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  François Boucher was an incredibly productive, making thousands of drawings (sketches and finished works) in chalk, ink, pastels, preparing drawings for engraving, designing tapestries and painting in oils. His drawing mediums included pen and ink, chalk, pastel, sanguine and...

Lord Frederic Leighton was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. He preferred to paint subject matter that was connected to ancient Greek and Roman mythology and intended for his paintings to be visually beautiful. Leighton's paintings have a reputation for bright colors...

John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. LaFarge was born in New York City to wealthy French parents. His interest in art began during his studies at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland and St. John's...

With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. Schiele's symbolic works, such as "Death and the Maiden," "The Hermits," or even such seemingly...

A wry, witty and revealing review of the last 25 years working 'behind the scenes' in the film industry; from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' to 'Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince', taking in, 'Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade' and 'Sherlock Holmes' along the way. Loaded with many anecdotes about...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is French painter who was a important figure in the development of the Impressionist movement. As a celebrator of feminine beauty "Renoir is the last representative of a tradition which runs in a straight line from Rubens to Watteau." Renoir's artworks are famous for...

When Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera, Diego was 42 years old, and 300 pounds; Frida was 22 years old,and just 98 pounds. Her mother did not approve of the union and did not attend the wedding ceremony. She said that Diego was too old, too fat and worse yet he was a Communist and an atheist. She described...

Missbrauch von Heimkindern, nachts kam der Pfarrer am Tag der Heimleiter Nach mir wird einer kommen, der mächtiger ist als ich. Die nützlichsten Bücher sind diejenigen, die den Leser zu ihrer Ergänzung auffordern. Der Pfarrer, die Nonnen, die Lehrer von damals haben zu Lebzeiten...

(A5,150 P.) I  Why Hegel for teachers, the so- called philosopher of absolute knowledge?  I say to you:  The philosophy of Hegel (1770-1831) from the 20th century has experienced and still today - Dawn of the 21st century - has...

CHAPTER I - WHAT IS LEARNING TO LEARN?             To say that man, unlike all other beings, is a rational being, among other things, implies that he, regardless of their genetic differences and/or environmental,...

In the world in which we live, many want to prosper; many have tried to make an effort, often sacrificed his own life, body, in order to get rich. In other words, many people end up forgetting that, as important as work, you must also be able to develop intellectually.  ...

I (A5, 141 P.) - This Contemporary era (which some theorists like Pablo Gentili, Boaventura de Souza Santos, and even Anthony Guiddens, prefer to call post-modern), erected, as well as the modern, from "I think, therefore I am" Cartesian with their remains positivist, systematizing the...

(A5, 171 P.) I am not here to claim to elucidate and neither to explain Nietzsche, a time that, I believe that, even in such a complex and unwieldy that it is cannot be translated. I think that everyone who has the desire to translate Nietzsche is also in danger of betraying...

  Chase worked in all media but was excellent in pastel drawing. He as well created a lot of watercolor paintings and etchings. Highly proficient in pastel as well as oils, Chase organized with Robert Frederick Blum the American Society of Painters in Pastel, and is viewed as one of...