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    Religious Practitioner’s Assignment Lea Zimmerman 1. Amasa Dempster From his professional career to his personal life‚ religion consumes every aspect of Amasa Dempster’s life. He is known by the citizens of Deptford to impose his view of religion on everyone and everything he encounters. When Mary was sick in bed after Paul’s birth his actions reveal that his feelings and religious beliefs often overtake reason. He knelt on the floor next to the bed where Mary laid and prayed feverously that

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    Ch 1 - The nature of art Cathedra - Barnett Newman‚ 1951‚ Oil on canvas art forms - An activity or a piece of artistic work that can be regarded as a medium of artistic expression. Music‚ dance‚ theater‚ literature‚ and the visual arts. visual arts - drawing‚ painting‚ sculpture‚ film‚ architecture and design work of art - The visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through the use of a medium. medium‚ media - A particular material along with its accompanying technique;

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    the Realm of Visual Representation” The evolution of digital photography in the 1990s brought about dramatic changes in the art of capturing photos and their interpretation. Though pictures were manipulated in the past too‚ digital photography gave photo manipulation added dimensions. There exist varying institutions that make use of photographs to each serve their purposes. In this paper‚ I am going to talk about the usage of photographs in the form of maps‚ in terms of art and their use for

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    Analysis of Art

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    changed‚ so “a feeling of loneliness and detachment pervaded Hopper’s works in the second half of his career” (Turner‚ 752). He started to paint the commonplaces of urban life with anonymous figures. However‚ most of his oil and watercolor paintings are neither crowded nor lively urban scenes. Rather‚ his art work captures the calm and solitary scene in urban areas. In his paintings‚ even though he paints urban scenes‚ dark places in a town or a single person in a plain bedroom dominate most of his

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    Melville uses many biblical allusions throughout the novella to relate Billy Budd to Jesus. Billy is symbolic of a Christ-like figure because of his destruction by evil and betrayal‚ fate and. Similar to Jesus‚ Billy was a fatalist who believed that life was planned out and all events were destined to occur. Lieutenant Ratcliffe was able to impress Billy without any struggle because Billy felt that his fate was to be in the Navy. After his execution‚ the Purser calls Billy’s death as “a species

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    Egyptian Art

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    Egyptian Art was once considered to be unchanged‚ when viewing this art as a whole. Egyptian Art seems to be repetitive pattern of images and ideas. Yet all of these images are uniquely different. Ranging from 3000b.c to 50b.c. Taking the same principles through out the entire period. Which consists of Old‚ Middle and New Kingdoms. Each dynasty had a different addition to the basic concepts that were established in the beginning‚ ideas of the artist grew faster and better. Many cultures shared

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    Figure 4: ECG Of The Heart

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    of chordate animals‚ where the heart produces the pulsatile flow [9]. The phenomenon of de-polarization and re-polarization of atria and ventricles is an example to produce pulsatile flow in human hearts. An electrocardiogram (ECG) plot of pulsatile flow for a human heart is shown by the figure below. Figure 4: ECG of the Heart (amperordirect.com) The results of two pumping effects in the Cardiovascular flow is the pulsating characteristics kind of flow. The heart acts as the primary pump which

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    Installation Art

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    Installation art is difficult to describe. In principal‚ it means taking a large interior (the exterior can be part of an installation‚ too) and loading it with disparate items that evoke complex and multiple associations and thoughts‚ longings‚ and moods. It’s a huge three-dimensional painting‚ sculpture‚ poem‚ and prose work. Installation art is a relatively new genre of contemporary art‚ which incorporates a range of 2-D and 3-D materials to influence the way we experience or perceive a particular

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    IS MODERN ART REALLY ART?

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    all seem like everyday objects but should we be calling them art? When we were growing up we were taught that art was a beautiful painting - like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers‚ or a perfect sculpture of a human - like Michelangelo’s David‚ but we were never really taught that conceptual and contemporary art were ’proper’ forms of art‚ even though it was established in the sixties. It made us think and challenge our own assumptions of what art should really look like. People didn’t understand the idea of

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    don’t know her full story or the entire context behind it. This lack of accurate archaeological and historical information about Cleopatra has stimulated the collective imaginations of those who have lived after her and resulted in a multitude of representations of her character‚ both in historical records and in popular culture. The written histories from Cleopatra ’s time are inaccurate regarding her because of the individual writers ’ biases‚ which has created many different depictions of her character

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