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making, though very artificial, can be seen as a way of both bringing us together and giving those groups that have previously been neglected throughout history a voice. John B. Ravenal, the curator for the Modern and Contemporary Art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA),

Edward Hopper was a quiet person but his art speaks louder that his words. His paintings are famous because they are mysterious and his scenes don’t seem to be complete. His paintings leave the viewer with questions which makes his painting even more interesting. Hopper started sketching and drawing at a very young age. Hopper has struggled throughout his career but in the end, he’s made it to where he is now. When Hopper was young he loved anything to do with art. He was extremely excited when he got

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks states, “Art Hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home” which is true for many viewers when experiencing Bruce Nauman’s work. Nauman is classified as a contemporary American artist whose works also incorporate ideas of post-modernism and minimalism. He has been making art since the early 1960’s and has moved through many different mediums as his art progressed and his style changed. At first Nauman was a painter who soon ended that career and turned to sculpting

office, determined to improve relations between Central and South American nations. Under his leadership, the United States emphasized cooperation among the Western Hemisphere. FDR and Secretary of State Cordell Hull utilized the Good Neighbor Policy to carry out this ideal. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States military intervened in Latin American nations to protects its, as seen through the Spanish/Mexican-American War.[CITATION] The documents, “Manifest Destiny”, promoted and

The American Industrial Revolution brought a lot of changes to the world. To The way Americans thought to the tools they used. American industrialization changed the world, and was definitely a turning point in world history. History has had many turning points. Some were single, not quite as big, but some were shattering events with immediate and obvious impact. Other necessary turning points occurred not in a few days, months or even years, but instead of evolutionary developments over decades

In the Eye of the Beholder On the eve of my grandfather's funeral, as my father, my sister, and my cousin and I stood around a pile of jerseys, t-shirts, and polos that once belonged to my grandfather, we each claimed a few for ourselves. I claimed a blue and white baseball shirt that reads “Cosmos” on the front, perhaps the team name, and “Annen” on the back. Whenever I wear this shirt I get emotional, it is, besides photographs, one of the last tangible things I have of my grandfather. That jersey

Van Zandt) Thomas Kirby Van Zandt (March 7, 1814 - January 2, 1886) was a painter active in the Albany, New York region. He is associated with his sketches of race stallions for proprietors including Leland Stanford, Erastus Corning, and Eli Whitney, additionally painted bust-length pictures of Albany residents, canines, and different creatures. It has been estimated that Van Zandt followed his stallion figures from light projections of Eadweard Muybridge 's praised photos. Van Zandt is covered

Louis Gates Jr. is the Director of the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard University, and an esteemed Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. According to his Harvard University profile he is an “Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, institution builder…and the recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous prizes.” Professor Gates was also the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1973 he earned

Jazz Albums as Art In the Process of Completing Research for This Issue, I Realized That What I Want to Say May Be Divided into Two Sections. Part One Surveys the General Topic of Album Art; Part Two (Outlined in the Accompanying Sidebar) Considers the Conspicuous Absence of Black Artists from the Process of Designing Jazz Packages: Covers, Liner Notes Etc. This Second Part Will Be Published in an Upcoming Issue.--R.G.O'M. The enclosed portfolio of album cover art springs from my ongoing

forms of dance which has been prevailing for a long time, vaudeville and ballet. Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were the forerunners of modern dance in America. Each had a different way of being unique and representing the art form of modern dance in his or her own way. Where Loie Fuller began experimenting with effects of gas lighting on silk costumes, Isadora Duncan discarded the slippers and adapted a new kind of dress form more of which will be discussed later and so