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    Pablo Picasso

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    when sculpture and black art intrigued him. His work‚ "Two Nudes" reflects this attitude. Cubism soon followed after this. Picasso began experimenting with the many facets of Cubism. Cubism was developed in stages: analytic‚ synthetic‚ hermetic‚ and rococo. These techniques were not only useful in painting but in collages as well. Picasso met Eva Marcelle Humbert‚ and fell in love with her but the war

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    intimidating. The palace was originally built to be a summer home for the royal family‚ and it was originally built in 1717. Empress Elizabeth had the palace rebuilt in 1756 because she thought it was outdated. When it was rebuilt‚ it was designed in a more Rococo style‚ which is where all the excessive gold‚ porcelain‚ and other riches came to be prominently on display. While Catherine may have intended for the palace to be a simpler summer vacation palace‚ Elizabeth wanted it to display her power‚ wealth

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    Departing from the Rococo style of the mid Seventeenth Century where decadence and luxurious lifestyles were symptomatic of the aristocracy‚ Neoclassicism emerged out of an increasing tendency to value the public virtues of classic Greek and Roman cultures and attempted to convey those morals in the subjects represented through a sense of order‚ harmony and proportion. These virtues included patriotism‚ morality‚ self sacrifice‚ and "the right action" above all else (Sayre‚ 2009). Jacques Louis

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    Painters and Their Craft.

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    born in Sudbury‚ Suffolk‚ in 1727. His father was a cloth merchant. Thomas soon evinced a marked inclination for drawing and in 1740 his father John Gainsborough sent him to London to study art. He stayed in London for eight years‚ working under the rococo portrait-engraver Gravelot. He also became familiar with the Flamish tradition of painting which was highly prized by London art dealers at that time. “Road through Wood‚ with Boy Resting and Dog”‚ 1747 was a typical “genre painting”‚ obviously influenced

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    The Baroque Research Paper

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    THE BAROQUE Historical Background Welcome to “History through Art”. Today we’ll be looking at the history‚ culture and art of the Baroque‚ a period of turbulence that began about 1545. It was a time when the Renaissance celebration of all humanity switched its focus to the rich‚ self-centered privileged class who could afford to sponsor artists to immortalize their opulent life-style. The wealthy also were patrons to artists who depicted both religious and secular scenes with great motion

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    movement. The expansion‚ evolution‚ and redefinition of the European standard classical education‚ the rise in commissioned art and architecture and the refinement of art scholarship‚ and the general reaction to the exorbitant styles of Baroque and Rococo revived interest in antiquity and necessitated a return to principles of classicism. In part a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature‚ Romanticism

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    OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT/LOGISTICS SPORT OBERMEYER ‚ LTD. A) What Operational changes would you recommend to Wally to improve performance? B) How should Obermeyer management think (both short and long-term) about sourcing in Hong Kong vs. China? C) Based on Exhibit 10 in the case‚ how should Wally plan production in November? Think about the question qualitatively – identify factors that would affect the timing and quantity of product decisions. To understand what operational

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    The term renaissance‚ literally meaning rebirth‚ was a great revival of classical philosophy an art that began in the Italian town of Florence. In the fourteenth century‚ when it all began included this movement of extreme originality in aesthetics‚ although the four past centuries were simply based on classical inspiration. The fifteenth century brought what is now called the Early Renaissance; its first constructions by the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi‚ in which it established a high

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    Lakeasha Hicks History Research Paper 12/29/2011 Legacy of the Revolution If you look up the word “legacy” in the dictionary the meaning of the word will be something like this: “The legacy of an event or period of history is something which is a direct result of it and which continues to exist after it is over.” So the legacy of the French Revolution is how the result of it affected the whole world and the fact that it is still a living issue. The French Revolution began in 1789 and it happened

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