He's an artist known for his paintings, drawings of the human body, and as an inventor well ahead of his time. Some of his more famous works of art are "The Last Supper" and "The Vitruvian Man." ... Even as a young boy, he showed interest in painting, sculpture, invention, architecture, music, engineering, geology, cartography, mathematics, botany, and writing. ... But how does this portrait stand against his other female portraits? ... But why is it his most famous female portrait? ...

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Arachne was a young Lydian girl who was said to rival the goddess Minerva in the art of weaving tapestries. ... She created a flawless portrait of the gods raping and deceiving humans. ... Art in this case, had the power to transform a brilliant artist into an arrogant and boastful competitor. Art revealed the true nature of each artist, casting light to the hubris inside each of them. ... Ovid portrays Orpheus as a man who rises above his constraints through art. ...

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His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... It was during the time young Ibsen "briefly assisted an apothecary and began medical studies before beginning a lifetime association with the theatre" that he began writing satire and elegant poems according to the style prevalent during that period. ... In Peer Gynt, the rebel is against society where a young man chooses to live a life of a waste, only to find himself, ultimately, living in a world of lost opportunities. ... Ibsen became so pop...

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At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. ... But, on the other hand, the reader worships him as a talented artist, a creator of beauty. ... He was a man without any conception of gratitude. ... It was vain to seek the analysis of his emotion. (123) He had no tenderness either for himself or for others. (122) He was not a man with whom it was worth while wasting politeness. (126) He was a bad winner and a good loser. ... I a...

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These different ideas of art presented a great impact in the poetical development of Oscar Wilde, who agreed and disagreed with some of them, until his critical artist appears with the creation of his own theory of art. ... Under the stimulus of this movement, Wilde introduces two important features, the term 'new-hedonism' and homosexuality which were highly discussed and present a great importance in the analysis of the philosophy and ideology of Wilde in his The Picture of Dorian Gray. ... Even Sibyl's death is seen from a hedonistic perspective, a fact that shocked Basil H...

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Figure 1 -Oil on Canvas Oil on canvas was done by Robert Rauschenberg it contains JFK, as the most dominant image, Pop artists, often portrayed famous people into there paintings and show them in different ways "Icons of the new reality came to be provided by pop art" JFK was by now one of the most famous and loved people in America, two years after his death he was already becoming iconic, and paintings like oil on canvas only reinforced this. ... The JFK presidency, became known as Camelot and seen as a joyous time in American history, Along with JFK's Assassination, Man Landing on...

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According to Spender, the basic reason for hope is that art may enable the artist to have a connection with the external world by affecting the lives of other people who share the artist's modern creative visions. Modern art is also revolutionary because the artist creates for the poor and oppressed rather than the rich. ... One example is artistic portraits. When an artist creates a portrait it a self-portrait as well because they are creating it from their own eyes and are therefore seeing themselves, thereby creating a distortion of the other person. ... Some fear that feminism is tr...

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The report will also outline how the environment of word Ethics will be created, and what emotion will this work exude to the audiences viewing it. 1.3 Method It is not known much about the artist's life or where his unique style has originated from during the Renaissance Period. ... The artist can not be pinned down to a particular school of painting that existed in his time in the Netherlands. ... The innovative approach in his work manifested itself through his work becoming exemplary and widely copied by the artists that were also active around that time, as suggested by Linfe...

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A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... The term magical realism, itself, originates from the pen of German critic, Franz Roh, in 1925, and was used to describe a group of Post Expressionist artists, but later delved into describing a Latin American literary genre popularized from after World War II, to the beginnings of the 1980s, around the time when Allende's H...

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