spectrum of design. These include balance‚ order and proportion‚ and pattern and rhythm. With all these formal elements at hand‚ an artist can use them to their advantage to evoke certain responses in viewers. For example‚ if one were to describe Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting Oath of the Horatii‚ using formalism one would to be able to say that David uses the linearity of the Roman arches in the background to separate the foreground into three individual areas and create visual stability
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because theoretically Utopian societies are impossible‚ so trying to come up plausible societies in which everything is perfect presents a kind of challenge for them. Of the many philosophers that have given their two cents on the matter‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx’s are two of the more interesting ones. In Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality‚ he writes about this idea of man in the state of nature‚ and how that the primitive state of man would actually be the ideal form of society. In
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A Point of View: Sex and the French Continue reading the main story Good sport‚ bad sport The driverless car (Adam Gopnik) See no evil (John Gray) The perils of belief (JG) Press reports about the French president’s complicated love life highlight the difference between Anglo-Saxon and Gallic attitudes towards sex‚ adultery‚ but above all appetite‚ writes Adam Gopnik. Whenever a French man of state has sex with someone not his wife‚ people call me up and ask why he did it. When I say people
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Death of two beliefs The first work of art to I chose was from the Baroque period and it is titled‚ The Crucifixion of St Peter and its artist is Caravaggio. The second painting I focused on was‚ Death of Socrates‚ by Jacques-Louis David. These two works of Art can be compared because of their common theme of death. With death as a common theme‚ each artist still portrays different views and emotions that are associated with death. Both Artists’ portrayed an important figure in history standing up
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John Locke is among the most famous and important political people who think a lot about how people think of the modern period. In the Two Written works of Government‚ he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a national ruler. He argued that people have rights‚ such as the right to life‚ freedom‚ and property‚ that have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular community of people. Locke used the claim
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Deconstruction Deconstruction is the name of a method of critique developed by Jacques Derrida (1930-2006)‚ a French philosopher whose writing is central to the emergence of the post- Structuralim. In 1967‚ he published three books that effectively put an end to structuralism and launched a new era in French intellectual life. The books were Writing and Difference‚a collection of essays on philosophy and literature Of Grammatology‚which includes writings on Claude Levi Strauss‚ Saussure and
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always focused on the possibilities and conceptual properties of black. unconventional and provocative apparel that is often distressed and deconstructed. specialises in anti-fashion‚ austere‚ sometimes deconstructed garments. During the 1980s‚ her garments were primarily in black‚ dark grey or white‚ and the materials were often draped around the body and featured frayed‚ unfinished edges along with holes and a general asymmetrical shape. journalists labeled her clothes ‘Hiroshima chic’ amongst
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good or primarily bad. Philosophers like Thomas Hobbes‚ who wrote the book titled Leviathan‚ where Hobbes (1651) argued that human life was solitary‚ poor‚ nasty‚ brutish‚ and short‚ in short Hobbes said human nature is basically a bad one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau also contributed to the debate through his book The Social Contract‚ Rousseau (1762) raises the argument that Man is a noble savage; Rousseau declared that Man is basically good. John Locke also had something to say about the nature of Man
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question of evil’s origins. Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said‚ "Our greatest evils come from ourselves‚" (Notes) yet he also said that "we are all good by nature but corrupted by society"(Notes). Sigmund Freud believed that "the moral self was ones conscious and the evil self was ones unconscious"(Freud). Fred Alford believed that both good and evil are "essential components of out nature"(Alford). As is stated‚ some philosophers believe that
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to create a unique insight into the play and its events. Shakespeare integrates a speech act by Jacques to deliver a deeper meaning and lesson to the audience or reader of the work. Jacques in his speech act conveys a message with a much deeper meaning and teaching to society in general. The speech act rendered by Jacques addresses the themes of satire‚ philosophy‚ and the ages of man. Jacques starts his speech act by stating that " All the world’s a stage‚ And all the men and women merely
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