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    Courbet the Wave

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    Beginning in the summer of 1869 Gustave Courbet produced a series of paintings depicting stormy seas during his stay at Etretat on the Normandy coast. The Wave (La Vague c.1872) exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria is one such painting that features the central motif of a cresting wave. While many viewed the work as a simple realist seascape‚ the political implication of the work suggested by some of Courbet’s contemporaries is hardly discernable to the modern viewer. It can only be understood

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    Pablo Picasso

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    Overview Pablo Picasso was the greatest and most significant artist in the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known as the father of Cubism‚ Picasso also made important contributions to Surrealism and Symbolism and he was the inventor of collage. Although he primarily saw himself as a painter‚ Picasso ’s sculpture work was highly significant‚ in addition he explored printmaking and ceramics. Pablo had a charismatic personality and was involved in many relationships with women which directed

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    Prejudice and discrimination BUE ID: 120921 QM ID: 12011189 Module Name: Social Psychology (Humanities 3) Module Code: N3597 Module Coordinator: Prof/ Cheherezade Ghazi Number of used words: 1920 Submission Date: 26-1-2014 Out-lines: Introduction Definition Theoretical background Types of Prejudice Religious prejudice How we can reduce prejudice? Conclusion References Introduction Prejudice is a serious matter can be noticed in many situations in our daily

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    string quintet and the piano became consistent with the organization of the musical forms of sonata allegro. In the middle of the 18th century‚ Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture‚ literature‚ and the arts‚ generally known as Classicism. The new style was also a cleaner style—one that favoured form and balance‚ and symmetrical design‚ and in this era the orchestra size increased. There were changes in technology and science‚ and the middle class started to rise in importance through

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    Bibliography: Deane‚ Patrick. "Rhetoric and Affect: Eliot ’s Classicism‚ Pound ’s Symbolism‚ and the Drafts of "The Waste Land"" Journal of Modern Literature 18.1 (1992): 77-93. Web. Donoghue‚ Denis. "The Word Within a Word" in The Waste Land in Different Voices. London: A.D. Edward Arnold‚ 1974. 185-201. Print. Donoghue

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    Botero‚ Fernando (1932- )‚ Colombian painter and sculptor who is noted for the round‚ slightly comic figures that began to appear in his works during the 1960s. Born in Medellín‚ Colombia‚ Botero attended a school for matadors from 1944 to 1946. He first exhibited his paintings in 1948 in Medellín with other artists from the region. At that time he was influenced by the work of Mexican artists Diego Rivera‚ David Alfaro Siqueiros‚ and José Clemente Orozco. After working briefly as a theater set

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    ABSTRACT NOUNrefers to ideas‚ processes‚ occasions‚ times‚ qualities that cannot be touched or seen. | | ADJECTIVEgives more information about or describes a noun or pronoun | ADVERBgives more information about (modifies) a verb‚ an adjective‚ another adverb‚ or a sentence. | ALLEGORYa narrative in which people‚ objects and events represent moral or spiritual ideas. | ALLITERATIONthe repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginnings of words in a line / phrase: “What would

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    Picasso and Politics

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    to a series of paintings in which the color blue dominates and which he painted between 1901 and 1904. The blue period is a marvelous expression of poetic subtlety and personal melancholy and contributes to the transition of Picasso ’s style from classicism to abstract art. (Warncke 13) His close friend Carles Casagemas committed suicide at a bar while Picasso was out of town. Casagemas was distraught after his love for Germaine was unrequited. (…The Early Years 179) I found it interesting that Picasso

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    Criminology and Crime

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    Leanne elcoate – M00311408 | CRM2350 – Crime in Late Modernity | To what extent could it be argued that crime is seductive? | | Alice Savoja | | Word Count: 2477 | To what extent could it be argued that crime is seductive? To what extent could it be argued that crime is seductive? Throughout this essay I will be discussing contemporary theories that support the idea crime is seductive and contemporary theories that disagree. According to the Oxford Dictionary the definition

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    4 Davids

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    Jennifer Keefe Professor Mark Moak Art History 1 December 2011 The Life and Times of the Four David Artists Through out the years there were many great artists who created many great works of art‚ but only four Italian artists really stick out for creating the same piece all with different points of views. These artists were Donatello‚ Verrocchio‚ Michelangelo‚ and Bernini‚ all of who created a David sculpture. Each one very unique and different. These four artists all

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