Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30,1853 in the Netherlands he was one of six children. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter. In just over a decade, van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. Van Gogh was deeply religious in his younger years and he aspired be a pastor. Throughout Van Gogh's life his brother Theo has been a very influential in his life he supported Van Gogh both emotionally
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Picasso visited the West African masks exhibition at the Trocadero Museum in Paris, France. As he viewed the African mask exhibition, he exclaimed: “The masks, they were not sculptures like the others. Not at all. They were magical things, intercessors… against everything, against unknown, menacing spirits”. (Walker) The influence of African masks can be noticed in a large number of Picasso’s art following this visit to the museum. Picasso’s oil painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon also known
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1. Assignment: Morality and Law • Examine the relationship between morality and law using several different examples. • Answer each of the seven Critical Thinking Questions on pp. 480–481 of the Criminology text. • Respond to each question, and number your response according to the question. Each response must be between 150 to 250 words. Please make sure to incorporate supporting information from text in at least a few of your answers. • Post your paper as an attachment through the Assignment
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1. FOUR FUNCTIONS OF ART A. CULTURAL FUNCTION- Through the printed matter, art transmits and preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another. It broader’s one’s cultural background and makes more civilize and his life more enduring and satisfying. B. PRACTICAL FUNCTION- C. AESTHETIC FUNCTION- Through art, man becomes conscious of the beauty of nature. He benefits from his own work and from those done by his fellowmen’s. He learns to use, love, and preserve them for his enjoyment
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Netflix and it’s Affect on Television In 2009, Netflix founder and CEO, Reed Hastings, boldly proclaimed, “There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions (Stone, 2009).” Revolutions are commonplace in television history, however. In the first half of the 20th century, technological innovations helped facilitate television’s emergence as a mass media. After becoming a mass media, consistent innovations like color television
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to provide an overview about my experience attending the Philadelphia Art Museum on March 15, 2013. The museum is Located in Philadelphia, PA and the exhibition that caught my attention was Journeys to New Worlds it explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. Philadelphia Art Museum). A journey to New Worlds originates The exhibition is magnificent and two
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I choose to find the art work that best symbolizes symmetrical balance first because I know it would be the easiest to find. After flipping through the book I landed on Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, or Man in the Time Machine, 1934. Symmetrical balance is defined by taking a piece of art and cutting it in half and having both cut pieces be the same or near perfect. With this piece there are some differences with the objects on each side of the man but I believe if you cut it
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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
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I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night, because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it, blended with his own stigmatic emotion, is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France in 1889; Starry Night is aesthetically, artistically, and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Buonarroti : Compare and Contrast David This paper will focus on Bernini’s and Michelangelo’s work of art called David. The works of both artists are incredible, beautiful, and breathtaking. The works have interpretations of mythologies and Old Testament stories that originated millenniums ago. Both artists had the ability to produce such rich and poignant emotional content; their works are still able to invoke a deeply affecting response in viewers today
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