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… gods were ever present in many examples of Egyptian art throughout the many changes in leadership. The depictions of these relationships, however, were not always consistent from ruler to ruler, dynasty to dynasty. The Palette of Narmer, Seated Statue…

… It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they…

… of others. Safe in the group mind. Safe from the poison of independence. Safe from the poison of the truth of who they are, or who they could be. Safe from reality. They are the manipulator, the blind defender, the denier. Those so insecure their…

… "A Midsummer Night's Dream" the mortal teenage characters fall in love foolishly, and the character Bottom states, "O what fools these mortals be". They are foolish because they act like children. Although Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena…

… bronze David is a paramount example of Renaissance beauty as portrayed through art. Donatello was one of the most important and influential fifteenth century masters. His bronze rendition of David was an enigma that was unlike Donatello’s,…

… Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to the exact place and time he was born, but according to Andy’s two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945,…

… month Quintilis, July in modern calendars, in the year 100 BC. His name was the same as his father's, with Gaius being his given name, and Julius being his surname. Caesar was the name for one branch of the Julian family, and originally meant "hairy."…

… a subject easily recognizable to the viewer up until the beginning of this century. Art without a recognizable subject matter, known as ?abstract art?, is unique to this period. Abstract art hasn?t been analyzed on its own in as much detail as other…

… Under this definition I think that both Laurie Simmons and Meyer Vaisman displayed much novelty in their work. They dipped into regions of art that no one had previously explored. From creating an entirely artificial universe to satirizing every…

… music. Or imagine a world where we are told what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists. A very politically charged band known as Rage Against Machine is one band out of thousand…