happened across. The first time I looked at Tiziano Vecillio‚ or Titian’s painting I was mortified at the subject he had decided to paint about‚ and as I started researching the history of his painting I found myself disgusted with the true meaning of the painting. However‚ I also find myself dazzled by the spectacular artwork he has given the world‚ and the boldness he had to choose such a controversial myth to paint of. The painting was inspired by the myth of Jupiter being in love with a women named
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Africa and the Atlantic world explores the trials and tribulations of Africans being forced from their homeland and sold into slavery. Africans endured such hardships and conditions that their souls vanished with the site of mother Africa. Europeans sold and forced slaves to cultivate sugar plantations for their own profits. The Americas‚ Europe and Africa were involved in a cross continental system of human trafficking. African men‚ woman and children were shipped across the Atlantic to the
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Daoism‚ allegedly wrote the Daodejing a. Classic of the Way and of Virtue 3. Zhuangzi (compendium of Daoist philosophy) 4. The Dao--the way of nature‚ the way of the cosmos a. Elusive concept: an eternal principle governing all the workings of the world b. Dao is passive and yielding‚ does nothing The Silk Road Silk Road - First came into use around 100 B.C.E. Origins • In 128 B.C.E.‚ Chinese general Zhang Jian crossed the western China area under the expeditionbehalf of
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Chapter one Native American Worlds‚ pp. 7-14 Anthropologists and historians believe that the first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere were migrants from Asia‚ most of whom most probably came by land between 13‚000 B.C. and 9000 B.C. across a hundred-mile-wide land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. About 3000 B.C.‚ some Native American peoples developed better cultivation techniques and began to farm a variety of crops‚ most notably maize (corn)‚ which resulted in agricultural surpluses that
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of watching this painting‚ I feel greatly relieved from the burden from heavy study‚ which really ease my mind and relax my body. This is a beautiful painting‚ and now I will analyze this painting‚ talking about 3 art elements and 3 principle of design about it. First‚ the art element I would like to talk about is color. As we all know‚ color acts as a very role in so many paintings‚ and as for this painting‚ color also plays an important part. The reason is‚ in this painting‚ all the objects are
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MATTHEW 11 Introduction 1. There are three reactions to Jesus in this chapter. a. Undecided b. Unresponsive c. Unrepentant 2. We are going to notice their response to Jesus and His response to them. 3. Matt. 11-18 gives us ten reactions to Jesus’ preaching. 4. Notice John the Immerser – “undecided” (11:3) 5. This generation – “unresponsive” (11:17) 6. Galilean cities – “unrepentant” (11:20) 7. From chapter 11 on the attitudes of the scribes get more and more hostile. Discussion
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Virgin Mary‚ the painting of Our Virgin of Guadalupe evokes a somber and endearing response from the viewers. The composition of this painting brings in the attention to the Virgin of Guadalupe. The dark space in the background‚ and the light shining directly on her divert the eye to the center of the painting. The curved curtains in the background also frame her in the center. The composition of the painting also brings attention to the crown of thorns at the bottom of the painting. This attention
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work of art is a seascape painting‚ painted with oil and painted on canvas. The artist was Peter Monamy (1681-1749). The painting portrays three ships stuck in a storm. There is a main ship‚ a ship in the background‚ as well as‚ another ship behind that. Through research it is not known if the artist was depicting a certain event in time‚ but some say it was a depiction of “the great gale of 1703” or when Sir Cloudisley Shovell’s fleet was stuck in a storm in 1707. I chose this painting because
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Distinctively visual images which can be seen‚ or perceived in the mind can shape the responder understanding of relationship with others plus the world around . The use of distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my understanding of the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy’s and the painting ‘starry starry night’ by Vincent van Gogh. This has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in Maestro and the use of colour‚ shading‚ lighting
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War & Art Bounded by the First World War‚ the period of 1920-1945 witnessed the hardships of the Great Depression and the destructive slide into political conflict. Throughout these dramatic times‚ during both the highs and the lows‚ artists responded to the world in which they lived in dramatic fashion. The events certainly had rippling effects upon all aspects of European life. In this time‚ artists and musicians had little choice but to react to the times to express their feelings and remain
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