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- has existed in the city since 1905. Its modern life started with the opening ... in Romanian technologie has specifically modern connotations) was established ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- Angry Young Man - Joan Miro, Museum of Modern Art], The New Yorker, November ... (Joan Miró Foundation) is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and ...18 KB (2,655 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
- The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ... educational systems, philosophy, science, art and architecture of the modern ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- particularly on the ontology of the work of art and the status of aesthetic ... most well known work, The Literary Work of Art, was first published (1926; ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Category:Art [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail ... Cave paintings are a form of Rock art, falling under the category ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There is still an ... they also burned many valuable works of art. The colonialists were so ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- marked a new trend in the history of art. Her own life experience is ... to the all-male professional academies for art. At the time, her father was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- artists who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual legends ... of Man, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which consisted of over ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Ruth St. Denis (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) was an early modern ... bent, in the still-emerging genre of modern dance which she helped to ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- of his work. Aalto spoke of his art (he called it building art ... and materialism, New York: Museum of Modern Art/H. N. Abrams, 1998. (The ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- in the Impressionist movement and modern art. The slogan continued to ... The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- of sciences and technologies in the modern world. It exhibits James ... The Art Collections were renamed the Art Museum, which became the ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Punch was responsible for the modern use of the word cartoon to refer ... and employing some of the brightest stars in art and literature. ...8 KB (1,281 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- instrument. Archaeological studies of rock art in northern Australia suggests ... being one of the better known words in modern Western society. Yirdaki ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world ... Art Tatum died in Los Angeles, California from the complications of ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- has been often copied and is a staple of modern narrative. ... Middle East to study the masters of classic art, architecture, and literature. ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- Eakins then studied art in Europe from 1866 to 1870, notably in Paris ... a novel subject—the discipline of modern surgery, in which Philadelphia ...17 KB (2,520 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- of Western fiction, poetry, film and visual art. Greek mythology has played ... *Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch's Mythology. New York: Modern Library. ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- and its frequently favored listing on the Modern Library's list of top ... Tarkington was also a trustee of John Herron Art Museum (now Indianapolis ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- and Bernard Tschumi's winning entry), the Museum of Modern Art’s ... Two strains of modern art, minimalism and cubism, have had an influence ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- Another forerunner of the modern idea of cyberspace is Descartes& ... and especially theologians to distrust art as deceiving people into entering ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- subject of classical, medieval and modern art alike. Roman and Hellenistic ... Similarly, in the field of prehistoric art, small Neolithic sculptures ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, ... Sedimentologists apply their understanding of modern processes to ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- a short-lived and loose grouping of early Modern artists whose works emphasized ... locale=en Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)] ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- in Carroll's imaginative works. His art thus contributed to the entertainment ... London and educated himself for a career in art, although he became a probationer ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- paintings, which mark the genesis of modern art. As one of the first nineteenth ... Edouard Manet was one of the first radical thinkers of modern art ...18 KB (2,830 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- acres (four km²) marked by period and modern buildings. The great majority ... the campus, but there are also several modern and contemporary structures ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- the new and radically different world of modern art in the twentieth century ... believe that Cézanne’s impact on modern art comes from his ability ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries ... poems, Medicammina facei (“The Art of Beauty”), Ars amatoria ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- this sense, fashions are a form of communal art, through which a culture examines ... Modern Westerners have a wide array of choices available to them in ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- Included among those fascinated by the art of "primitive" human ... 1,200 tourists per day who came to see the art of Paleolithic man. By 1955 ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- Each print is considered an original work of art, not a copy. Works printed ... *[http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint What is a Print?, Museum of Modern ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 22:59, 30 November 2022
- The Modern Jazz Quartet (also known as the MJQ) was established in ... a history of achievements in mainstream modern jazz, the group acquired ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- her under his shadow, and the value of her art was not recognized separately ... sought to afford her an opportunity to study art, and he sent her to study ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- hero Bellerophon is the most prominent. In modern culture, Pegasus has come ... In modern times, Pegasus became applied to flying horses in general ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 07:12, 23 November 2022
- as an illustrator, muralist, world traveler, art critic, author and close friend ... He was an organizer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- used to refer the remains of ancient art and everyday items from antiquity ... Note that the word "antiquing" may also refer to the art ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- of Man, held in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art, included a photograph ... a group of nudists. When the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) displayed the series ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- literature, politics, education, language, art, and other social, cultural ... recipes did a great deal to popularize the art of Chinese cookery in America ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- although both sexes are depicted the same. (Modern tradition combined the Feng-Huang into one bird.) The Feng-Huang is said to be made up of the ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and credited ... Outcault was a key creator of the art of cartoons and comic strips ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- the notion of the autonomy of art. Like modern art, modern literature began ... garde collective OBERIU, or Union of Real Art. He embraced the new movements ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- produced concerts at New York's Museum of Modern Art. ... * Ewen, David. The new book of modern composers. NY: Knopf, 1961. ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- style of late medieval Central European art into the sixteenth century. ... html Biography] World Gallery of Art.hu. Retrieved January 20, 2009. ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling ... artists, who would influence most of modern art, including Romanticism ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- as one of the earliest champions of "Art for art's sake," ... Voyage en Espagne (1843), Trésors d’Art de la Russie (1858), and ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- years when images of Mary were central to Western art. Madonna, if ... The Madonna continues to be a popular subject in modern art. ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- the aesthetics of antique Roman and Greek art, contributed to an accelerated ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- Italy is one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world]] ... specialize further, such as museums of modern art, local history, aviation ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- work has had considerable influence on modern historians. Collingwood is ... to aesthetics was The Principles of Art. He portrayed art as a necessary ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- honorary professor of the Central Academy of Art. In 1953, he was given the ... Manual of Painting, which sparked his interest in art. Howard L. Boorman ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- or by overseas Koreans on all surfaces, and art dating from the paintings ... spontaneity, and naturalism. Although Korean art was strongly influenced by ...22 KB (3,315 words) - 22:03, 5 January 2024
