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    Annotation: The Bell Tower This story was one that had a specific theme, in my opinion- do not overlook “minor” errors. Bannadonna was an incredibly determined and ambitious engineer of sorts who was charged with building a bell tower in a certain town in Italy. He made a grand bell tower, but that wasn’t enough for him. He also decided to build a type of automaton that would ring the bell for the people on the hour. In the end, the automaton wound up killing Bannadonna because of its loyalty to

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    Sherrie Levine entered the world of art in the midst of its transition from modern to postmodern ideas and practices. The modern era held specific guidelines that claimed a work of art was only original if it was one of a kind, but artists in the post modern era fought hard to change this way of thinking. Previous centuries focussed on perfecting practices of art, limiting the power of art as a whole. New techniques such as appropriation became a strong characteristic of the new era, producing new

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    I selected Clothespin by Claes Oldenburg as my postmodernism visual piece of art to discuss. This sculpture has multiple characteristics associated with postmodernism. I will be explaining four of them. The first postmodernism trait I want to present is recycle from the past. Clothespins were a staple in almost every household, since clothes were hung from the clothing line to get dried before the drying machine took over that function. Oldenburg took a former common every day object from the past

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    Rene Magritte's The Rape

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    Influenced by the progressing technology and the Industrial Revolution which drove people to urban life, modern art brought an emphasis on originality, innovation and looking at things with a different perspective. One of the major themes of Modernism was to abandon old ideas and produce new ways of creating art. Postmodernism movement developed between the later 1960s and the 1990s that revived earlier styles that artists could sample, adopt and recycle in order to create new, contemporary pieces

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    Art from Baroque Period through the Postmodern Era Renaissance art history began as civic history; it was an expression of civic pride. The first such history was Filippo Villani's De origine civitatis Florentiae et eiusdem famosis civibus, written about 1381-82. Florentine artists revived an art that was almost dead, Villani asserts, just as Dante had restored poetry after its decline in the Middle Ages. The revival was begun by Cimabue and completed by Giotto, who equalled the ancient painters

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    Art from Baroque Period through the Postmodern Era Renaissance art history began as civic history; it was an expression of civic pride. The first such history was Filippo Villani's De origine civitatis Florentiae et eiusdem famosis civibus, written about 1381-82. Florentine artists revived an art that was almost dead, Villani asserts, just as Dante had restored poetry after its decline in the Middle Ages. The revival was begun by Cimabue and completed by Giotto, who equalled the ancient painters

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    On the KCC campus there is many of great pieces of art to appreciate, however, when picking a pieces of art to talk about the Tin man by Andrew Arvanetes is a very eye catching piece. Andrew Arvanetes piece Tin Man sits right behind one of the newest additions to campus, and in front of the River and walking trail. The Tin Man can be seen from a very far distances, for example where the child cares playground was moved to they have a great view of both Chicago Nike and Tin Man. Tin Man by Andrew

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    Postmodernism is a movement in the field of art, architecture and criticism. It includes a way of interpreting culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture and fiction in a way which is not easily convincible. Pulp Fiction is an American comedy crime movie directed by Quentin Taratino which was released in 1994. Pulp Fiction is a term used to describe a huge amount of creative writing available to the American public in the early nineteen-hundreds. In this paper we discuss

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    After this the focus of art shifted to depiction of an emotion or experience. An example of this would be impressionism, which differed in 2 main ways. First it focused on lower social classes, IE middle or low income, and their daily activities. Secondly, the entire style of art had changed. These paintings were much more expressive with a wider range of color and lighting, and often included subject

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    Traditional Art then and now When thinking of traditional art I tend to imagine the grandiose oil paintings or gestural sculptures of figures displayed in the various national galleries I have visited, this to me, is what I think of being 'traditional' in terms of art. A more general description of traditional art is; “Art that is a part of the culture of a group of people, skills and knowledge of which are passed down through generations from master craftsmen to apprentices.” (www.yourdictonary

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