Netherlands-based De Stijl movement embraced an abstract‚ pared-down aesthetic centred in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colours. Partly a reaction against the decorative excesses of Art Deco‚ the reduced quality of De Stijl art was envisioned by its creators as a universal visual language appropriate to the modern era‚ a time of a new‚ spiritualized world order. Led by the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian - its central and celebrated figures - De Stijl artists
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Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos‚ Spain on March 30‚ 1746. His dad was a painter‚ and his mom came from a noble family. Theres not a lot of information about his childhood. He went to school in Zaragoza at the Escuelas Pias. He started his actual art education when he was 14‚ when he was chosen to be an apprentice to Jose Luzan. Who was a talented but little known painter. Francisco spent 4 years apprenticing with Jose Luzan. Francisco went to Madrid in 1763 because he hoped to
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In 1502‚ Las Casas moved towards Hispaniola‚ in the Caribbean. His enthusiasm for the organization was well supported by a Dominican minister and moreover his affectability toward the desolation of the neighborhood inhabitants. In 1509‚ he denied his domain surrender‚ released his bondservants‚ and returned to Rome to take his divine promises. In 1512‚ he returned to Hispaniola as the chief designated pastor in America and scrutinized ill-treat of the Spanish for Indians and the armed triumph of
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Jessica Cleveland Cabeza De Vaca History 102 Dr. Rezende 12 Pm Class Cabeza De Vaca In Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America the author Cabeza De Vaca describes the hardships and challenges faced of exploring an unknown region of the America’s. It goes into detail of many encounters with the Native peoples‚ and describes the problems he faced with many of his own people such as his men dying from disease and the battles with the Natives. He talks about the complications faced with
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Pierre de Fermat was born August 17‚ 1601 in Beaumont- Lomagne‚ France. Pierre was born into a Catholic family and was baptized August 20‚ 1601. He was one of four children‚ three boys and one girl. Pierre’s father was a leather merchant and the second consul of his hometown. His mother was a parliamentary noblesse de la robe. He began his secondary schooling at Cordeliers. Then it was said he went to the University of Toulouse. He acquired his degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University
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The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói‚ Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini‚ who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects‚ the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 metres with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage‚” “Good
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design originated in the Baroque‚ but extended much further into the eighteenth century in terms of theory. Roger de Piles was the father of this argument based on coloris versus disegno and the Poussinists versus the Rubenists and so on. He joined the Academy in 1699‚ right on the verge of the Rococo and basically formed the argument for color‚ rather than classical design in his Cours de Peinture par Principes in 1708. Up until Rubens artwork‚ the classical style of painting was preferred with a focus
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STRATEGY: INDUSTRY AND COMPETITION Problem Set 3 1. Throughout the 1990s‚ several developments contributed to the loss of market-share of the Central Selling Organization‚ which inevitably led to diminishing profits for De Beers. In 1991‚ the Soviet Union collapsed and this disintegration brought down the exclusivity that the CSO had enjoyed for so long. Indeed‚ the fall of communism made it difficult for the cartel to protect its trading agreements. As such‚ only limited shares of the Russian
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There is a myriad of historical ideas that surprised me during this reading. My top three surprising historical highlights are The Globe‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz‚ and the Spanish theatre‚ corrales. Throughout my whole learning experiences‚ I have never come across the corrales. Usually‚ I would learn about how Spanish is very religious based and how they are very well-known for discovering New Worlds. I would always hear Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. I never really learned about
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De Morgan’s laws In formal logic‚ De Morgan’s laws are rules relating the logical operators "and" and "or" in terms of each other via negation‚ namely: (A U B)’=A’ ∩ B’ (A ∩ B)’=A’ U B’ The rules can be expressed in English as: "The negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations." and "The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations." The law is named after Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) who introduced a formal version of the laws to classical propositional
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