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Artist Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), 2005.
This paper discusses Vassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born painter, who contributed greatly to German Expressionism.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that Vassily Kandinsky's work is often chaotic and formless; however, they are somehow pleasing to the eye as seen in paintings such as "Landscape Near Murnau with Locomotive" (1909), "Black Lines No. 189" (1913) and "Little Pleasures" (1913). The author points out that Kandinsky believed the purpose of painting was to prepare people to think and see in terms of immaterial form rather than perceived objects like apples and nudes. The paper concludes that Vassily Kandinsky, the founder of abstract expressionism, was unique in his successful endeavors to juxtapose color, light, landscape, music, spirituality, nature and other essences of life into his artistic works.
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Introduction and Thesis Statement
Personal Feelings about Kandinsky's work
Biography of Kandinsky
Kandinsky's German Expressionism
The Blau Reiter (Blue Rider) Movement
The Influence of Theosophy on Kandinsky
Kandinsky's Color Theory
Conclusion
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"Typically, German Expressionists depicted aspects of real life as they saw it, not just abstraction and spirituality. Also, they painted not so much within a vacuum of pure art but rather to artistically express diverse influences on art and life of nature, spirituality, music, architecture and sculpture. Within that spirit, Kandinsky and Franz Marc co-founded the Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) movement (1911-14), and along with it, their Blaue Reiter Almanac (1911) and a Blaue Reiter Exhibition (1912), all so-named because of Kandinsky's fondness for two canvases he painted years earlier."
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Vassily Kandinsky: A True Folk Artist, 2004.
The history of Vassily Kandinsky and what made him a folk artist.
4,107 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper describes the folk artist that is Vassily Kandinsky; his background, what defines a folk artist, and how Kandinsky progressed from the general art of the 1900s in to a force that changed the way modern art is viewed. Examples of his art are enclosed.
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"The folk artist of the twentieth-century has been widely viewed as an artist that is not universally popular, accessible, or substantial to the progression of popular art. By the World Artist Dictionary, folk art can be defined as simply na?ve, primitive art that is done by someone who has had no artistic institutionalized training. Generally speaking, folk art is commonly thought of as figurine work, quilted blankets, beads and jewelry art; generally items that are thought of as simple traditional pieces that do not require specialized training. Russian born painter Vasily Kandinsky is an artist who transforms the notion of folk art to something that can be popular and significant. He represents the truest folk artist by his experiences as an ethnographer who traveled to the Vologda region near Siberia, his background in the Ukranian and Russian churches, and by his drive to illustrate traditional Russian lore and values while incorporating them in to the twentieth-century art movement."
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Vassily Kandinsky, 2005.
A look at why Vassily Kandinsky qualifies as a leading figure of the German Expressionist movement.
1,373 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains why the author believes that artist Vassily Kandinsky, despite being Russian by birth and nationality, deserves to be considered a true German Expressionist.
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"Kandinsky lived and painted in Munich at a time when German society, and in fact the world, was greatly changing, during the run-up to World War I. Even before that war, German Expressionist painters had endeavored, based on their new theories of painting, which sought to capture within art, elements of real life, as well as abstractness and spirituality , to now paint not so much within a vacuum of pure art, but rather, to instead artistically express (by allowing their essences to flow, from within the artist, onto a canvas) influences derived from nature; music; architecture; sculpture, and from spirituality and philosophy, within their art as well. As Kandinsky's fellow German Expressionist Karl Jakob Hirsch stated: 'This is the beginning! In our hearts we were ready to throw everything away-the old fashioned ideas, the junk!' "
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Spirituality in Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, 2008.
An analysis of Wassily Kandinsy's text, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and his paintings.
3,619 words (approx. 14.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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This paper discusses the spiritual foundation for the artistic and spiritual ideology of Wassily Kandinsky. It then provides a textual and analytical critique of his paintings and examines his written work, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art,". The paper also discusses the geometric symbolism that would inevitably become part of his own painting process.
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"The musical foundation for spiritual painting is also revealed by Kandinsky, as he further defines the nature of a higher power through the discourse of time, color, and form. Kandinsky understands this overall or macrocosmic view of painting, which defines the need for an understanding of music to determine the nature of metaphysical properties in his compositions. In Composition VII, the idea of a triangular ascension of form is directly related the movement of the objects in the painting revolving around the central oval shape."
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Wassily Kandinsky, 1996.
