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    Several scientific studies have demonstrated correlations between creativity and mental illness, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Even though the association between bipolar disorder and creativity first appeared in literature in the 1970s, the idea of a link between "madness" and "genius" is actually much older. It goes back at least to the time of Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks, when it was believed that creativity came from the gods, and in particular the Muses, the mythical personifications

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    with volume rather than mass and solidity, regularity instead of axial symmetry, and the proscription of “arbitrary applied decoration”. Exhibits featured leading European and American architects, especially the likes of Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der

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    IDENTIFY 18.9 SHIVA; HINDU GOD; COUNTRY OF INDIA Sexual ecstasy as a metaphor for divine love is found in the art of the Hindus. ARTS OF CHINA TERRA COTTA: A ceramic ware, usually reddish, fired in the low temperature ranges and somewhat porous and fragile; earthenware. 18.14 Excavated figures from the “terra-cotta army” guarding the tomb of the First Emperor of Qin. CHINA. COUNTRY IN WHICH THEY WERE FOUND? EXAMPLE OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING The overarching principles of nature and mankind’s

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    Impressionism was an art movement that started in the mid Nineteenth Century and peaked during the 1870s. Although Impressionism was also apparent in mediums like music and literature, its most prominent influence was painting. As it progressed towards Post-Impressionism, it opened up the art world to stylistic rendering, deviated from realism, and introduced the world to modern and avant-garde art. This essay will discuss how it managed to do so and specifically how the movement advanced into Post-Impressionism

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    Chapter 4 primarily talks about Line. The first topic it covers are the varieties of line. The importance of contour lines is clearly defined when describing the detail in Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Female Nude Back View. The viewer is able to observe the illusion of a body in the artwork because of how the contour lines build. Due to the lines that create the body, the viewer’s vision is limited to seeing only what is inside the lines and nothing outside of them because that is what their eyes are

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    Paul Gauguin : A Father

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    He gives her lips a bright pink to stand out from the picture. This woman is important to Gauguin and she is one of his very first paintings in the 1800s. Vincent Van Gogh painting sunflowers, the year of 1888. Van Gogh was a major contribution to Paul Gauguin life where their friendship blossomed and they started an art colony. Van Gogh and Gauguin uphill battle of a friendship lead to a split of ways and Gauguin ending with this painting. This horizontal oil on canvas shows powerful, expressive

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    Art is a form of human expression. Art can be seen as the artist sleight of hand on his mood. Art is in various media from posters to public wall of which we call “graffiti”. Art is elusive as the use of colors shapes and the surface used adds a new dimension. Art portrays various ideas, feelings such as triumph, love, happiness, sorrow and boredom in loss to mention a few. Art is beauty and creativity. During man’s evolution art has progressed over in its most primitive state up to its most modernized

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    Shared knowledge is commonly regarded as the information or knowledge that the majority already knows despite a few people may not know about it. Any knowledge that can be classified as shared knowledge can be connected from one person to another especially during a discussion or communicate each other. Collective learning also might trigger a shared knowledge to be spread among our society. Shared knowledge is a collection of personal knowledge that can be gained from peoples’ past experience. It

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    The kardashians are like Aristotle, they are born into the fame and lifestyle that as they go on with life, they expect the best. Vincent Van Gogh is like Epictetus, they both started from a small and as time went by there work became known. Even though they are still well known, only Epictetus had to work for his name. Aristotle still had challenges he had to overcome but he will never

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    Everyone Has a Yellow Paint A common myth that is told about Vincent Van Gogh is that he ate yellow paint to make himself happier. He was said to want to paint his insides with yellow paint so it could make his organs bright and overall make him happy. Many thought that this was very dumb and that the paint would kill him. Paint is poisonous and could kill you, but it is not far off from what drugs do to the human body. Drugs affect people's mood but the overall effect to the body is horendous. Drugs

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