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… to know. A sign of one who knows is that that person can teach, while the person of experience without knowledge cannot. He defined wisdom as knowledge of principles and causes. In his Physics and Metaphysics Aristotle discussed the material and formal…

… literary reputation was resuscitated by critics in the 1950s. Today her novel The Awakening (1899) the story of a sensual, determined woman who insists on her independence, is widely read and highly honored, a feminist work which was decidedly ahead…

… College at Buffalo, NY, majored in art, and received a bachelor's degree in 1976. "It wasn't until college that I had any concept of what was going on in the art world. My idea of being an artist as a kid was a courtroom artist or one of those…

… by the most remote parts of the world. Inspiration seems to overcome distances where originality is concerned. Francis Poulenc's "Concerto for two pianos" is very highly influenced by Indonesian music. A particular piece from a Javanese Gamelan,…

… was generally considered to be the painter Masaccio, the sculptor Donatello, and the architect Brunelleschi. They applied Humanist thinking to art by using the styles of the classical world, instead of their immediate past, to depict the world around…

… of signification Semiotic elements: the drives as they discharge into language, associated with rhythm and tone, subterranean element of meaning that doesn't signify Symbolic elements: that which signifies, associated with syntax and grammar Semiotic…

… and critic. He belongs to the New Critical Formalist literary theory, and is " classicist in nature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion." (1089) "Objective Correlative": " The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art…

… was born in 1760, half-way through the Edo period (1603 - 1868) in Japan. He was born into one of the four classes in Japan (Samurai, then peasants, artisans and merchants); Hokusai was destined to become an artist. Ukiyo-e was at the time the most…

… her environment' In my opinion, artists create art to try and share with the world something they consider important. They create to attempt to evoke thought on a subject, to bring out the emotions of the viewer - it may be about something they…

… Wola, a village six miles from Warsaw, Poland. His father, Nicholas Chopin was born in Marianville, eastern France in 1771. He died in 1844. He was mainly a tutor in English, math; etc. the instrument he played was the flute and the violin.…