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    The Gulf Stream‚ is an oil painting created by Winslow Homer in 1899. This piece of artwork showcases a young‚ African American man with only pants on for clothing‚ that has a destroyed boat and is in the middle of the ocean with sharks beneath him with crashing waves that are tipping his boat closer into the ocean all while he sits on the boat just looking out into the ocean. This artwork also shows us the mental strength of mankind‚ the ability to remain calm and collected in horrendous situations

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    American symbols behind her which shows that she will be waiting for him to come back. Another painting that shows how women were expected to be is “Liberty in the Form of a Goddess of Youth Giving Support to the Bald Eagle”. She is giving life to the bald eagle by feeding him and crushing the British symbols with her foot. She is holding firm to her beliefs and feeding the bald eagle at the same time. Women

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    defined as an analysis of the form that the artist has produced. One is studying the art elements such as line‚ shape‚ color‚ texture‚ mass and composition; not the story. These elements make up the expression‚ content and meaning of the piece of work chosen. In this particular chosen piece of artwork‚ Ilya Repins’ painting‚ They Did Not Expect Him‚ depicting a story about the return of an exiled convict‚ there are numerous artistic elements and clues in the artists chosen form which convey meaning to

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    On painting Summary and Analysis The selection from Leon Battista Alberti’s On painting is mainly divided into 5 paragraphs numbered 25 through 29. Just as the title suggests‚ the text deals with the art of painting and its virtues. It talks about the benefits painting offers to the artist and why they are valuable‚ as well as showing the importance a work of art gives to the object being painted. While referring to many examples in history‚ Alberti also compares painting to the other “crafts”

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    manners and morals that shook American society to the depths." (Leuchtenburg) The 1920’s was an era in which the Americans showed their independence through actions; learning not to live the same ways that those preceded them had. The ’20s was a cultural and socialistic rebellious attitude‚ decomposing past American ethics and beliefs. The most obvious rebellion is shown by the feminine movements during this time. The 1920’s led to a new role for American women‚ in which females desperately tried to

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    This large painting by William Bouguereau depicts a scene from Dantes inferno. It is set on the banks of the river Styx which formed the boundary between earth and the under world. Dante is with Virgil who is his guide through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric‚ representing a gradual increase in wickedness‚ and culminating at the centre of the earth‚ where the devil himself is held in bondage. This painting depicts Dante in the fifth circle which represents Wrath and sullenness

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    A model of image creation and image transfer in event sponsorship Kevin Gwinner School of Business‚ East Carolina University‚ Greenville‚ North Carolina‚ U S A Introduction Due to the proliferation of leisure events in today’s society‚ the awareness and opportunity for corporate event sponsorship is at an all time high. Loosely defined‚ sponsorship “can be regarded as the provision of assistance either financial or in-kind to an activity [e.g.‚ sport‚ musical event‚ festival‚ fair‚ or within the

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    One of the most famous paintings from the American Revolution is a painting of our first president George Washington crossing the Delaware. The painting is accurately named‚ “Washington Crossing the Delaware‚” and is set during an extremely tense time in the American Revolution. The Americans and the British had been battling for freedom for many years now‚ and tensions were still rising. The American army under General George Washington were not doing so well and really need to win a battle to gain

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    Tower” I’m going to critique a two- dimensional piece of art. This is a painting called “Eiffel Tower” and the artist is Robert Delaunay. It is a French painting painted in 1924. The media is oil on canvas. It was a gift to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Meadows Foundation‚ Incorporated in 1981. This painting consists of mostly curved and diagonal lines. The curved lines appear in the upper left quadrant where it forms a circular park that is broken into four sections. The curved lines are

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    Kahlo’s own painting “The Broken Column” inspired this interpretation where she has painted a particularly distressing scene full of needles stinging with desertion and gaping cracks filled with despair. This scene is piercing and lacking in cheerful colors. The statuesque figure in the painting fills up a good portion of the space

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