I parked my car on Devon Avenue in front of Shore Galleries and took a quick glance through the car window. Shore Galleries sign was attached to the building above the main entrance and windows were completely tinted. Shore Galleries was located next to a dry cleaning business. Unless you knew the nature of business of Shore Galleries‚ not many people would realize that Shore Galleries is a firearms store with an indoor gun range. I sat in my car for a few minutes to clear my head and thought
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Art Review: I chose to do my art review on the artist Cai Guo-Qiang‚ who is a Chinese artist who does most of his art in the form of explosions and large scale projects such as this one‚ which bring attention to problems in society dealing with violence and terrorism. In his piece titled Inopportune: Stage 1‚ Guo-Qiang displays 9 identical cars‚ which are tumbling through the air in different positions‚ with large lights sticking out‚ resembling that the car is exploding only to conclude with
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The Arts People’s life can’t be imagined without arts. They are not only entertainment for us‚ but also the way of expressing our thoughts and exchanging them through time and space. As the thoughts are often different‚ the art is so varied. So every nation has its own art with specific features. I wish to speak about British arts. In fact the position of the arts in Britain may be described as a mixture of public apathy and private enthusiasm. The reason of it is that government financial support
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Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they are usually not for a painting
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What is considered art has been a controversial question for many years in history and today. There are various forms and types of art. Because art is very complex and diverse‚ it is viewed and conceptualized in many different ways. Nancy G. Heller states even though a type of artwork is hard to understand‚ it’s considered art‚ and artwork that people don’t understand shouldn’t be disregarded from other types of art. She feels as though people shouldn’t be intimidated by artwork that’s hard to understand
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Student: Mitchell Quinn Instructor: Deanne Beausoleil Art 204 9:30-11:50am Essay #1---Descriptive June 30‚ 2011 The Battle of Issus Sometime around 310 BCE an artist by the name of Philoxenus of Eretria created a mosaic (creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored material) of the Battle of Issus that has long been considered one of the greatest artworks of antiquity. Found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii in 1831 the mosaic is composed of about one
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Garry Morales Urbina Book Report 13 April 2012 Casals and the Art of the Interpretation – David Blum David Blum (Los Angeles CA‚ 1935) wrote this book to show how a great master as Casals thought about the materialization of emotions to express what music needs to. Moreover‚ he provides fundamental concepts which Casals sometimes called “law of music” or “laws of nature” – concepts which he considered to be essential elements of meaningful interpretation and applicable to all forms of musical
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Creative art and Fine art . By a broad definition of art‚[9] artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind: from early pre-historic art to contemporary art; however‚ some theories restrict the concept to modern Western societies.[10] The first and broadest sense of art is the one that has remained closest to the older Latin meaning‚ which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft." A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact‚ artificial‚ artifice‚ medical arts‚ and military arts
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COMM 2030 Fall 2013 Midterm Review Chapter 1: Be able to answer the following questions: What are the four elements of a problem-solving group‚ and what does each element entail? 1. 3 or more people up to about 15 2. Sharing a common task 3. Interacting face to face (or at least in real time) 4. Influencing one another What are the four characteristics of a system‚ and what does each characteristic entail? 1. Interdependence: each part relies on one another *Synergy: sum of
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Abby McCann Evolving Toward Ecstasy This art review by Robert Smith is on a Matisse Exhibition that was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last November‚ “Matisse: In Search of True Painting.” The name of this article comes from a quote from Matisse himself‚ where he claims to work “towards what I feel; toward a kind of ecstasy.” From the beginning of the article‚ Smith raves about this exhibit. He calls it “one of the most thrillingly instructive exhibitions about this painter‚ or painting in
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