Guernica

Likely, the source was used to reassure and persuade the public that there would not be a war. Many Britons were worried about another war due to the devastation of the first world war, and wanted peace to avoid losing their loved ones once again; Guernica had also been recently bombed by the Germans and this terrified the British public. To conclude, I disagree with Chamberlain’s opinion that the Munich Agreement was a victory for peace, as while it did adjourn the war, the consequences were…

The artist Pablo Picasso has greatly impacted the development of modern and contemporary art. His work includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings and much more. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, In Málaga, on the southern Spanish coast. Picasso’s father, José Ruiz Blasco, supported the family by teaching drawing at the local art school. At the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. His father was a traditional,…

“Culture” means the ways in which people recognize themselves and interact with one another and their environment. When change is implemented into culture one seems to think of what will become different from what is already know. Whoever said that change would be a bad thing? In the 19th century, culture took a turn from where its origin was to where it was heading. Such like Christianity and Society, both of which that were inspirational and had characteristics that became new social awareness…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…

“By the Waters of Babylon” is a story set in a post-apocalyptic world narrated by the son of a village priest named John. John learns from his father how to collect metal from the Dead Places and how to purify it so it can be used by his people. When he becomes comfortable doing this by himself, John decides that it is time for him to go on his journey. John dreams that he is destined to take a journey to the Place of the Gods, a trip forbidden by his people. After traveling for eight days, John…

In the 1880’s, art began to change and was becoming something new. New styles. New perspectives. New emotions. New art. Art began to take on a modern form and reflected the culture at the time that was shifting from their old ways and adapting new skills and interests. One of the leaders of this shift into Cubism was Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso was a truly talented and instrumental painter, and many repercussions of his entrepreneurship and originality in art are still seen today. Born in 1881…

The progression of time has witnessed profound changes to the depiction of the women in the artistic sphere. Art can be seen as a mechanism for exploring many representations of the female form. Grace Cossington Smith’s The Sock Knitter (1915), celebrated as the first post-impressionist painting to be exhibited in Australia, Frederic Leighton’s idealized characterization of a reclining female figure in Cymon and Iphigenia (1884) and Henry Moore’s sculptural rendering Reclining Figure: Angles are…

In examining political agendas and critiquing art institutions and the power of the government, The Art Workers’ Coalition undertook a collective range of protests and political actions against these higher societies (Martin, 2004). On January 3, 1969, artist Takis Vassilakis removed one of his works from the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) exhibition “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age” (1969). However, the board of directors refused this, even with the revolutionary proposition…

They contributed with land and air force. Germany was involved in the bombing of Guernica that was an aerial attack in Basque Country which caused a huge destruction and civilian deaths. They also trained Spanish Nationalist soldiers. Hitler and Mussolini pressured Francisco Franco to gain Madrid. He used 30,000 Italians and 20,000 soldiers;…

It has been about 14 million years since mankind came into the world. In that long period of time, human beings have been continuously producing knowledge. The prompt said “The main reason knowledge is produced is to solve problems.”, and I mostly agree with it, but first I will discuss this statement from different perspectives using the examples from Natural Science and The Arts . In Natural Science, there are many inventions that were discovered to solve a problem. Many of today’s inventions…