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Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets, an alter piece standing some 12 feet and 7 inches tall, was created around 1280-1290 A. D. for the Church of Santa Trinità in Florence, Italy and is now in the Galleria delgi Uffizi Florence. This iconographical piece was constructed through tempera and gold leaf on wood by…

             For this installation will be about the focus of the human body through art.  The techniques of modern artists as well as contemporary, classical, and Renaissance will be used to mention a few.  The point of the exhibition is to allow the viewer to witness the changing forms of…

This essay will compare the characteristics, style, and social conditions of the Dada and Pop Art movements in order to explore their relationship. It will examine the similarities and differences between the two movements, as well as explain why Pop Art did not continue with the Dada tradition even though both movements used everyday objects…

Hispanic ContributionsHispanics play a big role in the success of the United States. Americans seem to overlook all the contributions Hispanics have made to the American culture. Every single day Hispanic contributions are rising, because Spanish is the second most common language spoken and over half of America’s population is Hispanic. Hispanics have contributed to…

Picasso began painting one of his most celebrated plants. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. in early 1907. When Picasso foremost started working on the picture. it was meant to be a brothel scene of five adult females and two work forces. In the finished version. the work forces are non present. What remains are the five adult…

            John Dewey is one of the great thinkers of educational and philosophical theories. He was born October 20, 1859 and grew up to become an educator, first in a high school setting and then in a college setting. John Dewey is a pioneer of many ideas but one of the most important was his…

At the beginning of this essay, Yutang starts speaking about the differences between the mind of a person who reads and of someone who does not read. Lin show his point of view very cleary telling us how small can be the thoughts of someone who does not read can be when “His life falls…

Francisco Goya, an artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, expressed his views on the political turbulence in Spain through his artwork. Living during a period of political and social unrest in Europe, Goya was deeply influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, which had also captured the attention of Spain’s influential figures….

Santiago Sierra (born in Madrid in 1966) is a renowned artist known for his controversial work in the global art community. His art focuses on critiquing the contractual economy, often by involving individuals who are typically immigrants, casual workers, or homeless wanderers. Sierra pays these individuals to perform seemingly meaningless tasks, which he then captures…

The Lost Thing is the story of a curious boy who discovers a gigantic, red, machine-like animal that appears to be lost. The boy pities this “lost thing” and therefore, decides that it is his personal responsibility to attempt to find out where this creature belongs. Shaun Tan wrote this book primarily to entertain and…