Chinese Calligraphy Chinese calligraphy (Brush calligraphy) is an art unique to Asian cultures. Shu (calligraphy)‚ Hua (painting)‚ Qin (a string musical instrument)‚ and Qi (a strategic boardgame) are the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati. Regarded as the most abstract and sublime form of art in Chinese culture‚ "Shu Fa" (calligraphy) is often thought to be most revealing of one’s personality. During the imperial era‚ calligraphy was used as an important criterion for
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Clement Greenberg‚ “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”‚ Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting‚ particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that‚ the same way Kant used reason in order to examine the limits of reason‚ Modernist art is when art became self critical because
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activity. I enjoy activities that let out creativity and your artistic side and I wanted to participate in an activity called Paint Nite with my sister. It is a session where you choose/ sign up for a painting that you like and an instructor provides a step by step lesson on how to reciprocate the painting using the proper techniques. Unfortunately‚ I encountered some constraints when signing up for this paint lesson. Leisure constraints are obstacles or barriers that may prevent an individual from taking
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Andrew Jackson AJ Nunn 2A 11/24/12 Born March 15 1767 somewhere between north and South Carolina border‚ and died June 8 1845; Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He ran from 1829-1837 in Memphis‚ Tennessee; his VP was John C. Calhoun. Jackson received a sporadic education in the local "old-field" school. In 1781‚ he worked in a saddle-maker ’s shop. Later‚ he taught school and studied law in Salisbury‚ North Carolina. In 1787‚ he was admitted to the bar‚ and moved to Jonesborough
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The rococo style became exceptionally fashionable in the early eighteenth-century court world following the reign of Louis XIV. Rococo comes from the French word rocaille‚ which refers to rock and shell garden ornamentation. Rococo art‚ an evolution of the baroque style‚ pays significant attention to the sensual curves and soft-hued colors of garden-like elements inspired by flowers‚ vines‚ and shells. The bourgeoisie in the eighteenth-century increasingly favored these more delicate patterns of
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I have never seen The Matrix. It never really appealed to me. I’ve heard about it‚ but when my friends tried to explain the movie to me‚ I became really confused. In chapter three of Henry Jenkins’s book‚ Convergence Culture‚ Jenkins uses The Matrix movie to define transmedia storytelling and calculate its rise in America media culture. Immediately Jenkins classifies The Matrix as a cult file‚ which plays an important role in making The Matrix a transmedia film. Jenkins cites the two important characteristics
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Andrew Jackson was born to Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson‚ Scots-Irish colonists who emigrated from Ireland in 17651‚ March 15‚ 1767‚ in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner‚ he became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Known as the "people ’s president‚" Jackson destroyed the National Bank‚ founded the Democratic Party
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these characteristics was Andrew Jackson. Jackson was a strong‚ aggressive political leader‚ who worked his way into office and overcame many obstacles during his presidency. He first joined the military at an early
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eighteenth century‚ the Rococo style of art was an artistic revolution‚ spreads through the Europe with hopes and dream from the emerging middle class. This Rocco art style showed elegant and beautifully‚ with the scenes of classic love stories and fantastical dreams of romance. Fragonard‘s the oil painting‚ "The Swing" has created in 1766. It is located in the Wallace Collection‚ London‚ United Kingdom. The image has shown as a major masterpiece of the Rococo style. The painting‚ "The Swing" was originally
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STYLE OF ARTS a. Expressionism - In Expressionist Art‚ the artist tries to express certain feelings about something. The artists that painted in this style were more concerned with having their paintings express a feeling than in making the painting look exactly like what they were painting. b. Impressionism - Impressionism was developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These pieces of art were painted as if someone just took a quick look at the subject of the painting
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