After his parents separated, his father focused more time on his girlfriends than Jean-Michel and his two sisters. ... After receiving attention from the media for their writings, Diaz and Jean-Michel had a difference of opinion about remaining anonymous and the two went their separate ways. ... It gives the viewer a sense of asymmetric balance when the piece is looked at as a whole, not simply focusing on the head. This piece is very raw and "primitive-, which also goes along with Basquiat's style of art. The rawness makes the viewer feel the emotion of the piece more so than ...

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This particular piece has a top view and a side view. The artist changes the pattern by re-directing the lines to form a new pattern, this enhances a central or focal point which helps determine that this would be the entrance to the temple, the artist also utilized a change in color to separate it from the rest of the painting. In this particular piece, he made a distinct separation by using warms colors on one side and cool colors on the other. ... The pattern itself is a geometric shape, separating each one by the use of color. ...

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The Byzantine piece of art is called "The Presentation in the Temple"; it was probably elaborated during the 15th century. ... The joint of all the components make it a more complex piece of art. Only describing the use of shapes and colors in an art piece, we can reach to a lot of conclusions about their origin. ... That is the purpose of this piece of art. ... Byzantine and Islam were two separated empires, each one with its people, traditions and art, or course. ...

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This specific piece was Roman in origin; a beautiful and wall-size mosaic of Achilles at the court of King Lycomedes. ... I could definitely appreciate this piece of art, especially when I thought of how long it had lasted and been preserved so well. ... Could it be because I was hungry or because I craved a piece? ... Besides the ever-familiar sculpture of Buddha, I observed a very interesting sculpture made of 5 separate blocks. ... I tried and tried to keep my eyes open for the single most exotic, most beautiful, or most valuable piece that I could find, but I was not able to. ...

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He believed that an artist, in this case Klimt, separated the form from the trees and imposed this onto another matter; canvas. ... Is this a piece of art? ... If I followed his theory, I would have to say that it is a piece of art. ... By this definition Klimt's painting is a piece of art. ... Klimt's painting, The Birch Forest, is a piece of artwork....

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When commissioned to create a piece of art they get upset when limits are put on them. They are given a grant to create a piece of art and guidelines to follow and they become upset when they are told that they did not meet the guidelines because they chose to go off on their own path of expression. ... The pieces were put in a separate room where they were guarded and only people with permission from the king could enter. ...

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When commissioned to create a piece of art they get upset when limits are put on them. They are given a grant to create a piece of art and guidelines to follow and they become upset when they are told that they did not meet the guidelines because they chose to go off on their own path of expression. ... The pieces were put in a separate room where they were guarded and only people with permission from the king could enter. ...

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In McCloud's book Understanding Comics he explains that pictures and art do not have to be two separate entities when we read or write. ... Watchmen overall is a fantastic book and can be proven by McCloud to be an extraordinary piece of art. ...

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For What is Art? Take # 2 Most art works, have a pronounced theme that leads the viewer to a remarkable conclusion. Wendell Castle's works tend to gravitate to the opposite of that sort of spectrum. His sculptures are instead just to be beheld. Their purpose is to not have a clear purpose. They...

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It is a sculpture named after a piece of violent dialogue in the Vietnam film "Apocalypse Now-. ... Aptly named, "Clown Torture- this installation involving five separate video's of various clowns in various performances, the sound turned up high. ...

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This piece, noticeably smaller then the previous one, being 57 7/8- X 44 ½-, uses a magnificent blend of colors in oil on canvas. ... His work separated pre-Manet paintings and post-Manet paintings into two worlds. ...

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"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol could not be truer when speaking of his generation and movement. Warhol was part of one of the largest movements in modern art; Pop. Pop Art was a 20th century art movement that utilized the imager...

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As with any piece of art, judgments and tastes will vary from person to person. ... The focus of this film is Charlie and his journey, not whether his brothers solve their problem with Ernest and Momo, and thus the main theme of the film does achieve a degree of closure, which separates it from a traditional art film. ...

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