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Modern and Postmodern Architecture Architecture Essay
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Nevertheless, all through the 1900s, not just architects but also the community regardless of class excessively exhibited the classical designs. Classical designs have grown contradictory with the swift evolution and hi-tech way of living of their modern world. As a result of this, many new proposals existed. The two recognized proposals were modernism and postmodernism.
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Photographic Portrait Architecture Coursework
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“Portraiture means individualism and as such means diversity, self-expression, and private point of view. The most successful images seem to be those which exist on several planes at once and which reflect the fantasy and understanding of many.” Portraiture held a different meaning for different times. The oncoming of the twentieth century did away with the carefully poised photographs.
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Domestic Architecture Architecture Essay
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By Colonial style we refer to the houses built by early settlers in New England and Chesapeake Bay colonies. The website http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/arth/arth270/17thc%20architecture.htm also tells us that these settlers built buildings with the aim of replicating the lifestyle they had known in England.
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Film Theory of Bazin and Eisenstein Architecture Essay
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Eisenstein and Bazin are two very important people in the field of cinematic theories. Both created theories in the hitherto untouched are of cinematic art. Even though there are many similarities in their perspectives, the dissimilarities are more than them.
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The Avant Garde Movement in Russia Architecture Essay
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The avant-garde movement in Russia was existence from 1949 to the year 1952, the term avant-garde is a Russian term that means the front guards or the vanguards, this term refers to the work that is usually meant for experimenting, this work includes art and politics and also culture. The movement was meant to push the boundaries of norms and the status quo.
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What are the purposes of art museums and galleries Architecture Essay
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What are the purposes of art museums and galleries? Many and varied are the views about the purpose of Art galleries and museums. Authors have posited, postulated and presented arguments in support of their diverse views on the end art galleries and museums serve.
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Minimalism, functionalism and neo-eclectic Architecture Essay
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The three main movements in architecture are minimalism, functionalism and neo-eclectic or postmodernism. Minimalism refers to a movement where all extravagance was removed to expose a structure to its minimum core. Architect Ludwig Mies is associated with the movement for he coined the phrase “less is more”.
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Do Great Works Survive Because They Are Great Architecture Article
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This paper hopes to develop the possibility that great works of art survive because they are great; that they don’t become great just because they survive. The possibility that a great work of art is the Test of Time, in that it becomes the standard against which other works are evaluated, is the supposition being put forward. A second or corollary possibility is that art should ‘matter’ and the ‘whys’ are where aesthetic philosophy steps in.
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Tate Modern Building Architecture Essay
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Tate Modern was created 2000, once a former power station, designed by well-known architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, that had been closed in 1982. The former power station offered all the space that was needed for the new museum. An international architectural competition was held which attracted entries from all over the world.
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Photography as Medium of Fact or Fiction Architecture Essay
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As the old adage proclaimed: “a picture paints a thousand words”, that is how powerful a single photograph can get when it gets laid on television, magazines, or newspapers. This is because a single photo could elicit different reactions and interpretations. True enough, in his article in 1859, Francis Frith maintained that photography’s popularity was due to its “essential truthfulness” (Wright, 1999, p. 72).
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Capital Communes - from Paris to the Paris of the South Architecture Essay
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This is a story of modern protest. It is also a rendering of Napoleonic era, Prefect of the Seine, Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann and his architectural legacy in the urban development of Paris, and contribution to a number of international projects, also reflected in the reverberation of his designs throughout the nineteenth-century metropolises of Europe and the Americas.
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Challenges of Work Placement Feasibility Architecture Case Study
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Having identified the obstacles, a tender was floated, inviting consultants who were interested in taking up the project of a 5-star hotel for execution. Several contractors subscribed. The above-obstructing parameters were checked and a contract was awarded to one architect consultant – Velmar Inc.
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Vermeer and Psychology in Art Architecture Essay
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He never felt the necessity of looking for gorgeous beauty. His paintings belonged to the ordinary social life of Dutch people and he was part, which any other artist would have thought uneventful. He is also called the 'painter of light' because of his stunning capability of bringing light into the canvas and make the creations a play of light and shadow.
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Architecture and Avant-garde Architecture Essay
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American architect and philosopher Frank L. Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” This is indisputably true since architectural designs are windows through which once looks into the past and also foresees the future. Architecture is to building as literature.
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Costumes as an aspect of theatrical play Architecture Essay
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Theatrical productions typically use elements of fashion and style from the time period in which the play is set. Costumes play one of the most important roles in historical period features reflection. A costume is the integral part of any play, especially that of historical character.
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Marketing the Visual Arts in the Media Architecture Assignment
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Many people object to the opinion that art and culture cannot be promoted or sold for a price. Gone are the days of the “Raj” (see Appendix # 7) era in which true art and culture were encouraged to flourish. Times have changed and along with the changing times, the royal treatment offered in the olden days has come down.
