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    American Modernism Essay

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    The American modernist are “American” because they choose to live and work in the United States. The American modernist were “modernist “because they struggled with the problem of modernism central to accepting the beginning of the 20th century. The America modernist are also significant for the late art that they influenced. (Spam, 2016) Subject and Styles Joseph Stella was an immigrant to America as an artist he had a figurative art…

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    Introduction A little boy was raised in Bohain-en-Vermandois, France but moved to Pairs to study law. In 1989, he went back to Saint-Quentin to work as a law clerk. Henri Matisse came down with appendicitis and was bed-ridden for a couple months. To keep Henri busy his mom bought him a box of art supplies to keep him entertained while he was bed-ridden. Henri took off with it he decided right then and there what he wanted to do when he saw all those pretty colors. His mother was the first person…

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    trustworthy because it provides information on all components explained about. In this study, there is a section called selection that discusses the criteria that one had to meet to participate and be a part of the study. There was also a data abstraction and validity assessment that discusses how the information was extracted from the study to make it the study valid. Throughout this entire study, the reader is able to review the study step by step. It shows how on how it was conducted along…

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    How children development cognitively or how thinking develops in children is one of the subjects that Piaget study. He came up with a theory of cognitive development that stated that there are four key milestones in cognitive developments which he divided into four stages. In each stage there is different actions that children develop and until a person develops these skills, they are stuck in this stage according to Piaget. The four stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational,…

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    Stand there, right in front of the painting; what do you see? Look closely, very closely and see the paint on the canvas flow through each brush stroke, see the colors expand and blur, and see how the lights play off the soft, vibrant colors. Watch the swirls expand out into an infinite space in time . The paint flies beyond the canvas and the shadows and reflections blur into one. The pinks, blues, reds, yellows, oranges, purples, and browns blend together to create a symphony of colors.…

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    In the text, Elie and the other Jews were sitting in the camp. The introduction of the officer made everything silent. This silence wasn't oppressive but it described how it made everyone worried and nervous. “The word chimney here was not an abstraction: it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. It was, perhaps, the only word that had real meaning in this place.” (Wiesel 39) In this text, Elie expresses that the chimney was 'floating in the air'. Elie uses this metaphor of the chimney to…

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    lifelike which “opened up new fields for painting to explore light and color”(Cobbold), creating the impressionist movement and more abstract forms of art. Then, once paintings became more abstract, “photographers eventually began experimenting with abstraction too” (McNatt), so that they would be considered as real artists. As a result of photography, art as a whole moved away from realism as artists experimented with different mediums and tools.This goes to show one shouldn’t fear change like…

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    Rater Commentary Response

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    strident automatons with cell phones glued to their ears, PDA's gripped in their palms, and omniscient, omnipresent CNN gleaming in their eyeballs, it's tempting to believe..."). However, such lucid prose is sometimes countered by an over-reliance on abstractions and reasoning that is not entirely effective. For example, what does the fact that video games "literally train [teens] to kill" have to do with the use or deterioration of thinking abilities? On the whole, however, the response…

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    Figurative Language

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    or object to another to suggest that they are alike, metaphors are figures of speech that compare two dissimilar things, personifications are figures of speech in which there is a comparison between human characteristics and inanimate objects or abstractions, alliterations are the repetitions of the same first letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words, hyperboles are exaggerations that people find hard to believe…

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    . Although theses three modern styles varied, the works involved all occupied a new and more complex space. Mel Gooding explains this as a ‘trend in modern art away from the representation of recognisable objects in pictorial space and towards presentation of a painting or sculpture as a real object in real space.’ Up until this time the pictorial space created in the art work aimed to create the illusion of a real pictorial space for the spectator. The technique of one point perspective which…

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