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    East for centuries. This division is known as Orientalism which refers to the Western or Occidental views that the Middle East or Orient is inferior or different in some way. Edward Said was a scholar who studied the Western perception of the Middle East, specifically the word “Islam” through the lens of Orientalism. Said argues that this distinction between the West and the “other” is primarily reflected in Western media which generally promotes stereotypes of Muslims and people living in the…

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    lifestyles as inspiration. The famed impressionists used the bustling nightlife of Montmartre, studious industrial areas, and open landscapes of rural France to influence their works. Specifically, Maximilien Luce used the rural province of Brittany in Western France to inspire his work Camaret, Moonlight and Fishing Boats painted in 1894. Brittany was used as inspiration by many impressionists for its rural, unmodernized regions. On the other hand, Vincent Van Gogh used the industrial region of…

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    Subject Matter and Description of the Artwork & The Facts: The piece Pink and Blue II was painted by Georgia O’keeffe. The piece was created in New York in 1919. The painting was created by using oil paint on a canvas. There was no texture added, so the piece seems to be quite smooth. The canvas is 35 x 29 inches. It is displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of…

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    argues in his article, “Equality Expectation and Envy,” that as Western society has had increasing success, a sense of failure and disappointment with oneself has emerged. In his analysis, he states that people must stop comparing themselves to one another; instead, they should focus on curbing their own desires and being satisfied with all of the material advancements that can be enjoyed in today’s world. Botton overall discusses how Western civilizations’ increase in success and egalitarian…

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    It is well known that Western culture and the Western world has endeavored to assert itself over other cultures for many centuries. Beginning with the colonization of groups of people deemed lesser by the standards of white Europeans, who often forced their customs or religion on people they had colonized, Western civilizations continue to push their cultural standards on other parts of the world, especially when it pertains to art. In the essay, “The Trouble with the Term Art”, Carolyn Dean…

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    1. How would you describe the speaker’s work or practice? • Artist Mary Weatherford is one who creates a series of abstracted landscapes that painted on large canvas in combination with a neon light. She frequently uses tints of sapphire, pink and orange, and the neon signs on her paintings. 2. What seems to drive the speaker’s work/practice? • Artist Mary Weatherford believes the combination of colors and neon lights is motion. Since 2012, she created neon art inspired by the city, past, and…

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    1. Figure 4.3, Going Home by Jacob Lawrence. This piece was created in 1946, and was painted with gouache, which is an opaque type of watercolor. I personally did not like this piece, I’m not a fan of the medium used, but nevertheless I found it interesting. In my opinion, the low value and intensity of the yellows and greens are unappealing, I think they make this train or bus seem outdated and old, or just dirty. But I do enjoy the contrasting red and green, and the warm feeling that the…

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    news featuring headlines like: “Iran Nuclear Deal: What Happens Next?” and “Radical Islam: why Europe should be on war footing” it is no surprise that Western society has a fear of Muslims. In Azar Nafisi’s essay “The Veiled Threat”, she brings light onto a neglected issue within Islam: the inequality between men and women. Media has distorted the Western perception of Islam as it does with other cultures and people. The news says “good evening” and then tells us all reasons it’s not. The news…

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    by blinding us to the humanity of others and convincing us to accept their pain and our own pain in the pursuit of avarice. The breadth of pride 's effect on humanity is apparent in its thematic presence throughout literature. In All Quiet On the Western Front, we see how pride shaped history in World War I. In All Quiet, war itself is strongly associated with pride: "It 's queer, when one thinks about it," goes on Kropp, "we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French…

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    rather than agricultural ones. From the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth century, an industrial explosion occurred. This was the Industrial Revolution. It began in Britain with the expansion of coal and textile industries. This spread throughout western Europe and areas of North America and lead to a trend of manufacturing goods. By the twentieth century the world was aware of their industrial power. But industrialization left many countries behind. While the Industrial Revolution and…

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