Explores abstract painter's ideas, five major periods, color & form, theology, focusing on his book "On the Spiritual in Art".
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 9 sources, $ 87.95
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"There is some controversy over who made the first non-objective painting and Vasily Kandinsky is sometimes given credit for the accomplishment. Though this is certainly not true it does seem fitting since Kandinsky certainly was the first artist to make non-objectivity "the very foundation of his pictorial imagery." Kandinsky also wrote extensively on the theory of abstract painting. His best known treatise, On the Spiritual in Art, became one of the most influential theoretical works of the twentieth century. Generations of abstract painters absorbed his belief in "inner necessity as the only source of art." Although Kandinsky had an enormous influence on the course of painting and was himself a great painter, it still remains difficult to reconcile his theoretical writings with the work he produced. There are two problems in applying the ideas to the.."
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Kandinsky, Wassily & Untitled Improvisation III, 1996.
Examines 20th century Russian painter's life, creative influences & development & analyzes 1914 abstract work's form, color, symbolism.
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"Wassily Kandinsky's Untitled Improvisation III (1914), a work owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was done in oil paint on cardboard. The painting measures approximately 25 by 20 inches. This work is one of a series Kandinsky painted in the first years of his experiments with purely non-objective art. Kandinsky theorized about abstract painting and Untitled Improvisation III can be studied with reference to his theories about color and spirituality in art.
Kandinsky was born in Russia in 1866. He became a lawyer and it was not until he was thirty years old that he gave up a career as a legal scholar to become a painter. In 1896 he moved to Munich to take up his new career and, with trips to Paris, became familiar with the current trends in painting. In 1907 he exhibited with the early German expressionist group Die Brucke (The Bridge). Sometime between 1910 and 1912 he painted his first non-objective work--a watercolor."
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Industrialization after 1866, 2002.
A study into the effects of industry on America following 1866.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper studies the effect ofiIndustrialization on the US after 1866.
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Annie Warburton Goodrich ( 1866-1954 ), 1993.
Life & career of Amer. nursing education pioneer. Introduced preventive medicine & community nursing to university.
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"Annie Warburton Goodrich was born in 1866 and died in 1954. she saw the nursing and medical professions as equals, independent yet interdependent, each with is own unique body of knowledge. She lived in an age when nurses received their training in hospital schools of nursing, and she sought to introduce nursing to the university and pioneered the inclusion of preventive medicine and community nursing courses in the curriculum.
Annie W. Goodrich was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866 as the second of seven children. Her father was an insurance executive and her mother the daughter of physician John S. Butler, a pioneer in progressive psychiatry who founded the Hartford Retreat, an institution for the treatment of the mentally ill. Annie abhorred sickness and death and so did not."
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Reconstruction from 1866 to 1877, 1993.
Evolution of historical interpretations of post-Civil War era. Changing views on race & slavery, politics, revisionism and economics.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, $ 63.95
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"The Changing Interpretations of Reconstruction
This paper will discuss the period of Reconstruction in the United States, 1866-77, focusing upon the changing historical interpretations of that period. The specific interpretations which will be discussed are those which were prominent during the following periods: from the end of Reconstruction itself through the beginning of the Twentieth Century, from 1900 through the 1930s (including the interpretations of the Black historians), from the 1940s through the 1950s, the revisionist interpretations of the 1960s, and the post-revisionist interpretations of the 1970s and 1980s.
Although most historians discuss the Reconstruction period in the post-Confederate South as beginning with the end of the Civil War in 1865, Reconstruction did not officially begin until the passage.."
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"Generations of Winter", 2002.
Introduces and discusses Vassily Aksyonov's "Generations of Winter".
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the book "Generations of Winter," by Vassily Aksyonov. Specifically, it discusses the author's background, and how the work reflects the political and social environment of the time. Aksyonov was familiar with the atrocities of socialist Russia firsthand. He spent time in Russian prisons and was expelled from his country because of his writing. The paper shows that the history of Russia is full with such stories of oppression and censor and "Generations of Winter" recounts only some of these atrocities and how they affect the people of Russia, with pathos, humor and insight.
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"Aksyonov writes in "Generations of Winter" of some of the excesses and terror of the Stalin regime, and does so with humor and candor. "In 1951, [after this first book in a trilogy takes place] Mr. Aksyonov points out, the slave-labor force within the Soviet Union exceeded 14 million. 'To the camps were sent even the bumblers who showed up late for work - in other words, who committed a crime that amounted to sabotage of reconstruction'" (Jacoby 35).
