TRACES OF MODERNISM IN ART The ancient parallel between literature and visual arts –i.e. painting, sculpture and architecture becomes newly relevant in the twentieth century. Painters were the first to explore the revolutionary possibilities of modernism, so that painting became the leading art form. Modernism refers to the style and ideology of art produced between the 1860s and the 1970s. As traditional art forms had become outdated due to industrialization, modernism emerged in Western Europe
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Essentials of Cash Flow H. A. Schaeffer, Jr. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2002 by Harold A. Schaeffer, Jr. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright
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Ivan Alifan Ivan Alifan is a Russian artist who was born in Moscow and is currently living in Canada. He is the son of a famous Russian painter; Anna Razumovskaya. He attended the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Ivan participated in the Los Angeles International art fair, and had his work shown alongside Malcolm Liepke and Jeremy Lipking. He usually uses charcoal for his drawings and oil paints for his paintings. His paintings are quite modern in style however there are old and symbolical objects
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During her time at College, Flack worked in the realm Abstract Expressionism in the New York art scene, but as a female she had to act like “one of the boys” to be taken seriously as an artist. During her time at Art College, she became interested in Realism. In 1965 she painted her first portrait from a photograph, which lead to her isolation from a popular art community because at the time it was acceptable to paint a work that was from photograph, but was unheard of to create a work that looked
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Henri Matisse was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Famous for representing the human form as his source of inspiration, more particularly the beauty of the female form, he was born in 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France and died at the age of 84 in 1954 in Nizza, France (henri-matisse.net, 2011). He was one of the first artists who exemplified the Fauvist art movement. The work he produced in almost six and a half decades is now presented in the art exhibition ‘Matisse: Drawing
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there are some boats in the stream, while the Louvre's southern flank, at right side, glows in the winter morning sun. Not far away, stands a row of buildings, these buildings’ style seem to be very traditional and building probable have a long history. This setting created a peaceful feeling. Meanwhile, because of the boat discharged smog it is lead to a very gray sky, and only had a
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GIRLS, BOYS SAME CAPABILITIES To certain the same capabilities and certain that all talents are entering equation, the government started a row of initiatives targeted for girls and boys in all ages. Girls and boys meet old-fashioned standard and way of thinking early, which trip up for the single free challenge – in kindergarten, school and the surrounding society. It is not just restricted for the single person, it also means, that we e.g. get a very gender-segregated education system. Four
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Importance of Early Childhood Education Abstract Within every moment that passes, our country is falling behind educational standards in comparison to the rest of the world. America prides on their education, but as a country the standards are not raising for students as they are in other places of the world. We now have things like the No Child Left Behind Act that inadvertently passes children to the next grade level when they do not deserved to be passed. The corruption behind our educational
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CHAPTER I The Problem and its Settings Introduction The term ecotourism was unknown in the English language as recently as the mid-1980’s. Yet, by the beginning of the 21st century, this form of recreational activity, which essentially involves the observation an appreciation of wildlife and other aspects of the natural environment while minimizing the related ecological or sociocultural costs, had emerged as a major component of global tourism and an important focus for academics in
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CHAPTER I The Problem and its Settings Introduction The term ecotourism was unknown in the English language as recently as the mid-1980’s. Yet, by the beginning of the 21st century, this form of recreational activity, which essentially involves the observation an appreciation of wildlife and other aspects of the natural environment while minimizing the related ecological or sociocultural costs, had emerged as a major component of global tourism and an important focus for academics in
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