ART SUMMARY TERM 2 FRAMES Cultural This view is concerned with understanding how an artwork is influenced by the values of the society it is produced in‚ and‚ in turn‚ how the artwork influences the values of the society. This includes examining the historical and cultural context in which the work was made‚ and religious and/or philosophical beliefs‚ which may have influenced the work. Subjective This view is concerned with examining an artwork from a personal perspective. This might
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Introduction The paper aims to trace the development of painting through the following periods: baroque‚ neoclassicism‚ realism‚ impressionism‚ post-impressionism‚ cubism‚ geometric abstraction‚ and surrealism. They make up the history of painting and help to understand the stages of its development and why modern painting looks like it looks. Baroque: (1600 - 1750) Baroque was a characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century. Baroque
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Impressionist movement The impressionist movement was a powerful part of the art culture in the late 1800’s. The impressionist‚ as well as futurist‚ cubist and others wanted to break free from the representative nature of the previous artworks. Artists during this time felt that art was also capable of representing the human condition and offer a glance inside the obscure mind of the artist. The 1800th century was a great period in France’s art history. This was due in part because of the new
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Chapter 5 – Space VOCABULARY | DEFINITION ACCORDING TO CHAPTER FIVE | EXAMPLE : WORK OF ART THAT EXEMPLIFIES VOCABULARY WORD AND EXPLANATION OF HOW IT IS USED | OVERLAP | Overlapping images also create the illusion that one object is in front of the other in space. | Donald Sultan’s “Lemons” An image of three lemons overlapping in space‚ but it consists of a flat yellow shape on a black ground 8 feet square | NEGATIVE SPACE | Empty space‚ surrounded and shaped so that it acquires a sense
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INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN CULTURE Gas from a burner I. Influence on the work James Joyce is born on February 2nd‚ 1882 in Rathgar‚ a suburb of the South of Dublin‚ in a catholic family. The exuberant and unstable personality of his father‚ John Joyce‚ alternately medical student‚ champion of rowing‚ singer‚ comedian‚ politics fanatic‚ secretary‚ worker and tax inspector‚ big drinker‚ contrasts with her mother‚ Mary Jane Murray‚ especially worried to stay up her lodging house and
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The Nobel Prize is an annual international award. It is bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel‚ the inventor of dynamite‚ established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics‚ Chemistry‚ Physiology or Medicine‚ Literature‚ and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo‚ Norway‚ while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm‚ Sweden. The Nobel Prize
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NAME: ALICE SENAMNIMOH-APPEA CANDIDATE NUMBER: FINAL TOK ESSAY DRAFT QUESTION: “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Knowledge as a whole is the total information one has acquired. Passive observation is the process of observation that one is not experiencing the event. It is not as dynamic as active experimentation because one just perceives the event and not
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status. They pursued the same subject matter familiar to painting world such as landscapes‚ buildings and portraits and often added dreamy softness to images so that it was not taken as an objective factual record. Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) and Gustave Courbet (1819-77) were two painters who didn’t see photography as a threat to painting. They and others later‚ quickly embraced it as a means of referencing such details as facial expression‚ ephemeral light effects‚ and motion. Delacroix even wrote
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Why is the painting unique? George Seurat’s painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte" is a widely known painting in the era of impressionism with the technique known as pointilism. This painting is so unique because it is a painting that has taken so much time and careful thought to make. It was a long process for George Seurat to make this painting‚ two years. A painting make by moving your brush around is an easy painting‚ but George Seurat had to use dots to create his masterpiece
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Have you ever noticed that certain people act and behave differently when they are with crowds versus when they are alone? Being in a large crowd can really impact individual to act in a certain way that they seem to fit in with the group and sometimes do things more anonymous as it is in a large crowd. Both Zimbardo and Le Bon believe that bystanders are less responsible and more likely to commit violence than when people are alone. Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University;
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