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    Robert Smithson Artist: Robert Smithson‚ born 2 January 1938‚ was an American artist. Unfortunately he passed away on the 20th July 1973‚ at the age of 35‚ in a plane crash. While Smithson was still at High School (in Clifton‚ New Jersey during the 1950s)‚ he attended art classes on the side. These art classes were at the Art Students League of New York in 1955 and 1956. Attending these classes allowed him to satisfy his creative passion for art. Another popular artist who attended the Art Students

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    It is build up from the lake’s depths by relocating the local materials‚ such as black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site‚ and organizing them into shape. The location of the ‘Spiral Jetty’ attracted Smithson for its isolation from society and the reddish quality of the water in that section of the lake‚ which reminded him of blood. He designed Spiral Jetty so that the earthwork could be submerged according the lake’s water level. The relationship between

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    reactions.” The purpose of this essay is to argue how “Artists deliberately set out to provoke audience reactions”. The essay will explain how artists have used abstraction‚ stylisation and distortion in artworks through the ages through the analysis of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and Colin Lanceley’s “Night Garden”. This essay will discuss‚ compare and analyse the development and evolution of abstract art. “Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture that does not depict a person‚ place or thing

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    Claude Monet started off as a realist and Robert Smithson started as a conceptual artist. Monet wanted to create an impression of what he saw and defied the norms of realistic‚ photographic paintings. The thickness and low consistency of his oil paints allowed him to dramatically express his impression of his subject matter. His paintings mainly consist of landscapes‚ water lilies in particular. Smithson also took the initiative to start something completely new. Smithson’s

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    jukebox with ambient sound recordings from around the world. The oceanic swell in a hydrophysics wave tank in Delft. An endlessly turning Berlin‚ seen from the revolving restaurant of the Fernsehturm television tower. A frustrated attempt to find Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty in Utah’s Great Salt Lake‚ following directions that are as deceptive as they are

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    A Comparative Look at Robert Smithson’s Earth Art and 1960s Minimalism By Marcus Pearson 05/25/10 While walking through the Guggenheim Museum you walk past several different works of art. A nice painting here‚ a cool sculpture there‚ some interesting lights‚ it’s all pretty neat. You then walk into a room with two seemingly opposite types of art. On one side of the room you see a rock pile and a few pictures of some big rocks. The other side has some odd looking sculptures and several paintings

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    Robert Schumann

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    Robert Schumann Robert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau‚ Saxony‚ in 1810.The youngest of five children‚ Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable‚ middle-class respectability. As a child‚ he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six‚ Robert was sent to the local preparatory school‚ run by Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already begun his education‚ with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann

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    Robert Graves

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    this site About the Trust About the Society Copyright Info Gravesiana Conference research resources database bibliography diary books on graves canellun library multimedia Canellun: Robert Graves ’ Home Portraits of Robert Graves audio: The White Goddess audio: Selected Poetry audio: More Selected Poetry audio: Even More Selected Poetry 1974 BBC Radio Interview bibliography searchable bibliography poetry fiction

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    Robert Burns

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    Ivan Franko National University in Lviv Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of Translation Studies LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF ROBERT BURNS’ SONGS AND THEIR REPRODUCTION IN TRANSLATION (based on Robert Burns ’ song and their translation by Mykola Lukash) Course paper Done by a 3rd -year student Olha Komarnytska

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    Robert Frost

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    4‚ 2007 Analogy of Robert Frost Poetry. Robert Frost‚ who was born in March 26 1874‚ was a writer of traditional aspects portraying his life and his view of nature Frost was a person of form‚ he always played by the rules and even within the poems he wrote. Frost is considered one of the greatest twentieth century poets. His poetry was written by certain structural rules. Robert Frost liked to write using figurative language. Frost has a versatile

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