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opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...
understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
But in terms of its more commercial use as understood by modern people, it is a relatively new art form and should be thought of a...
Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...
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...
forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...
limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...
arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...
smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for greater productivity has been insatiable (1999). ...
reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...
for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...
face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...
better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...
glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...