and influence was not limited to the Near East only‚ but far beyond these borders. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States‚ which he made his home for the last twenty years of his life.‚ he began to write in English. The Prophet and his other books of poetry‚ illustrated with his mystical drawings are known and loved
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Introduction to Art Nouveau The "Art Nouveau" ("new art") movement was one of the first departures from classical art and design‚ towards a new modernism. The ’Modernism’ and Art Nouveau movements occurred during what was known in France as the "Belle Époque‚" or "beautiful era" period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was primarily influenced by the radical work of Czech (Moravian) artist Alfons Mucha‚ Swiss decorative artist Eugène Grasset‚ and English illustrator Aubrey
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SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME JANUARY 2013 Introduction to the Arts in France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage Architecture Literature Music Painting/Sculpture Cinema Architecture From vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourvière) Orange buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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the original qualities of the material. • Praxiteles enhanced the marble medium which he polished to a high sheen‚ giving the marble a sensuous glow to simulate the texture of the skin. Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus • French sculptor Auguste Rodin turned away from the classical “finish” and cultivated a rough and lively surface to the effect the interplay of light on the sculptural form. • He often leaves a part of the work unfinished for the viewer to complete in his or her imagination
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Psychoanalysis Auguste Rodin ’s The Thinker.During the 1890s‚ the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud developed a method of psychotherapy known as psychoanalysis. Freud ’s understanding of the mind was largely based on interpretive methods‚ introspection and clinical observations‚ and was focused in particular on resolving unconscious conflict‚ mental distress and psychopathology. Freud ’s theories became very well-known‚ largely because they tackled subjects such as sexuality‚ repression‚ and the
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manifest function is something that you recognize and know/accept the consequences of the action. While a latent function is an action that you don’t recognize or realize the consequences. We have Auguste Comte‚ Emile Durkheim‚ Herbert Spencer and Robert K. Merton to thank for this approach. Auguste Comte can be considered the “father” of sociology because he coined the term in 1838. Comte realized the need to understand society to keep it unified.
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landscapes and city scenes reflection & shadows were important elements in their works Claude Monet an artist who became famous for his impressionistic paintings recognized leader & father of Impressionism Water Lily & Haystack at Sunset Auguste Renoir Outstanding for his delicate portraits of children & women Expressionism Main idea: Truth is in the mind and soul‚ and not in the eye Expressionist Exhibit the use of distortion & use of bright screaming colors to express emotions
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Mount Rushmore - America’s Greatest Sculpture The United States of America is the greatest nation in our world today. It is made up of 50 states with each state having its own unique history. South Dakota is well known for tourism mostly due to the beauty of the Black Hills and the Mount Rushmore National Memorial nestled in a granite mountain located by Keystone‚ South Dakota. Mount Rushmore started out as a dream which led to the reality of a monumental sculpture commemorating four outstanding
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Ugolino and His Sons Introduction to Art Principles City College of New York‚ CUNY Presented by: Markous Soliman Presented to: Prof. William Behnken Art had played an important role in building up civilizations from all over the world through thousands of centuries. It is and will always still the way of projecting artists’ ideas and thoughts into meaningful and tangible objects which we called “work of art”. In addition‚ It was the path through all these years that dug
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