Modeste Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was a piece composed for the sole purpose of immortalizing his friend, the famous Russian artist Viktor Hartmann and the images that he created. This piece created by Mussorgsky become one of his famous piano compositions that to this day many composers perform and orchestrate it. This piano piece was orchestrated by none other than the well known french composer Maurice Ravel, who turned this already influential piano piece into a remarkable orchestration
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I first discovered my passion for photography when I was eleven years old. At the time my only desire was to become a better photographer for the sake of advancing in the art. However, as time passed I came to realize the possibilities available through this form of self-expression. During my freshman year in high school I recognized my potential as a photographer and started my own business named Bold Photography. At the time, I captured anything I could with the ultimate desire to become a better
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demands of entertainment. In the 17th century, using a magic lantern, allowed them to create a certain illusion to make the still pictures appear in movement, thus making short clips. A magic lantern was an early version of a slide projector that images would pass through a lens with a light. It is debatable on who invented the magic lantern some credit Butch scientist, Charles Hugyens in the later 1650s, and then others credit Athanasius Kircher who used a candle as his light source.
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When comparing photography and a painting as an aura, the photograph is an image of an image while the painting remains entirely original, “that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art" (219). The painting is a sensory experience of distance between the reader and the work of art. “For the first
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photos. Light is the fundamental structures photography revolves around. 1666 when Isaac Newton discovered that light is really made up of seven distinctive colors. This lead to the Niecpce brothers experimenting with light-sensitive materials to make images in the year 1816 (Cross). The development of the camera has evolved over centuries. The very first type of camera was the camera obscure. The camera obscure was the very first glimpse of what we now call the camera. The initial multiple copy photographic
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In the image "Going to the Olympics,1984" by Frank Romero shows how there's five cars and on the very top of the cars there 5 hearts. In between each car there palm trees. In the sky, there's a horse,a stamp,an iron,a blimp,and two men wrestling. There's 2 red cars, 1 blue car, a yellow, and a green car. They look like Chicano cars heading to the Olympics. The possible meaning of the details there is and how colorful it is, is to show how they come from different places. Frank Romero might feel
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Dupain received his first camera in 1924, and he had opened a studio on Bond Street, Sydney ten years later. He captured the photograph 'the Sunbaker', arguably his most recognized piece, in 1937, which did not become a national symbol untill after 1970. Dupain then travelled and served in both Darwin and Papa New Guinea during World War II with the Royal Australian Air Force part of an international movement of artists deployed to work in camouflage. He used shape and shadows to conceal/expose objects
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To this day the award winning photograph by Associated Press photographer, Nick Ut, is still one of the most iconic photos of war ever taken. Commonly referred to as the “Napalm Girl”, Ut truly captures the terror, and emotions in the citizens of Vietnam in this tragic time (see fig. 1). It shows how unfair, and damaging the war can be to our future, by allowing the general public recognize that innocent children are being harmed in a conflict they never would be involved in. Fig. 1: Napalm Girl
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Think how exciting it would be to discover a book that told all about the family of your great-great-grandmother or grandfather, or anyone else in your family line. This book is a chance for you to make such a discovery possible for your descendants. Fill it in, add pages of your own, and then pass it on to your children. They’ll probably put it in a box and then, in 100 years or so, a great-great-grandchild will rediscover the book to his or her great delight. Use these paragraphs to write an
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acquired by gallery (oldest first); date acquired by gallery (newest first). FR-006 For each painting, the following will be displayed: a thumbnail image (approximately 100x100 pixels); title; artist; date acquired by the gallery; price; and a "Reserve It" button. FR-007 A visitor can click on the thumbnail for a painting to display a large image (approximately 500x500 pixels). FR-008 A visitor can click the "Reserve It" button beside any painting to place the painting on reserve for seven days
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