...Japonisme and 19th Century Artists Japonisme is a cultural tendency of admiration and fascination with all things Japanese, which was developed in Western Europe society. It started to form in 1867 when Japanese ceramics and many other crafts and art works were presented in the Paris Exposition Universelle. Among those, Ukiyo-e was also included, and in Japan at that time, Ukiyo-e was not rated high since it was colored wood block printings about genre of low class people. When Japan started to trade with Erope, Ukiyo-e was used to wrap other goods and it was easily obtainable at the tea shops. However, there were some artists recognize Ukiyo-e ahead of time and they were Impressionist artists like Manet and Monet. They could find a tradition that was not damaged by rules and stereotyped measures of academic, which the French artists tried to remove. Ukiyo-e was a popular form of printed art in Japan during the Edo period which was usually depicting scenes from everyday lives such as life of the common people, the background of a stage, beautiful women on streets or prostitutes, landscapes and more. Ukiyo-e is especially known for its exceptional woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints were not black and white, but it was very colorful and bright colored woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e’s special features are first, the use of line and the flatness. Ukiyo-e was formed by line, which they outlined all the figures and the objects in the print, and the blank space and the designed...
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...Salvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory MAKING: Select and write about ONE of the MAKING topics – process, education, materials or tools & technology – in 50-100 words. Salvador Dali used same painting elements as we all know today. If we would like to talk about his tools and techniques, the paintings are about “Hand-Painted Decam photographs”, he crisped about the details and used almost invisible brush work style. He gave importance to photographic realism. He contributed in the technical tradition of early Flemish and early Venetician painting. In his process, he used a jeweler’s glass for mainly close work, and small round gable brushes because of these, he had debt to Geargis de Chirico and Yvas Tanguy and they founded the use of perspective. STYLE: Choose and write about ONE of the STYLE topics – period, change, individuality or geography – in 50-100 words. Painted in 1931, The Persistence of Memory is one of the most celebrated and recognized paintings of the 20 th Century. The Persistence of Memory is filled with interesting and meaningful images even the ants, the fly, the olive tree, the steps, the amorphous shape on the beach but none are, nor ever have been, as compelling or as plump with significance as the watches themselves.Thus,it indicates his style to us. IDEOLOGY: In 50-100 words, write about the ideology that matches with your chosen work. It does not have to be an ideology discussed during the semester. In this...
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...Prévert, Jacques (1900-1977), poète, parolier et scénariste français dont l'œuvre, composée pour un large public, est une célébration des thèmes de la justice, de la liberté et du bonheur. Né à Neuilly-sur-Seine dans un milieu modeste, il a passe sa jeunesse à Paris, où il a fait différents petits métiers avant de se lier avec les artistes d'avant-garde et de rejoindre Marcel Duhamel, Yves Tanguy, Raymond Queneau et Georges Sadoul dans le groupe surréaliste . En 1931, il a publie de description d'un dîner de têtes à Paris-France, un poème fantaisiste composé de contrepèteries et de calembours. Il a écrit également pour le théâtre de courtes pièces, jouées notamment par la troupe du groupe Octobre, il a compose des chansons qu'interprétèrent plus tard Juliette Gréco, Yves Montand ou les Frères Jacques. Il se passionna aussi pour le cinéma et a rédige plusieurs scénarios de films pour Marcel Carné (Drôle de drame, Quai des brumes, les Visiteurs du soir, les Enfants du paradis). Ce n'est toutefois qu'après la guerre que le poète a rencontre son plus grand succès, avec la parution du recueil Paroles (1945). Dans un style proche de la langue parlée, il a réhabilite la vie ordinaire, invitant le lecteur à se fier au pouvoir de la "!parole!" pour accéder au bonheur, individuel et collectif. Son œuvre s'enrichit alors de nombreux poèmes (Histoires, 1946!; Spectacle, 1951!; la Pluie et le Beau Temps, 1955), évoquant tour à tour l'amour, la liberté, le rêve et l'imagination, tout en témoignant...
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...In “Art and Ultimate Reality”, by Paul Tillich he talks about the concept of what ultimate reality is and how it relates to art. Tillich explains that, “Ultimate reality underlies every reality and it characterizes the whole appearing world as non-ultimate, preliminary, transitory and finite” (Tillich 219). In other words, truth underlies every truth there is making the world that we live in seem as if it’s just the beginning. He also explains how philosophers have tried to get to the surface to find “ultimate reality” only to find more deceptions and they try to dig further to find the truly real that cannot deceive us. According to Tillich there are three different ways in one can experience ultimate reality. Tillich explains two of the...
