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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 ...

for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

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...

only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the mode...

graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...

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...

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 ...

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...

and is known as the curly script for the form it adopts after each stroke (Calligraphy). Emperor Qin Shi Huang modified ancient z...

Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

This report contrasts and compares the art from the ancient Minoan culture and Sumer in five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

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...

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

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...