Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci worked on his masterpiece over a period of 20 years. He carried it with him everywhere. The enigmatic smile has captured the imagination of the world. I love this painting because it is very human‚ but also gives a glimpse of the world beyond‚ the transcendental. Artist | Leonardo da Vinci | Year | c. 1503–1519 | Type | Oil on poplar | Dimensions | 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in) | Location | Musée du Louvre‚ Paris | Creation of Adam - Sistine
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DOUGLAS HOUSE‚ RICHARD MEIER‚ 1971-1973 The Douglas House was built by Richard Meier in 1971-1973 for Jim and Jean Douglas. The house is gently placed on a steep slope over the water‚ almost as if it is floating amongst the trees. As Meier stated about the house‚ “So steep is the slope to the water that the house appears to have been dropped into the site‚ a machine-crafted object that has landed in a natural world. The dramatic dialogue between the whiteness of the house and the primary blues and
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Douglas Spalding Douglas Spalding was the architect of ethology‚ the scientific study of animal behavior. He started his research in the mid 1800s. His studies discounted British empiricist claims that animal skill regarding depth‚ distance; perception and sound localization were learned by the animals while they were young. Spalding study of ethology involved the determiner of behavior such as instinct is behavior that is predisposed or shaped by natural selection or innate pre-programmed behavior
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Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra‚ India are a Buddhist monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art"[1] and "universal pictorial art"[2] The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā in Aurangabad District in the Indian state of Maharashtra (N. lat. 20 deg. 30 ’ by E. long. 75 deg. 40 ’). Since 1983‚ the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Excavation of the caves began
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The Cave of Lascaux During the prehistoric time‚ people would express their thought by drawing many pictures in the caves and usually drew on the walls and ceilings inside the caves. The most common pictures in cave paintings are big wild animals‚ such as horses‚ tigers‚ deer‚ and tracings of human hands. Many cave paintings were found all over Europe and usually‚ they were on the wall of abandoned cave with the blocked entrance for many years‚ so the paintings were well preserved inside the
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Douglas Noel Adams 11 march 1952 – 11 may 2001 Adams was an English writer and dramatist‚ best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy. He also wrote a lot of other books and stories like The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988) and three chapter for the television series Doctor Who. He was a strong advocate for animals and the environment and on the other hand a lover of fast cars‚ cameras and new computers. He is known for being an radical atheist and used to describe
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Biographical Sketch of Douglas McGregor Douglas McGregor (1906 – 1964) is one of the forefathers of contemporary management thinking. A social psychologist‚ he is most notably known for his Theory X and Theory Y from his 1960 book‚ The Human Side of Enterprise‚ which had a profound influence on the management field. A B.E. Mechanical from Rangoon Institute of Technology‚ he then earned an A.B. from Wayne State University‚ and went on to study Psychology at Harvard University. Armed with
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In Frederick Douglass’s Narrative‚ Douglas narrates the essay using story telling to bring both the reader into the story‚ and the theme into focus. Through his narration‚ Douglass also uses narrative strategies like anecdotes‚ and plot twists. Douglass brings the readers’ attention to a peak with these techniques making the story interesting and appealing‚ without letting the reader forget the reality. The most instrumental technique used by Douglass is story telling. He uses little stories‚ or
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it exactly as the artist envisioned it. ANCIENT ART Chauvet Caves Panel of Lions- Chauvet
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The Impact of Frederick Douglas The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave was written by Frederick Douglass himself‚ a runaway slave who had learned to read and wrote against his masters’ wishes. Within this narrative‚ Douglass speaks of many aspects of slavery that he has either seen or experienced for himself throughout his life before freedom; for example‚ he describes how many hours the slaves worked‚ general violence towards slaves‚ and the relationship between master
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