Kilalo helps black students find their way To be young‚ gifted and black It is a long-standing issue‚ on which the last words have not been said yet. Student with a migration background are underrepresented in Flanders’ higher education‚ especially youngsters with Sub-Saharan roots. Kilalo‚ an organisation based in Antwerp‚ is working on change. “Kilalo is born out of my personal experiences with higher education‚” explains Sandrine Ekofo. After high school‚ Sandrine Ekofo‚ who has roots in Congo
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Over 300-years of history The Weavery‚ set in a beautifully renovated 17th-century house‚ built in the 1670’s‚ is located in the central area of Amsterdam. The house was originally built to serve as home and workshop for a family of highly skilled Flemish silk weavers. A sensitive restoration has preserved the building’s original features – ‘steile trappen’ ‚ exposed timber framing beams‚ 400-year-old floor tiles – are all just part of the intriguing history of this exceptional
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accomplishments. He was a painter‚ architect‚ inventor‚ and a student of all things scientific.. Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading‚ writing and math‚ but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to the noted sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio‚ of Florence. For about a decade‚ da Vinci refined his painting and sculpting techniques and trained in mechanical arts. When he was 20‚ in 1472‚ the painters’ guild of Florence offered
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Giorgio Vasari‚ a famous painter‚ writer‚ historian‚ and architect‚ says in his “Lives of Painters” discusses how Leonardo de Vinci had a rare gift of talent and ability to whatever subject he turned his attention. (Doc. 3) Here‚ Vasari is expressing that he believes Leonardo is the perfect “Renaissance Man”. Vasari is writing to show that many painters are very good at what they do but it is also good to be well rounded. Since Vasari is writing this and he is a painter‚ this is a
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Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
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he‚she and they C.Characters: Johnsy=>She suffers from pneumonia in this story.Her wish for death and her dialogues reflect her disparity for life. Sue=>she is caring nursing‚ tolerating‚ through perseverance and gentleness. Mr.Behrman=>was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. Characterization: Johnsy =>she is a young woman from California who has come to New York to be an artist. Sue =>she is an artist‚ who lives with Johnsy her roommate. She is young‚ and part of the "artist"
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Elizabeth Murray was an American painter that reshaped Modernist abstraction. It became high-spirited and cartoon-based. In addition to being a painter‚ she was a printmaker and a draughtsman. When she was a student‚ she was influenced by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Her works are in countless major public collections‚ some of which include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Elizabeth Murray was born on September 6th‚ 1940 in Chicago‚ Illinois. In her early years
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❶AGE PROBLEM In three more years‚ Miguel’s grandfather will be six times as old as Miguel was last year. When Miguel’s present age is added to his grandfather’s present age‚ the total is68. How old is each one now? This exercise refers not only to their present ages‚ but also to both their ages last year and their ages in three years‚ so labelling will be very important. I will label Miguel’s present age as "m" and his grandfather’s present age as "g". Then m + g = 68. Miguel’s age "last year"
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Astrid Agerskov Pedersen - 3.b - Skive Gymnasium og HF! Engelsk A - Aflevering 1 (fiction) - The Oval Portrait d. 6/9-2012 The Oval Portrait‚ by Edgar Allan Poe The short story “The Oval Portrait” is written by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a gothic novel because of particular elements of gothic reference. It describes the two different passions of a married couple. The husband requests that the wife let him paint her‚ and in obeying him she loses her love. As the painting finishes‚ both her health
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Jose Villa Villa 1 Mr. Sullivan English 3 31 October 2012 The History of Oil Painting From the time of the Greeks the chemistry of art and the chemistry of medicine were closely related. Monks kept these recipes throughout the early centuries of Christianity until their broader use outside of the monasteries in the middle ages. The use of drying oils is recorded among these
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