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    “I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.” Sonia Delaunay certainly lived up to her own expectation, creating an immense impact on the artistic world as an avant-garde member of the Modernist movement. From a young age, she displayed talent in the painting medium, eventually shifting her focus to fashion. While her creations were sometimes not considered art, Sonia Delaunay proved the world otherwise through her unusual yet beautiful work. Eventually, she became

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    Trechelle Monroe Final Project: Art Timeline Sculptures from the 18th-20th Century February 23, 2012 Fig 1 1905 Mediterrane Aristide Maillo, French Sculpture Musee d’Orsay, Paris This sculpture falls in the modern art category and the style is abstract expressionism. This sculpture is very large it is actually 110cm. The artist that created this sculpture was one of the many fine French Sculptors, he was one of the younger generation who started out as a Symbolist painter as well as

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    Interview Skill Analysis

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    “The Challenge of Love” Some of the biggest challenges in relationships are rooted between the push and pull of give and take. People tend to enter into relationships to gain something: they 're trying to find someone who 's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way love is true is if the relationship comes from a place of giving. For some love is primarily taking, for some love is primarily giving and for some it is more evenly a matter of "give & take". A person driven by

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    ‘sentimental’ value due to its symbolic appraisal of civilisation. They are also one of the most sophisticated pieces of art. When looking into the African heritage, we can note it has a vast impact on the modern art world - artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse sustain this. Artists in the 1920’s and 30’s were known to be influenced by African arts, they would experiment with adjoin effects after witnessing original African art in

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    indistinguishable in who the artist was. Fauvism on the other hand, “was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century” (Rewald, Hilbrunn Timeline of Art History). Fauvism was first portrayed by Henri Matisse and also shown somewhat in the paints of Van Gogh’s. So what is the different between Cubism and Fauvism? Many characteristics separate Cubism from Fauvism, such as: multiple angles, reconstruct objects, flattened space and geometric blocks

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    Van Gogh Motives

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    As humans have changed and progressed throughout history, so has their art- from cave paintings to Greek sculptures to the incredible realism of the Renaissance. In addition, throughout history art has been questioned- why did the artist make this? What are they trying to convey? What is the purpose, the symbol, the reason? Every artist has a motive for creating, and it may be as honorable as challenging a social injustice, or as mundane as a commission. The three most universal motives for making

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    In the documentary “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,” a number of people were interviewed about how their religious beliefs or non beliefs, were challenged since the events of September 11th. The interviews with priests, rabbis, family members of victims, survivors, lay people, atheists and agnostics, this documentary explores how Americans’ spiritual lives may have changed since the event. When a tragic event happens, people would either grow closer to god or outgrow god. To those people who do

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    Le Café de Nuit by Vincent van Gogh is possibly one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, located at the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. It stands at 28 1/2 inches tall and has a width of 36 1/4 inches, and for being nearly 130 years old this piece is extremely well preserved. This is an oil painting done on canvas circa 1888, that depicts the Café de l’Alcazar, a place where van Gogh often ate his meals, and watched as the walls of this building slowly filled with prostitutes and vagrants each

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    The film The Breakfast Club (1985) by John Hughes is just one story of the many that were popularized by the teen movie craze of the 1980’s. The comedy follows five high school-aged adolescents as they navigate their way through a day of Saturday detention that is not only atypical but rather an experience which ends up changing the whole perspective on the lives that they have been living. What sets this film apart from other popular high school movies of the time such Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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    sides of the canvas. Primitively, this was the way of Fauvists expressing their emotions, through the use of vibrant colours and compositions. In this way we can see that Matisse artwork is an art of balance which avoids the depressing subject matter. Henri Matisse further explores the Fauvists ideas in his art work, through the use of the lines and shapes. The lines and shapes play a significant role in the work and the lines work together to establish balance. The balance of lines and shapes is achieved

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