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    Art Essay

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    Art Essay ‘Persimmons and silk’ was printed in 1997 by Cressida Campbell‚ an Australian artist born in Sydney 1960. This piece of artwork is a woodblock print‚ drawn directly onto a plywood block using a linear drawing technique and is …cm x …cm. The theme of this print is a still life composed of flowers and fruit on a silk tablecloth. It is not a symmetrical print; while it is very balanced it is asymmetrical in design. In the left foreground there is a bowl of persimmons and the flowers are

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    The Art of Loving

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    The Art of Loving is a slim volume of only a little over a hundred pages yet it packs one hell of a punch. Written some fifty years ago‚ here is a more damning indictment of modern society than anything the existential crowd of Bertrand Russell‚ Albert Camus or Jean Paul Sartre could cook up. The Art of Loving is a very concise and pithy read‚ it is written in the terse lucid style of gospel‚ each word in each line serving a critical function. This is not a writer’s style nor is a critic’s but that

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    American Art and Architecture Two opposite forces have coexisted in American art since the establishment of the first colonies. On the one hand‚ American artists have been aware of their European cultural heritage and of continuing innovation in Europe; on the other hand‚ they have had to adapt European forms to the exigencies of their native situation. This interaction between rival forces is hardly unique to American art--all art grows within a tradition--but what distinguishes the American

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    Philosophy of Art

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    word Art is derived from an Ndo-European root AR‚ which means ‘to join’‚ ‘fit’ or ‘put together’. The preliminary definition; art is the application of practical skill [techne] to the production of works of creative imagination‚ which expresses‚ or rather embody an interpretation or view of life. In a wider sense‚ any human activity could be considered as an art. However there are fine arts as well as useful arts. Useful arts are engaged for the sake an ulterior purpose. For example: the art of building

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    Fundamentals of Common Law

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    Assignment 1 Legal Studies – GSB748 Due on: 20/03/2011 University of New England Victor M. Ayala Lancheros Student # 220070594 Word Count: 2‚719 GSB748 – Legal Studies Student # 220070594 1. The Case of Tommy v Spud 1.1 Advice to Tommy 1.1.1 Duty of Care In this case‚ the “neighbour principle” of Lord Atkin and the test of proximity of relationship of the High Court is applicable (Turner 2011:738). The parties have a special relationship based on physical proximity and causal proximity:

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    intro to art

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    the work of a documentary photographer‚ such as Dorothea Lange‚ is the different intentions of each photographer. 9. A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a copper plate covered with silver iodine 10. Early examples of art photography often imitatedthe narrative form of painting 11. Dada collage artist Hannah Höch used “found” photographs to express artistic composition. the overwhelming experience of the mechanized city. disgust with a civilization that allowed

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    The Arts Censored

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    that is considered harmful to the common good or a threat to national security. The Arts have always been involved in the world‚ but there has always been someone behind the scenes that censors what is shown. Lately‚ people believe that more is shown than necessary. It has seemed in the past that nude portraits have been acceptable‚ but now if that was shown in‚ say‚ a public school people would be offended. “No one has come up with a workable definition of art that can universally separate garbage

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    Macbeth Themes

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    and becomes King as a result. The word false links the face and the heart as aspects of Macbeth’s dishonesty. Another technique Shakespeare uses to create a sense of duplicity is irony‚ which is evident in the quote from Act 1 Scene 4. “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”. This was said by Duncan to his son about the courage of the Thane of Cawdor during his execution. Duncan makes this judgement quite casually and unemotionally‚ which is ironic for it is this very theory

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    Analysis of Art

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    Rather‚ his art work captures the calm and solitary scene in urban areas. In his paintings‚ even though he paints urban scenes‚ dark places in a town or a single person in a plain bedroom dominate most of his paintings. This isolation of his subjects “was heightened by Hopper’s characteristic use of light to insulate persons and objects in space” (“Synopsis”). Hopper then‚ paints a diffent kind of urban scene‚ which usually suggests a

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    Theme of Betrayal

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    Discuss two examples of how poetry is used to explore the theme of betrayal. Poetry is an opinionated‚ personal form of literature. It allows the poets to express themselves in a far more personal manner‚ without the harsh restrictions of narrative writing for instance. Poetry is praised for its aesthetic and thought-provoking qualities‚ over its intriguing narrative. Also‚ much poetry is ‘open to interpretation’‚ where the reader can make his or her own – subjective – views on the poem and the

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