Ancient cave paintings and modern day graffiti in the context of communication are comparable in various ways. "Works of art from the Stone Age include cave paintings‚ reliefs and sculpture of stone‚ ivory and bone. The subjects consist mainly of animals‚ although some abstract human figures have been found. There is no surviving architecture as such. Many Stone Age dwellings consisted of caves and rock shelters. Some impressive monuments such as Stonehenge exist‚ but their functions remain a mystery
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performing in cities‚ it was a time for people to congregate and listen to good beats and experience art happening before their own eyes. Herc would be performing and crowds would break out into dancing and spray-painting. Many such as Flash‚ did not understand or respect the correlation spray-painting had to the Hip Hop culture‚ but they were strategically tied to one another. Also‚ according to Flash‚ the dance style called break-dancing was “a way of expressing how the music sounds”. It was also a form
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Frida Out Of Control In "Don’t! The Secret Of Self-Control"‚ journalist Jonah Lehrer‚ recounts an experiment performed in the late nineteen-sixties by physiologist Walter Mischel. The experiment‚ which became known as the "The Marshmallow Test"‚ took place at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School‚ where Mischel and some of his graduate students presented children with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this marshmallow now‚ or wait fifteen minutes and get two. Many years later‚ Mischel
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used‚ as well as the historical context of the painting Marie-Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun‚ finished after 1783 . The painting can currently be found at National Gallery of Art. Washington DC. Vigée Le Brun skillfully used different elements of art and principles of design to create an informal‚ relatable painting of Marie Antoinette that strayed from the normal style that was used in portraits of French Nobles. This particular painting was created using a canvas as the ground‚ and
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Is This Painting Haunted? For centuries‚ it was believed that the painting of Lord Harold Von Coft III was haunted? Why? Well‚ the good lord was murdered in the Von Coft home by his wife‚ Helga Von Coft. Helga had wanted her husband’s fortune so she could run away with their three young sons and her lover‚ Mathias Everhart. She might have been a gold digger‚ but she did not count on her husband’s spirit returning the day she tried to take their sons out of the country. The painting - that had been
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The poem "Frida Kahlo Comes to Dinner" by Christine Strickland is a compelling poem strongly portraying the female character of Frida Kahlo‚ famous artist and writer. Strickland’s portrayal of Kahlo’s personality is reinforced through her successful use of language‚ imagery‚ personification and other literary techniques. Strickland manages both to display the flamboyancy of Kahlo’s presence while simultaneously provoking the reader’s sympathy for her. In the first few lines‚ Strickland has already
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El Greco’s paintings in the Chapel of San José de Toledo manifested an authenticity between the divine and the human. The altarpieces at the Chapel of Saint Joseph were one of El Greco’s most important commissions. This commission was an opportunity to demonstrate his considerable ability in executing the religious aspirations and taste of his patrons’. A well-known priest of the time‚ Dr. Martín Ramírez de Zayas decided to provide the family chapel with an ambitious decorative program‚ without hesitation
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NGatherers Research homework 1. Why do you think Paleolithic people may have created these paintings? To show what they see to other people in the best way they can. 2. What role might the paintings and engravings serve in Paleolithic society? It would play the role of informing as these paintings are very well done. 3. Select any three images that fit the purposes you consider the most likely explanation for their creation and identify specific aspects of those images that support
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A Response To: Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg & Post-Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg In this paper I will be summarizing two essays by Clement Greenberg‚ one entitled “Modernist Painting” and the other “Post-Painterly Abstraction.” After summarizing the articles I will discuss and respond to them. In the first reading “Modernist Painting” Greenberg describes Modernism as being a method in which a discipline is used to criticize the discipline itself‚ for instance
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Katelin DeSieno April 16‚ 2013 Art 101 B01 Compare & Contrast Essay In this essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first is “Grainstack (Sunset)” painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light
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