Fade in: A black and white screen displays a churning globe that settles on Paris France. And the deep and ominous sounding voice of Lou Marcelle begins the journey that is Michael Curtiz’s 1943 film‚ “Casablanca”: “With the coming of the second World War many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully‚ or desperately‚ to the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point‚ but not everyone could get to Lisbon directly‚ and so a tortuous‚ roundabout‚ refugee trail sprang up;
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Select the best answer. (5 points each) 1. Which of the following statements best describes the cultural impact on the style of artwork? a. Cultures each have their own‚ unique style that is not impacted by any outside culture. b. Cultures exchange ideas that impact the development of artistic styles. c. Artists create work based solely on their imaginations and are not impacted by culture. d. All of the above. 2. Like history‚ art history: a. is an objective‚ or factual‚ academic field
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Here’s Looking at You‚ Kid. Filmed and released in 1942 Casablanca‚ starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman‚ is a romantic drama set during World War II. The movie focuses on a man (Rick Blaine) torn between love and virtue and it is throughout the movie that he struggles to choose between his love for a woman (Ilsa Lund) and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband (Victor Lazlo) escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. Throughout the movie it becomes clear
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On May 12‚ 2016 the court case Binks/McKay vs the United States challenged the idea of the Fourth Amendment. The case explains the situation between Binks and McKay‚ who claimed that the FBI violated their Fourth amendment rights when the FBI searched through their Facebook messages after being suspected of being terrorists. This occured when Binks and McKay were discovered to have been communicating with a supposed ISIS member. They had claimed to have no intentions of joining the terrorist group
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BMS122: APPRECIATING LEISURE LIFESTYLES Types of Art: Main Periods 1. 2. 3. Visual Arts Appreciation Part 2 4. 5. 6. 7. Pre-historic Ancient Medieval (Middle Ages) Renaissance Baroque / Rococo 19th Century 20th Century 6. 19th Century Art 19th Century Art: Neo-classicism Includes: 1. 2. 3. 4. Neo-classicism Romanticism Realism Impressionism Rebirth to the art of ancient Rome and Greece‚ and the Renaissance Costumes‚ settings‚ and details depicted with much
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up until the rising Jazz phenomena in the early 1920s. Characterized by rough brush strokes and soft pastel colors and emphasizing light and en plein air techniques‚ the term was first coined in 1874‚ when art critic Louis Leroy‚ mockingly called Claude Monet’s 1973 work Impression‚ Soleil Levant ‚ “Impressionistic”. Going the opposite way of the Hudson River School‚ which focused on the idea of sublimity and power to provoke
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Claude Levi-Strauss Known as one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century‚ Claude Levi-Strauss‚ a French anthropologist‚ has a prominent place in the development of the theory of structural anthropology. He is regarded as one of the primary figures on which structuralism thought is based. Levi-Strauss has proven himself to be very influential throughout the United States and various parts of Europe. Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels‚ Belgium on November 28‚ 1908. He
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Good and Evil: Analysis of Casablanca Angela King PHI2000 – Ethics July 18‚ 2012 Elliot Crozat Good and Evil: Analysis of Casablanca The motion picture Casablanca spotlights its characters as the main focus‚ but as the film rolls an underlying tale of some [thing] deeper emerges. In many ways‚ the elements contained within the storyline are an Archetypal anecdote for all ages in which love conquers evil. In a time where malevolence and iniquity seemed to prevail‚ Casablanca is a theoretical
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Casablanca Cinematography The film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz and released in 1943—at the height of World War II—is set in December 1941 in Casablanca‚ French Morocco. It is a time of escalating power of the Nazi party‚ which attempted to gain control of most parts of the world starting with Europe and Northern Africa. As a result of the ascending power of the Nazis and anti-German sentiments‚ many Europeans were desperate to flee their homes. Because Casablanca was not yet taken over
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Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was born December 31‚ 1869. Matisse was known for his revolutionary effects during the early twentieth century which are his expressive use of color. Examples of his revolutionary and expressive work are of portraits‚ landscapes‚ nudes‚ and interior views causing him to be the very influential. Matisse was inspired by post-impressionists Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh when he lived in Paris. Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was raised in the northern part of France. Matisse
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