His book is an ideal example of the political and social environment of the times. There was extreme unrest in Russia, people were revolting against the government, and then war struck. Lives were uncertain and distorted forever because of the war, and because of the brutality of the Stalin regime. By following the lives of this family and their friends and lovers, Aksyonov shows first hand the lack of political and personal freedoms, how the people were always afraid, and how they realized their lives would never return to the good times of pre-communist Russia."
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"Generations of Winter", 2002.
A discussion of the historical context of this novel by Vassily Aksyonov, set in the 1920's and 1930's in Russia.
2,345 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper introduces and discusses the book "Generations of Winter," by Vassily Aksyonov. Specifically, it discusses literary themes and approaches used by the author and how the work reflects the political and social environment of the time.
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"Aksyonov's book opens in 1925, the "eighth year of the revolution." While it sometimes reads like a history of the Russian people, it is really a novel, written in the sweeping style of "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. The novel follows the Gradov family through twenty years of modern Russian history, with which they always manage to become involved. Mixed in with the family are real historical characters, so it sometimes becomes muddy between what is fact and what is fiction in this novel."
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Collectivization in 'Forever Flowing', 2003.
The portrayal of collectivization in Vassily Grossman's novel 'Forever Flowing'.
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This paper discusses the author's view of collectivization in the Ukraine, and seeks to understand Grossman's criticisms of the Soviet system. It also considers the impact of Grossman's powerful description on the reader, as a literary piece rather than a historical report.
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"At the beginning of the 1930s Stalin embarked on nationwide drive for collectivisation and modernity. The novel, ?Forever Flowing,? takes the case of the Ukraine as an example. The ordeal of collectivisation and the subsequent famine is related by Anna Sergeyevna, who was posted to the Ukraine after the persecution of the ?kulaks? in 1930. She tells her story to Ivan Grigoryevich on their first night as lovers, a detail which may initially seem frivolous, but is actually a mark of Grossman?s skill as a novelist. It ensures that the tale is not seen as the author?s tirade against the state, but a real woman?s experience, something terrible, ?something one cannot escape?, ?a piece of iron fragment in her heart, like a shell fragment.? Anna Sergeyevna needs to explain her memories to her new lover as a way of rendering herself accountable. The ordeal is not an event in history; it lives on in everyday life."
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Film Noir and "Double Indemnity", 2004.
An examination of the manner in which the movie, "Double Indemnity", made in 1944, is a classic film noir.
1,507 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains the movie genre of film noir that was popular in the post-WWII Hollywood. The paper defines this genre as a dark, suspenseful thriller with a plot line revolving around crime or mystery. It focuses on the 1944 movie, "Double Indemnity", and explains how this is a perfect example of film noir.
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"Certain German filmmakers are usually credited with pioneering a form of horror film with links to film noir, a prime example being Nosferatu (1922) in which oblique lighting and compositional tension rather than physical action was used to create a nightmare world of violence. Some years later, these same cinematic and literary techniques were inserted into the Hollywood gangster tradition by certain German directors and cinematographers who fled to the United States in order to avoid persecution and confinement by the Third Reich, circa 1938-1943."
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Invasion of Normandy, 2003.
This paper analyzes the battle of the Invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944.
3,266 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This is a paper covering the Invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. Includes strategies, commanders, and forces on both sides during the invasion of Normandy. It covers the campaign from the landings on June 6 until the closing of the "Falais Pocket" and the destruction of the German 7th Army, which led to the liberation of Paris on August 25.
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"The Invasion of Normandy, in the summer of 1944, opened up a second large front from which the western Allies could launch a direct assault against the Germans in Europe. This invasion the largest amphibious operation of World War Two. Prior to the battle both sides spent years planning their strategies. This battle was one of the most significant battles of the war, and victory for either side would result in devastation for the other."
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"Jane Eyre": Fiction and Film, 2002.
A comparison of Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre" to the 1944 film version of the story.
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This paper looks at the comparisons between the book by Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre" and the film version made in 1944 starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. The paper discusses the idea and concept of how the two formats differ in some ways and in others fit perfectly. Furthermore the paper looks at the concept of feminism and how it is translated into the book and how the feminist issue is noticeably missing or downplayed within the film version.
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