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Edouard Manets Olympia Architecture Essay
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Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863, Musee d'Orsay, Paris) has indeed gathered ardent critics during those times until the embarkment of the 20th century. Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was considered the first modernist painter. Upon perusing his background, one will be surprised that he was born and raised in Paris from a bourgeois, conservative family.
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Urban Planning and Sustainable Development Architecture Essay
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The distinctive part of the city is its environment being engulfed with water. It forms along the part of Venetian Lagoon along Adriatic Sea. Due to its close proximity with water along its side, it was considered a major base for naval arcade.
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The Palace at Nymphaion and its Architectural Setting Architecture Book Report/Review
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The palace which is situated in the town of Kemalpasa was originally identified as the ‘Palace of the Laskarids’ and recent studies have analyzed it from the point of view of construction technique. Suna Cagaptay discusses in detail about the palace at Nymphaion, describing first the architectural setting of the structure.
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Dining Room in Authentic Elizabethan Style Architecture Assignment
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The author states that although the Elizabethan age produced a certain amount of characteristic sculpture and painting, the Elizabethan style can best be seen in the period's architecture and the great country houses of the new nobility. The Elizabethan style was diverse, borrowing decorative motifs from Continental Gothic, Italian, and Flemish design.
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The Channel Tunnel: an Analysis Architecture Essay
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Geologists found chalk marl beneath sea level which was strong enough to sustain a metallic tunnel1 and engineers thought they could do it. The Channel Tunnel, popularly nicknamed the Chunnel in English, is a 50-km-long rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover, connecting Cheriton in Kent, United Kingdom, and Coquelles near Calais in northern France.
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Two pantings from the getty museum Architecture Essay
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However, two artists who were worlds apart from each other definitely coincided in the themes they decided to use for their respective paintings: van Mieris (b. Holland, 1635) and de' Matteis (b. Italy, 1662). So, in comparing the two works subject-matter of this paper, it would probably be a good idea first of all to mention what they have in common.
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French Arty of XIXth Century Architecture Essay
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The paintings of a particular time generally give an idea of the kind of life led by people of that time. As in the case of French paintings, it could also provide an insight into the social classes and customs adhered to during that period. I was always fascinated by paintings. While observing paintings, I try to get into the mood and timeframe of the painter.
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Furniture and Interiors Architecture Essay
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The technique of mechanization helped in producing furniture with tilting features which began to bring change to every American designed office. In about 1901, Gustav Stickley is credited to have designed a very comfortable reclining chair which gave a boost to his designing career.
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A Handicraft of New Era Advertising Architecture Coursework
36 pages (9210 words) , Download 3 , Coursework
As in yoga or any other method preferred for solemn meditations, it was believed that the creation and preservation of a preferred environment increase the sense of well-being of a person. Be it health-wise or business-wise the main point is to put any behavioral effect in the people subjected to the certain complexities and patterns relevant to environmental architecture and psychology
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The Drawings of Joseph Beuys Architecture Essay
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Performance was central to Beuys's art. For his best-known "action," How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), he covered his head with honey and gold leaf and lectured a dead hare cradled in his arms. He said that he took it "to the pictures. . . . I let him touch the pictures with his paws and meanwhile talked to him about them”.
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German Photomontage in 1920s and 1930s Architecture Essay
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Paradoxically, the reality for the New Woman included entrapment in low-paying jobs and subjection to male-dominated hierarchies. Hannah Hoch looked at these contradictions and used them to construct a number f fractured, disturbing photomontages which simultaneously expressed the conflicting realities f pleasure, anger, confidence, and anxiety.
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Theory of Art Issues Architecture Essay
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Beauty, grace, and melody are also ill-equipped for definition without a cultural or social context to frame the definition. Art, which may be a combination of several senses colliding with the cognitive process, becomes especially problematic as we search for a definition. Recent centuries have evolved the meaning, as well as the definition.
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Building Materials: Personal Environments Architecture Case Study
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Building materials are also the stuff of our personal environments.  They are all around us, and literally part of our worthy requirements. Careful selection of environmentally sustainable building materials is the easiest way for architects to begin incorporating sustainable design principles in buildings.
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Sula by Toni Morrison Architecture Essay
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In Sula, Morrison locates her characters in an isolated black neighbourhood; it is called 'the Bottom' and situated in the middle of the United States in the imaginary town of Medallion, Ohio, which is located on the axis between the history of slavery and that of abolition in the United States, or freedom in Canada.
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Three Products in Nostalgic Design Architecture Research Paper
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Death Is Not an Event in Life Architecture Coursework
37 pages (9701 words) , Download 3 , Coursework
“Call no man happy until he is dead”, wrote unhappy Aeschylus. “Death is nothing” opined the much more contented Epicurus. “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take an eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present” wrote Wittgenstein.
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Music Is a Product of Creative Minds Architecture Assignment
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One of the key points that a composer should look at is the balance and harmony between the voice and/ or instruments. Instruments should complement and should not compete against each other. This is to ensure that other musical instruments will not overshadow each instrument or section in the orchestra.
