early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso‚ and later joined by Juan Gris‚ Jean Metzinger‚ Albert Gleizes‚ Robert Delaunay‚ Henri Le Fauconnier‚ and Fernand Léger‚[1] that revolutionized European painting and sculpture‚ and inspired related movements in music‚ literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre
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The Playboy of the Western World gains its title from the scene in which Christy can’t be beaten in play at any of the village sports‚ hence he becomes the "playboy." The phrase "of the Western World" leads the way into Synge’s theme of Irish mythmaking‚ then still especially noticeable in unsophisticated peasant groups. With the inclusion of this phrase‚ the myth of the playboy encompasses the whole world. Mythmaking deviates from reality‚ as is made clear by the stretch of the title: Irish village
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  Table of Contents The Western Duars and the Elephant corridor 3 Zones in the Corridor 3 The conflict 4 What is the urgency of studying the situation? 4 Causes of the conflict 6 1. Habitat fragmentation 6 2. Indiscriminate killing or injuring of elephants in Nepal 7 3. Army establishments 7 4. The Siliguri-Alipurduar railway track 7 The railway system 7 Elephant casualties on the track 8 Seasonal mortality records 9 Hour-wise mortality records 9 High risk zones 9 Current conflict
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Gender Representation – Boardwalk Empire As a hybrid genre‚ the representations in Boardwalk Empire are complex‚ contradictory‚ unconventional‚ conventional and stereotypical‚ whilst challenge stereotypes. Set in the 1920’s during prohibition‚ Nucky is a corrupt Republican politician and gangster‚ who has risen to his position through bribery‚ corruption‚ and murder. The series begins as prohibition begins‚ with Nucky toasting the government who ban alcohol; “…to those beautiful ignorant bastards
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Art Essay Draft The nude has changed dramatically throughout time in terms of its role in the art world. It has been used to portray a person’s power and their weakness‚ the way they see themselves and the way others see them. The majority of nude artworks are of the female nude‚ as highlighted by John Berger‚ ‘men look at women‚ women look back at themselves being looked at.’ Vanessa Beecroft‚ a contemporary artist deems to challenge the way society views the nude in both high art and everyday
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High Renaissance style in Venetian art. There is little record of his early life‚ however it is shown that Giorgione served his apprenticeship with Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini in 1490‚ who is well known to have revolutionised Venetian painting. His colour‚ technique and mood of his paintings are clearly related to Bellini’s late style. Giorgione died in 1510 in Venice‚ Italy at age 33. He was known to be the first Italian to paint landscapes with figures as moveable pictures in their own frames
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Introduction: Figure of Speech Figures of speech (or ’rhetorical tropes’) are ways of using words that may seem unusual but have a specific and desired effect. Read as ’normal words’ they often break normal rules of grammar‚ but can be nevertheless understood they are common in poetry and eloquent speech. ’Figures of speech’ is often used generically‚ and the big list here includes not only figures of speech but also a wider range of rhetorical and linguistic devices. Discussion: Kinds of Figure of
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of all‚ exploration is worth the risk because it can set foundations for future generations. In the movie‚ “Hidden Figures‚” the NASA Space Program‚ created a rocket that could keep a human alive in space while they orbited the Earth. This was the first fully-functional rocket. During the process in making the rocket‚ colored women were being accepted more as they helped (Hidden Figures). This shows that
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The Renaissance Mind Mirrored in Art By: Susan Fegley Osmond Source: World and I. 13.12 (Dec. 1998): p18. From General OneFile. Art reveals aspects of the Renaissance worldview that formed the foundations of the modern era. This article aims to outline some basic changes in worldview that took place during the Renaissance -- a movement and an era of awakening that turned from the medieval order and laid the basis for Western civilization up to the present. Today‚ when the Renaissance is
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chapter 5 Space Fig. 90 Donald Sultan‚ Lemons‚ May 16‚ 1984‚ 1984. Latex‚ tar on vinyl tile over wood‚ 97 in. 971/2 in. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts‚ Richmond. Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation. Photo: Katherine Wetzel. © 1996 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. W ISBN 0-558-55180-7 e live in a physical world whose properties are familiar‚ and‚ together with line‚ space is one of the most familiar. It is all around us‚ all the time. We talk about “outer” space (the space
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