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that he believed was the key to protecting and maintaining their victory. Mao Zedong imposed land reforms, five year plans, and the great leap forward to motivate his people to catch up with other leading countries. Li Hua was a famous communist woodcut artist. His work reflected political and historical events of the time. Totalitarians rose in Russia, Germany, and China in the twentieth century because of the weakened and anxious state of each populations. Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Mao…

The Protestant Reformation’s impact on Art The Protestant Reformation a response to the corruption and abuse of the Catholic Church had a great impact on art in the 1600s. This changed the political and religious makeup of Europe. Before the Reformation, the arts was closely supervised and sponsored by the Catholic Church or wealthy Monarchs. I will discuss the Reformation and its influence on artwork from Jacopo Tintoretto and Albrecht Durer, two artists from that time. The Protestant…

Q.1.) How did Picasso and Matisse differ in their views about the purpose of art? How did their styles differ? Which works best exemplify their different styles? A.1.) First with Pablo Picasso, he once said, “the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off your souls". From his famous quote, we can gather that our lives require day by day measurements of art similar to how our body needs a clean and healthy bathe to remain perfect and sound. In other word, art is the essential request…

Many have questions like what are tessellations? Tessellations are the arrangement of small squares in a checkered or mosaic form. Tessellations are seen all around, but yet you don't notice them. Tessellations can be found in your house from the tiles in bathrooms, or even to the honeycomb of bees. There was a famous man with the name of M.C. Esher, and he was the first to use these tessellations in artwork. He became well known for them and being the first one to use them M.C. Esher became…

Women had roles in society that were far more inferior to that of the male population. The Woodcut of a Patriot Woman (Document A) shows that women had an increasingly larger role in the society. Before the Revolution, women were the “behind the scenes” member of the family, but with the dawn of the revolution at hand, women stepped up to more prominent and political roles in their family. In particular, women like Abigail Adams and Lucy Knox were the driving force for women’s rights progression…

documented human and world history as it is related in the Bible. The book discusses the history of many important Western cities, and it is one of the first publications to successfully integrate illustrations and text. The Chronicle contains over 1809 woodcuts and is produced from around 45 blocks. It was financed by relatives Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, both from the city of Nuremberg. The two paid for the manuscript to be originally written in Latin, but they also hired a…

“STARBUCKS”- world’s finest coffee. The logo of Starbucks is very unique and it was designed to show the imagery of the sea. A creative partner was going through old marine archives where he discovered a picture of a siren from a 16th century Nordic woodcut. She was twin-tailed mermaid who was just screaming, "Buy coffee!". Thus, this siren became the unique logo of Starbucks. BACKGROUND OF STARBUCKS On 31st March,…

The mediums he used were, “woodcuts, painted altarpieces, and portraits,” (Art: A Brief History, 359). Cranach was a German artist during the time of the Italian renaissance and often has his work compared to Titian because of the women in his work; his “Nymph of the Spring” is constantly…

Andrew, Pettegree. Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. The main question Andrew Pettegree seeks to answer in Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion is why people chose to adopt the ideas of the Reformation. Often the choice to follow the new ideas of the Reformation resulted in persecution, incarceration, great personal loss, or death. Why risk so much for a new idea? What persuaded them to change? The dominant theory on the modes of…

completely fabricated, as no such doctor or museum had ever existed. Nevertheless they published three more similar stories in other American news journals in preparation for the fake Dr. Griffin’s arrival in New York. They also passed out fliers with woodcut illustrations of beautiful mermaids to advertise the Fiji Mermaid’s unveiling. (See figures three and four) When the Fiji mermaid was finally revealed, along with a scholarly talk by “Dr. Griffin”, the exhibit was an immediate success. So…