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…Amy Goldich In his Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, James Weldon Johnson explores the meaning of "passing" in an American society. The reader never learns the name of the narrator in the novel, but you learn that it’s of little importance…

…I went to Guggenheim Museum on a Sunday afternoon. The museum has great architectural work and some really wild paintings. I saw an amazing painting with great colors by Pablo Picasso called "Moulin de la Galette." This painting seemed to me…

…was enchanted by the sculpture “Lady,” which was created by Michael Lucero in 1999. The sculpture’s body simulates Roman or Greek statues, but there is no human-like head. Instead of creating the head, he randomly stacked colorful earthenware on it. “Lady…

…. The variables in our memory experiment were repetitions, time, colors, smells, and sounds. Our first variable was repetition. In this part of the experiment each participant was given a list of thirty words with two minutes to study and a one-minute intermission…

…around town such as colored people, books with words in them and colors of paint other than gray, black and white. They began harassing other citizens because they were colored and the non-colored people thought that somehow the colored people were bad…

…the formal properties of this painting such as composition, line and color, texture, space and volume and use of light. The painting as a triangular composition, containing all four figures, they are in turn drawn together within a harmonious ensemble…

…The Use of the Color White to Represent Wisdom and Respect Any good novel can tell a story, or introduce characters or even tell a tale about their lives. An excellent novel will provide hidden imagery, so every time it is read, a new meaning…

…, and people of color, the inferior. In the Lifestyles ad taken from the September 2004 issue of Playboy Magazine, there is a cartoon depiction of a white male with his shirt unbuttoned and a scantily clad woman, one white and one of color, in each arm. The caption…

…In the poem "Design" written by Robert Frost, the classic use of the color white, generally referring to innocence and purity, is representatively contradicted. Instead of giving this color to wholesome, pure objects, he gives them to objects…

…lying in bed. In my opinion the picture was very detailed and the skin tone of the women had different shades of skin color, the lines are blended into the picture and every line that he did was a shadow. The lightness comes from the left side while the other…