compared to other sherds found in other different mound sites also thought to have been occupied by the Swift Creek culture sometime during history (Pluckhahn and Cordell 2011). The McKeithen site is one of the mound sites that had the same pottery structure as the sherds found at Kolomoki (Pluckhahn 2007). The McKeithen site is located in north-central Florida, which means this pottery style was carried further down south than was thought at first (Pluckhahn 2007). This site was dated 200-900 AD
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“The Scream” by Edvard Munch has a lot of detail that catches your eye. All the detail impacted my opinion as what I think is going on in the painters mind while he was painting this. A detail that catches my eye is the detail put into the sunset. In the background, the sunset looks like stripes of dried blood stains from a victim. Almost as if the person was hurt severely and were left to die. The blood from this victim was left to stream across the ground. This impacted the painting because I
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Throughout history, every period has had an idea that its inhabitants have expressed through art as can been seen by creating an imaginary museum containing their works. First, I will list the pieces that should be placed in such a museum, then each choice will be explained by period. The pieces I would use are: Greek: Polykleitos of Argos’s Doryphoros, marble, 440 B.C.E. (Benton and DiYanni 37) and Exekias’s Ajax and Achilles, amphora, 550-525 B.C.E. (Benton and DiYanni 39); Roman: Domitian’s Arch
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Tiffany White Museum Assignment # 2 Anthro 111A 104; April 10, 2012 African Art Exhibit The St. Louis Art Museum is, in my opinion, one of the most fascinating art galleries in the Midwest. I have visited the Holocaust Museum and the Science Center and I cannot compare this art museum to any other. The museum has exhibits ranging from Native American, Islamic, Oceanic and European art dating back to the 1800s. On April 5, 2012, I visited the art museum for a one and a half hour tour to take
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Art Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/ National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: http://www.mfa.org/ The Phillips Collection: http://www.phillipscollection.org/ The Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php Whitney Museum of American Art: http://www.whitney.org/ Guggenheim Museum New York: http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Guggenheim Museum Bilbao:
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Detail of "The Night Gathering" by Ed Pien Ed Pien has a permanent scar on the tip of his index finger. After discovering the traditional Chinese way of cutting paper several years go, he creates grand 3D realms and environments with an X-Acto knife. Welcome to Haven of Delight, Pien’s hauntingly beautiful exhibit on display at The Rooms Provincial Gallery. “I cut vertically,” says Pien. “Even though I have an image to work with while cutting, I am still doing a lot of improvisation in order to
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Ancient Greeks coins are gold and silver and got the king and queen and the coins have got a crab on the coin. Ancient Greeks do not numbers on There coins like we have coins with numbers on them .On some of the coins have some writing on them and some don’t have writing on the coins. One of the coins have a crab on the coins have got lots pictures on the coins some of them have the king and queen on the coins and some have animals on them on the coins have writing on them
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and Britain, a Parliamentary committee was selected to debate the legality of Elgin’s ownership. The British government decided to purchase the sculptures from Lord Elgin at half his investment and exclaimed they would be better cared for by their museum than returning back to Greece. My view on the proper location of the “Parthenon
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GREEK AND ROMAN ART Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The art of the ancient Greeks and Romans is called classical art. This name is used also to describe later periods in which artists looked for their inspiration to this ancient style. The Romans learned sculpture and painting largely from the Greeks and helped to transmit Greek art to later ages. Classical art owes its lasting influence to its simplicity and reasonableness, its humanity, and its sheer beauty. The first and greatest
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