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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 words
Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada
Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil
painting on display at the National Museum of
American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868,
this enormous painting is approximately six by ten
feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The
subject matter of this piece is typical of
Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed
landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and
Sierras of the American West. Collectively,
Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Second Stanza Human Spirit
964 words
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By
sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon
that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine
own soft-couched ear: Surely I dreamt to-day, or
did I see The winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes? I
wander'd in a forest thoughtlessly, And, on the
sudden, fainting with surprise, Saw two fair
creatures, couched side by side In deepest grass,
beneath the which " ring roof Of leaves and
trembled blossoms, where there ran Mid hush'd,
cool-rooted flowers...
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Suzuki Harunobu Eighteenth Century Prints
1,108 words
... till women) were especially prominent. The
early eighteenth century was a period of
development in print-making. The quality of the
paper improved; shapes and sizes of prints became
varied; and polyptych were introduced. Techniques
of printing became more sophisticated. The
urusei-e (lacquer-print) was developed, in which
certain areas of black are made to shine by mixing
glue with the printing-ink. The greatest
innovation in technique, however, was in the use
of color. From the earliest tim...
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Native Indians Natural Resources
663 words
There is tremendous difference in the way the
native Indians used to live off the land and the
way American Settlers are destroying the land even
as we speak for the purpose of profit. The author
of this story is trying to convey the damage and
destruction wrought on by the Europeans in the
relatively few years of habitation of the lands of
America. The difference is not only cultural but
also spiritual. While Native Indians viewed the
land on which they lived as sacred, the European
settlers ar...
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City States In Lower Mesopotamia
944 words
Factors that contributed to the emergence of
city-states in Lower Mesopotamia and the influence
the landscape played in the formation of the
civilization which emerged. For this essay I
considered the question of what factors
contributed to the emergence of city-states in
Lower Mesopotamia and the influence the landscape
played in the formation of the civilization which
emerged. Through my research on this topic I found
that there is much evidence to support the claim
that landscape was a very l...
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Graphic Design National Gallery
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ter> (1949 -) Tim Storrier was born in
Sydney Australia in 1949. He spent his early
childhood on his family's sheep station at
Umagarlee, near Wellington, NSW. His mother and
grandmother were interested in art, and he would
draw a lot. He drew military heroes and rural
subjects such as woodsheds. At the age of ten he
went to boarding school in Sydney, where he spent
a lot of time in the art room, painting under the
influence of his teacher Ross Doig. Storrier
attended the National Art ...
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Judith Wrights Poetry Breathed Sleeping And Forgot Australian
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ter> In what way is Judith Wrights poetry a
worthwhile study for Australian students?
Judith Wright is a respected Australian
poet is also known as a conservationist and
protester. Her poetry has captured the most
amazing imagery of Australian Culture. For
Australian students to understand their own
culture and history it is necessary to study the
best poetry and Judith Wrights poetry is
definitely some of the best. Her achievement in
translating the Australian experience into poetry
l...
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Seventeenth Century Sixteenth Century
583 words
The diminutive scale of Bernini's S. Andrea al
Quirinal e and Borromini's S. Carlo illustrates
the fallacy of the notion that massive size is the
leading characteristic of seventeenth-century
architecture. Vast complexes such as the
sixteenth-century palace of the Escorial and the
eighteenth-century palace at Caserta are a
reminder that grandiose scale was not a monopoly
of the Baroque. Yet it is undeniable that the
taste for the very large is everywhere in evidence
at this period, and that Baro...
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Lighthouse At Two Lights Child With A Book Color
652 words
Vincent van Gogh's Sower is well-known for the
authors use of line in the painting. Peter Paul
Rubens Kermis perfectly depicts extensive use of
light and color, while Chuck Closes Stanley is
famous for its space. All three works exhibit
extensive use of line, space and color. Authors of
these works used different techniques to create
impression of space, which sets up the mood of a
composition. I have decided to discuss use of
line, color and light in Sonia Delaunay's Electric
Prism, Edward Hopp...
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
905 words
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon "Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon" was released in 2000. It is a film
made in the wuxi style (the derivative of martial
and chivalric arts). "Crouching Tiger Hidden
Dragon" was directed by Ang Lee, with the
participation of international cast of ethnic
Chinese actors, such as Chang Chen, Michelle Yeoh,
Chow Yun-Fat, and Zhang Ziyi. This is an
interesting experimentation made by veteran
filmmakers, Ang Lee and James Schemes. The movie
is based on the 4 th novel in the ...
