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  • Stieglitz's Dream For Pictorial Photography
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    Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form. He was a pioneering photographer, editor and gallery owner who played pivotal role in defining and shaping modernism in the United States. (Lowe 23). He took pictures in a time when photography was considered as only a scientific curiosity and not an art. As the controversy over the art value of photography became widespread, Stieglitz began to fight for the recogn...
  • My Perception Of Death
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    Death is a metaphysical concept that is abstract and theoretical in composition, but doesn't embody a material form. From person to person, there are a vast array of interpretations of what death is and what it means to each individual. There is no single universal understanding of what death is, since it doesn't embody any physical characteristics. I am the kind of person whose opinions are very easily influenced. Whenever I read a book, listen to a song, watch a movie, or look at artwork conta...
  • Relationship Between Abstract Art And Modern Architecture
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    "What about the reality of the everyday world and the reality of painting They are not the same realities. What is this creative thing that you have struggled to get and where did income from What reference or value does it have, outside of the painting itself" Ad Reinhardt, in a group discussion at Studio 35, in 1950. My essay starts with the origin and the birth of this great expression in the twentieth century. This movement not only touched painting, it had an affect on various aspects of ar...
  • Enhancement In Women's Social And Political Justice
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    Cultural developments do reflect American society as much as government policies or maybe more. Much of the literature, art, and music emerging during the first half of the twentieth century came from African Americans, but people of all races and cultures were involved. Films also reflected society a lot during this time. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that gave black people a cultural uniqueness though literature and art. Most of the literature focused on realistically portraying black ...
  • Feminine Form Of Art And Neo Classicism
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    How Rococo and Neoclassicism Illustrate the Process of Deciding The artists Jean-Honore Fragonard and Jaques-Louis David both successfully embody their respective stylistic differences. Fragonard's style of painting is Rococo, which is characterized by its softness, asymmetry and curviness. Contrasting these ideals is David's style of painting, Neo-Classicism. Neo-Classicism is synonymous with strong gestures, symmetry, and solidness. Two works that best exemplify the ideals of each style of pai...
  • Music From The Phonograph
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    Imagine four of the last survivors in the world after total destruction, as far as these men are concerned, huddled around a fire searching for meaning. All crowded in a small shelter owned by the oldest (the leader of the group), Dr. Jenkins. Since the life of these four men tends to get a bit boring they are obviously amused by the slightest things. They occupy themselves through book readings from a collection that one man has, but it seems hopeless as a source of entertainment. Take yourself...
  • Vertically Upright Horned Chi Wara
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    I am a part of the Bambara people. In the beginning we were hunters living in a hostile environment with no constant supply of resources. Later around the 16th to the 20th we learned to cultivate fields and tend to crops. There was an increase in permanent settlement and the philosophy of sculptural forms dedicated to the supreme beings especially the Beast god Chi Wara. I make the sculptural forms resembling an antelope that symbolizes Chi Wara. This sculpture piece is actually a mask or a head...
  • Human Form And Its Relationship To Art
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    The multifaceted and complex intricacies that are woven throughout the centuries in art are unrealistic to attempt in this format. Therefore, because the focus for the majority of the focus throughout history has been on the humanistic form the concentration will be on that. Art was the first written language and to study the history of art is to study the history of civilizations and humankind. The Paleolithic cave paintings in France, when viewed in the modern western perspective can only be s...
  • Various Examples Of Feminist Art
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    Feminism is a movement, which is generally aimed at allowing women to have equal rights with men in every aspect of social life. The main issues of feminist movement today are equality of women in politics and employment. Women never before had equal rights with men in these fields, but today the situation is changing. Some radical feminist ideas rely on the transformation of patriarchal social and economic system into the domination of women in all social hierarchies and by creating a gerontocr...
  • Distinctive Renaissance Style In Art
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    The Renaissance Art The Renaissance, from the French word meaning rebirth, began in the early 14th century to the late 16th century. The "rebirth" of art in Italy was connected with the rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, science and the evolution of empirical methods of study in these fields. (web) Increased awareness of classical knowledge created a new resolve to learn by direct observation and study of the natural world. The models provided by ancient buildings and works of art in...
  • Original Shaolin Temple
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    SHAOLIN TEMPLE Background of Shaolin Introduction The Shaolin Temples served a great role in Chinese History. They were not just simple temples for monks to stay in and do religious practices, they were temples of martial arts; temples where every day is a new training. Not only were the temples involved in martial arts, they once played a big role in political movements too. The Shaolin Temple went through many changes throughout the generations. In the following, one will be able to understand...
  • Boccioni's Unique Forms Of Continuity In Space
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    Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (figure 1) was created in Italy at the height of Futurism. Futurism was the foundation for Boccioni and his counterparts to work; it was derived from Marinetti's manifesto. This manifesto of 1909 characterised Futurism's glorification of technology and the speed associated with it. Yet Marinetti's ideas were not invented without influence. The industrialisation of Europe, as well as French movements in art and literature stimulated Marinetti's ideas...
  • Oldenburg's Art Education
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    Claes Oldenburg The son of a Swedish diplomat, Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm. When he was an infant, the family moved to the United States, settling for a time in New York but eventually moving to Chicago. After attending Yale University from 1946 to 1950, Oldenburg returned to Chicago, where he worked as a cub newspaper reporter and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1956, he moved to New York City, where he came into contact with Jim Dine, Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, and ...
  • Blows In Karate
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    Introduction There are four major types of karate- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Okinawan. We will be focusing on the Japanese style of karate. General Information Karate is one of the most popular Oriental forms of unarmed combat called martial arts in which a person kicks or strikes with the hands, elbows, feet, or knees. Although some styles also teach throwing techniques, arm and wrist locks, and use of weapons such as the staff (bo) or knuckle dusters (tekno). History Karate entered Japan ...

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