During a recent visit to the San Antonio Museum of Art‚ I was able to view many pieces and types of artwork. This particular museum exhibits pieces that come from the period of the Ancient Egyptians all the way up to modern art. It was a very interesting experience and one that I would definitely like to repeat in the future. The piece that was most interesting to me was a Roman floor mosaic that depicts The Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs. A mosaic is a picture or pattern created by fixing together
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Throughout my reading of The Denial of Genocide reading‚ I was astonished by some of the things that I had not heard before and how ridiculous that were to read after the knowledge I have of the subject. One example is the quote: “Not a single German document has ever been found which refers to an extermination program.” (523.) After taking a holocaust course and watching videos of the Nuremberg trials and the many people sorting through thousands of Nazi documents‚ makes me question how someone
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A few months ago I visited the History Colorado Center museum in Denver. One of the exhibits is about the internment camp Amache-Granada that is located in southeastern Colorado. It was a very nice exhibit‚ during the exhibit a video played that went over the history of Amache and the internment of the Japanese Americans. During the video there was a picture of little girl with her hand over her heart. The voice on the video said “When I went to school on December 8th‚ kids came up to me and shouted
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On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I took a tour of the museum with a lecturer. During the tour‚ the leader lectured on particular paintings. She told the know history behind each shown painting. She also gave the history of the period in which the painting was painted. The lecturer also helped everyone to understand what the colors in the paintings brought to each painting. While viewing the many paintings‚ the first one that caught my eye was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and
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appropriate box): Comparative studies Issue-based studies □ Local heritage studies □ Title Compare the characteristics and impacts of the two genocides - the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide Study outline Genocide is a specific term that refers to the violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. The reasons of genocide can be classified as religious‚ national‚ ethnical or racial factors. Various kinds of violent crimes‚ such as‚ killing‚ deliberating
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The Jim crow museum depicts very accurately how racist southern america used to be. It is astonishing how much hatred people can have for something as messily as the color of someone’s skin. Jim Crow was developed as a fictitious character that heavily embellished the negro culture with much mockery. Jim crow became the symbol of how blacks should be treated hence the Jim Crow Laws that were developed. Whites would paint their faces black and perform on stage as bafoons. These shows helped
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Emily Wilson October 10th‚ 2014 Professor Cruz Art into History Greek and Roman Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has many different exhibits with ancient portraits‚ sculptures‚ steles‚ freezes‚ paintings and many more. The Greek and Roman exhibit was very interesting. The way the Greeks and Romans portrayed their feelings and life experiences through art is very diverse. During my visit to Metropolitan‚ I had gone for a tour of this exhibit and was amazed by the works of art I was seeing. Just
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During our trip the the Metropolitan Museum‚ our class explored various exhibits‚ including the Greeks‚ early Tribal works‚ Renaissance art‚ and 19th century art. One piece in particular that stood out to me‚ and reminded me of a text we’ve read this semester‚ was Prayer in the Mosque by Jean-Lèon Gèrome in 1871(87.15.130). This oil on canvas depicts the interior of a mosque in seventh century Egypt and reminded me of the readings we had done on Al Andalus from Jarbel Rodriguez‚ where the description
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discuss two paintings I observed at the Art Institute of Chicago and compare the two as well. During our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago even though we did not have enough time to properly view the pieces along with a large portion of the museum with pre-renaissance pieces in them were closed off to the public. Two pieces that really stuck out to me during the trip were: “Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)” by Dieric Bouts and “Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin” by Jean
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Cultural genocide exists in Mexico‚ and I am not referring to the McDonalds that has taken over the local taco vender‚ or even Starbucks - now on practically every corner- engulfing the national coffee brand; I am referring to the institutional‚ societal and scholarly misrepresentation of the African presence in Mexico. The presence of the “negro” in Mexico is itself an enigma not only for the Mexican population in general‚ but also - and more specifically - for the black Mexicans themselves. A country
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