iniBruce Stillman I researched a very talented man named Bruce Stillman‚ Bruce began sculpting his junior year in high school. His high school art teacher recalls‚ “He was always evolving‚ constantly exploring new ideas. I simply lit the fuse and Bruce went off to create one concept after another. He was introduced to stainless steel through a friend dealing in scrap metal and liked the balancing characteristics and luster of the metal for his rocking sculpture designs. His early pieces were
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I have chosen “The Third of May 1808” by Francisco Goya‚ this painting was a big movement in art history it demonstrated the horrors of war. It was innovative because it was one of the first paintings of war. It showed a first person view of the horrific views that civilians had to witness during war. In 1808‚ Napoleon Bonaparte was conquering Europe. By March of that year‚ Madrid was occupied by French forces‚ and the Spanish monarchy had collapsed. On May 2‚ the people of Madrid rebelled against
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The two artists‚ Picasso and Velazquez‚ both painted a painting called Las Meninas. They have some similarities and differences‚ but each artists were portraying something different. Also every painter has a motivation. They can be the same motivation or another motivation for an artwork. In Velazquez’s artwork‚ he was portraying the attendants doing hard work for the little princess. There were many more attendants in the painting than anyone else. Also he uses realism to show the real life of
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Summary of the Lecture “Cubism as Fashion Art” The lecture focuses on a controversy associated with cubism: Is it “skillful art” or “fashion art”? 1.All art movements begin as new ideas represented as clearly as possible; novelty is a key element in art. - Great art must also be skillful; otherwise it is just an invention‚ like a new machine. - Good art has always been a balance of skill and novelty. 2.Fashion art is a new idea. - Artists create it because they want something
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Going up in Smoke: Terrorist Financing and Contraband Cigarettes A strange bond exists between smokers‚ contraband operators‚ and terrorists around the world‚ as ‚ contraband cigarettes indirectly fund terrorist activities. By Antonio L. Rappa For The Straits Times In the year 2000‚ United States authorities caught two Lebanese brothers for running a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation‚ moving low-tax cigarettes from North Carolina to high-tax Michigan. It was a major coup for the Bureau
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Art throughout the many years that it has existed has been seen in many different ways‚ shapes and forms‚ whether it is a painting from the renaissance area or a sculpture from the modern era. Even some of the technologies and sports are considered pieces of “Art” although under the pop culture category‚ still a part of the art family. In the 1930’s there wasn’t anything like what we get to experience with social media and all the technology there is now. In fact the 1930’s was a part of the great
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Art allow people to send awareness of problems that have been easily rejected by justice. The second art Museum that I attended this semester was the National Museum of Mexican art. I was very excited to attend this museum because after seeing the Art Institute for the first time I felt in love with art. When I arrive at the museum I enter the first exhibit as my friend and I were talking around the corner one beautiful painting caught my attention. The name of the art piece was Los Sueños Rotos
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Andrew Leventis’ Melancholia (Figure 1) offers a point of view of a person pouring what looks like Bourbon or Whisky. Painted with oil on linen last year‚ there is a fuzziness and texture that wouldn’t be possible with a standard canvas. What seems to be a simple action takes a complete different approach with this rendering due to a use of minutia and perspective quite different than what we are likely to see in terms of painting this everyday action. This disorientation in terms of viewpoint and
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Amira Baloney Professor Eugene First Year Writing Collage 14 October 2015 Abstract–the kitchen stove is a Cubist collage by Australian artist Eric Wilson painted in 1943. Even though it was produced roughly thirty years after the Cubist collage movement‚ it is still constructed in the way that presents it as if it was created during that time period. Abstract is presented in the form of a Synthetic Cubism piece where images are built up from outside elements and shapes. Wilson uses shapes and colors
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Introduction This paper will analyze how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be seen as direct results of inspiration originated from probably the most recognized work painted by Paul Cézanne’s‚ “The Large Bathers”. Analysis The Large Bathers [1] This painting was created by Paul Cézannes and exhibited in 1906 for the first time after Paul Cézannes death. It is considered a masterpiece of modern times furthermore and despite of similar
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