Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor‚ photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects‚ to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. The son of F. Allan Goldsworthy (1929–2001)‚ former professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds‚ Andy Goldsworthy was born on 26 July 1956 in Cheshire]
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In the 1940’s while playing in a hidden cave in Lascaux‚ France‚ many children found a remarkable painting on the wall. After telling about their findings‚ researches and explorers visited the cave and it was then they saw the “Chinese Horse”. The art got its name because it resembled the ceramic horses of the Han Dynasty in China. Although the reasoning for the painting is unknown‚ they research has shown that several paintings in this era included plants and animals. It was not the only painting
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Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (21 February 1855 - 13 March 1913) was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century‚ and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal‚ Marcelo del Pilar‚ Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena‚ although he neither involved himself directly in that movement‚ nor later associate himself with the First
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Thomas Jefferson was an eminent inventor in the eighteenth century and his involvement as an inventor is very distinctive. Since Jefferson grew up in a family of farmers‚ he was strongly inquisitive in farming so he wanted to invent something that would make it easier. He invented an iron plow that dug deeper and averted soil erosion. To produce more of the same product he used mathematical procedures and marked outlines. There is a lot of controversy whether or not Jefferson invented the popular
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David Hume is a renowned Philosopher that has shaped the ideas of cause and effect (causality) as we know them today. He suggested that true cause and effect relationship has to be the result of A causing B. The occurrence of B happening is contingent on the fact that A occurs before B‚ thus causing B to happen. Since he holds that this is the only rational way to conclude that one thing causes another to happen‚ he goes as far as to say that human beings will never know the exact cause that takes
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Auguste Comte Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)‚ better known as Auguste Comte‚ was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte’s father‚ Louis‚ a government tax official‚ and his mother‚ Rosalie (Boyer) Comte‚ were both monarchists and devout Roman Catholics. While attending the University
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Akhenaton was the first pharaoh to introduce the concept of monotheism‚ the worshipping of only one god‚ as opposed to polytheism‚ the worshipping of many gods. The people of Egypt had usually depicted gods in either animal or human form in their paintings and sculptures in order to help give them a physical form that they could worship. However‚ under Akhenaton’s new ideas‚ the only god was Aton‚ which was represented with the form of a sun disk. Artwork also changed in sync with this change in
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Are famous people treated unfairly by the media? Should they be given more privacy‚ or is the price of their fame an invasion into their private lives? The question of unfair treatment of famous people by the media is one that cannot be easily answered without a close examination of all that is involved. Fame is a state of being well known either by one’s personality or a result of one’s accomplishments and cannot happen without the media. The media makes people famous. The world is now in an
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have been quite a number of famous artists in this world‚ and you would be hard-pressed to come to a conclusion about which one is better than the other. While you might prefer one’s work over another‚ it’s difficult to argue with the near eternal stranglehold that these painters have on the artistic world. With so many paintings that have been created over time‚ which ones are the best? Below you’ll find five of only the most famous paintings in the world. II. Famous Paintings 1. The Scream
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When I think of the word “Famous”‚ there’s two things that pop into my head‚ and what they mean to me. The first thing is a person‚ who is good and something or has a special talent. The other thing that comes to mind when the word “Famous” is used is someone who has fans and fortune. The word “Famous” in Merriam Webster defines “Famous” as “ : known or recognized by very many people : having fame”. Something that I would say that I am recognized by very many people for‚ would be my birth defect
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