Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born on May 11‚ 1904 in a small town called Figueres in Spain near the Pyrenees Mountains. This town was also near the French border in the principality of Catalonia. Dali was from a rich family and his parents built his first studio for him when he was only a young boy. He spent his summers in Cadaques where his studio was and he lived most of his adult life in an extraordinary villa near Port Lligat. When Dali was just a young man when he went to the Royal
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WESTERN GAZE FINAL DRAFT 2 HOW FAR HAS THE WEST INFLUENCED THE CONTEMPORY CHINESE ARTISTS Wang Qingsong‚ Zeng Fanzhi‚ Shi Xinning‚ and Zhang Xiaogang? “Why do I say China has no contempory Art? Because none of China’s C art comes from China’s history or culture. It just follows the Western conception of what Chinese contempory art should be like” Lu Lib PART 1: INTRODUCTION I am interested in contemporary art in China because I live in Hong Kong‚ and have witnessed huge changes in China
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Leonardo da Vinci Early life: Leonardo was born on April 15‚ 1452‚ in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci‚ in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci‚ a Florentine notary was his father‚ and Catherina‚ a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East was his mother. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense‚ "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son
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French Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the late 19th C. ©Werner Hammerstingl‚1998‚1999 Before the emergence of Impressionism we can see a major political and social transition in central Europe which has demonstrable artistic and literary consequences. The major aspects of this change include: The 19C industrial expansion which took away opportunities of individual farming and craft practice and replaced them with paid labour in factories. Governments across Europe are exploring
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RESEARCH HUMANITIES FINAL PAPER -1789-1887 Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romanticism‚ first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800 The early Romantic period thus coincides with
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France‚ and Germany for extended periods. 6During this period‚ she was exposed to some of the finest art of the time. When attending the Paris World Fair of 1855‚ she had the privilege to view many French artists’ work; such as Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres‚ Eugene Delacroix‚ Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot‚ Gustave Courbet‚ Edgar Degas‚ and Camille Pissarro. Two of these artists‚ Degas and Pissarro‚ would later become her colleagues‚ friends‚ and mentors.7 During her childhood travels‚ she would receive
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DATABASE A database is a collection of data organized to meet users’ needs. Why This Matters Without data and the ability to process it‚ an organization would not be able to successfully engage in business activities‚ nor would it be able to generate reports to support knowledgeable workers and decision makers which in turn help’s to achieve organizational goals; it would not be able to pay employees‚ send out bills‚ and order new inventory. Databases have made it possible to map the structure
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Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 Pictori philosopho (Blunt‚ 3)‚ "Painter-philosopher" was a name given to Nicolas Poussin by Serous d’ Agincourt in 1782. Agincourt later found out that the name Pictori philosopho had already been given to the German artist Anton Raphael Mengas. Nicolas Poussin was born in 1594 in the town of Les Andelys on the Seine. He came from a nobel family that was ruined by religious wars according to Giovanni Pietro Bellori. No actual proof of this has been established his
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Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution‚[1] it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.[2] It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music
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Final Paper William Kidwell ART101: Art Appreciation Instructor: Patricia Venecia-Tobin October 8‚ 2012 Evaluate Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon. How did this work reshape the art of the early 20th century? Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a wonderful piece of art‚ and the style in which the picture is painted is very typical of Picasso. The artist completed the picture in the beginning of the previous century‚ in 1907‚ and used oil on
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