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Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

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...

Historical Origin and Development of Jiu jitsu

of danger(Jiu http://homepage.oanet). "Gradually over the centuries various masters of kumi-uchi emerged and they formed fightin...

Overview of Minoan Art and Culture

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

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

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

Modern Art and the Impact of the Russian Revolution

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

Tang Dynasty Artists and the Silk Road's Cultural Influences

its open access was that of the Tang Dynasty from 618-907 A.D. In addition to the Silk Road land routes, many scholars also includ...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

Czechoslovakian Artist Milan Knizak

of art which transcend the existing categories of art, whether they come from music or language, from the fine arts or from dance"...

Women of Ernest Hemingway

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Fine Art and Religion's Influence

relationship between these two factors of the human spirit, religion and art, or art and religion, which complement and assist eac...

London's Jamaican Culture

In forty pages this paper examines London's Jamaican community and the influence it has exerted over the whole region with such is...

Ballet Influence of George Balanchine

In seven pages the life and influence of George Balanchine on the art of ballet in the 20th century are examined. Six sources are...

Influence of 19th Century Japonisme on French Art

of any type of outstanding art, be it painting, sculpture or any other form, is the ability to hold the viewers gaze, to cause the...

4th Century A.D. Religious and Political Influences Upon the Art and Architecture of Rome

of German and Roman culture just as there had been a blending of Roman cultures with the other cultures which she engaged in warfa...

Greek and Egyptian Art

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

Life and Art of Raphael

of people have a serene quality to them as if the person were completely innocent and good. One can see Da Vincis influence on Ra...

Arts and Socrates

much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

The Influence of Medieval Christianity on Art of the Time

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

How Art and Design Influence Society

room, where a woman would go through labor and give birth. It is likely that everyone knows how a room, the color and the design o...

Medieval Art: The Arch Angel Michael Diptych

sculptures that were produced during this time, none were more magnificent than The Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixt...

A Life in Art: How Kate Chopin’s Life Influenced Her Feminist Writings

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Impressionism, Cubism, and Pablo Picasso

the 20th century, never aped the accomplishments of past masters. Yet throughout his career he explored issues of style, structure...

Personal Influences from the Field of Fine Art

more, growing progressively smaller in the distance. The shape is welcoming, like he is opening his arms and gathering the philoso...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...