painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist‚ stage designer‚ poet and playwright who led a very odd life with some extremely interesting aspects. Picasso was an artist with many fields but painting was his forte. His most famous masterpiece is the Guernica‚ which is a very abstract and surreal painting. Another extremely famous drawing by Picasso is The Dog. The Dog is a single line that ends up making a cute‚ little wiener dog‚ this piece is admired more for its complexity even though it’s simple
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Picasso –Woman with a Mandolin My first reaction to the painting was a dirty‚ grainy‚ claustrophobic scene. It is cluttered with a distorted and dysfunctional group of rusty geometrical shapes ranging from square to abnormal trapeisiams‚ these help in creating the analytical cubism scene. Amongst the abnormal background stands and exaggerated deformed naked figure which too looks dull and worn down The mood of the painting is boring‚ flat and cluttered. The setting is dull cloudy
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Hitler’s intervention in Spanish conflict Jacob Q World War Two had a long and complex build-up towards the inevitable conflict of an all out War. Many of huge international changes were occurring in the years building up to the start of World War Two. The one we shall be focusing on today is the Spanish Civil War. It is a significant event even though Spain never officially entered the Second World War because Germany one of the major Axis powers intervened in it welts most other countries
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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From 1936 to 1939‚ the Spanish Civil War took place. In this said war‚ General Francisco Franco‚ strong supporter of nationalism‚ fought against the Loyalists‚ in order form a new government system for Spain‚ a Fascist government. Fascism is an extreme rightist view‚ more extreme than Monarchism and Nazism. In the Spanish Civil War‚ Franco was aided by Hitler and the German forces. The nationalists were aided slightly by the newly formed Italian country and their powerful Fascist leader‚ Mussolini
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it mostly begins post World War I. This list picks up ten such military aircraft missions that were instrumental in shaping world history‚ and politics. “Air power may end war‚ or end civilization” – Winston Churchill‚ 1933 10 The Bombing of Guernica Aircraft of note: Heinkel He-111 The only major conflict during the otherwise uneasy lull in Europe between the two World Wars was the Spanish Civil War. Of course‚ relentless wars (or rather‚ bickerings) for Independence had been raging (in several
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Extra Credit Jon George Mrs. Dvorak College Success December 1st 2011 Babe Ruth – The homerun king for ages was Babe Ruth. He played for the New York Yankees. In his earlier years he was a right handed pitcher in the MLB but switched to a hitter. He is now 3rd on the all time homerun list behind Hank Aaron who is second and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth was born in Pigtown‚ Baltimore. Michael Jordan – In the eyes of many people Michael Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. He
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Pablo Picasso "Good artists copy‚ great artists steal." Pablo Picasso was born on October 25th‚ 1881 in Malaga‚ Spain. He was baptized Catholic‚ but would later convert into being an Atheist. His father‚ a painter‚ specialized in painting birds and other animals. Pablo Picasso showed a passion for art at an early age. According to his mother‚ his first words were "piz piz"‚ an abbreviation for the spanish word "lapiz" which means "pencil". Starting from the age of seven‚ Picasso started receiving
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Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808 (c.1814) is a responsive painting that was intended to honor those who suffered from the occupation of Napoleons army during the Peninsula War in Spain. This large 8in x 9in oil on canvas painting is used to represent the art of Goya‚ and depict the valor of Spanish revolutionary war. The influences on this piece‚ as well as its characteristics and influence on later work will be examined. The painting reflects the turmoil during the time period‚ and contains
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Hitler and rearmament 1933-1939 The Treaty of Versailles cut Germany’s armed forces cut to a tiny proportion of what they had been during the First World War. During the 1920s the League of Nations tried to establish a programme for disarmament‚ but many countries were using rearmament as a way of staving off the Depression‚ especially after 1929. Nothing was done until 1932 when a World Disarmament Conference was called. Needless to say the conference was a failure with no country willing
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