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    The Hollywood Wax Museum - a must-visit spot in Los Angeles Located to the northwest of Los Angeles, Hollywood is known as a center of film history representing the entertainment and film industry of United State. The Hollywood Boulevard is also a home of many movie stars who are famous all over the world and supported by lots of fans. To satisfy the fans’ dream of seeing their idols in person, in 1965 the Hollywood Wax Museum was built and made up with the wax figures featuring the replicas of

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    Early childhood environments should set out to provide children with the freedom to express and respond freely. The more children are given opportunities to recreate things they see in their everyday lives, the more they can create their own meaning and understanding of the world around them. Hyun (1998) believes that educators should teach and learn in environments which require in-depth reflection on their own lives and values. I feel this can connect with the way an educator values art with in

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    For this project, I chose to go to the Tampa Museum of Art. I took my eleven year old daughter Annabelle with me, she is an aspiring young artist who loves to paint and assemble collages. This paper will describe the museum’s activities and what was on exhibit. After which, I will choose two works of art and do an in-depth analysis on them. I will use the formal elements and the principles of design to engage the artworks “The Great Journey” and “A Group of Cubans who left Manzanillo are Rescued

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    In his diaries, the artist Edvard Munch admits that he struggled with insanity not only on a personal level during his life, but also through his family. In fact, his sister was hospitalized for insanity at the time The Scream was painted in 1893. If given a thorough enough analysis, the personal lives of most artists are not perfect portraits of happiness. The thing that makes Edvard Munch a different kind of artist is that he shows us an honest, even ugly, glimpse of his inner troubles and feelings

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    The Munch Show

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    Munch Show I went to Edvard Munch and his younger German contemporaries exhibition which is on the third floor of the Neue Galerie on Friday, April 7th in New York City. This unique show contains both Munch’ s different versions of Prints and Painting and some other artists’ artwork in The Bridge group. Munch’ s the most famous artwork - The Scream also been shown in this great show. The first prints in the Gallery are The Kiss III, 1897. The Neue Galerie shows two versions of this prints. Usually

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    As mentioned in the book, “Signing the Body Poetic Essays on American Sign Language Literate” by H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson it specifically mentions visual scream on chapter 10 it states that “visual scream is the visible gesture of a person, an animal, or a thing which could be a combination of images making a loud screeching sound without the sound accompaniment. Visual scream is a form of silent shouting it could be done when someone is fearful, anxious, desperate, erotic or find

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    The Scream by Edvard Munch was painted in 1893 during a transitional period in art history between the Realist and Expressionist era. There are four versions of this painting but the most famous of them all is composed of oil, tempura, and pastel on cardboard. Munch’s inspiration came from a peaceful evening walk when he peered down over the Norwegian landscape and suddenly heard an “infinite scream of nature” from the distance. In his artwork, Edvard Munch uses an array of colors, lines, and contrast

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    The Scream

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    In this essay I will be analyzing two works of art using aesthetics as a basis of judgment. Also I will be examining and critiquing these two great works of art. Furthermore, I will be using the four part process of the method in critiquing artwork which is understood to be describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating. The works of art I have chosen to like is The Scream by Edvard Munch. According to Khan Academy Munch created four forms of this art work, the first was created in 1893 painting

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    Live Event Response

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    Live Event Response Paper The Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Avenue, Wes Palm Beach, Florida 33401, held five collections and three exhibits during of July 2015. Founded by Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth, in 1941, the Art Deco and Neo-Classic three-story building is home to over 7,000 works of art including: European, American, Chinese, Contemporary and Photography. During the Norton’s almost daily 2 p.m., 50-minute tour of the museum, visitors were taken through the American

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    Compare and Contrast Essay The Scream, an artwork of Edvard Munch is also known as The Scream of nature, Edvard Munch was Norwegian artist who is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative, and influential figures in modern art. (Temkin). He loved painting and he was known for referencing to his painting as his children and he did not want to be separated from them in any way. One of his famous act works was The Scream, the art work is seen as a representation of modern

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