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Music and Architecture n Britain during the Period 1600 to 1750 Architecture Coursework
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Music during the Baroque Period has gone through a continuous evolution. The period has been divided into the Early, the Middle and the Late Baroque Periods for easier study of the development through these ages. A similar analysis is also done on the architectural evolution as well.
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In What Ways Does What Edward Said Calls Orientalism Affect Art and Art History Architecture Essay
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Orientalism may well be comprehended as the tendency of the Western authors, designers, and artists to depict and imitate the significant elements of the Eastern culture and tradition through the artistic and literary means. Edward Said, in his controversial but important book Orientalism in 1978, enhances the meaning and scope of Orientalism.  
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Neoclassical Architecture in England Architecture Essay
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The era marked an attempt to revive the glory of the classical era by incorporating the salient features of the age such as logic, rationale, restraint, and adherence to form. The neoclassical style is well reflected in the works of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), one of the popular names of the neoclassical movement.
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The Engineers Aesthetic and Architecture Architecture Term Paper
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The engineer is the hero of our age," stated the German architect and product designer Peter Behrens in the early 1900s. Behrens was one of the forerunners of modernism. Upon being appointed chief architect and designer at the large electrical appliances firm AEG, he promised to work to the "most intimate union possible between art and industry".
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Architecture and Urban Planning in Port Cities Architecture Essay
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According to Aldo Rossi in "The Architecture of the City" (Rossi 1982), typography needs to be the start of any theory or discussion involving architecture. Without discussing typography, the basic element of architecture, and the basis, in his opinion, of all buildings, then the exclusion of this topic causes all other discussions to be impossible or implausible.
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Spanish Golden Age Painting Architecture Essay
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The artists described above could never be fully described as products of their circumstances. In all the cases the creative genius behind the works remained, despite the calculations of their patrons and rulers, enigmatic and unpredictable.
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Analysis of Damien Hirsts Artworks Architecture Essay
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It is essential to state that the Ralph Lauren car collection has undeniable mass appeal, and it is clear that this is partially the reason for its being on display. The same goes for the "Rockwell and the Red Socks" exhibit that conveniently opened with the beginning of baseball season for the World Series champs.
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Music in the Twentieth Century Architecture Case Study
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In 1918, he established the “Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen” (meaning, “society for private musical performances”) for the practice, releases and expression on contemporary harmony and to keep away from a common audience and its condemnation. The public was full of life until 1921 when it needed financial assistance to carry on.
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Zeitgeist of the Twentieth Century - H. R. Giger Architecture Essay
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The author explains that Giger is an artist who develops a more intellectual and stark perception of everything around him. He uses computer graphics and tools in order to demonstrate the mechanics of birth, death, emotions. An examination of his work will reveal the fact that his work depends on the unspoken language
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Structural Stability: the Alamillo Bridge Architecture Case Study
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It is a cable-stayed structure spanning 200 m without any intermediate supports, and its originality is in the lack of backstays and the balancing of the front stays through the backward inclination of a massive pylon. The bridge has a steel deck, the pylon is a composite element, with an external steel formwork structurally connected to the falling concrete.
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Impressionism and The Famous Cafes of Paris Architecture Essay
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The focus of this paper is on the impressionism movement and the famous cafes of Paris. Yet, the artists associated with the movement took pride in what they did, and how they were known. They put coarse brush-strokes on the canvas. They brought painting out of the studio and into the open air. They used thick color.
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Construction Legal Studies Architecture Essay
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A construction on site should be managed effectively in order to avoid possible issues and problems. This particular case demands even more management and organizational requirement during construction due to its controversial nature. Endeavour Tower, a modern five-story “block of flats” is to be erected amidst a house, gardens, and other historical attractions.
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Modernisation, Modernity, and Modernism Architecture Essay
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And lastly, the term modernism is an artistic and cultural movement that normally includes progressive art and architecture, music, and literature emerging in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th-century academic and historicist traditions.The concept of modernization comes from a view of societies as having a standard evolutionary pattern.
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What Is Gentrification All about Architecture Essay
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What is Gentrification? Through researching this phenomenon, one discovers that there is no finite definition of the term. The term was coined in 1964 by sociologist Ruth Glass when she used examples of London Districts as illustrations to define what the term meant: One by one, many of the working quarters of London have been invaded by the middle-class upper and lower.
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Wells Cathedral Architecture Essay
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Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, Wells Cathedral is known for its soaring arches and unusual interior design. This cathedral is one of my favorites because there is always something to see that one didn't see before. The senses are nearly overwhelmed at times here and it is easy to forget one even has a body composed of anything but eyes and ears.
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Changes in Portraiture with Time Architecture Essay
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This study is about a comparative and analytical examination of the earlier and the current studio portraiture. It seeks to establish if and how the changeover of the studio portraiture to the digital format has changed the style and the type of photography available today and the significance of the change to photography.
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What Is Postmodern Design Architecture Essay
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The postmodern condition, or postmodernity, has a number of different definitions according to the activity/discipline it is being applied. It generally relates to the unique features of either objects or ideas that stem from the unique conditions of the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century. 
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