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    Irie Biggers Art-111-802 The academic tradition of Manet’s time was structured with regulations, designed by art schools to control the way an artist depicts his or her details through artwork. With Manet’s, “Olympia” and “Luncheon on the Grass,” Manet’s seems to be an artistic rebel in his academic time frame. In each painting he used nude women similar to nude women in academic art but controversially used them in a different light, such as a young prostitute or a naked model undressed in…

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    The moai statues lie on an island in Chile, commonly known as Easter island or Rapu Nui to its earlier people. The island is 64 square miles, and located 2,500 miles from Tahiti and 2.300 miles from Chile. Each statue ranges from 12 to 14 feet tall, and weighs approximately a ton. Although no written history lies on the land, historians believe the statues represented important people such as ancestors, chiefs or worshipped deity’s. The people of the island were sea farers who most likely…

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    Snake demon Medusa,who have the ability to make somebody to be a wax statue, and she is fond of collecting that full with aesthetic feeling.Consequently,she built a wax work museum, which is tall and splendid,and it is be called Madame Tussaud. For the sake of the coming and goings of hundred of people from all over the world all enjoy the sight of wax statue.So she began to earn money. One day,with the coming of Pygmalion.,who is a cool king come from Cyprus of Greece fairy tale.His hair is…

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    meters of objects and easily catch his breath. Ten man made life-size statues of ten different people with the finest detail ever from the their postures, the clothes of the earth and to their expression of their face as if they were alive from the ground they made…

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    Moai Myths

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    You are in the middle of nowhere surrounded by monolithic statues with big heads staring back at you. You wonder where these mysterious monoliths came from. Nobody really knows for certain where they came from. One of South America’s greatest mysteries is the Moai on Easter Island. The fact that nobody knows for sure where they came from adds to the mystery of why they are there. The Moai are believed to have been built by the “Rapi Nui, also known as Easter Islanders (a name given to them by…

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    side to the sun. The burial chamber is adjoined to the east side where priests made offerings to the god-king. Old Kingdom statues survived in significant numbers due to the statues being substitute abodes of the Ka. The primary tool used to carve funerary sculpture is stone. One of the most influential pieces of this time was the seated statue of Khafre (Figure 3-11). The statue is made up of mostly diorite and dark hard stone. Khafre is sitting upright and wears a simple kilt. Between the…

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    For the issue of the ownership of the Parthenon statues between the Greek and British perspective, I have to agree with a Greek position forward turning in the statues to its original proper place in the Parthenon . British Ambassador to Constantinople, Lord Thomas Elgin taken the Parthenon Marbles from Athens under Turkish occupation. Meaning, the Greek government had no say in the decision of Laura Thomas Elgin of removing the Parthenon Marbles from Athens. The reason why the British should…

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    Pygmalion Research Paper

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    contrast the two. There was a lot of differences between the two, but there was also a few similarities. I thought that the play was different then the myth because a lot happened in the play. The greek myth was about Pygmalion who fell in love with a statue. The play was about Higgins who turned a flower girl into a lady. They are both have the same concept just different ways of going about it. In the play and the myth are similar in very few ways, but have the same concept. Higgins and…

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    American dream, and doing whatever it took to get to America. “A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame, is the imprisoned lightning” when the immigrants came to America, they were taken to Ellis Island, and on their way there they passed by the statue, “The Mother Exiles.” When they saw her they saw their new beginning, and when they saw the torch it represented the new life of everyone and the hope they had to make it come true.…

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    Envision gliding down Mount Washington at seventy-five miles per hour,your hair being blown by the wind as you hang on for dear life. This is one of the many reasons why I would to live in the Northeast. Because of the activities and the Statue of Liberty, I would want to live in the Northeast Region. One the reasons why I would want to live in the Northeast is because of the activities. One of the activities I would want to try is ice skating.I was about four years old when I tried ice…

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