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Opera in Americas past often conjures up old-fashioned, Victorian images of ample divas poised in extravagant settings. This larger than life musical genre elicits memories of a Tristan and Isolde singing their glorious love duet but too fat to embrace convincingly; an Aida richly costumed despite her slave status; foreign, legendary, half-forgotten names who reportedly…

Chinese culture along with its every component including art can be acclaimed as having its inimitable style and unparalleled spirit which can be hardly confused with anything else in the world. One of the most remarkable characteristics of Chinese culture and art is its homogeneousness during the whole period of their long history. Though Chinese…

Introduction The Schatacook Mountain, Housatonic Valley, Connecticut painting is a product of Jasper Francis Cropsey who was born in February 18, 1823 in Rossville, Staten Island, New York. His style of painting was significantly under the influence of his upbringing, bearing in mind that he grew up in the countryside. The painting Schatacook Mountain was…

Important works of Art and Written Text The period between 1800 to 2000 BC was characterized by great development in the world of arts. Many works of art, which included paintings and written texts, came into being at this time. However, there were three most important works of art, and the three most important written…

Duke Ellington Duke Ellington was an American composer and performer. He was born on April 29, 1899. At this period of time, the Wright Brothers were trying to build the first sustained flight with a powered, controlled aircraft. Aviation history can be found online Aviation history, no date. Black people back then were subjected to…

In Oxford Dictionary, Timbuktu is referred to as a remote or extremely distant place (Timbuktu). However, this view is very narrow and does not reflect the reality. In The Manuscripts of Timbuktu, African scholars tell the story of the place and its scholarly heritage (Maseko, 2009). The film explains the importance of preserving the elements…

The Mexican Wall Relief accomplished in the limestone around 795 will be addressed in the following paper. This excellent artwork belongs to the art of Maya and can be acclaimed as a traditional piece of Maya art addressing religious themes along with authority adoration ideas. Evaluating this relief, it can be said that it may…

Table of Contents Introduction Analogue Series Globalization theme Leonards Objectivity Conclusion Reference Introduction Zoe Leonard has been very creative in her photography art though her works were ignored for quite sometime before they begun gaining recognition. Her works are critical in assessing the disappearing face of the 20th century lifestyle of the urban centres. They…

The return of the Parthenon Marbles to the place of origin has probably been the most well-known heated dispute in the museum art world for the last decades. Though those treasures of the ancient cultural heritage by their essence are of universal significance, they remain the inalienable part of Greece as the cradle of European…

According to Wolfe, et al.,( 2008) a visual search exercise is normally measured by the length of time the search takes. When only a single feature of the target is different from the distractors, the time spent identifying the target is the same regardless of the number of distractors. This search pattern is parallel search.…