everything. Every piece of art has meaning‚ and that meaning is different for every observer and open for interpretation. That is what makes art beautiful‚ not by the appearance but by the message and purpose of the creation. With the opportunity to search for two amazing pieces of art‚ I will be providing my own take and analysis on the pieces I find. The first piece‚ “Cat Washing” by John Olt depicts the daily routine of a typical housecat‚ and what really brought my attention to this piece was the simplicity
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Mendelssohn and his brother and sisters were given piano lessons by their mother. A year later he was then under the teachings of Carl Friedrich Zelter another German composer. In 1818 at around the age of 9 Mendelssohn began to perform in public playing pieces of music from composers Joseph Wolfl‚ Jan Ladislav Dussek‚ and Johann Bach. Mendelssohn’s biggest inspiration was from George Handel‚ Joseph Hayden‚ Wolfgang Mozart‚ but his biggest and probably his favorite composer was Johann composer. Even though
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casual clothing but with a button up shirt. The four pieces that caught my interest the most were Preludio Tristano by Màximo Diego Pujol‚ Danza Brasileira by Jorge Morel‚ Asturias by Isaac Albèniz‚ and El Garañon which is a traditional Nicaraguan folk song. These four pieces have different styles that they are played with most likely connected to the different exposures of music that the artist of the pieces have experienced in their life. Pujol’s piece Preludio Tristano has a tango style to the piece
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Mother and Child sculpture was made between the 15th and 20th century. The culture of this piece of art that is made out of wood represents Bamana people. This wooden sculpture of a mother and a child on her lap represents a male companion and related attendant figures. As I look as this piece of art I see that a woman is wearing a “hat” of some sort that could represent her culture. This artist used a smooth texture on the surface of this wooden sculpture. Some parts look a little rough‚ but that
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Frontal System is an art piece located in Spartanburg‚ South Carolina at Spartanburg Art Gallery. This piece of art was created by Shona Macdonald in 2014‚ which appears to be around 66 x 90" dimension wise and is constructed with recycled envelopes‚ archival glue and ink. She has been practicing this type of art since 1998 and has been a decade since her last created ‘envelope innards’ artwork. Using simple techniques Shona Macdonald has created an incredibly attractive piece with only one type of
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orchestras performed a variety of fascinating pieces. The orchestras began the concert with “Holiday Dances by Mark Williams". The next piece that the orchestras performed was “Saint Nick’s Canon on the Housetop” arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle. The last piece that the AHS Philharmonia and Sinfonietta orchestras performed was “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” arranged by Lloyd Conley. In the first piece‚ Holiday Dances‚ Mark Williams composed starts the piece in the key of C major with a catchy intro
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major or D minor‚ the piece is modal‚ switching between various modes based on D and Db. Measures one through four use D Aeolian‚ which is why one may think the piece is in D minor at first glace‚ but the lack of a leading tone suggests Aeolian. At measure five‚ the piece modulates into D Dorian‚ and lasts until measure eight. At this point‚ Debussy starts incorporating F#‚ C#‚ and G# while switching between Bb and B natural. At measure ten‚ Debussy adds more accidentals to the piece (Db‚ Cb‚ Ab‚ and
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Monet. Both painting are oil canvas‚ Water Lilies is one of 250 water lilies paintings done by Monet. Both paintings are examples of art pieces that play an important role in art history. I was able to personally see each painting at the St. Louis Art Museum on October 9‚ 2010. The Museum was beautiful; the rooms seemed to have art pieces organized
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There were music pieces (selected movements) by Ludwig Beethoven‚ Robert Schumann‚ Johannes Brahms‚ Sergei Prokofiev‚ and‚ Claude Debussy. Current students from the IUSB Music department were the ones playing the piano. Each one had a strong ability with the piano‚ which delivered the music in an amazing way with great combinations of rhythm and the different scales of major and minor. All pieces varied with time range based on the movements‚ as some were
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order to show how the work can be understood on the foreground‚ middle ground and background levels. In order to this‚ I have taken away unnecessary notes‚ such as the neighbour and passing notes‚ to leave the score as a basic four part chorale-like piece with two chords to a bar‚ following the harmonies. I began the reduction by taking the G minor arpeggio in bar 1 and taking away the Bb‚ and top G in the bass to leave the bass part with a G and a D‚ a fifth apart. I took the top note in the first
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