Art History

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  • Comparing The Red Shoes And Alan Parker's Fame

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    make art to satisfy their emotional needs. Their fundamental purpose is to continuously create new beauty, to express inner desire and emotion. Text, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, drama, film and so on all belong to art, and all of them can express beautiful acts. Making art affects artists in very deep ways, which affects what they care and think about. There are two movies that depict how artists choose the road of pursuing art and what does director think about between art, affection

  • Photography Professor's Number Date Edward Steichen

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    photography to embrace them. He mainly dealt with the production of American people images of their culture and ways of life. He also tried to distinguish the uniqueness of America from other regions by the comparison of different features through the art of photography. Avedon’s style was unique from other photographers who used nearly the same style. Avedon used no manipulation in most of his photographs. He was mainly interested in the natural setting of things and he did very little to change them

  • Giorgio De Chirico Art Paper

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    Art Paper Giorgio De Chirico painted a surrealist and partially cubist oil painting known as “Hector and Andromache” between 1917. The artist was moved by those movements thus affecting most of his artwork done in the 20th century. The painting was painted on oil canvas, the painting was also influenced by a movement called cubist movement. Giorgio used many different elements to create this piece, it seems as a lot is going on in the piece within the two people. Lines and triangular figures are

  • Station Eleven Research Paper

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    always followed. A world without art is not a world worth living in. I cannot imagine a place where I couldn’t read my favorite book over and over, a place where I’m constantly told to draw inside of the lines. Every person has a passion, and that passion can be crucial for survival. In Station Eleven, we see characters that are passionate about acting, music, or writing. How did these hobbies impact them, both before and after the pandemic? It is clear that art affected each of the characters in

  • Khafre Seated Scribe Analysis

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    Perhaps Khafre's statue doesn't really look like him at all? Khafre’s statue appears to be more for symbolic purposes than a representation of what he look like in real life. His clothing, the emptiness in his expression, the throne he sits on and the position of his body on the throne are some of the reason why Khafre’s statue appears to be more symbolic than life like. In the text the author describe the “Seated Scribe” (3-10) “the irregular contours of his engaging face project a sense of individual

  • Etruscan Amphora Jar

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    believed to have stored wine. The Amphora Jar was created in the fourth century BCE out of Terracotta clay. This jar belonged to the Faliscan culture, the Etruscans’ southernmost neighbor. This explains why the jar portrays multiple aspects of Etruscan art, for example monumental proportions, white volute-handles, red-figure decoration, and terracotta clay as choice of material. One side of this jar depicts a nude female figure handing a young warrior his armor, and on the reverse side the same female

  • The Virgin Of Guadalupe By Benjamin West: Painting Analysis

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    In the European Art section of the San Antonio Museum of Art is Benjamin West’s painting, Noah Sacrificing after the Deluge. Painted around the year 1800, the artist chose a medium of oil paint on canvas. The painting itself is quite large, as it is six feet tall and roughly eleven feet wide. In the painting it shows a man at an alter (Noah), standing with both his arms open and looking up as the smoke ascends. West draws your eye to Noah by painting him as the largest figure in the painting, and

  • Enlightenment Ideals In The 19th Century

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    and society in much of Europe had begun to change. The expansion of many European territories and industrial advancements helped shaped this new era. Modernism is comprised of ideas, creations and activities of those who felt the traditional forms of art, literature, religious faith and social organization were becoming obsolete and outdated in a world now filled with more industrialization and more advanced ways of thinking and living. In the majority of his works, Friedrich Nietzsche calls for man

  • Rob Lowe Research Paper

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    Today, celebrity sex tapes occur regularly. Every month, it seems that someone else has leaked nude photos or provocative homemade movies. These eye-burning tapes and photos are sometimes too easy to find. “There is a lawyer, everyone knows who he is. You make a tape and give it to him, and are ‘Shocked!’... that it is out. You are outraged and are going to call a lawyer. Then the lawyer sells it and you get paid” (Rob). However, sex tapes weren't always this common. They didn’t always help carriers

  • Steven Spielberg Research Paper

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    greatest directors of all time. With genres covering a wide range sci-fi, adventure, drama, historical, war and animated films, Spielberg has mastered some of the greatest movies ever. Along with many others, one of his highest grossing films in history was released in 1983 was a sci-fi film called E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. A movie about a small boy becoming friends with an alien and ends up saving him, Spielberg used a lot of techniques to create this film. Throughout the movies and along with