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    “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” (Wassily Kandinsky) Color can give a source of information and also can affect mood, emotions, and behaviors. The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald and includes characters named Gatsby, Nick, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan. The story follows Gatsby mainly with Nick as the narrator as Gatsby goes off the deep end chasing a dream. The color repeats throughout the passage and is related to the characters or settings like Daisy and white, New York and

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    The Bauhaus School merged fine arts with applied arts and industrial production to change the way in which graphic and industrial designers approached ideas of ornamentation, beauty and functionality. With his manifesto; "The final goal of all artistic activity is architecture” Bauhaus founder, Gropius, focused primarily on functionality, rejecting the extravagance of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Political, social and economic factors all influenced the new egalitarian or utopian approach to design

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    Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter who of the few painted an abstract work, once said, “There is no must in art because art is free” (Todays Quote, 2017). Kandinsky was one of the first few painters to create abstract art. When it comes to art, there are no limits nor boundaries because art is a pigment of a person’s imagination. Whether it was painted, drawn, sculpted, animated, or even pigmented, it is art. If tattoos are not considered art, nevertheless tattoo artists have no recognition for

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    The Colors of a World “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” Our sense of sight gives us a chance to see colors and these colors give us vivid insight into the world as Wassily Kandinsky explains here. We use colors to signify emotions and ideas around us and this is exactly what F. Scott Fitzgerald uses them for in The Great Gatsby. He uses a large array of colors such as green, to represent hope, gold , to represent wealth, and white to represent innocence and purity. These help

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    claustrophobic city and that is why he made it look very fragmented.  He presented a collage of signs, monuments, and robotic figures to show how he felt in The City.  I will be adding my own abstract piece to my portfolio, which was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky.  For this piece, I used bold colours and included a variation of different textures.  It would be interesting to use my “out of the box” ideas for my architecture

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    As a travel writer and photographer, technology has helped me greatly in the past ten years. The main way it has changed my life is by making it totally portable, both in terms of equipment and in terms of location. Ten years ago I had a desktop computer and even had an early Blackberry smartphone. But I was still tethered to my desktop in terms of really being able to work and access my data and content. Portability Ten years ago I was able to answer email from my Blackberry, but now I can

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    beginnings of Abstract art can be traced back to Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) who reduced his forms down to geometric shapes - cylinders, spheres and cones - with the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), taking this concept even further. Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) is considered the first truly abstract artist as he did not believe that his paintings needed a subject and expressed emotion through different shapes and colours; Green for example gave a feeling of peace while red promoted aggression

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    The Russian art theorist Wassily Kandinsky once said that “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” In other words, what Kandinsky said means that colors can be used to evoque very different types of emotions and ideas. Colors always have a deeper meaning than what they are actually used for, no matter if it is used in art or in literature. The classical dystopian novel We, which was published in 1924 by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is a great example of a work of literature that uses color imagery

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    The Attraction to Paris

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    Millions and millions of people from all around the world come to visit France every year. The most popular city to visit in France is Paris. So many people visit Paris, but each of them have different reasons for visiting. Some people come to see the major landmarks and attractions. Others come to see the numerous art galleries. The food in Paris draws in tourists all by itself. There are many reasons to visit Paris. Probably the most popular reason to visit Paris is to see all of the most

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