Professor: Kim de Beaumont 11/30/12 I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and after seeing all the paintings‚ sculptures‚ and art works‚ I chose Kouros‚ for my final paper‚ because it shows Greek’s first nude youth male during Archaic period on ca. 600 BCE. My piece of art is Marble statue of Kouros (male youth) which is characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble
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Max DePree’s book “Leadership is an art” represents an important contribution to the area of leadership‚ both from a theoretical and practical point of view. The approach of the author is a humanitarian one. The focus is being made on the philosophical aspects of the theme‚ even if there are numerous pragmatic pieces of advice and recommendations included in the book. Leadership is a process and a concept of fundamental importance for the area of management today. It is a concept of high complexity
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The Art of the Essay It is the fall of 2008‚ and a 14 year old kid is sitting in his Freshman Introductory English class. Classes essentially just started and like always‚ the new freshmen are still giddy in the excitement of a new school with new classes. Kids walk around with their class schedules in their back pockets‚ stopping and investigating the potential of each and every one of their friends ’ list of classes. Freshman English‚ Freshman Science‚ Algebra I‚ World History‚ and Fundamentals
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cultural influence in which their predecessors derived from. In particular‚ the two artistic styles that became prevalent throughout pre-Columbian civilizations can be credited to the time when the Olmec and Chavin peoples lived whom marked the beginning of artistic production in Mesoamerican and Andean artistic styles. These art styles were reproduced in settings that were clearly important in each of their cultures and are consistently seen in a variety of media and contexts where nature and religion
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Iconoclasm‚ Incarnation‚ and Art During the time of the Byzantine period‚ the utilization of religious images was a controversial subject. This controversy consisted of three parties; the Carolingians‚ iconoclasts‚ and iconodules and each party had their own interpretation on how and where these religious images could be used. Although each party had a different view‚ there was something in common amongst the three of them‚ they all agreed that God is the only thing that someone may worship. The
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The Art of Sculpture Long before man could record history‚ people were sculpting free standing figures out of bones rocks and other objects. It is said that sculpting is the art of the people‚ and it is a more powerful art than literature and painting because it can be touched and felt. When a sculpture is in a gallery our attention is sustained by an intensified visual engagement. This is what makes its fixed shape come alive in the viewer’s eyes. Before the 20th century‚ sculpture was considered
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Prehistoric Art (Venus of Willendorf & the Minoan Snake Goddess) Prehistoric art wasn’t a definite period of art. It was simply the name given to all art that occurred before recorded history. It was a way of reflecting beliefs‚ values and lifestyles to one’s culture. It was an era before any written history so everything was expressed through art. Prehistoric people created different art forms to represent where they belonged‚ where they were from and what they were part of. These people created
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interesting. I’ve seen plenty of movies about the times in Egypt of slavery and pharaohs and the building of the pyramids but as I got older I always started to wonder what the time was really like. Going over chapter three I found that that time period was actually very important in a lot of ways but even more important was their use of art and the forms they used it in‚ all the amazing monuments that were built by them‚ the writings and drawings on the walls full of stories and different interpretations
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ThE ArT mArkET in 2012 A dialogue between East and West SOMMAIRE Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6
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As time and centuries pass simultaneously art evolves too. During the Greek – Roman period in history art was a powerful medium and was used as a research instrument for studying the human body. The Greeks loved perfection‚ religion‚ and their government. These values were transferred to the Romans who adapted the Greek culture together with their swag. Later on by doing so‚ the mixture of both cultures came to be known as the “classical civilization” (The Greek Spirit pg. 99). The Greco-Roman style
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