untraditional (Miuccia Prada: The Reluctant Fashionista‚ n.d). Miuccia Prada has created a strong identity for herself as a designer who combines the avant-garde with the ready-to-wear‚ the ugly with the delicate‚ luxury without the sex appeal‚ and a classicism that often embraces outlandish fusions of colors and patterns. She describes her own work as a way to “express‚ in a simple banal object‚ a great complexity about women‚ aesthetics‚ and current times”(Lovinski‚ 2010). Even with no formal background
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Bela Bartok Bela Bartok was born on March 25th‚ 1881 in Baratian‚ a small town in Hungary. His father‚ Bela Bartok Sr.‚ belonged to a lower noble family of Hungary though his mother Paula came from a Roman Catholic Serbian family in Serbia. At an early age‚ Bela started showing talent for music and often distinguished rhythms when his mother played the piano. This was before he could even properly speak. At the age of 4‚ he played 40 pieces on the piano and his mother‚ recognizing his
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Gaitor‚ Bridget Word Count: 1‚859 The Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine by David H. Jackson Jr. exemplifies the life of Charles Banks as Booker T. Washington’s main abettor‚ in the Tuskegee Machine. This descriptive autobiography of Charles Banks life’s work‚ gives the reader an insight into the success of Booker T. Washington. Along with the biography of Charles Banks life‚ the book also addresses the creation and struggles of Mound Bayou. It also gives the reader an inside look on Booker
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Countee Cullen’s poetry was extremely motivated by race. He produced poetry that celebrates his African American Heritage‚ dramatizes black heroism‚ and reveals the reality of being black in a hostile world. In "Harlem Wine‚" Cullen reveals how blacks overcome their pain and rebellious inclinations through the medium of music (Shields 907). James Weldon Johnson said that Cullen was always seeking to free himself and his art from these bonds (Shields 905). In "Yet Do I Marvel‚" Cullen raises questions
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Hellenistic Greek Sculpture (c.323-27 BCE) Venus de Milo (c.130-100 BCE) Louvre‚ Paris. For other forms of sculpture from the wider Aegean area‚ see the Art of Classical Antiquity (c.1000 BCE - 450 CE). Note: among the most famous items of Hellenistic Greek sculpture was the Colossus of Rhodes (292-280 BCE) - one of the Seven Wonders of the World‚ as compiled by the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon. The Hellenistic Styles The era of Hellenistic Art (323-27 BCE) occupied a time-span nearly as long
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Greek Classicism Greek Civilization: • Greek sages concluded “Man is the measure of all things.” • Greeks supremely self-confident and self-aware • Greeks developed this concept of human supremacy and responsibility into a worldview that demanded a new visual expression in art. • Artists studied human beings intensely‚ than distilled their newfound knowledge to capture in their art works the essence of humanity—a term that‚ by the Greeks’ definition‚ applied only to those who spoke Greek; they
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. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) rediscovered and made linear perspective popular. Although the principle of the linear perspective was found first by Fillipo Brunelleschi‚ Alberti disclosed and explained it in the book On Painting. Precisely Alberi explained mathematically what proportions of the objects’ size had to be used in linear perspective. Alberti was born in Genoa in the noble family‚ studied in Padua and Bologna‚ lived in Florence and Rome. Aside of working on linear perspective‚ Alberti
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RIWT TASK1 SUBDOMAIN 112.1 - FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS‚ METHODS‚ & MODES IN THE HUMANITIES Romanticism and Realism Romanticism In the late 18th century when the Industrial Revolution started to spread from England to other countries such as France‚ Spain and Germany and even in the U.S‚ the changes that its dynamic brought to the society were drastic and radically different of what people were used to until then. The work hours become longer; young children and their parents were working most of the
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| | |ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY | | | |Mr. Kaye
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1) Watteau ’s Return from Cythera depicts a ________. For 1 Point Enlarge Image Your Answer: A) fete galante Correct: 1 point 2) Which of the following characteristics does not relate to the Rococo style? For 1 Point Your Answer: B) Poussiniste Correct: 1 point 3) Critics described the Enlightenment style as saccharine‚ frivolous‚ and decadent. For 1 Point Your Answer: False Correct: 1 point 4) Canaletto ’s Basin of San Marco is an example of a type of naturalistic landscape and cityscape painting
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