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“We’d rather have a bowl of Coco pops” remember that song? This is just one example of a successful advertising campaign – if the slogan is remembered then so is the product. A consumer in the world of the twenty first century is very much a victim of the media; the main vulnerability lies in…

If the works of Edouard Manet seem to you a little out of place in the all-too-frequent blockbusters of French impressionist art, you’re right. His clear-edged, close-to-the-picture plane, patterned figures and scenes never fit in with the fluffy brushwork and pastel colors of fellow “impressionists” Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir. You’ll see why…

The area the poem talks about sounds quite rough. It describes some kids going to ‘smash up’ some ones back yard, ‘bash in his back door’. The language the children used also implies the area is rough, they swear and use slang ‘yah, gurt’ even the poet swears, ‘shouted swear words at them’ The poet…

In addition to serving as a showcase for some 4,000 works by Paul Klee — 40 per cent of his life’s work–the multi-functional center honours the multiple facets of the life of a remarkable man. Musician, teacher, philosopher, poet: Paul Klee was all of these–and one of the world’s most beloved and prolific artists. Furthermore, the centre constitutes the largest…

The software I will be using for this task will be Microsoft Publisher 2000. I am using this because it is very good for creating my own publications and they look very professional. Also you can create and control a lot of things in the software. You can change everything from the font to where…

User’s Comments: I feel that the grass in the background of the logo and the wavy grass design under the football have been used effectively to the extent that it shows a lot of activities to be available at the leisure centre. As can be seen from this image I have edited the logo using…

In his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo decried the “numberless degradations and mutilations” the Notre Dame cathedral had suffered at the hands of remodelers. If Hugo were alive today, he might have a similar opinion about what Disney has done to his classic work. Disney’s cartoon version, which opens in theaters Friday, is a sanitized, politically correct…

Gawk at the John Hancock Center today. Marvel anew at the Sears Tower. Then give a quiet thanks to Fazlur Rahman Khan. Khan, the erudite, Bangladesh-born Skidmore Owings & Merrill structural engineer, figured out a way to hold up these big buildings and make them beautiful. He created the iconic X-bracing that races up the John Hancock Center’s…

The well-known symbols13 of the four Evangelists are taken from the Apocalypse, with the Egyptian order of mention restored: St. Matthew, man-headed; St. Mark, lion-headed; St. Luke, ox-headed; St. John, eagle-headed. Here we have the last echo of the genii of Amenti. The four genii also very frequently appear on coffers, stone sarcophagi, and on…

The expression routinely used these days to designated public art–“art in public spaces”–implies that there is nothing especially public about the art in question, apart from the external circumstance of its placement. So, on occasion, a given bit of statuary, whose natural habitat is the museum, is sent into the field to elevate and enhance…