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Incident Description “The Raft of Medusa” was created by Theodore Gericault in between 1818-1819. This painting was based on a real accident which had occurred on July 2, 1816. In this tragedy the shipwreck had occurred on course off the coast of Africa before running aground near Mauritania. There were 400 people on board including…

The worldwide phenomenon confusing everyone is the dress that seems to have people seeing different colors. If you haven’t seen this yet, it is a picture of a striped dress with low exposure lighting which gives off the impression of different colors due to the shadows, or lack of shadows it creates. The original dress…

Moreover, there have been debates present in the field, with regards to if epistemological development was based on evolution throughout development (i.e., steady increases with age) or based on specific knowledge domains (Kuhn & Park, 2005). Early work by numerous researchers was focused on the age-related generalizability of epistemic beliefs across domains (Muis et al.,…

Magical realism and surrealism are both a type of visual art, they are different from what’s considered normal its unique art. In the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya it’s about a six year old boy named Antonio who starts to question everything he does, thinks, and dreams about, the novel focuses on a…

Right around the year of 1899, two brothers by the names of George L. Rapp and Cornelius W. Rapp joined forces to create the concept of what we consider today, the Chicago Theatre. Although it was their design, it was built by Abe and Barney Balaban and Sam and Morris Katz, the founders of the…

Graffiti is an explanation to life itself, containing differences in everything it’s made up of, just like the world. The discussion of why graffiti is art, is that it is anyone’s canvas, reality, timeframe, or setting, because graffiti always has an artistic reason behind it. It could be said that graffiti isn’t art, because people…

Alexander the Great is, arguably, the most famous secular figure in history. His magnetism in life was rivaled only by his magnetism in death, and the story of his career has evoked vastly different interpretations in his age and ours. Young romantic hero or megalomaniac villain? Alexander III of Macedon conquered all who stood before…

I decided to do my report on Thomas Alva Edison because he brought a lot of things into our world. He invented the light bulb, the alkaline battery, the phonograph, and many other things. Many of our modern electronics origins came from Thomas A. Edison. I thought he was very interesting. That is why I…

How has the symbolism for blood in art changed throughout history? Blood has been symbolised throughout history in a large variety of ways, from wrath and sin to life and bonds. Blood is “globally [represented as] life itself, as the element of divine life” (Blood, 2019, G. Brown) with artists from many eras representing it…

Allegory Of Cave And Myth Of Sisyphus The Allegory of the Cave,” written by Plato, is a parable entailing that humans are afraid of change and what they do not know. In this situation he gives, men are living in an underground cave. There is only one entrance and it is at the top. Near…