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...DADAISM * Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. It was shared by independent groups in New York, Berlin, Paris and elsewhere. * The movement was a protest against the barbarism of the War; works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason. * Dadaism primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, theatre, and graphic design. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature. According to its proponents, Dada was not art; it was anti-art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored them. If art is to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strives to have no meaning. Interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada offends. Perhaps it is then ironic that Dada is an influential movement in Modern art. Dada became a commentary on art and the world, thus becoming art itself.” * The Dadaists channelled their revulsion at World War I into an indictment of the nationalist and materialist values that had brought it about. They were united not by a common style but by a rejection of conventions in art and thought, seeking through their unorthodox techniques, performances and provocations to shock society...
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...Renault S.A. Primary Credit Analyst: Eric Tanguy, Paris (33) 1-4420-6715; eric.tanguy@standardandpoors.com Secondary Contact: Barbara Castellano, Milan (39) 02-72111-253; barbara.castellano@standardandpoors.com Recovery Analyst: Jonathan R Littlefair, London 44207 1763144; jonathan.littlefair@standardandpoors.com Table Of Contents Rationale Outlook Standard & Poor's Base-Case Scenario Company Description Business Risk Financial Risk Liquidity Recovery Analysis Reconciliation Related Criteria And Research www.standardandpoors.com © Standard & Poor's. All rights reserved. No reprint or dissemination without Standard & Poor’s permission. See Terms of Use/Disclaimer on the last page. 1 1152377 | 300642892 Renault S.A. Corporate Credit Rating Profile Assessments BUSINESS RISK BB+/Stable/B FAIR Vulnerable Excellent FINANCIAL RISK INTERMEDIATE Highly leveraged Minimal Rationale Business Risk: Fair • Very weak profitability of the group's core automotive operations. • Small size by global standards. • Good market positioning in the small car and entry segments. • Potential to improve scale and geographic spread through cooperation with Nissan. Financial Risk: Intermediate • Robust credit ratios for the rating. • Positive free operating cash flow generated in 2012 and expected again this year. • Positive contribution to cash flow from its captive finance arm, RCI Banque and, through dividends, from its equity associate Nissan. Standard & Poor’s |...
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...RESEARCH PAPER FFD 122: History of Art and Design 2, Spring 2010 | | | | |Student Name and Number | | | | | | | | | | | |Department | | | | | | | | | | | |Chosen Work of Art/Design | | | |(title, artist/designer, year) | | | | | | ...
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...Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and died July 29, 1890 he was the son of Theodorus Van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Vincent was given the name of his grandfather, and of his stillborn brother. He was a major Post-Impressionist Dutch painter, an artist whose work greatly influenced 20th-century art. His output included portraits, landscapes and still lives of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolor: drawings, sketches and prints. But Van Gogh had a very humble and unexpected start at the age 13 he was a very serious, silent, and thoughtful child. He attended the Zundert village school from 1860 from 1861, he was then sent to Jan Provily's boarding school at Zevenbergen about 20 miles from his family. On 15 September 1866, he went to the new middle school, Willem II College in Tilburg, where Constantijn C. Huysmans, a successful artist from Paris, taught Van Gogh to draw at the school and advocated a systematic approach to the subject. Vincent's interest in art soon began and he started to draw and continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. Though well done and expressive, his early drawings...
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...Surrealism: The Connection of Conscious Meaning and Fantasy Where the Dada movement can be looked at as an instigator for a postwar “against-the-grain” art form and lifestyle, the Surrealist movement is the progression that stemmed from this beginning. Although the Dada movement was a direct response to World War I and its destruction, it was one that seemed negative and depressing in its approach. Their main slogan, “Plus rien, rien, RIEN, RIEN, RIEN” (Nothing more, nothing, nothing, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING), reflected their “nihilism, or lack of belief in anything” (MSN Encarta, 2007). It was more of a politically rebellious action, rather than a solution that delved further to explore other options, as Surrealism was. Surrealism was mainly psychological, philosophical, and positive in its approach. Andre Breton, the founder of the Surrealist movement, explained his idea of Surrealism in his 1929 book Second Manifesto of Surrealism: "Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory" (AlanGulette.com, 1996). This exploration of the subconscious is much more in-depth than the simple anti-art statement it was once created from. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain from 1917 (http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/d/images/dchmp_fntn_low.gif) as well as his piece L.H.O.O.Q. from 1919 (http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/d/images/dada...
