Ink

or usually collected pictures of famous people back then. Andy Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After high school he wanted to become an art teacher so he went to art school. During the 1950`s he gained fame for some of his ink drawings for a couple of shoes advertisements. During this year he began exhibiting his work at the Hugo Gallery and the Bodley Gallery , both located…

Before the printing press was invented in 1440, people used methods like block printing and hand copying to copy books or other important documents. Books, money, and playing cards were all copied by dipping a carved out piece of wood into ink and pressing it onto paper, like a…

In this era (2000-2016) humans have develop new ways for us to work and live more efficiently. The advances in technology and medicine has improved greatly, but the negative side of these new advances have greatly changed the way people act and think. When Historians were born their lives have been very different and will be nothing like this era. Their view of these changes will think that these advances have made Technologies has developed greatly. It has made keeping in touch with…

Today, on March 23, 1765. An act was passed yesterday by the Parliament called the Stamp Act and I, Averill Hartnett is outraged. Just in case you did not know what the Stamp Act was. This meant you had to pay a tax for any written documents such as legislative resolves, prints, licenses, newspapers, and songs. Just as the colonists heard this law, immediately started disputes, and began feathering and tarring tax collectors. My family was furious too. Dad grumbles while looking out the window.…

hand-written by the scribes and miniaturists at Charlemagne’s court in Aachen. The Coronation Gospels contains four full page evangelist portraits. These images are richly illuminated with each page being written on purple dyed parchment in gold and silver ink. These elements are indicative of Roman Imperial culture, both in the attention to luxury and in colour scheme. It is in this way that the Imperial Coronation Gospels are symbolic through both surface appearance and historical significance…

boots trudging through the muddy trenches and the chatter of soldiers could be heard from the distance. George sat alone in his tent as the lantern's dim glow cast eerie shadows against the tent's walls. He dipped the tip of the fountain pen into the ink bottle as he penned in cursive, “Dear Mom.” His eyes were glazed with hot tears as he began to write the letter, scrape it, and rewrite it once again. The tears locked deep inside his chest, clawing to get out. All the brightly plastered…

The civil war was not just about fighting on the battlefield. There was a heavy political shadow the always stood behind the war. The shadow was swayed by the people and the emotions they felt. Leaders were able to utilize these emotions by crafting their words into a verbal masterpiece which influenced the masses. In the civil war, there were three major political views that almost every American could be sorted under. There was the Abolitionist viewpoint, the “slavery is morally wrong”…

indifference towards the “melodious” – so they are described – double stops my sister painfully wriggles from her bow. Oh, how protean she is, making even Handel’s Sonata sound like a prostrated pugilist proofreading a portentous polonaise from the ink of which a pungent odor escapes, infiltrating nostrils and seeping in through the cracks of an already resigned soul. D sharp! Can’t she hear it! It’s too flat! No! So much for perspicacity. I should have started my homework last night. Now it’s…

When I was younger, I was always either reading a book or drawing a picture of a place that I read about in a book in my free time. Unlike other kids my age, I loved reading and learning about new things. And my love for learning showed in school, I was always one of the top students in my class, even though I was a year younger than my classmates. But my love and excitement for reading and learning changed when I had to move to America with my family. Moving to America changed everything for…

change. Meanwhile, she was also determined to have the desire for love (106). As an example, when the mayors and aldermen mailed her a tax notice, they "received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink" (99). The paper was "archaic", which means that it was old-fashioned and traditional. She wrote in "flowing calligraphy", a beautiful and archaic handwriting. The details showed that Miss Emily had received good education and good breeding. The…