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    and modus vivendi: He was a flamboyant dandy and a brilliant wit; a refined, decadent aes-thete. Professionally, he produced excellent prose pieces and composed arguably only mediocre poetry and he vociferously proposed unconventional theories about art and aesthetics. Yet, Wilde continues to be shrouded in this heavy fog of mystery. He is above all an inscrutable enigma. While he may at times give away the real and authen-tic nature of his complex self, at other times this self cunningly conceals

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    have a high level of imagination to understand what Kafka is trying to explain. That said, a few things are important about ‘A Hunger Artist’: it concerns itself with art, suffering and the artist’s relation to his audience. One of Kafka’s major topics in his other work is of the negative effect industrialization and capitalism has on art. Kafka paints a unique portrait of the hunger artist as the passionate starving artist who ignores his poverty and the necessity of a regular job. His cage is his cramped

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    Charles J. 1989. ‘Chaplin and American culture: the evolution of a star image’. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 159-194 Through theoretical precision, Charles Maland defines a subject that is more than Charlie Chaplin’s life and art. Maligned explores over seven decades how Chaplin’s image was made in the US. Via research conducted on his films, but also his studio practice, press publicity and film reviews, Maland shows how

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    The Starry Messenger: Question #1 Other than the Venetian Senate being very reliable, Galileo continued to organize a new assignment in Florence. Galileo’s previous follower, Prince Cosimo de Medici, had become Grand Duke Cosimo II. In the 1600’s, he released his discoveries of the lunar surface and the moons of Jupiter in a Latin thesis. This was called "The Starry Messenger”. He contributed a lot of his work to Cosimo, and even named his new found discovery of the moons called Medicean Stars

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    Art can be classified into different eras by their similar and distinguishing subjects and methods. They show the progression and timeline for different standards of art and the point of views and values for the people of the time. For example, the Renaissance art period, was an art period in which religious authority figures sought to beautify their cities and palaces with artworks detailing religious themes. Renaissance art was also commissioned by wealthy bankers, and churches. What is usually

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    The Mazatecs: How Mushrooms, “The Midnight Velada,” and María Sabina Influenced the People of the Sierra Mazateca Throughout the entirety of recorded history, the power of words (whether they be spoken aloud or simply read to oneself) has continuously made an enormous impact within all cultures around the world. With outlets like poems, songs, stories, and even symbolic writing, civilizations have been able to develop multiple beliefs and practices through the use of words. A piece of poetry -

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    Femme d’Alger Femme d’Alger is a painting created by the artist, Roy Lichtenstein. The work of art was created in 1963. Its medium is oil on canvas with a dimension of 80 x 68 in (203.2 x 172.72 cm). The subject matter of this painting is of a harem women lounging naked in her apartment waiting. She is supposedly everything a male wants, a male’s fantasy of a woman. Although this painting is of a nude woman, the symbol and meaning behind it is, the woman is actually arousing to herself. Lichtenstein

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    The Art Of Art

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    1. Give me a specific example of a time when you used good judgment and logic in solving a problem. I had a painting to complete for a client, it was a commissioned painting of the clients two cats, and he wanted a bright impressionist surreal background with the cats painted in the hyper-realistic style. I also had a deadline for which I needed to complete the commission painting. Anyhow, I had a challenging time getting the background, right since I usually paint in a hyperrealist style. To achieve

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    Before you even starting painting you have to decided what type of material you will be painting on. In modern days you will most likely land on paper as the material you choose to paint on. After choosing to paint on paper you should decide on what type of paint to use. The artist’s painting, I am looking at choose to uses watercolor paints on a watercolor paper. Apparently watercolor paper is made with linters or cotton rags unlike how printer paper is made. Cotton rags are supposedly stronger

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    Stephen Dedalus Themes

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    Stephen Dedalus is a creature obsessed. He hunts and prowls to find one true meaning to the world through artistic beauty, to find truth through an aesthetic. He finds a way to balance intellectuality and art with his set of philosophical principals called an aesthetic. Stephen Dedalus, the central character, acts as an alternate reflection of the author in this semi-autobiographical fiction A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Joyce primarily uses the early development of Stephen

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