Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia. She is an artist that is best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. Stadia II is a compilation of Stadia I and Stadia III. Mehretu created Stadia II in 2004 using mediums of ink and acrylic on canvas. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art from Constructivism to Futurism‚ posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction. Most of the lines she draws are curved or
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Advertising Statements USP (Unique Selling Proposition) Rosser Reeves was the one who invented the term “USP”. The Unique selling proposition is sometimes referred to as “product difference.” In rare cases‚ some products or services have a unique and impressive proposition/benefit. A unique selling proposition is the ultimate proposition because its one that no other competitor can claim. It has to be something that you could also sell from. The concept of a unique selling proposition‚ or USP
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Punk rock‚ cartoon-like and text heavy are some common descriptors of cotemporary artist Raymond Pettibon’s work. His work throughout the last twenty five years is a compilation of image and text that has been influenced by previous artists and influences many newer artists as well. The artist known as Raymond Pettibon was born Raymond Ginn in Tucson‚ Arizona in 1957 the fourth of five children. He got the nickname Pettibon from his father a child and then changed it as an adult. He earned a
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almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country‚ i.e.‚ against the environment in which God hath placed him‚ as it is to assume that his country is against the artist” (H.L. Mencken). It is safe to say that Mencken’s assumption on the artist against the environment is spot on. Artists are different than everyone else. Artists understand other artists. Normal people do not seem to understand artists. I consider myself to be an artist. I am nothing like my friends
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Alfred Sisley was born on October 30th 1839 in Paris‚ France. Sisley was a landscape impressionist artist. Sisley’s original works when he was a student are all lost however his earliest recorded painting; Lane near a Small Town‚ is thought to be painted around 1864. Some of Sisley’s most famous works are Street in Moret & Sand Heaps. Another one of his paintings The Lane of Poplars at Moret was stolen 3 times once in 1978‚ again in august of 2007 and another time on the 4th of June is 2008. In 2008
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form of rebelling against authority that previous generations manifested in smoking‚ getting tattoos‚ and wearing mini-skirts. TOPIC: female musicians BAD: Female musicians are getting more popular. BETTER: During the past five years‚ musical artists like Sheryl Crow‚ Alanis Morisette‚ and Jewel have solidified a place for women’s music on the top ten charts. TOPIC: news coverage of military action BAD: News coverage of military actions undermines their seriousness. BETTER: By featuring highlights
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Critical Analysis A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by writer James Joyce. The book follows the development of Stephan Dedalus‚ from his childhood to his adolescence. Stephan struggles with issues of identity and the role that he plays within his fervently religious and nationalistic society. The book is written in the third person; the narrator recounts Stephan’s thoughts and feelings‚ and describes events from Stephan’s
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Truly successful author’s have the ability to convey their point without actually saying it to portray a certain situation by describing it in various ways. In the excerpt of the novel “A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of diction‚ imagery‚ and syntax‚ Joyce explains the development of the protagonist’s stream of consciousness. In the beginning of the second section of the passage‚ Joyce selects the most
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believed in so that no one could make me feel inferior and I could be as strong and as fearless as her. My older sister probably had the second greatest impact on me. My sister was always smart. She was so smart that she ended up taking Full AP and IB classes and was in the top 5 percent in her high school. She was also my best friend in my whole life. My friends are all very different from me and never really had the same interests as me. My sister was into all the same
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Kafka’s "A Hunger Artist‚" the author speaks about his method of writing; his affliction that mirrors that of a person who fasts. Throughout his prose‚ he tells the story of a man who-- while others in his time flaunt their skills in living and in cheating death-- has mastered the art of dying. In his own time‚ Kafka was never famous for his writing. In 1922‚ around the time he retired from a Czechoslovakia insurance company for which he was a lawyer‚ he wrote "A Hunger Artist." He had been diagnosed
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