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    Analysis Of Oath Of The Horatii By Jacques-Louis David

    First, I will need to say what Jacques-Louis David’s political messages that are encoded in his paintings that I can see. David’s messages were a crisis is coming, freedom and unity will happen, the cost will include blood and death and these messages can be seen in three painting. “Oath of the Horatii” shows three roman men in battle entire reaching for their blades that are being held by their father whom is holding them by the blades themselves with the wives behind the father sadden and hoping

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    Pablo Picasso And Frida Kahlo's Guernica

    Throughout history, art has been a tool for many to express themselves and the events surrounding them. The works of great artists are not only personal, but revolutionary. On occasion, paintings can influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her

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    80's Music Research Paper

    generation that you are from, the definition of music is still the same. According to Merriam Webster music is “vocal or instrumental sound (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, body and expression of emotion” and “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” With each generation the music industry has adapted and adjusted to be what people listen to and be remain

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    A. O. Scott The Screening Of America Analysis

    Nonetheless, I disagree with how he thinks “the ubiquity of screens — and also of cameras — may also mean the death, or at least the transfiguration, of cinema as we know it.” All in all, Scott’s partially correct as film is changing into a more accessible art form. However, a full decade after this article has been written, movies still hold plenty of

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    Created Artifacts

    Humans have a wide variety of reasons to express themselves through created artifacts. A great answer as to why this is, can be found in this old saying “ A picture says a thousand words “. Artifacts allow humans to express themselves in ways that would just be to long by word, but sometimes too in ways that words could not do alone. The larger human need to express that I learned from my artifact I would say is not very pronounced,at the least different from the usual. As the main motive behind

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    Arts Integration

    Arts Integration is “an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.” Across the United States there has been an increasing awareness of arts integration in various subject areas such as science, language arts, mathematics, and social studies. When comparing mathematics and art people quite often see them as two completely

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    Maya Lin Memorial Analysis

    What I overall admire with Maya Lin’s design is that she made it about the veterans, she wanted it to be about the people and not the politics. The memorial would be about honesty, for people to be able to accept the pain and death, to admit and overcome it. Her design was fairly simple, but for a memorial that her essay described much more then simplicity, it would win the contest. Her design was underground, and on the black surfaces that represented the black surface of the earth (the earth polished)

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    Katherine Dunham Influence On Dance

    Katherine Dunham was influential because she chose to break away from what was traditional in America to explore and share the culture of other countries. She began doing so in college, when she was working on research as she was studying anthropology. Dunham always tried to find ways of connecting dance to what she was studying because dance was her passion. She traveled to third world countries such as Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Cuba, and she toured many other places as well with her dance company

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    Xapiri Movie Analysis

    The film that I watched and chose to write about is Xapiri. This film was made by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima in 2012. The documentary takes place in Brazil and it consists of many different digital images, art, emotive photography, and much more to make this piece so fantastic. The movie was made to try and explain the Yanomami ideas and their connection to Shamans and the idea of Xapiri. The indigenous Yanomami people settled in the Amazonian rainforest mainly in Brazil and Argentina. Their culture

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    Andy Warhol's Pop Art

    Marilyn, painted in 1967. Breaking away from tradition, this was one of many portraits Andy painted in his artistic lifetime, and a prime example of the ever so popular movement called Pop Art. Not only did he start a movement, but as he became more and more well known, Warhol broke down boundaries, creating the art world we have today. Born in Pittsburgh in 1928, Andrew Warhola lived a simple life. Youngest

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