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What is a director of an art gallery?

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A museum is looked after by a curator whose duties include caring for the institution's collections and sometimes acquisitions. The specific tasks of a curator will change depending on the mission of each particular institution that they are in charge of.

What is a rangoli?

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A Rangoli Is A Pattern That Has To Be Symatrical Otherwise It's Not A Rangoli Pattern

Why is modern art difficult to understand?

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Because it is a reaction against the past, as opposed to a movement toward a single literary aesthetic

What are the influences on modernism?

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Modernism was largely influenced by the Industrial age. Modernism includes all forms of art, music, literature and lifestyles in general and came about because people thought that these things were becoming outdated.

What is one similarity between Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and Goya's The Third of May 1808?

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They were both painted by French artists. Oath of the Horatii is painted in the neoclassical style depicting Roman honor. The Pilgrimage to Cythera was very different from it because it was more frivolous.

What where the two main styles of painting in the 1800's?

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in the early period portraits where the most popular but then in the 1800's landscapes and paintings of the frontier became more popular

Why were the artist employed as teachers at the Bauhaus?

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The Bauhaus was a school established in the early 20th century by German architect Walter Gropius, in which he intended to promote a unity among the arts, crafts and design. Eventually, the school taught design, cabinetmaking, furniture design, textiles, metalworking, typography and visual arts in addition to architecture.

The names most famously associated with the Bauhaus were the architects Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Hannes Meyer.

The most famous visual artists associated with the Bauhaus, and the wider art movement that arose from it, were Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lyonel Feininger.

Many of the artists, craftspeople, designers and architects associated with the Bauhaus emigrated to the United States during the time leading up to World War II, and they exerted a notable influence on the direction of modernist art, design and architecture in the 20th century.

What naionality was Leonardo de vinci?

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Leonardo De Vinci was Italian.

How did the ideas of romanticism contrast with enlightnment ideas?

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People of the 18th and 19th centuries were more scientifically minded, while the Romantics were more emotionally focused.

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In romanticism and are recurring subjects?

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Nature was a common subject of romantic poetry. Longfellow wrote about historical events.

What is the difference between impressionistic paintings from impressionistic music?

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The former is to be looked at, the latter to be listened to.

Why was frescos made?

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Asking why a fresco was made, much like asking why art is made, will not result in a simple answer. Different frescos are made for different reasons, including glorifying deities, remembering events, and depicting life. Fresco is chosen over other mediums because it lasts a long time and provides bright colors.

What best describes the general trend in 20th century architecture?

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Simplicity best describes the general trend in 20th century architecture.

What kind of art does the pomo do?

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The male children would help their dads fish and hunt and they would learn from their dads. The female children would weave and help their mom cook and learn what their mothers do.

What is the name of the specific style of Rococo painting that depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?

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paintings depict the outdoor amusements of French upper class society

Name 10 famous painters?

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Rank ArtistMindshare Index

(Picasso = 100)1Pablo Picasso1002Vincent van Gogh773Leonardo da Vinci654Claude Monet565Salvador Dali476Henri Matisse437Rembrandt418Andy Warhol349Georgia O'Keeffe3310Michelangelo32

What were the Renaissance artists from Venice such as Titian and Giorgione especially known for?

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The renaissance painters in Florence considered the drawing (contours) to be the true essence of a painting. The Venetian contemporaries, as Giorgione, Titian and Tintoretto, were of the opinion that colour is the heart and soul of a painting. So that is what they developed.

What was Pablo Picasso's biggest Obsticle?

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sorry but i have no idea i'm just trying to find that out myself again i'm very sorry

What influenced Romanticism?

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There are various things that are believed to have influenced Romanticism. Some of these factors include religious traditions and Neoclassicism.

What did the surrealist movement represent?

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The surrealist movement was a movement of art.

Who popularized the catch phrase less is more?

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Architect, Mies Van der Rohe adopted the phrase, but it was first said by painter and poet, Andrea del Sarto.

What are two innovations from the 1800s?

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The cotton gin, steamboat, steam locomotive, and the reaper are all technologies that emerged in the 1800s.