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    The painting the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali’s is one of his famous paintings. The painting visually tries to explain dreams and unconsciousness. Like most painters Dali used formal elements to define his work of art. Some formal elements like line‚ shape‚ form‚ space‚ texture‚ light and color helped to explain his perception of the unconscious states of mind in his painting. Dali uses a quantity of straight‚ crooked‚ and wavy lines in his construction. Taylor explained that the landscape

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    |Franz Kline‚ Painting | | |Number 2‚ 1954‚ The | | |Museum of Modern Art | Action Painting is a kind of gestural abstraction. It is actually about splashing and dribbling on the canvas instead of carefully painting on it |[pic] | |An example of Figurativism | |The Creation of Adam

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    Art Notes: Living With Art

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    Chapters 1 and 2 Notes Chapter 1 Living with Art Megaliths are large stones that are surrounded by a circular ditch. The monument is presumably the marking of graveyard and once was accompanied by other monuments. The Neolithic era is known for the uses of new tools and constructive materials such as hardening clays using a flame. Pottery was used to create bowls‚ food jars‚ cups‚ and a variance of other objects. Each culture characterizes art in its own way. Artists perform tasks such as create

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    modern art. Some museums considered modern art to be all art since the end of WWII‚ which was when James Pollock came to the sense. Pollock soon became the symbol of new American painting‚ after WWII. His paintings were the first form of complete abstraction. He was the first person to paint

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    Minimalism: What you see is what you see Minimalism rejects the need for social comment‚ self-expression‚ narrative‚ or any other allusion to history‚ politics‚ or religion. It is based on creating objects of interest and beauty. Minimalists reduced their work to the smallest number of colors‚ values‚ shapes‚ lines‚ and textures. David Burlyuk first used the term in an exhibition catalogue for John Graham’s paintings at the Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1929.Minimalism:Designing Simplicity

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    Chapter 8 - Group Process THIS CHAPTER WILL DISCUSS: 1. What group discussion "functions" are. 2. How interactional researchers study group process. 3. Whether group process relates to group output. 4. Whether group discussion consists of a series of sequential states. INTRODUCTION In Chapter 1 we examined the concept of "perspectives." As we explained‚ scientists approach an object they wish to study with a particular viewpoint‚ or perspective. Each perspective suggests distinct questions

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    When we examine three paintings from the American Abstraction and Pop Art style we can see the impact of media and process on style and meaning. Jackson Pollock’s “Blue Poles”‚1952 is an action painting from the Abstract Expressionism movement which could be showing what was happening in America in the 1950’s. Mark Rothko in “Number 10” wanted to involve the viewer in experiencing basic human emotions. Roy Litchenstein’s “Hopeless” was trying to create relatable futuristic images that make fun of

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    On a warm windy Friday in mid-February‚ I made a trip to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. I ventured around the museum‚ first finding their featured exhibit. In here I found several interesting pieces of art including a large wooden table with Persian rug‚ and large chunks of some large butter shaped and colored rocks. A few minutes later I strolled into a room full of their permeant collections. There were probably twenty to thirty pieces of art in this midsized well lit room. I observed about

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    A Life Within Colors

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    Tingting Chen Art History 150D Professor Harren July 26‚ 2012 A Life Within Colors Mark Rothko‚ No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple)‚ 1960 The Museum of Contemporary Art‚ Los Angeles “My father guarded it and‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ stoked the fires of interest in all those who heard murmurs of its existence. His words might be outside his artwork‚ but they communicate philosophies he still held dear even after paint became his sole vehicle for expression.”

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    Elizabeth Murray was an American painter that reshaped Modernist abstraction. It became high-spirited and cartoon-based. In addition to being a painter‚ she was a printmaker and a draughtsman. When she was a student‚ she was influenced by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Her works are in countless major public collections‚ some of which include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Elizabeth Murray was born on September 6th‚ 1940 in Chicago‚ Illinois. In her early years

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