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The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
"Self-Made Men" is a lecture, first delivered in 1859, by Frederick Douglass, which gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man. Douglass's view
The English writer William Hazlitt described Lord Chatham in The New Monthly Magazine in 1826 as "a self-made man, bred in a camp, not in a court." [5] An 1831 obituarist in The Liberator describing Rev. Thomas Paul wrote, "As a self-made man, (and, in the present age, every colored man, if made at all, must be self-made,) he was indeed a ...
[15] The 13 new statues were made by sculptor Olivia Kim by layering epoxy and fiberglass, based on 80 measurements made of the Stanley W. Edwards statue. However, Kim modified the sculpture to reduce the stern posture of the original.
The Man’s ascension was marked by a ceremony presided over by Gov. Phil Noel, Adjutant Gen. Leonard Holland and me. Since July 1976, the Independent Man has stood like a sentinel over our seat ...
Ernest Tino Trova (February 19, 1927 – March 8, 2009) was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor.Best known for his signature image and figure series, The Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single "work in progress."
2018: The Independent Man (actually, a full-sized cast from the bronze statue taken when the man was down for repair in 1975.) stands in the parking lot outside of the food court of Rhode Island Mall.
30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature’s Blueprints. Mariia Tkachenko. January 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM. ... #2 Self-Cooling Architecture. Is the termite a pest or a muse? It ...