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  • Camille And Rodin
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    Auguste Rodin was born November 12, 1840 in Paris and attended the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris at age 14. Rodin had a special gift for modeling human figures and faces; therefore sculpting humans is all he did. Decorators and commercial sculptors exploited Rodin at a very young age. It was some 20 years before he could sculpt for himself, under the commercial sculptor Albert Carrier-Belle use. (Auguste, 19) Rodin sculpted ornamental figures for several major buildings in Brussels, such as...
  • Carpeaux's Work
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    Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1827-1875 The son and grandson of stonemasons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes and moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Beginning in the early 1840's he studied at the Petite Ecole, the state school for training in the applied arts, formally called the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin, before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844, where he changed masters repeatedly, oscillating between typical student ambition (optimal credentials for the Prix de Rome)...
  • Georgia O'keefe S Artwork
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    Georgia O'KeefeGeorgia O'Keefe is a famous American painter who painted beautiful flowers and landscapes. But she painted these images in such a way that many people believed she was portraying sexual imagery. "O'Keefe's depictions of flowers in strict frontality and enlarged to giant scale were entirely original in character... the view into the open blossoms evoked an image of the female psyche and invited erotic associations". (Joachim ides 47) O'Keefe denies these allegations and says that s...
  • Work Piss Christ
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    That Andrew Serrano's painting Piss Christ has caused an overwhelming amount of controversy and response is undeniable. A search on The Age's Archives turned up no less than 72 articles related directly to Serrano's Piss Christ, mainly from the time Serrano and the work visited Melbourne during 1997 and 1998. The exhibition of the work provoked some violent responses here. One Timur Grin caused almost $100,000 worth of damage to works at the National Gallery of Victoria, including damage to Piss...
  • Kama Being The Occupation Of Public Women
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    PREFACE IN the literature of all countries there will be found a certain number of works treating especially of love. Everywhere the subject is dealt with differently, and from various points of view. In the present publication it is proposed to give a complete translation of what is considered the standard work on love in Sanscrit literature, and which is called the 'Vatsyayana Kama Sutra', or Aphorisms on Love, by Vatsyayana. While the introduction will deal with the evidence concerning the da...
  • Learning To Become A Pastry Chef
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    Felicia Clark Senior Project Research Paper Fall 2002 English 12 Period 1 Word count Learning To Become a Pastry Chef Imagine a three layer chocolate wedding cake, with flowing white frosting and a strawberry center. These are just some of the many beautiful creations Pastry Chefs make every day. But not everything is as sweet as what they make in this career. The eighteenth century Pastry Chefs were very different from the Pastry Chefs of today. In the eighteenth century, a new type of baker wa...
  • Royal Abbey Of St Denis
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    Comparison between The Vishnu Temple of Srirangam and The Royal Abbey of St. Denis People are in many respects unique animals: they can create culture as no other animal can. As an aspect of this culture, they construct images for worship and admiration as well as icons for pleasure and practice. The former represents religion, and the latter art. In the various expressions of religion such as rituals, ceremonials, shrines, magical cults and worship, art is necessarily included. Both the temple ...

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