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In 1858 a young Claude Monet was just starting his artistic training. Monet's mentor at the time, Eugène Boudin, encouraged the seventeen-year-old student to abandon the studio and instead paint outdoors. Monet followed...
201515 pages
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The Impressionist movement began in the 1870s with a group of artists living in and around Paris, France. Most of these artists were young, and they were all talented and enthusiastic. They were eager to make a splash in...
201515 pages
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A visitor strolling through an art gallery in the early to mid-1800s expected to be impressed, and the most renowned artists of the time did not disappoint. They painted massive works with themes of historical,...
201514 pages
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The French Impressionists were passionate about many aspects of their work. When it came to capturing light effects, though, this passion was so intense that it sometimes bordered on obsession. The Impressionists painted...
201513 pages
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In 1915 the twenty-eight-year old French artist Marcel Duchamp was living in New York City when he began collecting manufactured objects, including a snow shovel, a dog grooming comb, and a typewriter case. Within a few...
201513 pages
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In the world of animation, the stop-motion technique might be compared to creating moving three-dimensional sculptures. Unlike traditional animators who draw on flat cels, stop-motion animators bring to life objects such...
201513 pages
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In Japan animation is called anime, and there are several parallels between Japanese and American animated films. Many popular animated characters in both countries were first seen in comic books, known as manga in...
201513 pages
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Clay has long been one of the most useful substances known to humankind. A natural product of the earth, clay is extremely malleable and can be easily shaped into cups, water jugs, bricks—and works of art. When exposed...
201514 pages
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On November 18, 1928, audiences saw—and heard—something different at the Colony Theatre in New York City. When the animated short Steamboat Willie premiered, it featured a new character, Mickey Mouse. Unlike the...
201512 pages
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Sculpting in clay, stone, or bone can be a solitary activity, performed by an individual artist with a singular vision. This is not the case for sculpting with bronze and other metals. Casting requires a team of artisans...
201512 pages
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, before the advent of radio, television, and movies, Americans received most of their news and entertainment from newspapers. There were about twenty thousand daily, weekly, and...
201512 pages
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Ancient Greek sculptors produced some of the world's most celebrated works of art, and the marble sculpture Laocoön and His Sons represents classical Greek art in its most passionate and dramatic form. In Greek mythology...
201513 pages
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From classical Greece until the impressionist era, sculpture was largely additive, subtractive, or cast in bronze. In 1912 Pablo Picasso singlehandedly changed more than twenty-five hundred years of sculpture tradition...
201512 pages
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For more than a decade, writer-director James Cameron immersed himself in the task of inventing an entirely new world for the big screen. The result was the epic 2009 science fiction-action film Avatar, a marvel of 3-D...
201513 pages
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One popular kind of graphic art is the poster. Long before radio, television, and the Internet, people all over the world depended on posters as a means of advertising their services or products or promoting an upcoming...
201512 pages
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Graphic art is a mainstay of advertising. Whether designing a print ad for a newspaper or magazine or a colorful package for a new product, graphic artists play a key role in making the product attractive and...
201513 pages
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Graphic art is frequently a key element of types of communication besides advertising. Road signs that use symbols and colors to alert drivers to changing road conditions are one example. Graphic art is used to create...
201512 pages
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Not until the late nineteenth century, known as the Victorian era, did the concept of graphic design become widely known in Western society. For the first-ever world's fair, known as the Great Exhibition of 1851, Queen...
201511 pages
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Graphic arts underwent a tremendous amount of change in the latter half of the twentieth century. Up until then, the process of creating advertisements, political announcements, posters, and other types of visual...
201513 pages
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Japanese both young and old are experienced consumers of manga. Comic magazines can be found everywhere in Japan, from barbershops and beauty salons to offices and factories. Manga fills the shelves at bookstores and...
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In 1858 a young Claude Monet was just starting his artistic training. Monet's mentor at the time, Eugène Boudin, encouraged the seventeen-year-old student to abandon the studio and instead paint outdoors. Monet followed...