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    1930. Grant Wood was born in Iowa, than later moved to Gran Rapids after the passing of his father. While working as an apprentice in a metal shop he attended art school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His inspiration for this painting came about after a trip to Iowa in 1930. Initial reception of his painting was considered as a satirical work of art, out to make fun of small town folks. There are many fictional aspects of his painting to include, the dress of the individuals, and the time…

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    I did my paper on Shel Silverstein.Shel silverstein was a successful kids author, cartoonist, poet, and folk songwriter. He was born in Chicago Illinois on September 25, 1930.He started drawing and writing a young age. He went to study at Chicago academy of fine arts (known today as Art institute of Chicago) but then dropped out to join the army in 1953. While in the army he drew and wrote cartoons where they were published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes magazine. (www.thefamouspeople.com)…

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    famous paintings is Nighthawks. Nighthawks was created in 1942. Edward Hopper and his wife Josephine posed modeled for this painting. in 1915 Hopper took up etching and created 60 plates. Edward Hopper studied for 6 years at the New York school of art. Between 1906 and 1910 took 3 long trips to Europe.In Paris he worked on his own outdoor city scenes and after 1910 he went abroad. Edwards etchings were his first admitted to a big exhibitions. His prints showed the utter truth about american…

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    is $102,000.One of the best colleges for Wedding photography is Rocky Mountain college of Art And Design.Photo taken by:Matthew David Hopkins Portrait photographers take pictures in studios.And they have to be organized with all the client's records and other stuff.The skills they need is:Choose the right background,be good with lighting,And do interesting things .A college for Portrait photography is Chicago Columbia…

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    Peter Empson 5/14/2017 Art 104 Final Paper Harry Callahan (1912-1999) Henry Callahan was born in Michigan in 1912. His parents were farmers who moved to royal Oak, suburb of Detroit, where they had employment with the automotive industry. Callahan attending public school and went on to engineering school at Michigan State College. He attended three semesters there in 1933. He then left college to obtain a job at Chrysler as a shipping clerk, the year he became a shipping clerk he also meets his…

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    Personal History Walt Elias Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901. Disney was one of five children and spent the majority of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri. It was here that he began drawing and painting(Walt Disney 1), but at the age of 7, Disney moved to Kansas City and then moved once again in 1917 when his father bought a partnership in the O- Zell Jelly factory in Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago Disney became the junior art editor of his school newspaper at…

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    Cooking, and the Table. Columbia University Press, 2012. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mont16786. Montanari, the author of multiple books on the subject of food in the middle ages, is a professor of medieval and medieval food history at the Institute of Paleography and Medieval Studies, University of Bologna. In this book,…

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    Students in my 8th grade class will make posters to protest violence in Chicago. Students will explore Elizabeth Catlett and Leopoldo Méndez art work. Students will identify how the artist work is related or dissimilar to their own ideas. Students will explore the principles of design and be able to describe how the choices of tools/technologies and processes are used to create specific effects in the arts. 7. Objectives: As a result of discussing, demonstrating…

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    Wonderful Master of Art, Grant Wood's Grant Woods is an amazing artist which I failed to see before browsing through this book. Grant woods has a very elegant way of painting art. By making his art appear realistic his art is much more complex than you might think. Figuring out what artist to pick was extremely difficult. Once the painting of American Gothic came up I suddenly knew which artist I wanted to study. Covering every page of the book with beautiful and very austere his art makes…

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    This research paper will identify and point out highlights of Jane Addams uncovering an in-depth explanation of the importance of her and also the impact Ms. Addams had on the first third of the twentieth century. Born on the 6th of September, 1860, Jane Addams would win recognition worldwide as a “pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and an internationalist” making her the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children.…

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