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...2.2 Adult life Fortunately for Leonora she met Max Ernst at a party, the two bonded and infatuated with one another. The two eventually ran off to Paris together which made Ernst promptly leave his wife and Leonora’s father disowned her. However being in Paris benefited Leonora as she became associated with other surrealist artist such as André Breton, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and Leonor Fini to name a few. From the influence of artist around her, she created her first surrealist painting. This piece was a self-portrait called the inn of the Dawn Horse. Depicting herself with a mane of wild hair and a hyena by her feet with a horse galloping out of the window. This would be a recurring theme in her art work which can relate to her love of animals. She then moved with Ernst to Saint-Martin Ardeche where she wrote surrealist literature, such as ‘The house of fear’ (1938), ‘The oval lady’ (1938) and ‘The Debutante’ (1940). With the outbreak of the World War...
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...HUM312 Introduction to Art 3 credit hours FALL 2012 Switzerland Instructor: Instructor: Denis Ducatel Office location: Hotel Miramonte, BBA’s Lecturers Office,1st floor Work Phone: 021 966.48.48 Email: denis.ducatel@him.ch Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday by appointment Texts/Course materials: T. Köster - 50 Artists You Should Know (Prestel Verlag) Other Resources Omniquest : main websites : artmovements.co.uk – witcomb.sbc.edu/ARTHlinks.html – ibiblio.org/wm/paint – wikipedia.org – historyguide.org – http://arthistory.about.com – http://wwar.com/artists – www.metmuseum.org/toah/ Other Resources Handouts : A Brief Survey of Western Art – Understanding a work of Art – Glossary of Art Movements – «Beauty will save the world» (Nobel Price Speech – Soljenitsyne), Letters to A Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke) The Expressionists , Wolf Dieter Dube, Thames & Hudson (London, 1972). Great Paintings that Changed the World (Prestel) Course description: This course is meant to lead the students to a personal appreciation of Art. It offers a survey of visual media (painting, sculpture, architecture)), past and present, with particular emphasis on Impressionism, Post impressionism and Expressionism and on the philosophical rift between classical (academic) art and modern art. Technique as well as theory is discussed Goals and Objectives: By the end of this course, Northwood wants students...
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...Adrien CHANTOISEAU International Student Student ID : 110134727 MG – 4012 International Marketing Lecturer : Dr J. BUCKLEY Continuous Assessment Assignment Research the evolution of international marketing in the industry sector of your choice, considering issues of cultural difference, political and legal matters, and where relevant ethical concerns. Submitted on December 10, 2010 The internationalization of Renault : a strategy of development in emerging countries Nowadays, Renault is the car manufacturer of reference in France, ahead of Peugeot and Citroën of the PSA group. The Renault-Nissan alliance, established in 1999 and based on two independent companies with their own culture and their own brand identity, is the fourth largest automotive group in the world. After experiencing some difficulties in the 80's, Renault has developed an aggressive strategy of international development that makes it today one of the key players in the global automotive market. By focusing on cultural, political, legal and ethical issues, we will first explain the different stages and difficulties in the internationalization of the group. Then, we will study its different implementation strategies in the several new markets and finally, we will discuss the consequences of the internationalization of Renault. The story of Renault started on the 24th of December in 1898. The society Renault Frères grew rapidly and in 1903, Fernand Renault started to develop the commercial network...
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...These brief notes are not intended to replace existing style guides for essay writing. The bible of style guides, by the way, is generally held to be The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993). But this is a large and daunting publication; few but professional editors navigate with confidence amid its complexities. So in an effort to produce a very abbreviated guide useful for art history students, I have assembled a few notes here that I hope will prove useful. I first assembled this information in typescript form in 1989 and circulated it to students who wanted some guidelines. In 1993, I issued the same material as a brochure. When that was exhausted, I decided in May 1996 not to reprint the brochure, but rather to put the information up on the Web. (That's a pretty good indication of the way that changes in technology have affected teaching in the past six years, at least in my courses.) I have to say that niceties of tabs and indents seem to elude me with this program that I am using, so on occasion the guidelines will suggest a format that I am not following here. We are all learning, still... Your thoughts on this compilation would be welcomed. Please send them to: Geoffrey Simmins Art Department, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 (403) 220-6085 (phone) (403) 289-7333 (fax) simmins@acs.ucalgary.ca (e-mail) http://www.ucalgary.ca/~simmins/index.html Structure of an Art History Paper A typical art history paper...
