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    Nina Simone’s 8th studio album, Pastel Blues, is an album featuring a fusion of sistering genres: blues, jazz, soul, folk, and gospel. Nina, being the brilliant arranger she was, is known for her ability to blend these genres into her signature sound. A sound most struggle to classify due to its avant garde nature. She got her start in music by playing the piano in church. One evening her church had a recital where her talents were recognised. Which lead to her starting piano lessons. Nina and her

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    1900 by Degas is a study drawing of what was later to be Dancers VI. It portrays three women dancing, although one seems to be centrally placed and in focus with two other women behind her dancing. This portrait of dancing women, is a draft done in pastels, with the expert mixing of various other materials such as gouache, tempera. This is attributed to the experimental nature of Edgar Degas’s methods and techniques of creating his works. The lines are not sharp and crisp as you would expect in a typical

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    Consider the painting The Railroad Bride, Argenteuil by Claude Monet. This artwork looks simple, but uses geometry and one point linear perspective. Monet uses a sense of opposition is created by the alternating rhythm of light to dark established by the bridge pillars and the color orange and blue in both water and smoke from the train above. The light and dark areas given the picture asymmetrical balance between the dark and light areas. Monet uses one point linear perspective to create the bride

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    In the Impressionist gallery in RISD museum, a biggest piece of work attracts people’s eyes. Six Friends at Dieppe, a drawing made by Edgar Degas in 1885, depicts a moment of six people on vacation on France’s Northern Coast. Degas used pastel on rough paper to created this portrait from a vertical view. Six men emerge from an orange background and five of them assemble on the right side. These people dressing in the suits typically in 1880s come from different ages. Apart from four middle-aged men

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    The Montclair Art Museum is located in Montclair, New Jersey. The museum holds various collections throughout the year and offers an outlet for students and other artists to explore within their facilities. Upon visiting, the main exhibition presented was Matisse and American Art. This exhibition held 19 pieces created by Henri Matisse and other American artists. The museum centered on central theme of Matisse and there was a specific gallery of Matisse inspired Art. In this gallery I found Untitled

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    The differences and similarities between Jean-Leon Gerome’s The Bath, and Edgar Degas’s Leaving the Bath are evident but there is more than what meets the eye. Gerome’s work of art shows how much people dependent upon one another, while Degas’s work of art shows people’s independence. Being married to a wealthy person or born into a wealthy family allows people to be dependent upon other people do their work, while those who are not wealthy do everything themselves. By simply adding one extra person

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    Kassidy. One Tuesday afternoon, my friend, Katy told me that Kassidy was going to sit with us at lunch that day. I shrugged my shoulders and replied with a casual “okay”. Before Kassidy walked in, I had a whole image of her in my mind: blonde hair, cute pastel colored clothes, and religious, all stereotypes that I thought a person with an innocent name like Kassidy

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    Beyond Pastel Poem

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    problems. Poetry explores many challenges which teenagers face on a regular basis. In 2008, the number of divorces in Canada increased to 70,226. Many families have to learn to cope with divorce, and many find it hard to deal with. In the poem “Beyond Pastel” by Katherine Lawrence

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    a two-dimensional object with real or implied lines that create the sense of direction and movement: Title of object: Untitled by Cathy Daley, 2012 Medium: Oil Pastel URL Source: http://www.edwardcella.com/artist/Cathy_Daley/works/#!339 Explanation: This oil pastel image is two-dimensional, and has both real and implied lines. The implied lines exhibit the movement of the dancer. The contour lines expose the figure’s legs while the tutu and torso have gesture lines because of its loose and indefinite

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    Peg snatched the poster off her desk, ripping a corner. She then flipped it to the floor and stamped on it, making sure to leave a dirty footprint on the paper. Red reached for her art bag and flinched as boris gave it a kick. She watched as her oil pastel crayons spilled out of her bag, and a lone red crayon rolled down the aisle. “We don’t care about your stupid ideas. No one looking at that poster would want to come to this classroom anyway.” Peg stood over Red, making her cringe as she shook in

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