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Square Miles Largest Island
1,165 words
Crete is the fifth largest island in the
Mediterranean. The waters surrounding mainland
Greece are dotted with its numerous islands. Crete
is the largest island of Greece situated below the
Peloponnesian mainland. It stands as a boundary
between Europe and Africa. Without a doubt it
location has influenced its history, culture and
climate. The island is relatively long and narrow
stretching for 152 miles (245 m) on its east-west
axis and varying in width from 7. 5 to 35 miles
(12 to 56 km). The ...
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Monet Painting Monet Light
630 words
Sandra Weathers 17 April 2000 The comments about
Monet? s painting, Impression: Sunrise, gives an
insight to the artistic vision in Waugh? s Vile
Bodies and Greene? s Brighton Rock. Monet? s
Impression: Sunrise is a famous and prime example
of Impressionism. The impressionist style of
painting is characterized by? concentration on the
general impression produced by a scene as an
object and the use of unmixed primary colors and
small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
? (Web Museum) Impr...
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Circle Of Hell Dantes Inferno
1,342 words
In Dantes Divine Comedy, Dante incorporates
Virgil's portrayal of Hades from The Aeneid into
his poem, and similarities between the Inferno and
Hades can be drawn, however Dante wasnt attempting
to duplicate Virgil's works. Although the Hell
depicted in Dantes Inferno is essentially based on
the literary construction of the underworld found
in Virgil's Aeneid, in their particulars the two
kingdoms are quite different. Virgil's underworld
is largely undifferentiated, and Aeneas walks
through it w...
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Post War N Y
2,107 words
Farewells To Justice, God, Politics And The
European Way Heinrich Boll, Women In A River
Landscape, translated from the German by David
McLintock, London: Server 038; Warburg, 1988.
(Originally published in 1985. ) Albert Camus, The
Fall, translated by Justin OBrien, N. Y. : Modern
Library, 1958. (Originally published in 1956. )
Friedrich Durrenmatts, The Execution Of Justice,
translated from the German by John E. Woods, N. Y:
Random House, 1989. (Originally published in 1985.
) Graham Greene...
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National Park Service Eastern Philosophy
1,544 words
Urban sprawl is not a new phenomenon, and the
battle between environmentalists and developers is
well-known. But perhaps the issue is not that the
land is being utterly stripped of life and
replaced by cookie cutter houses or factories,
which has been a controversy for decades. Perhaps
the fighting has exposed a deeper problem: the
American acceptance of a false outside, seen
through lawns that mimic interiors. People often
perceive that any green space is nature. As
Michael Ventura says, ? Amer...
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Rip Van Winkle Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
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Irving's American Progeny Washington Irving had
the unique opportunity of helping a new nation
forge its own identity. America, fresh out of the
revolution, looked for an author to take charge
and create something that seemed to be missing
from the newly born nation. He took this
responsibility seriously and made a mythology that
founded an American literary tradition. He took
bits and pieces from the Old World and
incorporated them into the New in such a manner
that what he wrote appeared origi...
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John Father
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What made Constable different from the majority of
his contemporaries was his attitude towards the
things that he saw. He was not, like so many other
landscape artists, a conscious seeker of the
picturesque. As an artist he was virtually
self-taught and his periods of formal study
amounted to little more than process of directive
discipline. His real master was his own sensitive
and perceptive eye (Peacock, 15). It was through a
study of nature rather than by a study of academic
principles that ...
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Fa Ade Thomas Jefferson
1,998 words
Villa Emo In 1539 Leonardo Emo di Advice inherited
a portion of the family property in Fanzolo in
Northern Italy from his uncle, a Venetian
patrician. The land was acquired as part of an
extensive effort by the Venetian nobility to
develop the terra firma for agricultural use.
Leonardo was seven years old at the time so it was
not until around 1559 that he engaged Andrea
Palladio to design a new residential complex for
the estate. Villa Emo was built on a plain and was
surrounded by cultivated f...
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19 Th Century Landscape Painting
583 words
In the 18 th century, there was a period that we
called Neo classicism. In this period most of all
paintings had the same characteristic which are
dark and simple background colors, very masculine,
stressed heroism, frieze, sharp edges, more
geometric and flat. As we seen in Jean Ingres
painting The Turkeys Slave, we could see from the
simple background and the very sharp edges of her
body. Comparing to the classical period, one of
the murals that I found around the campus. I
decided to use the ...
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Reflected The Romantic Sensibility Reflected The Romantic Romanticism
956 words
Who most accurately reflected the romantic
sensibility of the day: the poets, the artists or
the musicians? Well first off what exactly is
Romanticism? Romanticism was a literary and
artistic movement of the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, resulting in part, from the
ideals of the French Revolution and in part a
revolt against classicism and the Enlightenment.
It embodies none of which classicism and
neoclassicism did which were precepts of order,
calm, harmony, balance, idealization a...
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