Weaving Architecture & Nature Jessie Tang 1000079 Class 3 2013 ABSTRACT Landscape from its beginnings has a man-made connotation with associated cultural process values. The idea of having a landscape does not suggest anything natural at all. Yet there are instances of projects where the landscape itself suggests natural connotations as though there is no interface between nature (site) and culture (architecture). In Chichu Art Museum‚ Tadao Ando made a radical decision to create an underground
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INTRODUCTION Socialist realism‚ a slogan adopted by the Soviet cultural authorities in 1934 to summarize the requirements of Stalinist dogma in literature: the established techniques of 19th‐century realism were to be used to represent the struggle for socialism in a positive‚ optimistic light. Socialist realism had its roots in neoclassicism and the traditions of realism in Russian literature of the 19th century that described the life of simple people. Socialist realism held that successful
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Natural resource Natural resources (economically referred to as land or raw materials) are naturally forming substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A natural resource’s value rests in the amount and extractability of the material available and the demand for it. The latter is determined by its usefulness to production. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification
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Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants‚ invertebrates‚a or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources – roots‚ berries‚ bark‚ leaves‚ and wood — and other organic sources such as fungi and lichens. Archaeologists have found evidence of textile dyeing dating back to the Neolithic period. In China‚ dyeing with plants‚ barks and insects has been traced back more than 5‚000 years.[1] The essential process of dyeing changed little over time. Typically
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THE ARTS: The Interpretation of Painting and the Appreciation of Music VOCABULARY Ablaze | Brightly lit or brightly coloredStars ablaze with their own luminescence (soft shining light) | Adroit | Very skillful and quickly in the way you think or moveHe is an exceptionally adroit artist | Aesthetic | Related to the enjoyment or study of beautyTo perform an aesthetic function | Aftermath | The period of time after somethingAlthough Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life‚ the aftermath
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THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MEDICINE TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. Introduction 1 2. The Edwin Smith Papyrus 2 2.1 Authorship 3 3. The Ebers papyrus 3 4. Human anatomy and physiology 4 4.1 Head‚ heart and thoracic cavity 4 4.2 Limbs and Injuries 5 4.3 Disease‚ Illness and their remedies and cures 6 5. Medicine and Dispensing 7 6. Conclusion
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When you hear the name‚ Leonardo da Vinci‚ you immediately visualize "The Last Super" or "Mona Lisa"‚ or with Michelangelo Buonarroti‚ you may think about "David" and his work in the Sistine Chapel‚ in addition to Claude Monet’s impressionism‚ and Wyland’s seascapes that are displayed all over the world on the sides of buildings and walls. These are only a few out of many artists that have brought to life the beauty of landscapes‚ animals‚ people‚ and shapes. What strikes their interest? Where
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Compare and Contrast ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ with Parmigianino’s ‘Madonna of the Long Neck’ Benevuto Cellini’s statue of ‘Perseus holding the Head of Medusa’ (Figure 1) and Parmigianino’s painting ‘Madonna of the long neck’ (Figure 2) are both prime examples of Mannerist art. The Mannerists sought to weave a refined‚ idealized and graceful visual style with arcane‚ complicated iconography to create artworks of complexity and elegance. This essay will discuss hoe both artists differ
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grain and they thus traded with the Bantus especially the Kikuyu in exchange for soda‚ skins‚ beads and cowrie shell which the Maasai caravan carried. In other trade activities they would exchange hides‚ milk and butter for beans‚ millet‚ tobacco‚ red ochre‚ sugar cane‚ pots‚ calabashes and weapons. The Maasai controlled a number of trade routes so that traders wishing to cross their territory were forced to pay for the privilege. Men herded the cattle and the women milked them; the women were also
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Filipino-owned Figaro Coffee‚ while Starbucks remained the point of reference for many observations and descriptions. Description of selected venues Starbucks. Common to the Starbucks stores are the warm lighting‚ the jazz or chill out music‚ the ochre tables and big couches‚ and the familiar baristas in green aprons. The Katipunan branch draws a lot of students‚ flanked by Chiggy’s and National Book Store‚ very close to an overpass and right at the side of the road. All three mall branches are
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