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Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The Peony Pavilion is a play written by Ming Dynasty author Tang Xianzu. It is the most famous of all Kunqu operas and is considered the Romeo and Juliet of China. Kun, an art form that combines dance, poetry, and flute accompanied by fine and sophisticated costumes and makeup, is the one of reasons for Peony Pavilion’s popularity and position that it has enjoyed so far. 
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Modern King James Version: Troy Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that universal terminology such as “Trojan Horse,” “Achilles Heel” and “Odyssey,” as well as idioms like “beware of Greeks bearing gifts and “the face that launched a thousand ships” are all derived from ancient Greek history and myth, which was never so enduringly blended as in Homer’s Iliad, the poem was Troy takes its plot.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir called Dance at Bougival Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay explores the painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir called "Dance at Bougival". Renoir made use of oil paints on a canvas to create this painting. The primary subject matter of the art work is a couple that is dancing in front of a group of other people. The painting centers around a man and a woman who are dancing in an outdoor area.
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Art Movements Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Being a monotheistic religion Islam has a belief that worshipping people and other animate objects are considered idolatry. Under Sharia law, idolatry is a grave sin. Even the prophet Mohammad became a subject of art for Muslims but not in a religious context. Islamic art does not necessarily mean that the artist who created it is a Muslim.
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Modernism - Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The essay explores Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and their works in the context of modernism. That was the period marked with a narrative like photographs. Modernism tended to deal with more simple forms. It was also permissible to deal with a range of subject matters without focusing on one particular item.
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Andy Warhols Outer and Inner Space Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The paper discusses Andy Warhol's film called "Outer and Inner Space". Warhol had begun Outer and Inner Space, a subject of this paper, as another “screen-test” of his rising star Edie Sedgwick. Yet he expanded his formal means through the use of both a novel technology, the videotape recorder, and a novel technique, the split-screen projection.
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Difference between Romantic and Modern Painting Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay compares Romantic art with Modern art. Romantic art subjectively attempts to present individual impressions, the artist being primarily a psychological medium of interpretation - “emotions”. Compared to modern painting which is the evolution of new pictorial forms combining a wide range of materials.
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Historical Costume to Contemporary Fashion Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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It is essential to state that сostume basically pertains to dress and wardrobe. It can be a distinct type of attire of either a person or a society at a specific time.  Several forms of art have used the term costume to denote the particular style of clothing worn to effectively portray a character.
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The Waterfront Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The movie, a controversial and powerful part drama part gangster film about mob violence, trade unions and the corruption among longshoreman, is set on New York’s waterfront docks and it is about the struggle of workers for work and dignity
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Movie Mississippi Masala Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Conflicts between the races arise mainly due to ignorance, prejudice and stereotyping which leads to negative ideas and attitudes arising among the groups when relating to each other. Economic pressures and increasing competition for limited numbers of jobs, housing and schools have forced the races into conflict.
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Auteur Theory in Kieslowskis Trilogy Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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It has been part of the tradition of film commentary since it was first proposed in 1954, by Francois Truffaut, in his essay Une certaine tendance du cinema francais. Perhaps the most oft-quoted opinion from this essay is the idea that “there are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors” (Auteur theory).
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Pulp Fiction and the Rejection of Film Noir Pessimism Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that in addition to liberties with such visual and narrative devices as having been shot in color and upending the expectations of the femme fatale, the most conspicuous and prominent departure from the framework of film noir is the insistence on rejecting the overarching pessimism expected from film noir.
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Modern Science Fiction Films Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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Caught in contradictory assumptions about ourselves and history, viewers feel helpless to act. Living in existential shame, we feel victimized by our world and explain it away rather than modeling it as a process we can participate in. Living in existential guilt, we assume that we know how to "win" against ourselves.
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The Tree of the Wooden Clogs Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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He uses his knowledge and his skills to come up with one output that could trigger the minds of the many and which can change the perceptions of the many viewer - Italian or not. This paper is aimed at analyzing the very attributes of Olmi's movie "The Tree of the Wooden Clogs".
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Soviet Montage Editing and History Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that Montage is a French word meaning “putting together” or an “assembly”. It is one of the techniques of film editing. Soviet filmmakers of the ’20s formulated the Soviet Montage in order to deliver effectively a message that cannot be done in continuity editing. There are three senses of the film.
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African American film genre Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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From the 1620s,blacks were stereotyped and the emergence of minstrel shows in the 1840s only helped in branding even more this misconception, (Davis) and introducing black caricatures, portrayed by white actors with black-make-up, as the coons, the toms, and the mammies at first, and later on followed by the mulattoes and the bucks.
