Built for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona‚ Spain‚ the German Pavilion‚ designed by Mies van der Rohe‚ was used for the official opening of the German portion of the exhibition. To this day‚ the German pavilion is seen as one of the most significant buildings built during the 20th century. When analyzing the building formal‚ structural‚ and material qualities‚ it becomes effortless to support the proposition that the German Pavilion was built with the concepts of nature in mind where
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of praise about the land that brings us freedom which we view as our beautiful country. Territory is land that is claimed and called their own‚ yet there are nations in the past that have had their state and now became nations without states like Catalonia and Scotland. The United States is an example of a nation that doesn’t have a dominant group and a multi-cultural society as a civic nation. An example from the lecture was how we cannot particularly identify an “American” here in America‚ but if
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Butler’s Tourism Lifecycle Model Butler developed a model which shows how any tourist resort may grow. A resort may start off from being a small‚ low key‚ destination. He suggests that all resorts go through the same sort of process. The seven stages of tourist development A graph of Butler’s resort life cycle model 1. Exploration - a small number of tourists visit the area. The area is unspoilt and few tourist facilities exist. 2. Involvement - local people start to provide some facilities
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think about their art in a different manner than traditional paintings. One of the most famous surrealist painters is Salvador Dalí and one of his most popular productions is the Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Surrealist painter‚ Salvador Dalí of Catalonia‚ painted the famous artwork Metamorphosis of Narcissus in 1937 with oil paint on a canvas. The painting‚ from Dali’s Paranoiac-critical period‚ is based on the story of Narcissus in Greek mythology. According to columnist Rosa Maria Maurell i Constans’
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The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter born in 1904 in Figueras‚ Catalonia‚ a major region of Spain. Dali became great at adopting the various styles of other artists into his repertoire and studied all over the country (The 1). He became fond of the link between the subconscious-mind and art. He envisioned himself painting his dreams in sometimes erotic forms. Known mainly for his surreal work he was fascinated with ideals and concepts of psychology.
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writer finally explores the limits of his obsessions and the darkest aspects of themes he has been concerned with for years. Homage to Catalonia‚ Animal Farm‚ and 1984 are all concerned with political evil‚ the misuse of language‚ the destruction of history and the objective Koestler as "the impossibility of combining power with righteousness." Homage to Catalonia is documentary and journalism. Animal Farm is a fable. Orwell rewrote it with
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In his essay‚ ‘Why I Write’‚ Orwell stated that he wanted to capture the truth of human nature. As exemplified in his story of poverty‚ Down and out in Paris and London; he captured the realism of life during the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia‚ and in The Road to Wigan Pier‚ Orwell studied human misery in an exploitative social order. In 1984‚ Orwell described utter and total hatred to people who are different‚ hate of evil and hate of all other humans. It is where love is described as
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Origins of Spanish Civil WarReligion and Economics By: Kristina Russell and Sydney Watson Paper 2: Assess the importance of religious and economic factors in the origins of the Spanish Civil War Separation of Church and State Anticlericalism Distribution of land and equality Thesis In the 1930’s‚ tension between political parties‚ the fight for equality‚ and the separation of church and state caused visible alterations in Spain’s religion and economy leading to anticlericalism and anti-fascist
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Salvador Dali was a very eccentric and obsessive artist; he was inspired and influenced by many people and things. Some of which were quite bizarre. Earlier on in his life he studied at the Madrid academy. This is where he perfected his technique based on the 17th century Dutch still-life masters and the 19th century French and Spanish genre painters. During this time he experimented with Cubism‚ even though he probably didn’t completely understand the movement. Dali also experimented with Dada
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Causes of Spanish Civil War On the 17th of July of 1936 the Spanish Civil War erupted. However before this‚ Spain had its fair share of stability problems. The problems began all the way since 1851‚ but instead of going year by year‚ it is better to divide the causes in the following categories: political‚ military‚ socioeconomic‚ regional and religious. During the years previous to the war‚ Spain had a lot of political instability. Most think that the Left was more responsible for this than
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