National Gallery of Art

Hitler’s Art of Manipulation The art of manipulation has been used throughout all of human history as a means of political advancement, from Anthony and Cleopatra to Castro’s dictatorship. Similarly, the rise of Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany is also a manipulative one, encompassing the whole gallery of deception, exploitation, and abuse. Hitler gained power of Germany not only because of the magnetism of his public oration, but because of his maneuvering and domination of the Nazi…

Industry was created in order to celebrate America’s past and lend an eye to its hoped for future of prosperity. Attended by the President of the United States and in the presence of members of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, many other national, state and municipal officers over 150,000 people and even the Emperor and Empress of Brazil the fair commenced. Although not considered financially successful for its investors, the Centennial Exhibition that took place in Philadelphia,…

How did Batman get so popular? It all started in 1939. “In 1939, National Comics (later to become DC Comics), was looking for a new super hero—a character who could build on the success of Superman” (Batman at 75: Highlights in the Life of the Caped Crusader). Editor Vin Sullivan asked Bob Kane to create a hero. Batman first started as an idea from writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane. Batman wasn’t always a superhero dressed in dark colors. Bob Kane originally drew Batman in brighter colors…

already had a strong cultural offering (Parliamentary, 2011) with their reputation for music being second to none, museums having national status and the fact they have more listed buildings than anywhere in England except for London (Hull, 2013) and during the year of ECOC, the media coverage for Liverpool's cultural events doubled (Carter, 2010) with a 10% rise each year in arts audiences across Liverpool, with higher levels of interest in museums and…

the owner of a studio that Virginia’s father owned. In that decade, Adam had many photographs shown at the Smithsonian Imstitute (1931). Later, he opened his own gallery and published “Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography” (1935). Due to this book, the Department of Photography would open at the New York’s Museum of Mordern Art (1940). Adam quickly became popular for his landscape photograhy and won many awards. He deid in 1984, but…

As of right now, my degree is an associate of arts. I plan to change it in the near future to something in the medical field. I'm interested in being a radiologist or a nurse. My goal is to earn a degree in nursing or radiology. All of this is what I am talented in, all of my hobbies and my future…

The Nazi Holocaust was the systematic slaughter and massacre of the Jewish, homosexual, Polish, disabled, gypsy, and otherwise considered monetary population of Nazi occupied Europe. It 's death toll counts up between 6 to 11 million (6 million being the Jewish deaths, and the other 5 million being the deaths of other miscellaneous minorities living in occupied Europe). The Holocaust was brought on by the hate and prejudice inspired by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and president of…

Social identity, the classification and organization of heterogeneous people based on physical characteristics, is perhaps, one of the most prominent abstraction used in modern discourse. The need to belong to a group has increased; though identification has played a role in how we perceive ourselves and those around us, unfortunately at least one group is put at a disadvantage due to the categorized label that society condemns them off. In Charles Cunningham’s article, To Watch the Faces of the…

inventor. We didn’t go over what he invented but we learned about the da Vinci method and I was really interested in what he built & what he had painted. I knew that he painted the Mona Lisa, but I wanted to see what other painting he did. I used to like art and seeing all the different colors used to create a piece of artwork. Knowing what inventions people made was interesting because if it wasn’t for them getting up and exploring then we would not have the stuff that we have…

Dive bars are broadly defined as a shabby and disreputable establishment—essentially the lowest of quality drinking establishments. Though there are numerous guides to Boston’s “best dive bars,” this complicates the definition of what exactly constitutes what makes a bar a “dive”. If a dive bar is always shabby and seedy, is it possible to be “the best” in being the worst? If so, would the award for the best dive bar actually go to the worst? Many of these common standards that define a dive…