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Analysis of Across the Universe Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Carroll's view that cinema is not a prosthetic device but rather like the painting, what you see is not the object, but the representation of objects fits well with this movie. Even though some of the actual objects prove true to their character, many are invented and symbolic. The viewers are not meant to see the physical world as it is in reality.
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The Monochrome Art Movement and the Minjung Art Movement Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that both movements confront certain issues regarding Korea’s traditional style of painting although they differ in the matter of what they are fighting for; as well as their basis, belief, interpretation. One of the main differences between the two movements is that Minjung Art Movement was more of a protest against imperialism.
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Saving Private Ryan: The Paradoxical Search for Humanity within the Brutal Inhumanity of War Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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So to conclude, Saving Private Ryan presents World War II as a brutal conflict that was fought for the correct reasons. It starts with what is justifiably regarded as the greatest battle scene ever put onto film in which the true horror and near insane barbarism of warfare is presented starkly to the audience. 
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Picasso's Influence on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The paper will discover Pablo Picasso art and shows his role in the Gertrude Stein's book. The book called "Tender Buttons". Picasso has served during the Spanish Civil War and Stein had taught people that the surrounding interacts with individual and convey meaning. They both had interest in cubism.
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Musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang may be more than 30 years old, but every parent and every ex-tot will probably recall its relentlessly upbeat ingredients of the music and characters used in it. These included the flying, floating motor of the title, Sally Ann Howes as a dishy gal.
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The Solaris Effect: Slam Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the basic theme of the movie is the relevance and impact of poetry in contemporary society and it focuses on the powerful and reminiscent impact of slam poetry. Directed by Marc Levin, Slam earned significant tributes at the Sundance Film Festival and its success is primarily due to the relevance of the theme it undertakes.
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Analysis of the Show 24 Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The story may change; new characters may come and go but one thing remains the same; the show’s underlying story about one man’s fight to do what’s right. If there is an imperfect aspect to this show it may be that some of the action sequences are slightly predictable, but this is rare and should not detach from the viewing pleasure of the show.  
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Body and Fashion Photography Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that the female model can be seen as the embodiment of fashion’s imaginary. As the avatar of fashion, it is where artifice, change and imagination coalesce on the body of the model to create a new, previously only imaginable, form. This activity is not, however, without its contradictions.
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Woman with a parasol by Claude Monet Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Like most impressionists, Monet believed in recording the initial sensory reactions rather than idealizing a subject. Monet wished he had been born blind and then had suddenly gained his sight so that he could have begun to paint in this way without knowing what the objects were that he saw before him.
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Fierce Competition in Murderball Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the movie was largely inspired by Dana Adam Shapiro’s article Murderball and interestingly the writer was also on the team of producers for the movie. Murderball narrates the story of fierce Rigby players who lost the functioning of their limbs due to accidents and thus became a quadriplegic.
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Criminal Justice in the Movie Gridiron Gang Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Gridiron Gang is an interesting attempt of looking into the issue of juvenile crime while also presenting the positive things that could happen inside the detention camp. This story really gives much inspiration to the audience that each man can make a difference just like what Sean did.
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Racism in Finding Forrester Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Starting with sociological perspectives, this paper gives a synopsis of the film, progresses on to the story in selective perception mode and picks on incidents of the story featuring these sociological terms with an insight of what happened.
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Judgement at Nuremberg Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that this movie had some very popular stars namely Spencer Tracey, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, and many more popular stars. “After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg.
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Waterbabies by Adam LeFevre Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This can be evidenced when she tells Liz that she does not quite remember the name of the boy she is holding on her lap and also tells Liz that she does not have any space for Liz's son and she had to wait until one of the children either drops out or drowns.
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Contemporary Asia Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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It is not easy to identify the different periods in medieval Korean art, for each site is a complex amalgam οf material from different periods, not yet firmly dated, or its relationship established with the products οf neighboring cultures and οf earlier periods. In recent years work has been begun on several late Neolithic sites.
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The Translation of Photographic Images Into Painting Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay focuses on the Translation of Photographic Images Into Painting. They say Art is a product of the free mind. What we mean by such statement is that a free mind is more probable to wander farther into the realms of true art. From the start of civilizations, painting has remained the central point of human action in recording the feelings.
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Yue Mingjun in the Chinese Art Scene Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that the very first exhibition of his work happened in New York in October this year. The artist lives and works in Beijing, and his work has today been given the highest recognition by the Chinese government, which includes the grant of a museum all to himself which he can arrange for display as he pleases.
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that in terms of plot and character development it offers a plethora of study options; this will not be the focus of the essay. Instead, it is the objective of this paper to study the film in terms of how the music manages to communicate elements of the story. It is not as simple as the introduction of infers.
