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  1748 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
1748 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to a full calendar).
April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession - at October 18 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1748   (500 words)

  
 Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The evolution of Indian art is traced through the centuries, and the deeply rooted traditions that inspire contemporary artists are revealed through comparisons of their work with the art of their ancestors.
It is the period of St. Francis, the poetry of Dante, the art of Giotto and the emergence of woman as ideal.
Surveys cubist art in the context of its period by focusing on the cubist epoch exhibition originally shown at the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
northonline.sccd.ctc.edu /pwebpaz/Media/SubjArt.html   (3007 words)

  
 NVCC Summer 1997 Woodbridge ART Class Schedule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
ART 102 HISTORY AND APPRECIATION OF ART II 3cr 1749 01W R 1830-2150 WC 0345 Gallick, R ART 101 is not a prerequisite for ART 102.
ART 121 DRAWING I 4cr 1756 01W W 1830-2220 WC 0160 Harmon, H +2.5 HRS TBA
ART 241 PAINTING I 4cr 1757 01W W 1300-1650 WC 0160 Harmon, H +2.5 HRS TBA
www.nv.cc.va.us /schedule/crs973/wart.htm   (154 words)

  
 Fibonacci number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pattern of length n can be formed by adding S to a pattern of length n−1, or L to a pattern of length n−2; thus Hemachandra showed that the number of patterns of length n is the sum of the two previous numbers in the series.
In music Fibonacci numbers are sometimes used to determine tunings, and, as in visual art, to determine the length or size of content or formal elements.
This sequence was described by Leonhard Euler in 1748, in the Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fibonacci_number   (4098 words)

  
 Art Movements
In architecture, interior design and the applied arts, art nouveau studied the technical and expressive opportunities offered by the new materials of iron, glass and concrete that were being employed b the industrial revolution.
Movement for the reform of the applied arts that emerged in Great Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century on the initiative of Walter Crane and the support of William Morris.
Gothic art began in Northern France and was slow to spread to the south, yet was easily accepted in England and later to Germany.
ex.susd.org /kmcgregor/movements.htm   (1444 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Modern art in Paris in the early 20th century is often thought of as being almost boringly tasteful, but this is a terrible misunderstanding.
Although fully clothed in a white dress symbolizing purity, the alluring model is depicted in a seductive pose, her beauty accentuated by her hair, her fashionable purple shoes, and the large bracelet executed in dabs of paint applied directly from the tube.
It is a magnificent, resonant work of art that exemplifies the 30 years Carl Larsson spent decorating the hall of the National Museum in Stockholm.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4may/art0528.html   (6518 words)

  
 List of years in art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page indexes the individual year in art pages.
9000 BC in art - Engraving of Dabous Giraffes in Niger
80,000 BC in art - Nassarius shell necklace and engraved red ochre pencil at Blombos Cave, in South Africa
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_years_in_art   (410 words)

  
 French Culture | Art | French Patrimonial Art in USA, Season 2003-2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Art by living French artists is found on our Contemporary Art pages.
The North Carolina Museum of Art presents some of the finest masterpieces of modern art with Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art.
More than 75 works of art by Matisse -- paintings, drawings, prints, and paper cutouts -- will be exhibited alongside examples from his personal collection of textiles, which had been packed away in trunks since the artist's death.
www.frenchculture.org /art/events/0304index.html   (6213 words)

  
 Russian Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This course introduces Russian art in its historical and cultural framework, and emphasizes the ways in which forms of art, subjects, and styles communicate ideas and values.
In the second half of the semester, we will focus on the late 19th and 20th centuries: the origins of modernism, the brief, vital interaction of the artistic and political revolutions, the suppression of the avant garde and the reemergence of artistic freedom in recent years.
Attendance and participation are essential in any art history course; class discussions give you practice in looking, comparing, and relating what you see to other images and forms, skills basic to the study of art and culture.
www.georgetown.edu /hilton/russian.htm   (3256 words)

  
 French Art
The ancient art of book illumination was still the prevailing form of painting in France at the beginning of the 15th century.
Classicism and Neoclassicism refer to aesthetic attitudes and principles based on the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and are characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion.
Cubism is a highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century, and was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Georges Braque in Paris.
www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/civ/art.htm   (803 words)

  
 Individual Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Art type/activity: Art type/activity: Sculpture using materials native to Oklahoma such as sandstone and driftwood, as well as bronze and clay;
Art type/activity: Contemporary work using mixed media to create rich textures on canvas; Work covers a wide variety of subject matter that is reflective of both Native American Heritage and Landscape of Southern Plains
Art type/activity: Design name tags; create art in a landscape medium, sometimes abstracting it to be a symbol of natural processes and happenings
www.normanarts.org /individualartists   (469 words)

