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    Week 5 Assignment – Painting Styles Leanne Diliberto Art/101 2/2/2014 Lynn Wocell Painting Styles Neoclassicism‚ Impressionism and Abstract Expression all have their own style. Each is from a different era and reflect on different subjects. Neoclassicism was part of the European art movement during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The inspiration for this movement comes from thr classical art and culture of ancient Greece or ancient Rome. Neoclassic Artwork

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    Painting In Beowulf

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    Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt‚ and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci. There is an art in writing poetry‚ for you must embed meaning within it while not just blatantly writing the message. In poetry there are many different ways of doing this‚ so it is up to the poet’s stylistic choice how to deliver these messages. Seamus Heaney‚ in translating the poem Beowulf from it’s original dialect is able to use stylistic choice to bring out different

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    The Male Gaze

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    proposition of the ‘male gaze’ has been applied to feminist studies of the media. “One thing I really envy about men‚ ’ a friend once said to me‚ ’is the right to look ’ (Dyer 1982) Johnathan Schroeder posited ‘...to gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies psychological relationship of power‚ in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.(Schroeder‚ 1998)’ Keeping this in mind‚ in Laura Mulvey’s article ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’‚ she proposes that the male gaze is paramount

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    literature stretching from Josquin to Bach without a thorough grasp of one of the more important classes of text-influence: namely‚ word painting. The variety of ways in which words may influence music can be formed into a surprisingly symmetrical array (Figure 1). Figure 1. Classification of Text Influences vol24id199 In this classification‚ word painting represents only an option of one of the eight primary surface effects (rhythmic‚ phonetic‚ formal‚ rhetorical‚ dramatic‚ lyrical

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    what is beauty

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    Beauty is a characteristic of a person‚ animal‚ place‚ object‚ or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics‚ sociology‚ social psychology‚ and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired‚ or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture‚ for perfection. The experience of "beauty" often involves an interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature‚ which may lead to

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    Some authors get pleasure from writing‚ others give pleasure by writing‚ and the few who have come quite close to mastering what writing is about‚ can do both. In Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body”‚ I believe that she not only enjoyed writing the piece but also knew she would give others pleasure by writing it. She wrote as a real person with natural feelings‚ not as a writer simply stating facts about a subject. Bordo meticulously designed the essay in a way that kept the audience

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    Early Cave Paintings

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    1. What are the subjects of the early cave paintings and for what reason‚ the archeologists believe they were painted? Use examples from your assigned readings. The subjects were animals. The meaning behind the painting of caves was thought to be because humans have a built in desire to decorate their surroundings. Scientist also believed that’s cave paintings were to help clan bonds‚ rites‚ even had ceremonies around the paintings because they thought it would increase fertility in animals which

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    The Oxford Dictionary defines beauty as “a combination of qualities‚ such as shape‚ color‚ or form ‚ that pleases the aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight” (“beauty”). In “Autobiography of a Face‚” Lucy Grealy expands this definition by exploring her own interpretation of beauty throughout the various stages of her life. As she examines life before her diagnosis‚ she mentions little about beauty as a factor in her development. She was a “tomboy par excellence”‚ more concerned with play than

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    Tole Painting

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    There are different kinds or types of painting and for the ordinary indivudal‚ it can be rather confusing. You probably have come across oil paintings‚ watercolor paintings‚ body painting‚ face painting‚ and many others; but did you know about tole painting? Tole painting is considered as folk art. It is the painting of wooden and tin utensils‚ furniture‚ and other objects in a decorative way. Objects may refer to metallic objects like coffee pots‚ kitchen utensils‚ and other household items. The

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    near Crocker Art Museum a piece of art by Gerald Walburg caught my attention. After I took some pictures and conducted a deeper research on the piece and on the author it appealed to me even more. I analysed the piece of art to realize that Sakai sculpture by Gerald Walburg contributes to the public space‚ reveals author’s and people’s values‚ and for this period in time makes the look

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