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The Paintings of Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discovers Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism paintings. "Pilgrimage by Cythera" is one of the finer examples of the Rococo style. Painted by Jean-Antoine Watteau it portrays a whimsical scene of nature and surreal characters. It blends the typical Rococo colors of mauve, light blue, and rose together with a nature scene.
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Charlie Chaplin's The Kid Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the dream is used as a fairy tale which helps to express the ideas and hopes of the main characters. The symbol of a dream is used as an opposition against the slum setting and Charlie's struggles to survive. The dream adds emotional effects and appeals to the emotions and minds of viewers.
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Film and Television Genre Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Detective mystery film, they cannot be classified as main genre films because they are both thrillers and gangster films. Therefore they are classified according to their hibridity and not by specific genres. Disaster films, they are both action and adventure films, an example is the hurricane film of 1937 and the high and the mighty film of 1954.
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Comparison And Contrast: The Potato Eaters And The Starry Night Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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I have picked out Vincent Van Gogh’s two stupefying paintings for comparison, The Potato Eaters and The Starry Night. These two paintings are considered to be the masterpieces of Van Gogh. The notable contrasting feature of the two paintings is that The Potato Eaters looks natural whereas The Starry Night seems chimerical. 
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Glass Artist Josh Simpson Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that it was during this period that he learned to blow glass. He started around thirty years back by making goblets, and spent 17 years “seeking the perfect goblet.” He now lives in Massachusetts with his wife Cady Coleman, an astronaut, whose space travel also influenced his art — his best-known works are his Inhabited Planets.
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Leonardo Da Vinci - a Worshipper of Nature's Divine Order Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Naturally, in that era of classical revival, Leonardo da Vinci was often compared with the great scholars of ancient Greece, with Archimedes, Pythagoras, and most of all, perhaps, with Plato, whose figure in Raphael's famous painting of the School of Athens is generally believed to be modeled on the venerable Leonardo.
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The State of the Visual Arts in Colorado Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that currently, the organization cuddles twelve historic sites and museums at 10 locations around the state, which includes the Colorado History Museum in Denver. Just recently, Colorado State University celebrated the openings of the final two spaces in the new University Center of the Arts.
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An Twentieth Century Overview of Fashions Transient Trends Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay is the overview of fashions transient trends of the twentieth century. Prior to the 19th century and early 20th century use of the corset, plump women were considered beautiful. An overview of the changing standards of fashion in the twentieth century provides an example of the how a woman’s ideal of beauty in a particular generation.
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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the tree in the painting is a cypress, a species generally associated with cemeteries and mourning. It is in the shape of a flame and helps connect heaven, represented by a lively, striking and vibrant sky, with earth, represented by the little village at the bottom of the painting.
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Development of Ink Painting in Korea in Twentieth Century Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discovers Korean ink painting. The period was regarded as ideological clash and the illogical cold war effort flanked by the South and the North Juvenile artists were thus engulfed within an extreme existential effort. During this time, the customary value system distorted, leading to a pursuit for new standards.
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Films the Conversation and the Parallax view and its influence on the audience Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Harry Caul is depicted as the microcosm of America at the 70’s. He is shown as an anti hero in the sense that he can effortlessly bug anybody at anytime, anywhere. He is dedicated to his work which becomes an obsession, and he doesn’t seem to care about fellow humans and their sufferings.
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Visual Aesthetics in: Once upon a Time in the West Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the aesthetical elements will also be discussed in terms of how they interact with the film's musical score. The analysis will reveal that although these films are both dissimilar in terms of the era in which they were made, their aesthetical rudiments remain true to the visual styles in which they are trying to achieve.
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Originality of Truman Show Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that as the movie progresses he realizes that there is something wrong with his perfect life and struggles to understand what that is. At this stance, director Peter Weir uses a number of techniques to create the emotive images that carry the story forward. This film relies heavily on the use of evocative images.
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The Statue of Zeus Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that the renowned monuments and artifacts of these civilizations provide a variety of evidence in order to reconstruct the history of the ancient civilizations, cultures, and the classical world. Thus, the statue of Zeus, one of the most famous statues in Greek culture, reveals various essential aspects of the classical world.
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A areer in ice sculpting Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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When the ice has melted and the sculpture gone, little thought is given to the artist that was at the core of its creation. Yet, someone took the initiative to learn this craft, to practice the trade, and apply their knowledge to generate an additional outlet for their artistry and an additional source of income
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The Conception of Postmodern Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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More than forty years ago, the rules governing artists and their art were changed. No longer was modern art to be considered brave or en vogue, because it was all but replaced by a new ideal; postmodern art was lifted to the forefront of contemporary thought. The goal of postmodernism, if postmodernism can be said to have a goal, seems to be to blur the lines between what is real and what is not.
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