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Art Gallery Essays and Term Papers
Government Funding For The ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is a government sponsored foundation.
The duty of the National Endowment for the Arts is to foster the growth of the
arts evenly through the national, state, and local levels of the country. With
all of the budget slashing that is now taking place the arts is ...
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Vietnam Veteran MemorialWenjing Zhong
After hearing Maya Lin talking about the most important masterpiece as a female architect, I started to realize how revolutionary and profound the Vietnam Veteran Memorial must be to win the blind competition of over 1,400 designs, and finally got built among tremendous ...
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Fredric RemingtonFrederic Remington was born on October 4th 1861 to Seth and Clara Sackrider Remington in Canton, New York. During his time of birth in American history there were conflicts between the whites and the Indians over the plains. In August of 1873 Remington moves to Ogdensburg, New York. His father ...
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Pierre Auguste Renoirwas born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. In 1845, his father, a tailor by trade, moved his family to Paris in hopes of finding his fortunes in the capital. They moved into a small apartment building which has been part of a sixteenth century housing complex for the Palace Guard. He ...
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RubensPeter Paul is considered one of the most important Flemish painters of the 17th century. His style became an international definition of the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian school with ...
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The French EntombmentsFrench Entombments non planned for private chapels were often intended for hospital or cemetery chapels, where they became poignant, empathetic images of Christs humanity in death (Medieval Sculpture at the Cloisters, 1988-1989). This quote captures the true content and power behind one of the most ...
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Italian ArtistsMaurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist, he is known for his conceptual sculptures and performance
He started his career in 1980's in Italy, it was period when art movement Arte Poverawas already superseded by the Transavanguardia movement. But influence from Arte Povera on Cattelan's works is ...
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RussiaIn the 20th century there have been many artistic movements that define the way we view art. In 1961 there was not a defining movement, but a transition to a contemporary style that would set the pace for the rest of the century. Many painters wanted to follow the form of avant-garde that took ...
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Monets Green ReflectionsSince the dawn of time, man has been inspired by the beauty of art. The Macquarie Concise Dictionary describes art as �the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance�. I interpret the word art to refer to the physical reproduction of the artists ...
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Simone Martiniwas an Italian painter and a master of the Sienese school. He was active during the 13th and the 14th centuries and is thought of to be a pupil of Duccio. It is known he died August 4, 1344 in Avignon. �If we are to believe Vasari, who tells us that on Simone's tomb there was an epitaph stating ...
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On Man Ray�s Violin D�IngresMan Ray�s Violin D�Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American ...
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Seeing Through Salvador Dal�'s Kaleidoscopic EyesSalvador Felipe Jacinto Dal� I Dom�nech was the son of Salvador Dal�
Cus� and Felipa Dom�nech Ferr�s. He was born on the lackadaisical day of
May 11, 1904. Dal� later claimed to have been named after an older brother
that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was
dubbed ...
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Postwar Modern Movements in the WestChapter 23: Postwar Modern Movements in the West
Jackson Pollock.
Autumn Rhythm. (Number 30). 1950.
Oil on canvas.
a. Dripping thin paint onto the canvas
b. Dripped, poured, and flung his paint
c. Action painting
d. Exercised control by rhythmical dancing movements
Mark ...
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Manet PaintingBefore attempting to anaylse the significance of gender within Edouard Manet�s work entitled �A Bar at the Follies-Bergere�, one must first identify , and note, the somewhat colorful events which occurred within the artist life, and note the way in which they must have undoubtedly prejudiced his ...
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History Of PhotographyIn 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mand� Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated ...
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Biography Of Andy WarholAndy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He ...
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The Library Of Congresswas established by an act of congress on April 24, 1800. It was originally housed in the United States capitol. The collection, which stared out small at 740 volumes, slowly increased to over 3,000 volumes by 1814. That year, though, the British along with the capitol burned those books during ...
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Mona LisaMona Lisa is a 16th century painting made from oil and popular wood. Due to the painting’s mystique and technical mystery, it is one of the world’s most famous paintings. Mona Lisa also known as La Joconde or La Giocondo was made by a “Renaissance Man”, an Italian artist known as Leonardo ...
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Come HomeA History of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Growing from its humble beginnings as an ash dump in the late 1800's, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has come to represent today the very best in urban gardening and horticultural display. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden blooms in the middle of one of the ...
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Pablo PicassoPicasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, generally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was unique as an inventor of forms, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists in history. He ...
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