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    Beauty a Warbler on a Plum Tree, originated in Japan around 1710 to 1786. The artwork is a painting hung on a textile scroll, featuring ink and color on silk. The work is featured on the third floor in the Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, alongside other scrolls by Settei. The scroll portrays a beautiful woman in traditional Japanese dress, peeking from behind a screen called a shoji screen, to admire a small bird called a Warbler, perched on a plum blossom tree

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    Essay on LACMA Concert

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    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a website that announces its programs. Anyone can easily find and choose a concert. I chose a concert for Sunday July 25, 2010. This concert was emerging artists from Ipalpiti Festibal 2010. It included the four pieces of music that are described below. One of these was Fantasiestucke, Opus 88, both Romanze and Duet were preformed. This concerto was performed by pianist Luiza Borac, violinist Vladimir Dyo, and cellist Yves Dharamraj. The second piece

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    glass case in the Los Angeles Art Museum. Not a very descriptive name for an artifact with very minimalistic information about it. The display only described it as the Standing Male Figure from 700-600 BCE made of limestone and found in the small island country of Cyprus. Cyprus at the time was ruled by the Assyrian Empire until its fall in 609 BCE. The piece is estimated to be during the Greek Geometric Period and the Greek Archaic Period, but can be compared to some Greek art during the Greek Archaic

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    The Authored Object ­ The Semiological Project Kyle Onaga DAR2 ­ Computational Space Spring 2015 AADRL Outline ● Abstract ● ● The Role of the Author ● ● Language of Form ● ● Activation of the Viewer ● ● Object as Medium ● ● Removing the Author ● ● Architecture as Medium ● ● Bibliography Abstract The Authored Object in interested in investigating the contemporary role of the author in architecture. Using linguistic construction as defined by theorists Noam Chomsky and Roland Barthes, this paper

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    Barbara Kruger

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    Lisa, Hi, how are you? I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back to you I’ve been a little busy; I am actually in DC right now. It’s beautiful down here and may I say I have gained a lot of knowledge about plenty of things particularly about art. As you know I want to major in art but you might think I’m a little insane for coming all the way from Houston to Washington Dc to learn about my favorite feminist artist Barbara Kruger. I came down here to get more in depth about Kruger’s painting ‘’your body is a

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    and symbolism until the mid twentieth century, when a new movement among Mexican-Americans emerges in California, dubbed the Chicano movement. As visual propaganda becomes a large part of the movement, a significant body of art with common themes and styles, known as Chicano art, follows. This shift in subject matter among Mexican-American artists toward a specific social and political agenda began earlier, as evidenced by the work of Rivera, Orozco, and Posada, but, it isn’t until the mid 1960’s that

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    The Design and Uses of Jomon Pottery Essay

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    It was amazing to experience the excitement of ceramics art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and seeing the eyes of people who were staring at the ergonomically well designed Jomon pot that looked very difficult to design by hand. The size of the Jomon pottery was 22 inches in height and is nearly equivalent to a fish bucket and the shape of the Jomon was a wide cylinder that looked like it could store lots of amount of water and fish. The Jomon had a combination with variety types of clay that

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    Art Work Compare And Contrast In this assignment task, compare and contrast between two Artist and Painter with different painting style, thesis statement, analysis, conversation, communicate way on this topic. As the second of a two section program, this presentation highlights around thirty one works by artists from Iran, the Arab Great world, Turkey, Mountain Country Azerbaijan, and the Northwest Africa, including; Newsha Tavakolian, Maimouna Guerresi, and Mr. Sherin Guirguis and among others

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    Sky Goddess Sarcophagi

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    Nut The Sky Goddess Sarcophagi: Egyptians And Use Of Colors For the exhibition review project, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Hammer building floor 3, and saw in the Egyptian art: Nut, the Sky Goddess Sarcophagus. I decided to do my research about it, because I am really interested in the perspective of Ancient Egypt use of color. Nut, the Sky Goddess Coffin is a likely Thebes, mid-21st Dynasty, about 1000-968 BC. The coffin purpose was primarily a container for the corpse;

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    With an extensive educational background ranging from Pasadena High School to Claremont Graduate School, Turrell became well versed in the arts, aviation, and most specifically, perceptual psychology. In his early twenties, Turrell began experimenting with light as a medium with a focus on his training in psychology and optical illusions. Turrell gathers inspiration from various theoretical

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