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Pablo Ruiz PicassoPablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. Pablo was the son of a respected art teacher, and due to his fathers influence, young Pablo entered the Academy at Barcelona at age 14. This was where he painted his first great work, Girl with Bare Feet. After two years of schooling, Picasso transferred…

In the prologue, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is about the pilgrimage of many different characters to Canterbury. Chaucer writes about the characters’ personalities and their place on the social ladder. The Monk and the Parson are examples of how Chaucer covered the spectrum of personalities. The Monk is self-centered, while the Parson cares…

In a world where scientists are incessantly attempting to examine theintelligence of life forms other than humans, linguists have presented the ideathat language in itself is reserved strictly for humans. One therefore, mustattempt to solve that dilemma and come to a conclusion regarding the question islanguage unique to humans? If language is viewed solely as…

“Leonardo da Vinci. . . oh yeah, that is the guy who painted the Mona Lisa!” That was all I knew about Leonardo da Vinci before I started this report. I knew that he lived during the Renaissance and that he was a very important man, but that is about it. There is so much…

Look at the world. Its a complex biosphere with many creatures and organismswhich we haven’t even discovered yet. This world and its life forms are so complex wehaven’t even come close to solving all its mysteries. All that we humans can do is offersuggestions and theories, but nothing concrete. In this equation we can’t even…

Salvador Dali’s life and art were very closely related. Everything in his life was reflected in his art. All the major changes in his works and styles represented important turning points for him. When Dali was younger, he experimented with different styles. The first style he used was soft, blurry and seemed a little bit…

TIMKEN MUSUEM OF ARTThe Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early…

The pop art movement began in London during the 1950’s and thenquickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although theartists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject andless on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that isevident in all pop art revolves…

Romanticism literature in poetry and how it effects everyday society. “I have no quarrel, it is scarcely necessary to add, either with the man of science or the romanticist when they keep in their proper place. ” (Gleckner 33). Some people are still unclear of the exact boundaries in which literature is considered Romanticism, but…

Edvard Munchs “The Scream” was painted in the end of the 19th century, and ispossibly the first Expressionist painting. The Scream was very different from the art ofthe time, when many artists tried to depict objective reality. Munch was a tortured soul, and it certainly showed in this painting. Most of hisfamily had died, and…