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    woodcut artist named Albrecht Durer located in the private Martin Luther Collection at the MIA. Durer was born in 1471 and died in 1528, he made this artwork in 1523. (Object Label, Target Gallery Ticketed Exhibition) The medium is woodcut, woodcut is “A relief printing technique in which the printing surface is carved with special tools in a solid block of wood. The wood is cut longitudinally from the tree so the grain runs the length of the block. The block is cut and then inked with a brayer or dabber. The paper is then placed on the block and the whole thing is run through a press or rubbed over by a baren or the bowl of a large…

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    The painting Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry is an artwork which was created by Arthur Dove in 1924. It was designed at Huntington, New York in the United States of America. The artwork is classified as a painting with oil, portable timber rulers, lumber as well as cut and glued printed broadsheet on medium (Getlein 63). It has a dimension of 22 * 18 in. which is equivalent to 55.9 * 45.7 cm. The painting was credited on the art website in 1949 by Alfred Stieglitz collection (Cram101 26).…

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    In 1500, Albrecht Dürer created Self-Portrait at Age 28. Dürer medium in this work was oil ( Getlein 2016 186). Its dimensions are 67,1 X 48,7 cm, according to Web Gallery of Art. Currently, this artwork is in Alte Pinakothek, Munich. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY In 1947, Albrecht Dürer was born in the Nuremberg, Germany. On 1528, Dürer passed away. As J J O’Conner and E F Robertson wrote, Dürer’s father was Albrecht Dürer and his mother was Barbara Holfer. He was their third son (O’Conner and Robertson…

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    Cahill Expressway 2. Research background information about the artist and their life. Jeffrey Smart an Australian born artist was born on the 26th of July 1921 and sadly passed away at age 91 in 2013. Smart was trained at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Marie Tuck from 1937 till 1941. In 1948 Smart moved to Paris to study at the Academe Montmartre with Fernand Leger. Although he did end up moving back home to Australia three years later. This led Smart to work as an art…

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    Albrecht Durer Influence

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    Albrecht Dürer is renowned for his striking self-portraits, delicate watercolors, and detailed engravings. Working primary in the Germanic states of central Europe, he traveled extensively throughout the continent. His journeys in Italy particularly informed his art as he absorbed and experimented with the theories of the Renaissance. Although remains significant disagreement as to Albrecht Dürer’s role in, and reaction…to, the adoption of Lutheranism”, he was inarguably impacted by the…

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    Albrecht Durer was a German painter born on May 21, 1471, and died on April 6, 1528. Not only was Durer a painter, he was an engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. Durer would make high-quality woodcuts that eventually advanced his career and influence across the European world. This was all done in his twenties! He was even considered the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. Durer’s work mostly revolves around altarpieces, religious works, portraits,…

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    Emile Durkheim, also known as “The Metaphysician” by his peers, was the first French academic sociologist. Durkheim was born April 15, 1858 in Epinal, located in the eastern French province of Lorraine coming from a long line of a devout French Jewish family, as his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather were all rabbis. Durkheim attended a rabbinical school at a young age, but soon realized that was not what he wanted to do. He chose to move schools and attended some of the most…

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    The Artist I chose to write about is Mr. Albrecht Durer who was born May 21st, 1471 in Nuremburg, Germany, one of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His Parents were Barbara Holper and Albrecht Durer senior who was a known goldsmith, at the age of thirteen Durer began to apprentice under his father. The apprenticeship lasted two years before he left to pursue painting. He began to apprentice under Michael Wolgemut, one of the…

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    Albrecht Durer was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist during the Northern Renaissance. He became famous in his twenties for his works. His more famous artistic works include his Self-Portrait made in 1500, which features himself, but to art historian’s beliefs he also resembles a Christ-like appearance. The portrait may not actually appear to be his real identity, but of a more idealized version. Through his own techniques and the embodiment of Jesus Christ, he created a portrait that…

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    Anderson 's Feed is really just a worst case scenario type of deal. Our current world still has a long way to go before it gets even close to that type of future. And in actuality technology such as that shown in the feed is necessarily a bad thing it 's just being used in a bad way. When the feed first came out I 'm sure it wasn 't intended to be used as a mass form of marketing, "It was all da da da, this big educational thing, da da da, your child will have the advantage, encyclopedias at…

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