am a Chinese girl. I adhered to my parents’ whishes that I get top grades and perform well in the activities they had chosen for me—I did homework for hours after school to get straight As, practiced piano to perfection, and spend grueling weekends learning Chinese calligraphy and painting with brushes and ink. I once felt like I was a bird being captured in a cage by my parents and decided to be myself, but after years of wasting time to enjoy freedom, I realized that although my Chinese tiger
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Milo on display at the Louvre Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style.[1] This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects. As a term, art history (also history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to works
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very typical for Chinese to make last minute purchasing decisions. 78 % of the buyers decides in the store what they are going to buy. 37 % is easily susceptible for promotions and only 22 % sticks to its original idea before entering the store4 The study of consumers helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding It is widespread wisdom that Chinese people adhere a lot of importance to the concept ‘face’. Li and Su demonstrate that Chinese are much more likely
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Chinese Calligraphy In China, the style in which an individual writes has long been believed to communicate something essential about his or her personality, intellect, and abilities. Even today it is a common presumption that one can “read” the identity of the person through his or her handwriting. The European term calligraphy means “beautiful writing”, and reflects an interest in ornamenting words on the page; most European calligraphy is highly stylized, regular, and decorated with flourishes
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Music, Drama and Dance Chinese Music Chinese music has a very long history. In the primitive society, about four to five thousand years ago, dances and songs had already occurred. This can be prove by a excavated cultural relic - an egg-shaped wind instrument called Xun (ocarina) which made of pottery clay with six holes which believed it is from the Neolithic Stone Age. The evolution of musical culture in Chinese history was begun to develop rapidly and successfully in the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256
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Such differences involved varied religions, races, and ethnic heritage. Two groups that I have researched are Chinese and Armenian immigrants. Chinese immigrants came to America in the mid-19th century. Chinese came to settle in California to join the Gold Rush that originated at Sutter’s Mill in Sacramento, California. But once the gold lessened, they came to seek work. The Chinese immigrants were mostly farmers who left china due to the economy and governmental dilemmas in China. Most anticipated
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and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio. Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind by El Greco and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio are both oil paintings depicting biblical events from the New Testament. The expressive components of both compositions reflect two different artistic styles conveying profound religious and spiritual content. El Greco’s painting encompasses the hallmarks of High Renaissance masters such as solidly rendered figures, dazzling colors, deep spatial recession and Roman architecture
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the Greeks. This style was created to show a classic style based off of the Roman and Greek background. In this painting the part that is most eye catching is the way the chair is portrayed. There are sharp edges and it lacks pastel colors. Even though it is obvious that Napoleon is in the painting your eye goes straight to the striking depiction of the chair first. In the second painting The Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir there is the style of impressionism. Being the artist
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that art could represent an artists’ mood or surroundings. Throughout the chapter it explains that many paintings of streets, architecture, and ordinary people emerged around the 1900s. This new art form known as realism portrayed the everyday life of people in poverty and in urban America. This time was known as the beginning of the truth. Realism was much different from the European paintings. Realism focused on the life on the streets in America. Many American’s were disgruntled about the fact
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from the traditional academic way of painting and was once hailed “the first modern painter” (A World History of Art, Hugh Honour & John Fleming pg 677) Yet he was heavily influenced by the masters of the past and their inspiration can clearly be seen “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/dejeuner/manet.dejeuner-sur-herbe.jpg) Manet wanted to make a statement with this peice of work, even more so than his controversial painting Olympia. But He was also desperate to
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