REPORT ON ART GALLERY CONTENT Introduction An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art‚ usually visual art. In its most basic form what we call a gallery‚ has come to mean a collection of something. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects‚ however sculpture‚ decorative arts‚ furniture‚ textiles‚ costume‚ drawings‚ pastels‚ water colors‚ collages‚ prints‚ artists books‚ photographs‚ and installation art also regularly shown. Art
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Willy Loman’s obsession with the American Dream and its ideals has strongly affected the people Biff and Happy have become. Due to Willy’s teachings and influences‚ both his sons lead a different life from what they expected. Willy believed that his sons’ attributes would lead them to a successful lifestyle with no conflicts. Yet‚ being well-liked and attractive lead both sons to live a lie‚ nowhere near success. Biff becomes an underachiever who can’t hold a job‚ and feels dissatisfied with the
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Contrasting Willy Loman and Charley Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a tragedy whose theme is the tarnishing of the American dream. Death of a Salesman gives different insights and different meanings to the American dream of success and shows what can happen when the dream is false‚ distorted or unfulfilled. In the following paragraphs‚ two of the play’s characters will be contrasted. One of these characters is Willy Loman whose American dream was serious trouble for him and his family because
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I believe there can be a turning pint in a person’s life after which nothing will ever be the same. Such is the case in Arthur Miller’s play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ when Willy Loman’s son Biff reaches a "point of no return" after discovering that Willy is having an affair with a woman in Boston. The shock and disillusionment from this revelaation made Biff see his father in a new light ande he would never be able to return to a life in which he trusted or respected his father. The quote "often
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The Jim crow museum depicts very accurately how racist southern america used to be. It is astonishing how much hatred people can have for something as messily as the color of someone’s skin. Jim Crow was developed as a fictitious character that heavily embellished the negro culture with much mockery. Jim crow became the symbol of how blacks should be treated hence the Jim Crow Laws that were developed. Whites would paint their faces black and perform on stage as bafoons. These shows helped
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Emily Wilson October 10th‚ 2014 Professor Cruz Art into History Greek and Roman Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has many different exhibits with ancient portraits‚ sculptures‚ steles‚ freezes‚ paintings and many more. The Greek and Roman exhibit was very interesting. The way the Greeks and Romans portrayed their feelings and life experiences through art is very diverse. During my visit to Metropolitan‚ I had gone for a tour of this exhibit and was amazed by the works of art I was seeing. Just
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During our trip the the Metropolitan Museum‚ our class explored various exhibits‚ including the Greeks‚ early Tribal works‚ Renaissance art‚ and 19th century art. One piece in particular that stood out to me‚ and reminded me of a text we’ve read this semester‚ was Prayer in the Mosque by Jean-Lèon Gèrome in 1871(87.15.130). This oil on canvas depicts the interior of a mosque in seventh century Egypt and reminded me of the readings we had done on Al Andalus from Jarbel Rodriguez‚ where the description
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discuss two paintings I observed at the Art Institute of Chicago and compare the two as well. During our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago even though we did not have enough time to properly view the pieces along with a large portion of the museum with pre-renaissance pieces in them were closed off to the public. Two pieces that really stuck out to me during the trip were: “Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)” by Dieric Bouts and “Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin” by Jean
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all rides it could not sell.[2][4] The board’s original plan was to sell the carousel and the narrow-gauge railway rides.[5] Only the carousel remained in Indianapolis after it was unsold;[2] the steam locomotive is now at the Indiana Transportation Museum at Noblesville‚ Indiana.[6]The carousel was commissioned by William Hubbs‚[3] who had it installed in White City Amusement Park in 1917. Built on a Mangel-Illions mechanism‚[7] it used animals carved by the Dentzel carousel company of Philadelphia
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Assignment 5 Part1 Option B Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In 1892 the new vice-consul for the Benin river section Captain Henry Gallwey visited Benin and signed a treaty which made Benin a British protectorate‚ but as far as the British were concerned the treaty proved disappointing and by 1896 many British traders and officials were calling for military intervention‚ although the foreign office seemed reluctant to do this
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