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- 2411: Ansel Adams
- ... He selfly taught himself how to play the piano, and he enjoyed being around the surroundings of nature. Ansel attended both public and private school. At home his father gave him lessons in math and French. In 1915 when Ansel was 13, his father bought him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition ...
- 2412: King Lear: Illusion
- ... a dowry. (King Lear I.I.242-243) France may or may not be sincere in loving Cordelia. France's actions, or lack of them can be seen later on when Cordelia accompanies an invading French army. She may be under an illusion, but sending her is a cynical no lose move by the France. If his forces win and kill the other heirs, he is now also King of Britain ...
- 2413: The National Endowment for the Arts
- ... However, there was a rebirth called the Renaissance. People started caring for things of beauty again and began expressing themselves more openly. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael helped bring about a revolution in the world of art. As a result of this rediscovery, the overall quality of life dramatically improved. If we were to suppress the natural inclinations of people to create and show emotions, we would ...
- 2414: Auguste Rodin
- ... that Rodin received the commission for his most controversial sculpture, that of Balzac. His models of the famous Frenchman, nude, drew enormous criticism and a campaign of outrage and hate of the artist from the French papers for the next 10 years. This finally resulting in another sculptor being given the commission that was installed at the Avenue Fried land in 1902. Rodin refused to sell his Balzac despite many offers ...
- 2415: Fashion in the 1920s
- ... that changed. By the 1920's, fashion took a dramatic turn. Women were flattening their busts and hips and unbinding their waists, which resulted in a long, slim line known as "garηonne," meaning 'boyish' in French. Dress waistlines gradually fell to around the hips, as hemlines steadily began to rise. In 1925, the hemlines rose to an unprecedented high -- the bottom of the knee. They stayed there until almost 1929 when ...
- 2416: Cubism
- ... themselves in the highly competitive Avant-Garde of Paris. One of them, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), a young Spaniard who had moved to France had been a deliberate act of encouraging the latest developments of French paintings. The other artist was Georges Braque (1881-1963) already a vanguard of modern painting as a practising Fauve. He was experimenting with liberating colour in an attempt to be the forefront of a small ...
- 2417: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... on the world, one must first take a look at the events that let to this war. In the 19th century the US was at the brink of new age brought upon by the Industrial Revolution. As the industry flourished, there was an ever increasing need for new markets, and new sources of raw materials. However, the US had already expanded from one coast to another. Because of the policies that ...
- 2418: Western Films
- ... westerns were Wallace Beery who memorably portrayed a Mexican revolutionary in Viva Villa! (1934), Barbara Stanwyck as the famous gunslinger in Annie Oakley (1935) and Randolph Scott in an early large-scale version of the French and Indian War (during America's colonial period) in the film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1936). Cecil B. De Mille's stylish but historically imaginative The Plainsman (1937 ...
- 2419: Benito Mussolini
- ... State. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and was greeted cautiously by the Italians. Hitler in turn expressed friendship for the Italian Fascist government. During Germanys annexation of Austria, Italy improved her French relations when she rushed 75,000 troops to the Italo-Austrian frontier announcing that she would intervene if Germany took overt action. Italy drew closer to he WWI allies in 1935 when she protested Germany ...
- 2420: King Lear: Evil Nature of Edmund
- ... Later Edmund will plot against Albany because he can see that it is the daughters that seem to hold all the power. After Edmund finishes with Albany, Edmund needs Albany to make sure that the french forces are defeated, Edmund will plot Albany's death and get rid of Lear and Cordelia. The deep evil that lurks within Edmund is most shown when he explains in a monologue that he could ...
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