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

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

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

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...

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

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...

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 ...

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

this "a bitter argument" arose "at the Royal Academy, fellow students labeled Millais, Hunt, and anybody else who shared their bel...

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

for more than five thousand years"(ITR, 2002). How the Egyptians discovered the process is as big a mystery as any other technolo...

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

II would introduce sweeping reforms, the largest and most influential of them being the freeing of the serfs(Service, 1998). This ...

be contended to be one of the most integral components of Indian expression through the ages. From the most primitive aspects of ...

and enjoy life-affirming pleasures of making art" (AATA, 2002). The process and development of art therapy is based on the belief ...

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...