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...LICENCE LANGUES, LITTÉRATURES ET CULTURES ÉTRANGÈRES ET RÉGIONALES SPÉCIALITÉ ANGLAIS DESCRIPTIF DES ENSEIGNEMENTS Année universitaire 2014-2015 Page 1 SOMMAIRE L1—PREMIERE ANNÉE SEMESTRE 1 CULTURE DES PAYS ANGLOPHONES 1 E11 AN5 (6 ECTS) LANGUE 1 E12 AN5 (4 ECTS) CIVILISATION 1 E13 AN5 (4 ECTS) VERSION 1 ET LITTÉRATURE AMÉRICAINE 1 E14 AN5 (4 ECTS) PROJET PROFESSIONNEL PERSONNALISÉ (P.P.P.) E1P AN5 (1 ECTS) 5 5 6 8 10 13 SEMESTRE 2 CULTURE DES PAYS ANGLOPHONES 2 E21 AN5 (5 ECTS) LANGUE 2 E22 AN5 (4 ECTS) LITTÉRATURE BRITANNIQUE 2 E 23 AN5 (4 ECTS) CIVILISATION BRITANNIQUE 2 ET TRADUCTION (VERSION) 2 E24 AN5 (5 ECTS) PROJET PROFESSIONNEL PERSONNALISÉ (P.P.P.) E2P AN5 (1 ECTS) 14 15 17 18 20 2 L2—DEUXIEME ANNÉE SEMESTRE 3 LANGUE 3 E31 AN5 (6 ECTS) CIVILISATION AMÉRICAINE 3 E32 AN5 (5 ETCS) LITTÉRATURE BRITANNIQUE 3 E33 AN5 (5 ECTS) TRADUCTION (VERSION) 3 ET PRISE DE PAROLE EN CONTINU 3 E34 AN5 (6 ECTS) PREPROFESSIONNALISATION : MÉTIERS DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT DES LANGUES VIVANTES ÉTRANGÈRES ET RÉGIONALES 3 21 21 23 24 26 29 E3PF12L5 (6 ECTS) SEMESTRE 4 LANGUE 4 E41 AN5 (5 ECTS) CIVILISATION BRITANNIQUE 4 E42 AN5 (6 ECTS) LITTÉRATURE AMÉRICAINE 4 E43 AN5 (5 ECTS) TRADUCTION (VERSION) 4 ET PRISE DE PAROLE EN CONTINU 4 E44 AN5 (6 ECTS) PREPROFESSIONNALISATION : MÉTIERS DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT DES LANGUES VIVANTES ÉTRANGÈRES ET RÉGIONALES 4 30 32 34 36 39 E4PF12L5 (6 ECTS) 3 L3—TROISIEME...
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...American University of Science and Technology Marketing Management Project ZARA Group Members : -Fadi Nehme -Lilian Shazbeck -Ibrahim Sawma -Lama Snih -Rim El Sandid 2015-2016 Table of Content Executive summary 3 I. History and Back ground 4 II. Mission and Vision 5 III. External and Internal Assessment 7 IV. Market and Marketing Strategy 11 V. Competitors 17 VI. Finances and Prices 23 VII. Distribution and Warehousing 29 VIII. Promotion Mix 30 IX. Sales Forecasting 33 X. Action Plan 36 XI. Production 38 Reference 39 Zara Executive Summary Zara, a prominent name in the world of clothing has been successful ever since its founding in the year 1975. As the market demands began to shift towards a quick response rate and increased competition, Zara had to continuously restructure its strategy to best suit the needs of its industry. Through the careful analysis and external research; internet and multiple databases, the history of Zara revealed that Zara’s marketing strategies and market approach are outdated especially compared to the digital world we are living in. Moreover, the competition present within the industry i.e. Zara’s main competitors, were scrutinized in order to determine the plausibility of their current strategies compared to that of their competitors. Multiple internal and external investigations were undertaken...
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