dominated Western art in the 20th century. He acquired the skill of drawing and painting at a very young age. He did many art works like oil painting‚ sculpturing‚ drawing and architecture. His artwork include paintings like “The old guitarist‚ The Guernica‚ Girl before mirror‚ The dream‚ Three musicians and Boy with pipe”. Of all his artworks the most famous artwork was the ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’. This painting was done in Paris in the summer of 1907 and it was referred as the most innovative
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‘Exploring Photomontage as War Propaganda’ Artists have used many mediums to create propaganda for various reasons and causes. Propaganda is thought to have originated in 1622 with the spread of Christian beliefs to non-Catholic countries by Pope Gregory XV and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide (Congregation for the Probation of Faith). The term propaganda is very broad‚ in it’s simplest sense it is described as information or ideas that are deliberately spread‚ to influence an audience.
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painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist‚ stage designer‚ poet and playwright who led a very odd life with some extremely interesting aspects. Picasso was an artist with many fields but painting was his forte. His most famous masterpiece is the Guernica‚ which is a very abstract and surreal painting. Another extremely famous drawing by Picasso is The Dog. The Dog is a single line that ends up making a cute‚ little wiener dog‚ this piece is admired more for its complexity even though it’s simple
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Picasso –Woman with a Mandolin My first reaction to the painting was a dirty‚ grainy‚ claustrophobic scene. It is cluttered with a distorted and dysfunctional group of rusty geometrical shapes ranging from square to abnormal trapeisiams‚ these help in creating the analytical cubism scene. Amongst the abnormal background stands and exaggerated deformed naked figure which too looks dull and worn down The mood of the painting is boring‚ flat and cluttered. The setting is dull cloudy
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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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EUROPE Continental Flair Europe Often called the “Continent” Most visited by Americans One of the top ten destinations of the world Over 40 countries that comprises Europe Scandinavian Countries -Iceland‚ Norway‚ Sweden Denmark‚ Finland Baltic Nation Located on the Baltic Sea and beneath the Scandinavian Peninsula -Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania British Isles -Located at the Northwest of Europe Great Britain and Ireland Western Europe France and Benelux countries
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Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808 (c.1814) is a responsive painting that was intended to honor those who suffered from the occupation of Napoleons army during the Peninsula War in Spain. This large 8in x 9in oil on canvas painting is used to represent the art of Goya‚ and depict the valor of Spanish revolutionary war. The influences on this piece‚ as well as its characteristics and influence on later work will be examined. The painting reflects the turmoil during the time period‚ and contains
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Hitler and rearmament 1933-1939 The Treaty of Versailles cut Germany’s armed forces cut to a tiny proportion of what they had been during the First World War. During the 1920s the League of Nations tried to establish a programme for disarmament‚ but many countries were using rearmament as a way of staving off the Depression‚ especially after 1929. Nothing was done until 1932 when a World Disarmament Conference was called. Needless to say the conference was a failure with no country willing
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During an interview with Guernica‚ Junot Diaz described his goal for his short-story “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚” which ultimately became a novel by the same name: “I wanted to talk about gender. I wanted to talk about masculinity. I wanted to talk about race” (Kolinsky 2012). The story’s narrator‚ Yunior‚ represents the “stereotypical” Dominican man‚ in which Yunior himself describes as a “player” (Diaz‚ 2000). Within the Dominican culture‚ the ideal man is expected to possess a very
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Artist Reflection #2 Sheri K. Huhn Piedmont College – 630 Ellett Summer 2013 [pic] |Banksy’s controversial works are not titled‚ not dated‚ and could be quickly missed if the authorities get them painted over too | | |soon. In one of many politically charged artworks of Banksy’s‚ I chose to discuss the one below. In this image‚ there are two | | |well-armed soldiers‚ one is crouching with his tactical weapon at the ready‚ and the other soldier
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