LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTIST Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960 in Brooklyn‚ New York. His father‚ Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and his mother‚ Matilde Andradas was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. At an early age‚ Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw‚ paint‚ and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977‚ when he was 17‚ Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum
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My idol of the Renaissance period is the famous woman artist named Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born in Rome on July 8‚ 1593. Her father was a well-know Roman artist named Orazio Gentileschi and my mother was named Prudentia Monotone. She died when Artemisia was twelve. Most women artists in this post-Renaissance era were limited to portrait paintings and poses. She was the first woman to paint major historical and religious scenarios‚ such as her painting‚ Judith Beheading Holofernes‚ c.
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Once there lived a man who was gifted with the power of looking at the same object in many different fashions sometimes as a painter would look at it‚ sometimes as a naturalist‚ sometimes as a physicist‚ at other times as a poet and not one of those fashions was superficial (Valery. 1958). With all the technical advances from today‚ most artist and inventors are inspired by this man. Leonardo exemplified the resurgence‚ living‚ view‚ and producing art and technology that still characterizes that
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Was the Renaissance Reality or Myth? Renaissance is the period in history defined with the sudden change of history from medieval time to modernity. The renaissance is estimated to have occurred between 14th and 17th century. This time in history begun in Italy a place called Florence and spread to other places in Europe. The period is known as a time of drastic explosion of knowledge where the world underwent critical developmental stages. The period is known to be the link between modernity and
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dating back to the 1930s. Most recently‚ at the fifteenth general assembly in 2003‚ the WTO general council and the UN agreed to establish the WTO as a specialized agency of the UN. The significance of this collaboration‚ WTO Secretary-General Mr. Francesco Frangialli claimed‚ would lie in "the increased visibility it gives
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Padre Pio‚ whose real name was Francesco Forgione was born on May 25‚ 1887 in Pietralcina‚ a small town in southern Italy. Every since he was a child he has always showed love towards the religious life. It is said that at the age of 5 Padre Pio had already dedicated his life to God. He had an extreme love for prayer. At the age of sixteen he entered the Capuchin Friars’ which are a religious order in memory of St. Francis of Assisi. From the first time Padre Pio had entered into the Friary he was
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supporter‚ Cardinal Pamphili‚ whose administration he entered in 1687‚ with the violinist Fornari and cellist Lulier. A third arrangement of trio sonatas‚ a second gathering of twelve Church Sonatas‚ Opus 3‚ was issued in 1689‚ with a devotion to Francesco II of Modena‚ and a last arrangement of twelve Chamber Sonatas‚ Opus 4‚ was distributed in 1694 with a commitment to another supporter‚ Cardinal Ottoboni‚ the youthful nephew of Pope Alexander VIII‚ after Cardinal Pamphili’s evacuation in 1690 to
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Welcome to the Zhao-Wow Museum. Today I’ll be your docent. Feel free to ask questions along the way! Along with many other famous artists of the Renaissance. Leonardo Da Vinci was known greatly at the time. Da Vinci was born in Anchiano‚ Tuscany on April 15‚ 1452. Now Italy. His father was Ser Piero Da Vinci‚ a Florentine notary; which was a layer. His mother was Caterina Da Vinci‚ a slave from the Middle East. Not a lot‚ is known about his childhood. Only that he was a pupil to the Florentine painter;
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Compare and Contrast ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ with Parmigianino’s ‘Madonna of the Long Neck’ Benevuto Cellini’s statue of ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ (Figure 1) and Parmigianino’s painting ‘Madonna of the long neck’ (Figure 2) are both prime examples of Mannerist art. The Mannerists sought to weave a refined‚ idealized and graceful visual style with arcane‚ complicated iconography to create artworks of complexity and elegance. This essay will discuss hoe both artists differ
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I decided to go to the Cummer Museum for my visit. This is where I went for my museum visit for Humanities I and I liked it so much I wanted to go back again. I was interested to see any of the new art that has been added to its collection since my last visit. Also the museum just had its 50th anniversary and had an exhibit of art that was purchased for its anniversary. I was also interested in the traveling exhibit they had set up which was Impressionism and Post Impressionism from the High Museum
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