  
 Neo-Classical Art
Neo-classical art is often didactic -- it stresses ethical themes.
Similarly, color is austere -- there is none of the pastel softness of Rococo art.
Whereas Rococo art is often defined as feminine, neo-classical art is often described as "manly."
www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/art/18c/neoclscl/home.htm   (790 words)

  
 art is useless - ateaseweb.com | radiohead message board
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
So the value of art is that it *doesn't have* to please anybody; it has the freedom to state or depict unpopular ideas.
www.ateaseweb.com /mb/index.php?showtopic=36720   (1791 words)

  
 Cleveland Museum of Art - Ma Lin (Chinese)
The Cleveland Museum of Art is temporarily closed for renovation and expansion.
Images Copyright © the artist, their estate, and/or the Cleveland Museum of Art.
If you are planning a trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art to view a specific object or collection of objects please call in advance to make certain the item is on view.
www.clemusart.com /explore/artist.asp?artistLetter=M&recNo=105   (127 words)

  
 THE352: Set Design II
Links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).
The dictionary has an extensive survey article about Spain which includes interesting "related articles" links and excellent articles on individual architects, painters, etc.Also consult articles about the artistic climate in 18th-century Spain during the reigns of Charles III and Charles IV.
Insight Database the database including over 100,000 images from AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium), digital reproductions of numerous objects from the Mortimer Rare Book Room and the Smith College Museum of Art, and more than 5,000 images used for teaching and study from the Department of Art Image Collections.
www.smith.edu /libraries/research/class/the35203.htm   (383 words)

  
 Amazon.de:  David A&i (Art & Ideas): English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Phaidon's new ART and IDEAS series has been consuming since I first purchased their NEOCLASSICISM and definitely will not be last.
Pompous, overeducated art scholars may dismiss the text as dry, plain, or written for "kids," but this page-turner is still a terrific overview of David's works.
The book is painstakingly designed in such a way that you don't have to flip back and forth for a pictorial reference when reading a particular text; most of the illustrations are conveniently placed not more than three page-flip away from the relevant text.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714838047   (648 words)

  
 ARC :: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) :: Page 1 of 10
It was followed by others, painted on the same principles, but with greater perfection of art: The Grief of Andromache (1783), The Oath of the Horatii (Salon, 1785), The Death of Socrates, Love of Paris and Helen (1788), Brutus (1789).
Subjects and treatment alike are inspired by the passing fashion of an age which had deceived itself into believing that it was living and moving in the spirit of classical antiquity.
The inevitable reaction of the romantic movement made the masterpieces, which had filled the men of the Revolution with enthusiasm, seem cold and lifeless to those who had been taught to expect in art that atmosphere of mystery which in nature is everywhere present.
www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/art.asp?aid=40&page=1&order=u   (1330 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
In such late works as the Abdication of Charles V (1832) Paelinck attempted to satisfy current Romantic taste, but the painting was badly received, and his reputation continued to decline until his death.
William I was the eldest son of Stadholder William V [08 Mar 1748 – 09 Apr 1806] and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.
He ran an art school in Berlin 1923—1933, first with Anton Kerschbaumer, then from 1926 with Schmidt-Rottluff; spent most summers in Italy with students 1924—1930.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jun/art0619.html   (4186 words)

  
 New Page 1
The purpose of this iconography is to answer the question "Where can I find an illustration of...?" I have included only works of art for which there is a published reproduction (plus some that are in the Visual Collection, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University and a few in the Bild-Archiv Photo Marburg).
A man plays a flute (sort of) and a woman dances to her tambourine (with strings strung across the frame).
Each has a musical putto (wearing the savoyard's tricorne hat), one playing a bagpipe, the other, a large tambourine or frame drum (with pellet-bells on the rim), hung from a neck strap and played like a frame drum.
www.unh.edu /music/Icon/igtamns.htm   (4165 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: European Paintings
The printmaker and publisher John Boydell wrote to Sir Joshua Reynolds that it was "the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the stanze of Raphael.
This work would have done honour to Athens at the time of Pericles." The subject is loosely based on Plato's "Phaedo," but in painting it David consulted a variety of sources, including Diderot's treatise on dramatic poetry of 1758 and works by the poet André Chenier.
The pose of the figure at the foot of the bed was reportedly inspired by a passage in a novel by the English writer Richardson.
www.metmuseum.org /collections/view1.asp?dep=11&item=31.45   (200 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
They may represent art as one of the earthly luxuries or they may refer to sensual pleasures, or by invoking the image of fleeting sounds, they may emphasize the idea of morality.
Returning to Kiev in 1918, he studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Art and Alexandra Exter’s decorative arts workshop, and he took part in designing revolutionary street decorations.
As a reaction to the depersonalized character of Constructivism, Red’ko launched a manifesto in December 1922 calling for the blend of art with physics and technology, politics and medicine, and a psycho-philosophical system based on an ‘inter-social environment’ fostering interplanetary relations.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4sep/art0915.html   (3361 words)

