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    All of history is narrated and illustrated through art. Certain artists stand out as revolutionaries in their mediums and in their time‚ using art to express their voice to the people. As society develops and evolves it can be easy to identify the creative thinkers that fueled the fires of progress. During the 1960s painter Alice Neel produced a body of work that not only analyzed those around her but also criticized the world she lived in. As a witness to art movements from Abstract Expressionism

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    Portrait de Paul Eluard (fig. 3) was painted in 1929 is also an oil on canvas. It can be found in the Dali Theatre and Museum‚ Figueres‚ Spain. The dimensions of Portrait de Paul Eluard (fig. 3) are 33 x 25 cm. The painting is of a man named Paul Eluard and is very abstract. The background is plain with a blue sky that fades from blue to white. The ground is a faded yet delicate brown. In the foreground there is much more detail. There is a portrait of Paul Eluard with a hand on his forehead. There

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    believe that I actually gonna take action shots. I had no confident and scared to mess up. However‚ my mentor was very calm and encouraging. She told me this is a good opportunity to do something different and still part of photography learning. Even though my subject is pet photography. So I agreed and tell myself that I can do it. She told me to have fun with it and don’t worry about how pictures will turn out. She also said is something that we do to have fun together. She give the camera when the game

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    identically titled Tufa Domes‚ Pyramid Lake‚ Nevada. The first (Fig. I) is a (recently) celebrated photograph made by Timothy O’Sullivan in 1868 that functions with special insistence within the art historical construction of nineteenth-century landscape photography. The second (Fig. 2) is a lithographic copy of the first‚

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    I stand amongst the inky darkness‚ my breath catches as I await in anticipation. My gaze falls into the rippling water beneath me as a magical phenomenon occurs. Silver halides awaken‚ stirring from a deep slumber. Moving as one‚ each crystalline structured compound recreates a single moment in time that will never re-occur. This moment embodies captivating beauty for it is unique and raw‚ its existence birthed directly from light itself. Before me‚ a white void morphs into a breathtaking juncture

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    understand the broad subject of The Triple Self-Portrait‚ a portrait that made it onto The Saturday Evening Post. They use a concrete concept which helps the readers to see the portrait mentally when seeing it physically may not be an option. Authors Rosen and Zerner give insight on every aspect of the portrait. They help readers to understand by taking the writing step-by-step with the claim of the portrait‚ the layout‚ content‚ and detail of the portrait. As the writing reaches its conclusive point

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    had grown an aversion to showing my face‚ I wasn’t as pretty as my friends. I felt overshadowed‚ so I stuck to the background‚ my face hidden behind a camera. It was this initial aversion to my face and body that had gotten me so engrossed into photography‚ and it was the effort that I poured into it that drew the attention of many when I finally published a portfolio. My success was strange to me. What came out of one summer had brought me a career and a lifetime’s work. I lived off the beauty of

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce‚ the main character‚ Stephen Dedalus has a life long desire to find a father figure. Not finding it within his own home he is forced to look out among the other men who play intricate roles in his life. Some of the men that Stephen looks to as father figures include; his dad‚ the dean of his school‚ the Jesuit priest of the retreat‚ his friend Cranly‚ and Daedelus of a Greek mythology. Again and

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    ‘A simple definition’ of language ‘might be that it is “a system of symbols and rules that enable us to communicate” and that ‘words‚ either written or spoken are symbols’ and ‘rules specify how words are ordered to form sentences’ (Harley‚ 2008‚ pg.5). However this can be debated and as a result ‘many linguists think that providing a formal definition of language is a waste of time’ (Harley‚ 2008‚ pg5). ‘There is no human society that does not have a fully developed language; being human and being

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    looking for nothing in particular. I stumbled across Marie Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman on page 326. For some reason I felt compelled towards the painting‚ I could almost see myself as the woman on the canvas. I did some follow-up research on the artist and the motive behind the art. The portrait was painted in 1800‚ by a woman who belonged to a small elite circle of professional women painters. The portrait was seen as a voice of protest during the debates of slavery and gender in the

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