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Essays 271 - 300
opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...
nations? Or do we continue to have a presence in these nations, despite poor publicity and the risk that mothers may not use the f...
(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...
than to go the same direction as everyone else. As such, the student may want to add, it is one of my greatest and...
It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...
In six pages this paper examines Egyptian and Greek pieces of art that are currently displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...
and artistic consequences of what they felt was ill-considered machine use (Crouch, 1999). Hand skills were esteemed due to the fa...
21 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2".2 One author, in relationship to the material schist and its use, states that, "Unlike their Mathuran coun...
the diversity and liveliness of the culture of the time. One could...
by geographic, socio-economic, educational or other barriers, as well as enriching the quality of individual, family and community...
life for victims of this disease. Light in the Labyrinth pairs professional artists with Alzheimers patients for a period of eight...
of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...
in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...
ways of the farmer and those who work with the land. A return to the land and the environment may signal a return to these types o...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
as far as the lips are concerned. In terms of the facial structure and general features, and the sculpture as a whole, it seems to...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
creativity through art is that it provides an ideal medium for teaching diverse student populations. Through art, elementary teach...
in print sources (magazines, newspapers) where the image present on the page bears little resemblance to the image "seen by the un...
farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...
seen as a marketing book, but it is also a primer for many who may be set in their ways and need to be shaken into understanding t...
the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...
paintings, he sanctioned the use of artwork for decorative or didactic purposes in the home" (Albany Institute of History and Art,...
the Church to be displayed or created in the Church (Albany Institute of History and Art, 2007). 2) How does the Dutch...
that gold could be found. However, this was not ultimately why the New World was colonized, especially in light of the fact that g...
abstracts pain and fear from history" (Berger 169). He also discusses what Picasso was doing, and not doing and in that respect th...
to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...
way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...
field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...
he disavows his grief, which "does the season wrong" (line 26). It is spring, the "heart of May" (line 31), and Wordsworth will no...