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What Is Art?
What is Art? Who determines what Art is? Who has the authority to attribute a particular interpretation to a work of Art? Why do we reject certain works as not being Art and accept others? Mary Anne Staniszewski, the author of Believing Is Seeing, says that [t]o question...
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Leonardo Compared With Piero
COMPARE THE THEORETICAL AND AESTHETIC INSTINCTS OF TWO OF THE THREE QUATTROCENTO PAINTERS: (PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA ANDREA MANTEGNA, AND LEONARDO DA VINCI). WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WERE THE PRINICPAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WORKS OF YOUR TWO SELECTED ARTISTS? ANALYS...
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Portland Center Stage
There stands a building at 1037 SW Broadway St in Portland, Oregon that produces some of the finest theatrical performances that I have ever been witness to. It is called the Newmarks Portland Center Stage. On the sixteenth day of July 2001, I attended of a play en...
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How To Encourage Creative Freedom And Discovery In A Class O
1654 days
Date: 09/21/15 09:51 in : Art
How To Encourage Creative Freedom And Discovery In A Class Of Five Year Old
How to Encourage Creative Freedom and Discovery in a Class of Five Year Old
For five year old children there drawings are stages of pictures that I can agree upon because five year old children in a whole draws p...
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The Renaissance Era And Its Artists
The Renaissance Era and its Artists
The time known as the Renaissance brought about many changes in the art world. Enlightened ideas and artists paved the way for some of the most famous artists of all time. For centuries, most scholars have ag...
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Guy Harvey
I visited the Smart Art gallery in DIberville, Mississippi. This is where I found my wonderful painting that caught my eye. The art gallery is very easy to find coming from I-110N. Once you exit the interstate, take the right until you come to the first light. Turn left on...
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Sonnet 116 And 130 From Shakespeare
Many writers use tone in order to reveal the way he or she feels. It is an attitude that is portrayed to the reader. One can recognize the readers tone through their creative words, imagery, and possible allusions. William Shakespeare uses this techni...
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Hispanic Artist
Art is something that people of all ages over the world can appreciate. Art doesnt expect you to speak the same language; its just there for you to admire it.
Today I would like to introduce six Hispanic Artists who have touched the lives of Americans. Some were v...
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Frida Kahlo
In the self-portrait of Frida Kahlo with cropped hair 1940; the imagery is so odd that it evokes an almost dream like setting; Frida Kahlo gazes out expressionless, with a mask like stare. Usually known for her native Mexican costumes of long ruffled skirts and embroidered b...
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Review Of Rosands Venetia Figurata: The Iconography Of A M
1657 days
Date: 09/18/15 23:09 in : Art
Review Of Rosands Venetia Figurata: The Iconography Of A Myth
Review of Rosands Venetia Figurata: the Iconography of a Myth
Venice personified, or Venetia, is probably the most influential mythical figure to shape an entire worlds view on one city in the whole of modern history...
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Bailamos
Vibrant self-expression, disciplined training, and execution of intense choreography is all part of the art of Latin Dance. Dancing allows individuals to express themselves through free movement of their bodies. Latin Dance is a unique form that allows for this movement in an e...
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The Life Of Michelangelo
Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelos artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its natural state. Michelangelos poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was ...
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Photography
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture is a moment in time captured forever. In life there is only one thing that will last, memories. A picture allows you to always have a means of remembering the good times and the bad times. Looking at an old we...
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Nikeof Samothrace
Nike of Samothrace and the Portrayal of Nike in Greek Statuary
"Styx, the daughter of Okeanos, lay in love with the giant Pallas (a Titan), and in his mansion gave birth to a Zelus (Emulation) and fair-ankled Nike (Victory) in the house. Also she brought forth Cratos (...
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F.D.
In Frederick Douglasss words, He then told her to cross her hands; he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose. He made her get upon the stool, and tied her hands to he hook. He remembered the cries of his Aunt fo...
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Comics
Comic books are said to be at least, as old as movies. Their first beginnings are in the beginning of XXth Century. The comic book was initially a way in which illustrators could present new ways of graphic and visual communication and expression. Many times when people think of th...
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Roman Art Vs. Greek Art
Graves Western Civilization 10/29/00 Roman Art Vs. Greek Art Throughout history art has consistently reflected the cultural values and social structures of individual civilizations. Ancient art serves as a useful tool to help historians decipher some important aspe...
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Effects Of Photography On Painting
In the 19th century, photography was considered to be the end of painting. Not only did the camera quickly become a painters tool, but it can be argued that the invention of journalistic and moving picture photography freed painting from the need to prod...
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Art And Architecture Of The Roaring Twenties
Art and Architecture of the Roaring Twenties
Art Deco, also know as a Art Moderne, was a very popular style of design during the 1920s, although the name of it was not official until the 1960s when it was decided to be named after the Int...
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Nazi Art
Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate into the German people. The notion of volk (people) and blut und boden (soil and blood) was championed in paintings to glorify an ideali...
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Phantom Of The Opera
From the moment I walked into the Pantages Theater in Toronto Canada, and looked up at the giant chandelier hanging in the middle of the room, I knew that this would be something different. I have never been to a play that I enjoyed, but something about the atmosphe...
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Judy Chicago
Chicago is one of the worlds most notable feminist artists. In 1970 Judy Chicago and CalArts professor Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program. The first project completed by Chicago and program volunteers was a work entitled Womanhouse. Chicago and her team remo...
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Decorating A Dorm Rooms
Whether you are a freshman feeling anxious and excited about college and cannot wait to move out or a senior who cannot wait to graduate, your dorm room will be a home away from home for the next four years. It should be a place where you can study and provide a ...
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Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (1940-1995) is a sculptor of natural forms. She casts ordinary objects like vegetables as well as sardines, and crayfish whose presence in sculptor is not ordinary. Sometimes her sculptures are figures, plants, entire landscapes, and even seascapes. Nancy was...
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Salvador Dali
Paintings in the surrealism period are difficult to interpret. Critics have stated that it is nearly impossible to explain in rational language what the significance of a surrealist piece of work is because seems to have been conceived in a state of hallucination. In Salvado...
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