  
 Neo-classical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In general, "classical" refers to aesthetic attitudes and principles based on the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion.
So much of neo-classical painting was official art, that is art sponsored by first the French Republic, and then by the Emperor Napoleon, that I have included a special section on Images of Napoleon.
Many of these paintings are not considered "great art," but they form an important addition to the history of art: art in service to political power.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neoclass.html   (220 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
It is apt that he should be known as Wright of Derby, for it was there that he was to find pioneers of science and industry who provided him with subject-matter and with patrons.
The thirties was a decade of labor strikes and university closings; the economic situation was terrible by the time I went to Mexico in 1938.
El arte cubano vive un auge extraordinario en las décadas de los años 20, 30 y 40.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4sep/art0903.html   (2844 words)

  
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Project Gutenberg's Letters to His Son, 1748, by The Earl of Chesterfield This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Others, to show their learning, or often from the prejudices of a school education, where they hear of nothing else, are always talking of the ancients, as something more than men, and of the moderns, as something less.
Those arts or sciences which are peculiar to certain professions, need not be deeply known by those who are not intended for those professions.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/3/3/5/3352/3352.txt   (20218 words)

  
 Romanticism | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While Ingres' work seemingly embodied the ordered classicism of the David in contrast to the disorder and tumult of the Delacroix, in fact both works draw from the Davidian tradition but each ultimately subverts that model, asserting the originality of the artist—a central notion of Romanticism.
In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought.
The novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the drama of Shakespeare transported art to other worlds and eras.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm   (984 words)

  
 The Amarillo Museum of Art
The Amarillo Museum of Art invites Museum members to attend a gallery talk by artist James Surls Friday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments courtesy of the Art Museum Alliance the support guild of Amarillo Museum of Art.
Films, art activities, complimentary Starbucks coffee and tea tastings, live music, and gallery tours are a few things happening on Third Thursdays.
www.amarilloart.org   (143 words)

  
 ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: 19th-Century Art
Victorian Art Criticism and the Rise of a Middle-Class Audience
Art Nouveau and Art Deco medals (Nicolas Maier)
Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums (an art exhibition co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, 1999)
witcombe.sbc.edu /ARTHLinks5.html   (1195 words)

  
 NASA: Biospheric Sciences Branch - Publications - 2003
Giglio L, Pinzon J, Kasibhatla P, Comment on "Seasonal, intraseasonal, and interannual variability of global land fires and their effects on atmospheric aerosol distribution", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D24): Art.
Dubovik, and A. Clarke, "Clear-column closure studies of aerosols and water vapor aboard the NCAR C-130 during ACE-ASIA 2001", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108, (D23): Art.
Dubovik, B. Holben, J. Sapper, D. Tanre, and C. Pietras, "A study of the effect of non-spherical dust particles on the AVHRR aerosol optical thickness retrievals".
neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov /bsb/publications/2003.php   (3153 words)

  
 CURIOSCAPE.COM - Antique Resource Locator - Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Regalos Imports - Art from Latin America - Regalos Imports - Art from Latin America¡Bienvenidos!At Regalos Imports we celebrate the vivid cultures of Latin America through the artisan works of indigenous artists.
Art Gallery paintings by Haitian, Jamaican, Cuban Artists - Art gallery featuring Haitian, Jamaican, Cuban, and other Caribbean artist paintings and handmade children's furniture, styles include naive, primitive, and fine art.
History Art USA - History Art USA Welcome to our siteScrimshaw During the 19th century, whaling expeditions sailed from the coast of New England to far away places.
search.tias.com /cgi-bin/curioscape/search.fcgi/browse/price/Art/-58   (1002 words)

  
 art :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The sight area measures 10 ½ by 13 ½ inches, the frame is 16 x 20 inches and appears to be the original period frame.
A lone wood planked farm house, in the woods, barren as the trees surrounding it.
Original Sculpture by Artist Gertrudis Gali, titled "Arethuse" size 9.6 inches by 6inches by 5.2 inches, hand welded bronze, signed by the artist in the bronze as "Gali." Gertrudis Gali works the bronze of her sculptures directly, molding the molten...
search.rubylane.com /art/,page=18,ss=art.html   (1474 words)

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