national character and identity. Through comparing the American landscape to the European landscape in different parts of nature such as mountains‚ forests‚ and water systems‚ Cole concludes that American national character is consisted of the primitivism and originality reflected in American wilderness‚ whereas the completely cultivated and civilized Europe lacks characters. Cole first compares American mountains to European mountains. He describes American mountains as "generally clothed
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Over the past few decades‚ our world has been facing massive changes caused by human activities. Humanity has advanced in technology and as a result we have lots of new utilities which we did not have fifty years ago. Such as‚ cellphones‚ computers‚ rapid transportation‚ advanced machines. As you can understand‚ these technological devices are in a voracious hunger of energy. People use those devices happily and comfortably at the same time count themselves lucky to have them. However‚ they rarely
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AlexBai Bai 1 Teacher Mr. Tierney AVI4M1-01 14 December 2014 Pablo Picasso Born in a poor family in southern Spain on October 25‚ 1881‚ Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His impressive artistic talent and inexhaustible inspiration made him a legendary figure in the 20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century‚ Pablo Picasso had done 37000
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William H Johnson was born march 18th of 1901 in Florence‚ South Carolina. To parents Henry Johnson and Alice Smoot‚ who were both laborers. Johnson realized his dreams of becoming an artist at a young age‚ copying cartoons from the paper as a child. However‚ as the oldest of the family’s five children‚ who lived in a poor‚ segregated town in the South‚ Johnson tucked away his aspirations of becoming an artist‚ deeming them unrealistic. But Johnson finally left South Carolina in 1918‚ at
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There is a feeling that proper sense of African history awaits a new generation which is to say‚ shifting away from primitivism. Stereotypical accounts of savagery are less likely to be foremost in minds of institutions and it is hoped that vivid sense of the true culture behind the making the artwork prevails. How the society lived is now sourced from research to Benin
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Demoiselles D’ Avignon Krystal Smith Art 101 September 3‚ 2012 Linda King Demoiselles D’ Avignon During the 20th century the art form “Primitivism” was just taking shape. Any artist that wanted to paint in this style would look for inspiration from sculptures and masks of African and Polynesian origin (Yahoo.com‚ 2007). Spain’s distance to Africa played a huge role on this art styles coming about. Paul Cezanne took this style and adapted it to his work. You could say that primitive art was
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What We Don’t Acknowledge about “The Thin Red Line” Jennifer Egan’s‚ “The Thin Red Line” argues between self-injures and body modifiers having an unknown difference. Getting a tattoo or a cut design is not the same as slashing one’s flesh. “One is a shared act of pride; the other a secretive act steeped in shame (162).” Mutilation is the act of self-injury that degrades the appearance of the body‚ and modification is the act of changing something‚ in this context‚ the body. With Egan’s segregation
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Romanticism The age of Romanticism is considered to be the most remarkable age in the history of English Literature within fifty years after the death of Dr. Johnson. English poetry was once again magnificently driven by the brilliant outburst of the imaginative genius. The rise of Romanticism needs to be seen in the context of the changes that marked the historical and philosophical aspects of the English social life. It must be noted that the period between 1776 and 1832 was one of the remarkable
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There is no universally accepted definition of art. Although commonly used to describe something of beauty‚ or a skill which produces an aesthetic result‚ there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture‚ and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example‚ how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas‚ hoping by this action to
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Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande & Senzala (1933) has been described as one of Brazil’s ‘founding fictions’. Discuss this concept paying particular attention to questions of race and to the impact of the book on Brazilian culture and society. When interpreting a work that is deemed a ‘founding fiction’‚ it is crucial to examine the social environments in which the given work was constructed as well as the author’s predecessors and external influences. When studying Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande & Senzala
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