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Voting is the fundamental right of every adult citizen in a democracy. Independently of sex, race, class, or occupation, every US citizen gets the opportunity to choose who represents them. However, universal suffrage was not always there; american women, for instance, had to fight for...
American Culture
Voter Turnout
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The old English saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is true; due to the dominance aroused by visual communication in our world. Today, tons of words can be easily reduced in a single image. In this respect, Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen...
Media
Political Cartoon
760 words | 2 Pages
The Norton Simon Museum presents its visitors to the exhibition of different mediums and styles used to execute the following three artworks. All artworks are empowered to tell a story and send a message to its viewers. For decades, artists have used various techniques such...
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
Painting
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The film Fire presents an overlapping framework of different issues involving the myths and reality of lesbianism and lesbian desire, sexual preferences and freedom of expression, and the symbolic significance of women’s bodies and chastity for Indian culture and tradition. These invoked issues make up...
Chastity
Indian Culture
Movie Review
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In the United States, the participants in the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as “Dreamers”, have faced many issues since Donald Trump’s presidency started. DACA is a policy of immigration that allows individuals who were brought at a very young age...
Donald Trump
Political Cartoon
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For this catechism I will be referring to two works formed by Edgar degas and Edouard Manet, these works encompass; Manet’s Olympia and Degas’ The Absinthe Drinker (L’Absinthe). These works are significant in view of the fact that they are the artists most famous so...
Edgar Degas
Famous Person
Painting
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Edgar Degas was a French artist who was regarded as one of the founders of impressionism, although he called himself a realist. Degas started his artistic career as a historical painter, with having academic training and studied classical art, but in his thirties, he decided...
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
Painting
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Edgar Degas ‘Blue Dancers’ pherap ballerinas were the preferred subjects. He was once fascinated by means of their artwork and the one-of-a-kind expression they carried out with the human form. Degas typically painted dancers backstage. His reason was once to seize their unique poses in...
Edgar Degas
Painting
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During the 18th century, many countries where going through revolutions in their cultures and art; France being one of the main countries. At the start of the 18th century, many of artists did paintings of the lavish lifestyles of the French elite. But, as time...
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
Painting
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A Political Cartoon provides insight into power relations, prominent social issues, and events by mocking the failings or excuses of the powerful, and thus can hold the leaders accountable. A political cartoon, therefore, holds an important section in Newspapers. The two newspapers selected for the...
Journalism
Political Cartoon
3260 words | 7 Pages
Introduction: Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Native Americans, Native Americans and other terms refer to people who first settled in the United States and their descendants. The first group of native Americans landed in North America at least 15,000 years ago via the...
Ceremony
Native American
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Editorial cartoons – Definition The caricature is the art of drawing someone, which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated, which usually makes them look funny or silly by making part of their appearance or character more noticeable than it really is. The word caricature comes from the Italian words “carico” and “caricare”, meaning ‘to...
Journalism
Political Cartoon
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Abstract Recently, political cartoons earned great interest from researchers and became a powerful interdisciplinary research field across different research such as sociology, education, communication, and psychology. Political cartoons become a potent tool to transmit thousands of words and diverse messages through a single image. This...
Political Cartoon
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The man at the Crossroads was destroyed and never publicly seen, 10 months later he recreated the painting and renamed it Man, Controller of the Universe and is one of Diego Rivera’s most infamous controversial pieces of art. Man at the Crossroads was originally created...
Diego Rivera
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Throughout the centuries, animals have appeared in works of art. Cultural beliefs are the main principles and values upon which an entire community exists. This is made up of several parts: traditions, which rituals; values, which are philosophies; and culture, which is all of a...
Artwork
Chinese Culture
Jeff Koons
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Bram Stoker´s Dracula holds several messages and symbols; the fear of the unknown and to the many destabilizing changes occurring in Great Britain, including the New Women. However, the religious language and symbology are quite relevant and impossible to omit. The antagonist is seen as...
Dracula
Vampire
677 words | 1 Page
By exploring similarities and differences between Andy Warhol (Pop Art) and Jeff Koons (Neo Pop Art) works and ideas, my objective is to conclude that Pop Art past and present is more than a mere celebration of consumer and popular culture, but also an effective...
Andy Warhol
Jeff Koons
Pop Art
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Go back in time and fall in love all over again with the nostalgic theater adaptation of the classic Julia Roberts and Richard Gere film, Pretty Woman. Experience the whirlwind love story, similar to the Cinderella concept where a prince charming falls in love with...
Pretty Woman
Song
Theatre
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David with the Head of Goliath, by Bartolomeo Bellano in 1470 was an homage to the original David statue by his teacher Donatello in the 1440s. Bellano’s sculpture was vital in popularizing early Renaissance development of bronze statuettes in Northern Italy. In this sculpture, David...
David and Goliath
Italian Renaissance
Sculpture