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Designers Of The Bauhaus
911 wordsBauhaus Post World War I Germany set the stage for the most organized art movement in art history. The Bauhaus movement was a reaction to the social changes the Germans were facing. The country had been crushed in the war. Their economy was collapsing. Mobs of unemployed people roamed the street waiting for the country to collapse. The Germans were living in poverty and starving from the lack of supplies (Jackson). 'This may seem to be an unlikely environment to support an artistic revolution. N...
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Patterned Order
781 wordsStephen Spender "Ritualistic" is, it seems to me, the word that best describes [Eliot's] attitude to life. He had a vision of the relationship of the living with the dead through the patterns of rituals that extend into the modern world the pities that remain unaltered from the past. He thought that when these rituals were disrupted - and when, in deed, the observance of them was not the foremost aim of the living - there would be no connection of the living with the dead, of the present with th...
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Chord With Toy Collectors And Art Lovers
852 wordsThere's a movement under foot. It's a blend of art and toys and it's struck a chord with toy collectors and art lovers alike. It's Urban Vinyl and this is a brief history for those who'd like to learn a little more about this art movement in the making. First, to understand Urban Vinyl, one must throw aside their conventional ideas of what makes a great toy. Sure, design of the piece plays a big part in the making of both. But the big difference is that Urban Vinyl is original from the start. Th...
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Bernini's Work
690 wordsGiovanni Lorenzo Bernini was one of the, if not the most, important artistic talents of the Italian baroque. He was born in 1598 and died in 1680, shortly after his 82nd birthday. Bernini along with Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Poussin, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Vel zquez made Italy, for three centuries, the light of the Western world. Bernini was the last of the three dimensional artists in Italy. Bernini was not only a sculptor. He was extremely gifted as an architect, painter, draftsman, designer of...
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Feng Shui And Interior Design
1,273 wordsWhen it comes to Feng Shui, I think there are generally three groups of people. There are the Believers, Skeptics and the In-Betweens. In-Betweens are those that are neither Believers but nor are they absolute Skeptics. Being in the industry, obviously, I meet people who believe in Feng Shui all the time. But I do not ignore the fact that like many other metaphysical sciences, is often skeptically perceived by the public in general. The problem lies with the fact that there is so much hocus-pocu...
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Puppets As Guides For Their Batik Patterns
1,707 wordsJo hari Rahim Javanese Batik One of the major art forms in Southeast Asia is a type of dyed cloth called batik. The word batik is thought to be derived from the word am batik which means a cloth with little dots in Indonesian. The suffix tik means little dot, drop, point or to make dots. Batik may also originate from the Javanese (a dialect of Indonesian native to the island of Java) word tri tik which describes a resist process for dying where the patterns are reserved on the textiles by tying ...
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Eschers Perspectives On The Symmetry In Nature
2,253 wordsThe Science of Escher Though M.C. Escher contended that he knew virtually nothing about mathematics, even having gone as far as to declare that he was absolutely innocent of training or knowledge in the exact sciences, (Schattschneider 67), his art work commonly incorporates the use of many recognized elements of science and mathematics. It has been argued that Eschers natural accessibility and his popularity with young art patrons is due to the Eschers use of symmetry, his use of metamorphosis,...
