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    While visiting the San Diego Museum of Art I chose to examine the artwork Portrait of a Lady‚ by Marie-Guillemine Benoist which was painted in 1799. The artist of this painting was a frequent salon contributer after the Paris Salon began to allow female artists to submit their own artwork. Benoist often paints portraits of varius people in the same fashion with oil on canvas. Portrayed in this artwork is a woman wrapped in a gold shawl with a soft and pleasant face. The woman grasping her gold shawl

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    What pieces of the film‚ Stress‚ “The portrait of a Killer‚” stood out most to you? The pieces of the film “Stress‚ The Portrait of a Killer‚” that stood out most to me is how Robert Sapolsky for almost 30 years‚ 80 hours a week been working on advancing our comprehension of stress. How he used baboon troops from east Africa to spell out how dominant baboons in our country especially the psychopaths in power‚ stresses us out mentally and physically with their bullying tactics‚ by ( testing their

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    Portrait photography is a type of photography where a person or a group of people express feelings‚ emotions and mood etc. In the photo‚ the main focus of the picture is to capture the persons face although background and the entire body may also be included. Portrait photography can entertain any age. □ UNITY: Unity is achieved by the use of balance and repetition‚ unity simply meaning that everything belongs together when compared by two separate things. □ BALANCE: Can be symmetrical

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    Every child becomes an adult—a boy to a man‚ a girl to a woman. In the novel‚ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‚ published in 1916 by an Irish writer‚ James Joyce illustrates the protagonist‚ Stephen Dedalus‚ and his journey to seek for identity. While the title of the novel insinuates that the protagonist is going to become an artist‚ the novel also portrays Stephen’s sense of isolation that comes from the ambiguity and bewilderment that he experiences with his family‚ society‚ and country.

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    Aboriginal Cave Painting

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    Indigenous Australians drew cave paintings as a religious symbol‚ and to feel the spirits in their sacred places. The practice of making artworks allowed tribes to pass on knowledge about their country and culture. The earliest forms of Indigenous art were paintings or engravings on boulders and on the walls of rock shelters and caves. There is evidence that Aborigines were painting on rock over 30 000 years ago. Aboriginal Australians drew about daily life‚ hunting and spirits. Images that are usually

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    Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja. While the painting is but one form‚ it remains the medium most people think of when asked to consider art. Paintings are an integral part of art history‚ and can take many forms. Whether it be a landscape or a historical scene‚ paintings serve as a window into the age in which they were painting‚ giving the modern viewer a glimpse into the intrepid world of the baroque period. Diego Velazquez provides us with such a glimpse with his Portrait of Juan de Pareja

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    Jan van Eyck was able to create a naturalism and religious feeling in his oil painting‚ which made him one of the most famous painters in fifteenth-century. The “Arnolfini Portrait” was painted in 1434 by van Eyck in the style of oil on panel. This piece has various interpretations because of the different objects and layout in the painting. In this painting there are two main figures of a man and women. “Images represent a man and woman standing in a richly furnished room‚ equipped with a brass

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    Herodotus Primary Sources

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    My primary source is Herodotus’ description of Egypt and the Egyptians. I found this primary source on our supplemental moodle page under the Egypt heading‚ as it was an assigned reading for us when we were discussing Egypt in class. This primary source comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Herodotus. He was born in 484 BCE‚ and lived to 425BCE. He is most known for his writing of the histories‚ which is a series of 6 books. The second‚ of whom we will be focusing on‚ goes into much detail about

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    The Self

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    Part 1: Summarize “The Self” by George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead begins his article by highlighting that self is not something we are born with but rather a process we develop through our experiences and interactions with our social surroundings. Mead adds that we create an incomplete self-image through what we can see with our eyes such as our hand and feet but reflects that we create a complete image of what we can see and can’t see through our social interactions. He mentions how social

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    Gourab Basak Roll No. 515207 TPI Painting and Sculpture Introduction Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art. The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of pre-historic times‚ the petroglyphs  found in places like Bhimbetka ‚ some of them from before 5500 BC. And also an imperative part of Indian art culture is dominated by sculptures in India. Indian sculptures started from bronze

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