EN3263 Assignment 1 Produce an analysis of any ONE of these short stories that argues for its ongoing relevance to a contemporary reader in Singapore. Cultural identity in Our Trusty and Well-Beloved‚ and its relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore This essay wishes to argue how Clifford’s Our Trusty and Well-Beloved still carries a vital relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore today‚ through the problematization of a fixed cultural identity. This is brought out by Clifford’s
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FILIPINO SCULPTURE Abdulmari Asia Imao‚ a native of Sulu‚ is a sculptor‚ painter‚ photographer‚ ceramist‚ documentary film maker‚ cultural researcher‚ writer‚ and articulator of Philippine Muslim art and culture. Through his works‚ the indigenous ukkil‚ sarimanok and naga motifs have been popularized and instilled in the consciousness of the Filipino nation and other peoples as original Filipino creations. His U.P. art education introduced him to Filipino masters like Guillermo Tolentino and Napoleon
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‘Contemporary music has no artistic value.’ Is this a fair comment? (2008) An oft heard criticism of contemporary music today is that they are more “noise” than “music”. Be it hip-hop‚ rock‚ heavy metal‚ Rhythm-and-Blues (R&B) or any of its likes‚ cultural snobs have dismissed them as unworthy in comparison to the classical music from masters like Beethoven‚ Bach‚ or Strauss. These critics often see contemporary music having no artistic value as these music genres are often considered to be outside
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Sculpture is one of the few pieces of art that engages our senses differently than with any other type of art. This is because sculpture occupies spaces a three-dimensional mass‚ compared to paintings that occupy two-dimensional spaces. Paintings and other two- dimensional artwork can suggest density‚ but sculpture is dense. We fully apprehend sculpture by using no only the visual and tactile senses‚ but also the weight and volume behind those surfaces. However‚ Sculpture is not experienced only
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[pic] BONIFACIO MONUMENT Filipino sculptors came to be known in the middle of the 19th century. Classical Philippine sculpture reached its peak in the works of Guillermo Tolentino (1890-1976). His best known masterpiece is the Bonifacio Monument‚ which is a group sculpture composed of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk. The principal figure is Andres Bonifacio‚ leader of the revolution against Spain in 1896. Behind him stands Emilio Jacinto‚ the brains of the Katipunan. The Bonifacio
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Greek Sculpture Greek Sculpture evolved and transformed throughout the ancient civilization through nearly nine hundred years and three major historical periods. Over the lengthy time that the Greeks prospered‚ many artists and sculptors worked to perfect the arts that they labored on. They started from the ground up and their art continuously developed from the feet‚ eventually up to the head where the sculpture was perfected. Each period‚ from the Geometric to the Hellenistic had significant
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1. Parthenon Sculpture The Parthenon‚ or the Temple of Athena Perthenos‚ sits at the top of the Acropolis in Greece‚ dating 447-438 BCE‚ and can be viewed as an ideal Greek temple in the Doric design. Designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates‚ the proportions of the temple are considered perfect‚ and the Parthenon was decorated more extravagantly than any other Greek temple (Gardner‚ 70)‚ adorned with sculpture and friezes along both pediments‚ and all 92 Doric metopes‚ presenting many classic elements
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of Classical Sculpture." Oracle ThinkQuest. La Cholla High School Library‚ n.d. Web. 20 Oct 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/data/history.htm>. . "All About Ancient Roman Sculpture: Materials‚ Styles And Artists ." Essortment. Demand Media‚ n.d. Web. 21 Nov 2012. <http://www.essortment.com/ancient-roman-sculpture-materials-styles-artists-51709.html>. . "Art." Ancient Greece. University Pree‚ n.d. Web. 21 Nov 2012. <http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Sculpture/>. Roman
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KINETIC SCULPTURE EVALUATION Ekin Kara KINETIC SCULPTURE EVALUATION TESTS TEST 1 Movement Test Procedure Blow Dryer‚Wind‚ Blowing‚ Touching‚ Fan Outcome When I used blow dryer‚ the only vane that turned was the one that was right in front of the blow dryer even though I increased the volume. But I think it happened because the blow dryer only focuses on one point so it doesn’t effect the other vanes. When I used the power of wind‚ I realized that the result was so much
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born September 20th‚ 1941 who is known for his glass sculptures. One of his most well known pieces is the blue and green glass sculpture hanging in the front entrance of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (figure 1). His work has included over 200 museum collections worldwide‚ and I visited his exhibition in the Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street in London on the 23rd of January 2012. The entire exhibition was made up of glass sculptures fitting into several different genres created by the
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