“A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” Nick Joaquin Act I ”Bitoy Camacho‚ an old friend of the Marasigans‚ pays them a visit one afternoon after many years of absence. He is greeted by the two daughters of Lorenzo Marasigan‚ a famous painter‚ who in his declining years has been living in isolation and abject poverty. Recently‚ he finished his latest and perhaps last major work of art‚ a painting he entitled Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. The sisters Paula and Candida welcome Bitoy. They
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1955 in Monto‚ Queensland of Aboriginal and English/Scottish heritage. Bennett enrolled as a mature–age student at Queensland College of Art in 1986 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree in 1988. Gordon Bennett is a contemporary artist and says his earlier art work where influenced by his personal experiences. Bennett’s work is defining Australian Culture and Aboriginal History‚ he wanted to change the way Australia and the world saw Indigenous Australians. Bennett includes a focus
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between audience and artist. Through her art‚ she hopes it creates a personal change in their life. Furthermore‚ she also describes about an experiment she conducted that changed her life. “The Artist is Present” consisted of her sitting down for eight hours straight staring into a completely different stranger’s eyes. As a result‚ plenty experienced a powerful feeling. When she began to talk in depth about how her art pushes boundaries between both the audience and artist‚ she said something I
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Innovation‚ Vol. 12‚ No. 4‚ 1999 583 Working Values and the Italian Family MASSIMO BELLOTTO and ALBERTO ZATTI A B S T R A C T History teaches us that it is through the family that new generations are equipped with ethics and values regarding work. The advent of bourgeois society‚ with its characteristic openness towards other social classes‚ appears to have relegated the promotion of working values by families to the background. This study sets out to test the hypothesis according to which the
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These groups can be bound together by blood‚ oath or sworn secrecy. Many people had considered the Sicilian Mafia as the most ruthless mobsters of the twentieth century. By the 1900s‚ the Mafia had become known as a network of criminal thugs that dominated the Sicilian countryside. Members of the Mafia were bound by Omerta. Omerta‚ an Italian word‚ stands for a strict code of conduct. The code include avoiding all contact or cooperation with authorities. In the beginning the Mafia had no centralized
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What is vandalism? Vandalism is the deliberate destruction of private or public property. Vandalism comes in different forms‚ but the most commonly known is graffiti. Graffiti is usually marked by gang members or a tagger‚ which is a graffiti artist who spray-paints his or her name or symbol on a public structure. Other acts of vandalism include stealing signs‚ such as a stop sign‚ tearing or writing in library books‚ spray painting signs‚ keying cars and knocking over trash cans
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During the 1950s‚ two immigrant Italian brothers‚ Primo and Secondo are trying to face the difficulties of running a restaurant. Primo is a master chef who serves culinary delights every night. The only problem is that frequently there is no one to serve food to. The two brothers are lucky if anyone even shows up to eat‚ since the diners all expect standard Italian-American food and not gourmet fare. When someone does decide to dine at their restaurant‚ Paradise‚ Secondo is forced to cope with his
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thThe Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance were both spectacular events that occurred during the 17th-18th century Europe. The created movements in Art that left great impact on how we perceive art as it is today. They are very different movements‚ yet in some ways similar. As they both focused on religion but it was the Northern Renaissance that primarily evolved around religion. As for the Italian Renaissance‚ it was focused on Greek and Roman Mythology. Essentially‚ both movements
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Classics of Italian cinema 2010 Federico Fellini’s films were‚ and still are in many cases very controversial. Fellini attempts to convey many of his own ideas and attitudes into his works. Nowhere is this more evident than in his attitude towards faith‚ ritual‚ and religion. Fellini’s attitude towards faith‚ ritual and religion has always been critical. However‚ the way in which he demonstrates this criticism varies. These varying methods of criticism are clearly demonstrated‚ when one considers
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Italian Immigration - Did they assimilate and living conditions. The Italian mainly immigrated to America between 1876 and 1976. When the Italians entered America‚ what met them was that the earlier immigrants thought that they were up to no good. Their customs and Catholic faith resulted in fear among the settlers who came earlier. They thought that the Italians were lazy and lacked intelligence‚ which was not the case; the difference between the old and new immigrants was very little. Just as
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