- his continuing effort to create a viable modern art. One of his park-scenes ... contains furniture from that period, a modern art gallery, and gift shop. ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York ... giant for which it is named. The gleaming, Art Deco masterpiece on New York ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- St. Maurice, stood at the site of the modern cathedral. The abbey fell ... church of St. Mary. Today a museum for Modern Art. Home of the National Collection ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- the closest term used by the Greeks to our modern usage of chromatic is pyknon ... the chromatic scale became the basis of modern music written using the twelve ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- combining of these elements, forming the modern conceptualization of Krishna. ... Although Krishna is considered to be an avatar of Vishnu in modern ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the Vorticists ... at Rugby School, then at the Slade School of Art in London, before spending ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most ... * Dabrowski, Magdalena. Kandinsky Compositions. NY: Museum of Modern ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- ranges between the permitted areas of art (which can be represented ... Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art. Hil & Wang Publishers ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- world, as Leavis refused to separate art from life, or the aesthetic ... of the New Critics. Both take the work of art itself as the primary focus ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- His study of literature, Greek antiquity, art and philosophy gave him a ... of Leipzig, where he studied philology, art and the history of ancient ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- and the Minotaur has been captured in art by many artists over the centuries. ... interchangeably with "maze," modern scholars of the subject use ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- 2,400 B.C.E. have been suggested. Many modern scholars suggest that it ... The use of the motor-driven wheel has become common in modern times ...12 KB (2,032 words) - 05:56, 30 November 2022
- avant-garde poet, writer, publisher, editor, art critic and dramatic innovator ... was also brought in for questioning in the art theft, but he was also exonerated ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 23:21, 11 July 2023
- that prevailed between the dominant eras of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, or roughly ... it was neither anti-industrial nor anti-modern. Some of the European factions ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- Paley had an avid interest in modern art and built up an outstanding ... * Rubin, William. The William S. Paley Collection. Museum of Modern ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- such as painting, sculpture or some forms of mimetic art. ... in Medieval literature and Medieval art was a prime mover for the ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- Kawabata combined ancient Japanese literary tradition with modern ... the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) to which he ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- earning him regard as the father of modern Malayalam prose. ... stands at the cross-roads of Indian art history. Ravi Varma’s contribution ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- impacted the culture, philosophy, music, and art of Karnataka and the rest ... came from Mangalvedhe near Pandharapura in modern Maharashtra and Sri Naraharitirtha ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
- html Vortograph] Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved August 5, 2020. ... Alvin Langdon Coburn] Museum of Modern Art *[http://www.getty.edu/art/collec ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- toxins. In addition, charcoal is used in art for drawing and making sketches. ... The modern process of carbonizing wood, either in small pieces or ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- reawakening an interest in ancient Buddhist art and sculpture among Japanese ... Watsji began to expand his knowledge of art, literature and ethics. In ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich ... He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- to him in the New Testament. However, many modern scholars—as well as a number ... John, anticipating the arguments of many modern critics. ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 17:05, 4 May 2024
- Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern meaning. While Baumgarten ... purely intellectually. Certain pieces of art, he noted, have a way of making ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- painters to emerge from the New York City art scene after the end of World ... * Hopkins, David, After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford University Press ...20 KB (3,031 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ... by women, a form very different from its modern incarnation. Much of its ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Building upon the ... of Contemporary Dance, it is the oldest modern dance troupe in the world ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic ... of the results of his investigations. Modern scholarship follows that ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- the All-China Federation of Literature and Art and vice-chairman of the Union ... 1920s and is considered to be a classic of modern Chinese literature. The English ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- since 1948 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 13, 2005 to ... be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.] New York Academy of Medicine ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- from its founder Carl Rogers. His The Art of Loving remains a popular ... worlds, the traditional Jewish and the modern commercial. By age 26, he ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- of this ancient site. Many of the works of art uncovered at Leptis are displayed ... erect a radar station on the site. British art historians and archaeologists ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- for vocal production and created a novel art which culminated in the bel ... beautiful singing. It's the particular art of voice production by which ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- he continued his education by visiting art galleries and reading at the ... records of popular taste and works of art in their own right. ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Deborah Wye (New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, ISBN 978-0870700071). ... Deborah Wye. New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002. ISBN 978-0870700071 ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- to essays and treatises. In his book What is Art? (1898) Tolstoy condemned ... he reserved his strongest invective for modern art, which emphasized artifice ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years. In 1981 ... by Jane Fluegel. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980. ISBN 0870705199 ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed ... taught through the practice of this martial art. Practice always begins and ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- had a major impact on the development of modern photography, especially her ... photography] the character and uses of high art by combining real and ideal ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Bosch’s date of birth has ... Art historians and critics frequently interpret the painting as a ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- Wilson saw Meredith as "the first great art novelist." He considered ... *Modern Love (1862) *Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883) ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- spirituality and mysticism in music: “Modern man may view with disdain ... mark on the international music scene. Most art music in Spain was "imported ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- saint" for those who would use their art to criticize power. Whether ... contributed in both good and bad ways to how art and social responsibility ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- churches. It eventually evolved into the modern iconostasis, still found ... the Influence of Stage Architecture upon the Art of Antioch," The Journal ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Eastern art and literature were still seen as "exotic" and ... of typical eastern motifs and styles in art, architecture, and design. ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- "erectus-like" traits and "modern" traits were placed ... (6 ft.) on average, and more muscular than modern humans. ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- Dogon art is primarily sculpture and revolves around religious values ... contacts and origins are evident in Dogon art. Influences from Tellem art ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
