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  2. Perspectivism - Wikipedia

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    The Western origins of perspectivism can be found in the pre-Socratic philosophies of Heraclitus [24] and Protagoras. [2] In fact, a major cornerstone of Plato's philosophy is his rejection and opposition to perspectivism—this forming a principal element of his aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and theology. [25]

  3. Florentine Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.

  4. Cubism - Wikipedia

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    The movement was pioneered in partnership by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger. [4] One primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne. [2]

  5. William H. Riker - Wikipedia

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    William Harrison Riker was born on September 22, 1920, in Des Moines, Iowa.He had 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters, with wife Mary Elizabeth. [5] He earned his bachelor's degree in economics at Indiana's DePauw University in 1942 and received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1948.

  6. Visual rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    One way to analyze a visual text is to dissect it in order for the viewer to understand its tenor. Viewers can break the text into smaller parts and share perspectives to reach its meaning. [ 5 ] In analyzing a text that includes an image of the bald eagle, as the main body of the visual text, questions of representation and connotation come ...

  7. American modernism - Wikipedia

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    The 1913 Armory Show in New York City displayed the contemporary work of European artists, as well as Americans. The Impressionist, Fauvist and Cubist paintings startled many American viewers who were accustomed to more conventional art. However, inspired by what they saw, many American artists were influenced by the radical and new ideas.

  8. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Villa Cook (Maison Cook) is recognized as one of Le Corbusier's first projects that canonically demonstrated his Five Points of Modern Architecture. [16] Located in Boulogne-sur-Seine , it was built in 1926 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret; and commissioned by American journalist William Cook and his French wife, Jeanne.

  9. Johann Joachim Winckelmann - Wikipedia

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    On his way back, he was murdered in Trieste on 8 June 1768, in a hotel bed by a fellow traveller, a man named Francesco Arcangeli. The true reason for the murder is not known. One hypothesis argues that the medals given to Winckelmann by the Empress Maria Theresa were the motive, but they were not stolen after the crime.