ART HISTORY LECTURE NOTES 1 AH1.1 (I) Early Civilizations: PRE-HISTORICAL ART -art before historical documentation 3 periods of Pre-Historical art (The Stone Ages/Megalithic) -Paleolithic (32000-15000BC) -Mesolithic (15000-8000BC) -Neolithic (8000-1500BC) Forms of art -cave wall painting -chattel art -mobilary: figurings Characteristics -crude and unrefined -organic and of earth pigments Contents -bisons‚ horses -hunting‚ tribal wars -funeral scenes Important sites
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By now everyone has heard of the 3 year old boy that managed to climb his way into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo. Fearing for the boy’s life‚ zoo officials made the decision to shoot and kill the 400-pound silverback gorilla named Harambe. I’m not here to discuss whose fault it was or even if it was necessary‚ everyone else is doing that. What I am more interested in is people’s reaction to it. Several questions occurred to me. Why is it that people’s first reaction was not exaltation
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Hinduism and Islam: Compare and Contrast It is universally known that religious faiths creates diversity in culture and give new identity and outlook to matters signifying a new way life. In most cases‚ religious faith is accountable for people’s behavior in conducting daily activities including business‚ work‚ socialization‚ and cultural functions within a specified community. The immensely large majority of the human species has always looked to a higher power for acceptance‚ love‚ enlightenment
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Pantheism is the view that God is everything and everyone and that everyone and everything is God. Many cults and false religions have this same belief that God is everything such as an animal‚ a rock‚ the sun‚ a tree‚ you me etc. Pantheism is not taught in the Holy Bible of the Christians as we believe God’s omnipresence. In the book of Psalm 139:7-8 declares‚ “Where
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be complicated and his personal experience has shown him God is active and invested in the world. Pinnock says God is loving and uses people to help Him make decisions which allows people to reassure themselves that their life matters‚ but God’s omniscience is challenged through contradicting statements made by
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from the teachings of white people. Celie discovers throughout the novel that she‚ like Shug‚ can not find God in this kind of church that is based on patriarchal religion but searches for him elsewhere. Walker’s personal concept of spirituality is pantheism‚ the idea that God is in all living things within nature including people. Celie learns from Shug and through her own development that God is within her and she benefits far more from her own spirituality than from the structured religion within
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The “dark side of life” that William Shakespeare exposes in his play‚ Twelfth Night‚ is the danger in the individual’s willingness to abandon the intrinsic self as a means to better realize a goal. The characters Viola‚ Feste‚ and Malvolio‚ in assuming new persona’s‚ engage in a metaphysical betrayal in which they deny the reality of their nature. Viola’s choice to serve Duke Orsino as a page in hopes of finding her brother is by no means unethical‚ and her efforts are ultimately successful‚ but
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Edward Estlin Cummings or E. E. Cummings‚as he was popularly called was an American poet‚ painter‚ essayist‚ author‚ and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2‚900 poems‚ two autobiographical novels‚ four plays and several essays‚ as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry. One of his major work is the poem “ I thank You God”. The poem by e.e. cummings‚ titled "I thank you God for most this amazing..." suggests a way
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This path is harder to follow‚ and therefore not as accessible in my opinion. The people who have attained perfect enlightenment and omniscience (those who are fully enlightened and know everything) and have liberated their soul of samsara (cycle of death and rebirth)‚ which is known as moksha‚ are called siddhas (liberated ones). Siddhas are those who have conquered all of their passions
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Judaism which in turn gives shape to the world. These religions do assume some common characteristics of God. One attribute is the belief that God is omnipotent which means he is very powerful and able to do all things without any form of limitation. Omniscience is another attribute of God. It is believed that God has a complete knowledge of everything. He knows the smallest details of
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