Olmec arts and their iconography are full of mysteries. Many archeologists researched and worked their best to figure out the meaning behind in each different symbol and leave many writing about Olmec arts and their symbol means. The young male stone statue has many similarity in other Olmec sculptures and we can identify the meaning behind this sculpture by comparing with other art works and using credible book wroted by archeologists. Different parts of the young male stone statue (fig.1) might
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Intro to Art/Art 100 Pre-Raphaelites I visited National Gallery of Art‚ Washington DC on Friday‚ March 29‚ 2013 to see the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design‚ 1848-1900”. It is the first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings‚ sculptures‚ works on paper‚ and decorative art objects. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood‚ formed in 1848‚ shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting
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Thought Paper #1 “ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things‚ but the inward significance”(Aristotle). One of the main purposes of art is to help express our emotions‚ which was portrayed throughout the music‚ paintings‚ and literature of Western European culture. One man who was able to show our emotions through art‚ was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was ultimately known as the “Renaissance man”. Not only was he a scientist‚ but also a painter‚ and a sculptor. To practice
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The Art of War - Sun Tzu Response Paper I read the Art of War during my high school year as a outside of the class reading book assigned by my language art teacher. I told him I was going to major in business (marketing). So when I first started reading the Art of War I was like “hey‚ if I have all the time in this world I could have think of all of these stuffs.” I had a big ego that time. Then I had a discussion about the Art of War with my physics teacher(he’s a genius literally‚ speaks 7-8
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Land Art and Land Artists UNDERSTANDING LAND ART AND ITS IMPACTS 4/9/2014 By: Amir R. Tamadon Land Art and Land Artists Contents INTORDUCTION.............................................................................................................. 2 LAND ART ORIGINS: AGENTS OF NATURE ................................................................... 2 WHAT DOES LAND ART LOOK LIKE? ............................................................................. 4 IMPACTS OF LAND ART ......
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Anthony Fiore Mrs. Sacks Humanities 102 Due Date: November 24‚ 2009 YaYa Chou YaYa Chou is an artist that creates her work to connect directly to the viewer’s human experiences. Chou is famous for creating art pieces that relates to the viewer by incorporating “familiar objects or images to depict the dichotomy found inside highly developed societies”. (Chou) She uses many aspects that play pivotal roles in our lifes‚ such as using anything that can be found in nature‚ which can range
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Art Gallery Response Paper Tarn Adams is an american born on the 17th of April in 1978. Adams is a computer game programer‚ and he is well known for his artwork the Dwarf Fortress. Throughout his childhood‚ Adams loved programming and has been designing computer games as one of his hobbies. Adams and his older brother Zach started a company called Bay 12 Games. With his skill in programming and his brother’s experience in ancient history and storytelling‚ they were able to design and pull off various
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Nick Mamedes Art History‚ ART 1112 Visual Analysis Paper February 16‚ 2015 Dr. Bock Analysis‚ Praise and Critique Henry Flagler‚ Self Portrait I work at The Breakers hotel in West Palm‚ and have had the pleasure of seeing various works of art on the daily basis. I chose to analyze a self-portrait of a man named Henry Flagler. This painting is located on the south side of the hotel‚ and has a great amount of historical significance. Henry Flagler founded The Breakers and is very well known in
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Pop Art is Alive and Kicking In the post-war era of the 1950’s there was a movement gaining popularity in the art world. Artists could not ignore the rapidly changing world they lived in. Post-war prosperity fueled an age of consumerism and commercialism and art began to celebrate this popular commercial culture. Advertisements‚ billboards‚ television‚ film‚ comic books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and even automobile styling inspired artists. This movement was described by Richard Hamilton‚ as
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A Study in Portraits – da Vinci and Van Gogh Two of the greatest artists of all time would have to be Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) and Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). Da Vinci was an artistic genius‚ as well as an ingenious inventor and scientist‚ while Van Gogh was an artistic savant whose mental instability cut short a career of wonder and enlightenment. Both artists presented works that made people look both outside at the artwork itself as well as inside the individual viewer in order
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