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African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden
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A 5 page paper which compares the life and art of Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African American Museum/Sackler/Freer Gallery Complex
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A 4 page essay/research paper that discusses Carol Duncan's observation that modern museum represent a form of ritual in regards to the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture and the Sackler/Freer Gallery complex. Because these museums are smaller, the writer argues that the experience of seeing them is necessarily different from seeing a larger museum, such as the National Galleries. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African Art’s Influence on Picasso and Matisse
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A 4 page paper which examines the influence African art had on Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Airplanes as Art
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This 3 page paper discusses the fact that non-traditional objects can be seen as works of art (in this case, aircraft). It also discusses the influence of Minoan culture on later Hellenic art. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books
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This 6 page paper critically evaluates Alberti's work that was first written during the fifteenth century. His ideas about nature and architecture are explored. No additional sources cited.
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Alexander Calder's Untitled Mobile
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10 pages in length. The creative genius of Alexander Calder spanned the better part of the twentieth century, with the American sculptor establishing his niche of motorized abstract mobiles in the 1930s. With a history of sculptors on his paternal side of the family and his mother a painter, it was no surprise how easily Calder filled those artistic shoes. Fashioned from aluminum and steel, his untitled 1976 creation drew from his past perspectives, including time spent in the Parisian Piet Mondrian studio. Calder expanded his interest in wire and spheres by assembling a collection of brightly colored disks that were held together by way of weights and counterbalances, allowing for the sculpture to reflect his spatial approach to art: free to move with the movement of the atmosphere as it hangs suspended in mid air. This ephemeral aspect of Calder's artistic endeavors became the calling card for the National Gallery of Art's East Building, inasmuch as he was beckoned to produce a piece of work that would capture the true essence of what this new structure was to ultimately represent. Calder's challenge brought to life the giant mobile whose presence seemed to defy gravity and spatial limitation. Sadly, he would not live to see his nine hundred twenty pound aluminum masterpiece hoisted to the ceiling in 1977, nearly eighty years after his birth. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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This 3 page paper discusses the lives and accomplishments of two innovators of the twentieth century: Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Lloyd Wright. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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