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more, growing progressively smaller in the distance. The shape is welcoming, like he is opening his arms and gathering the philoso...
assessment of some viewers as being "resistant to abstraction" because see "no skill in it" (Barrett 87). In breaking down this ob...
accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...
Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense" (Pop art, 2006). The art of the Impressionists a...
face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...
cherished assumptions that art is a special kind of activity, properly set apart from the rest of life, and that artworks are expr...
What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...
that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...
political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...
land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...
the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...
the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the mode...
for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...
elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...