-scale,
delicate paintings, watercolors, and drawings. His family was very i... Full-text essay
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"Persistence
of Memory" by Salvador Dali is one his most distinguished works. It is an
Oil on Canvas 9 1/2” x 13” and was painted in 1931. Dali uses many types of
media in this picture to portray the imagery he was looking for. The First media
I recognized was chiaroscuro. The artwork starts from a bright white and blue in
the top left hand corner and ends up fading into darkness. There... Full-text essay
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For
many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events,
whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific persons' life,
such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions
instead of painting, drawing or sculpting is quite simple. It is because
photography is the most remarkable of the fine arts. Other forms of art, are
aesthetica... Full-text essay
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The Picasso and the Perugino paintings in the art book are in no way really
similar; they are infact very different aside from the fact that the main piece
of the painting is a female. The colors used in Picasso’s Weeping Woman are a
lot of Brights. But the colors in Perugino’s The Virgin and Child with Saints
uses nice colors, neither bright nor dull but there are many different colors in
bo... Full-text essay
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On the 26th of January I decided to visit for the first time the San Diego
Museum of Arts. When I came upon the museum which from a view was an astonishing
piece of architectural exquisiteness. This extravagant building was amazingly
distinguishable from all the other ill-rooted, stucco wall structures
surroundings. I arrived at the admission desk and upon purchasing my 6$ ticket
the young la... Full-text essay
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The 1890's was the beginning of the first poster graphics. Not only have these
posters been seen as advertisements but they are also looked upon as works of
art. Two excellent examples of different work done during this period are
Alphonse Mucha's Lorenzaccio (1898) and Henri Toulouse- Lautrec's Jardin de
Paris (1893). Each poster is equally exquisite in it's line, style, ... Full-text essay
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Quebec City held its first winter carnival in 1894. It was an elaborate
celebration that provided people with relief from the cold harsh winter. In the
sixty years that followed these winter carnivals were organized periodically. It
wasn't until 1955 that a group of local businessmen decided that an annual
carnival would be a good way to stimulate the economy during the long winter
months. The Que... Full-text essay
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The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife is told in the first book of the Bible,
Genesis, chapter 39. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and bought by
Potiphar, a high ranking official in the Pharaoh's service. "The Lord was
with Joseph," and gave him success in everything he did. This pleased
Potiphar and before long Joseph was given the highest position in the household,
and l... Full-text essay
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Architecture of the ancient Roman Empire is considered one of the most
impressive of all time. The city of Rome once was home to more than one million
residents in the early centuries AD1. The Romans had a fine selection of
building monuments in the city of Rome including the forums for civic services,
temples of worship, and amphitheaters for recreation and play. The Roma... Full-text essay
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From 1430 to 1623A.D., four sculptures of the Biblical David were created. From
the master artists Bernini, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Verrocchio came the
most famous David’s of the world. Even though infinitely many were made, these
surpass the others to become marvels that will live forever. The earliest of the
David’s, is the work of Donatello(c.1430). This magnificent work is a
life-size, nu... Full-text essay
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Art is something which can be analyzed to give deeper insight as to the common
values and beliefs shared by the members of a certain society. Regardless of the
place of origin or the time period of a form of art, it will always be a
reflection of the social structure in which it's creator/s lived. However, the
way the artist perceives the culture common t... Full-text essay
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The civil strife and chaos that had torn Russia limb from limb in the early 20th
Century, although brutally devastating, did not hail the end of the stability
and power that had characterized the massive country for so much of history. The
continuing strength of what was now the Soviet Union lay in the newly formed
support structure provided by Socialist Realism, a force t... Full-text essay
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of the most memorable moments for many students will occur when they see
"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," the first part of a prequel trilogy
to the beloved Star Wars trilogy. The original three films Star Wars: A New
Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi have embedded themselves
in our current culture. The Force, composer John William's famous soundtrack,
and lines such... Full-text essay
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The extraordinary statue of King Chephren is a masterpiece of sculpture in the
round. This work is 168cm tall, 96cm long and 57cm wide, which was the
approximate size of the king. The artist who created this sculpture is unknown,
as it was found when Mariette's workmen were exploring the favissa of Chephren's
valley temple in 1860. The statue was built during the reign of ... Full-text essay
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Despite the many purposes it seems to serve, Stonehenge is still the embodiment
of mystery for most of the world. Some believe that its purpose was to be used
as an astronomical observatory. Others think that it was used as a religious
meeting center for the Druids. However, no one has been able to prove its true
meaning and existence. Stonehenge is believed to have been built in three main
period... Full-text essay
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