Art Institute of Chicago

The female nude, a longstanding western tradition in art is used to express ideas of beauty. It soon became a site to address the immediate changes in the modern industrial world, representing the female nude as a vessel to address the urban modernization of the roles of women. The portrayal of the female nude in Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River uses the nude to express his frustrations with the Battle of Verdun. Initially, it was conceived in 1909 as a scene of arcadian leisure, but then…

became the United Church of Canada. The church was demolished following a devastating fire in 2014. Rev. Pearson was a member of the Aurora Rugby team where young Mike apparently got his inspiration. Pearson graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1913 at the age of 16. Later that same year, he entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto, When World War I broke out in 1914, Pearson volunteered for service as a medical orderly with the University…

Tracing the Production of Knowledge Rhetoric is the art of discourse wherein a writer or speaker endeavors to inform or persuade his audience; it can present in a visual or symbolic form too as a subject of formal study or as a social practice. Ancient Greece and Rome highly appreciated the art of rhetoric; its most obvious definition came from the great Greek philosopher, Aristotle who deliberated it as a complement of both logic and politics and defined it as the ability to perceive the all…

Walt moved a lot as a kid and who dropped out of an art institute in Chicago to enlist in the army. Sadly, he was rejected from the army. In 1919, Walt moved to Kansas City he laded a series of jobs until he found an employment in a film industry. However, his cartoons were not as popular and compatible to keep a…

University’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance. Eddie mainly focuses his work with Cream City Foundation on events and communication planning, where he has planed and executed some of the foundation’s most well attended events. Emmet attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked with many other organizations before coming to Cream City Foundation. He mainly focuses on fundraising and development of the foundation by using database management, prospect research, grant writing, and much more.…

The government shouldn 't regulate economies because that could interfere with the industrialists ' desire to expand their industries and maximize their profits. Laissez-faire capitalism enables the most superior individuals to apply their skills and rise to the top, for the betterment of mankind. The underlying economic theory of the Social Darwinists is that the freedom that laissez-faire gives business and industry enables it to maximize profits and expand the economy. During the great age…

James Turrell has won many awards because of his unique way of displaying his works of art. His pieces include the movements of Contemporary, Minimalism, and Optical Art. When you first see his work, you might not even consider it art. However, once you learn about his intentions, you hopefully will see the beauty and determination hidden behind the plain displays. James Turrell was born on May 6, 1943. He lived in Los Angeles for most of his life and went to Pasadena High School and…

Throughout the greater history of America, spanning from its European roots into and throughout the early colonial era, the woman’s place had always been in her husband’s home, where she would carry out a list of tasks and tend to her children in order to be considered useful. In these times, man would never have entertained the thought of training her faculty with the tools gained from higher education; to send the woman to college was to waste their resources on an intellectually inferior…

Claude McKay faced extreme racism in the early 20th century yet he fought back and expressed himself with his poetry. Not always exposed to segregation, he was born into a loving family on September 15, 1889 in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. At a very young age, his brother, Uriah Theophilus McKay, began tutoring him in classical literature, communism, and famous writers. Claude spent hours reading William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in his brother’s library. His neighbor Walter Jekyll also…

Walt Pfeiffer was Walt’s new best friend and together they joined theatre. Through this time Walt never gave up his passion of drawing. Walt started to earn money for his talent and started taking art classes at the Kansas City Art institute. Disney’s moved back to Chicago in 1917. There he continued his art classes through convincing his father that it was an educational experience. He became his high schools magazine cartoonist. Walt goes to war summer of 1918. He tried to join the navy to…