The contemporary artist that I chose to discuss in this paper is Louise Bourgeois and her piece of art Eyes". This abstract sculpture is made of marble and dated 1982. Eyes‚ 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American‚ born France‚ 1911) Metropolitan Museum‚ New York Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911and studied art at various schools there. In 1938‚ she immigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. She began her career as a painter and
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of art‚ literature‚ and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and marked the transition from the medieval to the modern world. Although he was a painter and architect and loved doing both of them‚ he preferred sculpting and mainly used marble on his sculptures. Michelangelo was greatly interested in art since he was young. He would rather watch the painters at a church than go to school. When he was
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Errors and misconceptions are common place in the classroom especially in mathematics. “It is important to establish a distinction between an error and a misconception” (Spooner‚ 2002‚ p3). An error can be due to a number of different factors‚ such as lack of concentration‚ carelessness and misreading a question. On the other hand‚ a misconception is generally when a student misinterprets the correct procedure or method. “Students often misunderstand or develop their own rules for deciding how something
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main gates after crossing a long queue. We were moving on the red tiled passages of the building. Taj is surrounded by water sprayers Garden and the encircled arena. It has four miners in white marble and then a tomb in the centre. All walls of the building are engraved in colors and lustrous stones. The marble virtually changes colors when the light falls on it. Some guides state that the building was a piece of architecture by Shuraji‚ the Persian architect. It is further said that he too was there
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the plates under the earths crusts. The rocks recrystallized under high temperature and pressure. Some rocks then were folded due to ductile pressure. Most common metamorphic rocks found in Grand Canyons are quartzite‚ schists‚ gneiss‚ phyllite‚ marble‚ and slate. The Vishnu Schist formed from metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. During the phase of Vischnu schist being formed‚ it went through metamorphism and then faulting lead to a partial rifting of the continent. The collision expanded the continent
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sculpture to work on this commission? The second sculptor to work on Michelangelo commission was Antonio Rosalina. 4. How much time passed before Michelangelo was given the job to complete the abandoned block of marble? Michelangelo was given the job to complete the abandoned block of marble for two years complete the statue. 5. Did his family support his desire to become an artist? Explain. Michelangelo‚ family didn’t support him at all. His father and uncle would beat him up because
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Painting and Sculpting weren’t the only things Michelangelo was good at‚ he had many great talents. When Florence was in danger of attack‚ he super intended fortification. He also wrote lots of sonnets in strength of their beauty recall his work of marble. Many of the were written in old age for Vittoria Colonna‚ a lady who was very smart and pretty. In his later years of life‚ he designed the dome in St. Peter’s basilica in Rome. Which was named the best architectural achievement of the Italian
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of Ancient Greek. Some examples of rulers of Ancient Greek are Polycrates‚Periander‚Evagoras‚etc. What Material Did They Use To Build Sculptures. They built the sculptures out of entirely used bronze or marble.It was easy to use bronze and marble because it was very easy to form and was very durable.Chryselephantine (kris-elefan-tin)Sculptures used gold that often were in leaf form that were used to build the hands and the
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Upper Paleolithic Period of time (42‚000 – 8‚000 BCE) reaching to our contemporary artists of today. One of the most representing works to the Eclecticism period‚ a sculpture was titled “UGOLINO AND HIS SONS”. It was done in 1861 CE using Saint-Béat marble. It has a size of approximately (78.75 in. x 59 in. x 43.5 in.)‚ height to width to depth ratio. The sculpture was done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux‚ a French sculptor and painter who was born in Valenciennes‚ Nord‚ and part of northern France in 1827
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Predicting the compressive and tensile strength of rocks from indentation hardness index by S. Kahraman*‚ M. Fener†‚ and E. Kozman‡ Synopsis The prediction of rock properties from indirect testing methods is important‚ particularly for preliminary investigations since indirect tests are easier and cheaper than the direct tests. In this study‚ we investigate the predictability of the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS ) and Brazilian tensile strength (BTS ) of rocks from the indentation hardness
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