Some theorists might categorize a stand-up comedian as a performance artist. A performance artist is someone who creates a type of art and displays it to an audience or group of people. A comedian is someone who puts on a humorous show and acts out funny things to make an audience act. Also‚ a comedian is doing their comedy for entertainment like another type of performance artist. The goal for the comedian is to give something back to the audience by making them life and entertaining them. I would
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My life is like a circus. Some days‚ I am a trapeze artist‚ who delights effortlessly‚ graceful and uncaring above the petty affairs of plebeian land-dwellers. On those days‚ I dream. I see beyond the obtrusive technicolor big top and into whatever skies I imagine loom above. As a trapeze artist‚ anything is possible because the future of a trapeze artist is a fluid‚ delicate thing--not a grand gesture on a solid stone foundation‚ but a floating gauze of wisp built on nothing but the wind. Soaring
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artist’s work means studying the elements that make up an artwork. You can show your understanding by answering questions about the work. The following headings and questions can help you to structure a piece of writing and understand a piece of artwork. Always remember to use your own words so that you are expressing what you think. Form This means looking at the formal elements of an artwork. What is the medium of the work? What colours does the artist use? Why? How is colour organised? What kind
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to the Renaissance style from Florence‚ Rome and Venice in the 1520’s. Unlike Renaissance artists to strove to make their art look as realistic as possible‚ mannerism artists broke away from this convention. Some of these key characteristics include abnormally elongated limbs‚ contorted bodies impossible poses and most importantly‚ artifice. Renaissance artists tried to disguise artifice where mannerism artists reveal imbalanced compositions‚ ambiguous space‚ departures from expected conventions and
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Kafka’s modernist short story “The Hunger Artist” follows the plight of a man who is simply referred to as the “Hunger Artist”; a man who is know for practicing the art of fasting for long periods of time. Throughout the story the hunger artist remains alone within his cage‚ completely cut off from the world that surrounds him. Although the hunger artist’s isolation and starvation appear to be self-imposed‚ it is ultimately revealed that the hunger artist was unable to find public‚ material‚ or
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The story of “A Hunger Artist” takes place in the early 1920’s and is about a young man who fasts not out of pleasure but because he wants to. He enjoys the fame that he gets from the fasting‚ but the people do not understand that he only fast because he cannot find a food that he likes. Foreshadowing is used on when the hunger artist says “they made him miserable; they made his fasting seem terribly difficult...” talking about those the guards who would give him a chance to sneak food. Symbols are
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Mineral Based Make-up Consumers have many choices when purchasing products‚ especially when it comes to make-up. Many make-up companies use chemicals when manufacturing their products. While these are traditional cosmetics‚ new manufacturing techniques have been introduced to make make-up better for the user. Many companies have turned to mineral based products in order to attract people with all skin types who want better‚ healthier results from their make-up. Mineral based make-up has been tested
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abstract painting. What’s more‚ it reflects that Pablo Picasso did not only think about how to create a painting‚ but also thought about how to paint with inspiration from life and nature. As an abstractionist‚ Picasso’s works are not accepted by some artists and critics. However‚ his originality and skill have been praised for a long time. Money always tells the value of one’s painting. According to Bruno Dillen‚ one of Picasso’s paintings named Garçon à la Pipe‚ “depicting a Parisian boy holding a pipe
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Norma Leticia Ayon English 1050 09 16 2013 Drive and Determination A Dream of mine has always been to graduate from college or university‚ I grew up in an economically challenged household in Mazatlan‚ Mexico. There were seven of us children‚ four girl and three girls. Growing up in Mexico‚ it was extremely difficult for me to understand the differences among the classes and where my family belong in the world. Popularity‚ status‚ and education levels where strongly based on how much money
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Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” was written in 1922. The short story is about a man who uses fasting (a form of art) as a sense of fulfillment to himself. The foods of life‚ were not to his liking. Furthermore‚ his form of fulfillment was the sight-seeing and interaction with the fans. Fans were amazed by him. His ability to starve himself inside a “…small barred cage”(Kafka 9) was intriguing to most; everybody wanted to see him at least once a day. The time and place of the short story
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