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David Sculptures

Jennifer Keefe Professor Mark Moak Art History 1 December 2011 The Life and Times of the Four David Artists Through out the years there were many great artists who created many great works of art, but only four Italian artists really stick out for creating the same piece all with ...

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Poppy Field And The Ravine

In the second half of the nineteenth century, impressionism became a revolutionary break through among radical painters in France. This new way of painting emphasized on the surfaces of the subject matter by utilizing color. Furthermore, impressionists had developed various styles of their own. ...

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Bronte' Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights opens as a diary; according to Steinitz (2000), this serves as a means to establish a frame through which the story can be told. Steinitz also suggests that Bronte uses a personal diary to "articulate her preoccupation with space by locating all of her family members precisely" ...

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Images of the Human Form In Ceramic Art

Images of the Human Form The human body is fascinating subject for a creator and appreciator of the visual arts; to create the human form in accordance to the artist's style and interpretation of the subject greatly alters representation of the human body across cultures, as well as art ...

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Futurism

During the first decade of the twentieth century, a group of young Italian painters united together, under the influence of poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Before creating their new style, these painters embraced the ideas of Marinetti’s The Foundation and Manisfesto of which appeared in the ...

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Fallingwater

Fallingwater By: Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater, also known as the Kaufmann House, is located in Bear Run, Pennsylvania. This piece of work was built in the early-20th-century by Frank Lloyd Wright. This house was built between 1936 and 1939 on a waterfall. Frank Lloyd Wright was from ...

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Charging Into The Modern Turne

Turner has out-prodiged almost all former prodigies. He has made a picture with real rain, behind which is real sunshine, and you expect a rainbow every minute. Meanwhile, there comes a train down upon you, really moving at the rate of fifty miles a hour, and which the reader had best make haste ...

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On Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres

Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American ...

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Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech was the son of Salvador Dalí Cusí and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. He was born on the lackadaisical day of May 11, 1904. Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was dubbed ...

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The Art Of The Republican Period And The Beginning Of The Em

Sculpture and painting of the Republican period, initially reflected Etruscan influences. As the empire expanded, exposure to other cultures and the art of Greece reflected a more eclectic style. The building of religious buildings and palaces was of importance, but also they began to ...

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The Ancient Art Of Jujitsu, And The Modern Form Of Judo

Judo is a very interesting and complex modern sport based around the principles and rules of Jujitsu. I am interested in Judo because I used to be in Karate and Martial Arts. I am curious about the ancient Japanese forms of Martial Arts and how they affected the Japanese culture. I did not have ...

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Arthur Miller Biography

Arthur Miller Biography Personal Background Arthur Miller was born in Harlem on October 17, 1915, the son of Polish immigrants, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Miller's father had established a successful clothing store upon coming to America, so the family enjoyed wealth; however, this ...

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Biography Of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He ...

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Critique Of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, and directed by Robert Weine. It was produced in 1919 by Erich Pommer for Decla-Bioscop. 1919 was a year in which the movie industry was transformed into a giant industry. Although the movie was produced in 1919, it was not ...

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AIDS: Is It A Modern Plague?

In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes, efficient and organized industries, complex computerized ...

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AIDS: Is It A Modern Plague?

In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes, efficient and organized industries, complex computerized ...

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Vincent Van Gogh

The most successful or famous artists are not always as happy as successful people are portrayed- living a life of fame, fortune, and glamour. The following examples will show some of the problems that four different artists have suffered in the past century. was a Dutch painter who lived from ...

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Diane Arbus

Diane Nemerov was born in 1923 in New York City. Her father owned a fashionable Fifth Avenue department store called Russeks. His wife, Gertrude Russeks', family founded it and it is now defunct. The family lived in an apartment on Central Park West as they were comfortably wealthy. They were a ...

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Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English Society

In his most inspiring masterpiece of science titled Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott intended a social satire of Victorian England's society, and an expression of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy which are the priests. Abbott was a ...

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Salvidor Dali

Salvador Dali was born in Figueres Spain in 1904 to Don Salvador Dali y Cuse and Felipa. In 1907, his sister Ana Maria was born; she was his only sibling. At an early age Dali began his strange behavior, he was prone to tantrums, self-induced coughing fits and wet the bed until age eight, as he ...

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