Related Text Assignment Title of Text: ‘The death of Caesar’ Medium: Painting (oil on canvas) Source and Date of publication: Painted 1859-1867. On display in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Composer: Jean-Léon Gérôme Brief Summary: This is a depiction of the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar. The painting is reminiscent of a photograph in its smooth and polished nature. |Personality, Event |Perspectives in |Perspectives in | |and/or Situation |Julius Caesar and how they are represented (techniques) |Related Text and how they are represented (techniques) | |The conspirators | | | | |In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, it is shown that there are |In Gerome’s work it is clear that all of the senators, bar two, were in on | | |only a handful of conspirators from the senators.
Abstract expressionism was first used as a term in art in 1919, when an Berlin artist Wassily Kandinsky works was described as abstract, but the real movement of abstract expressionism art didn’t really take off until after World War II, (1950’s), putting New York City, in the center of the art world. Abstract Expressionism began as a combination of emotional intensity and self-expression, and action painting. In 1943, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) painted “Garden of Sochi. Which is the third in a series of paintings of his childhood memories. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) used action as a form of abstract expressionism, in which paint is spontaneously splashed, smeared or dribbled on canvas.
BLADE RUNNER: CONTEXT THE DIRECTOR In an interview Ridley Scott replied in the following way to what features of his life influenced the making of the film Blade Runner: I went to art school in west Hartlepool in the north of England, alongside the Durham steel mills and the Imperial Chemical Industries plant. The air smelled like toast. Toast is quite nice, but when you realize it's steel, and it's probably particles, it's not very good. Crossing the footbridge at night, you'd be walking above the steel mill, crossing through the smoke, dirt, and crap, looking down into the fire. Later, I spent a little time in New York, which always seemed to be a city on overload, and Hong Kong at the time it was wonderfully medieval — pre-skyscraper,
October: the Purple Month in Peru In the 1600s an Afro-Peruvian Slave at the Pachacamilla plantation in Lima, paint on a rouge adobe wall, the crucifixion of Jesus “the Black Christ.” In 1655 the city lay in ruins from an earthquake. This fragile wall somehow remained intact, since the painting survived another terrible earthquake in 1687. The people began to carry an image on October 18th in a procession around the city. Later the Black Christ was named Patron Saint of Lima and given the name “the Lord of Miracles.” Today in October we still continue celebrating this wonderful religious procession, with the streets dressed in purple and special public events all month. `This religious procession is visited for more than one million people and celebrates more than 350 years of traditions.
General Electric- Environmental Pollutions Contents Back Ground on General Electric and the Environmental Issue of Pollutions from General Electric’s dumping and burying of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB’s) 4 1876-Thomas Alva Edison opened first laboratory in NJ 1890- Thomas Alva Edison builds the Edison Electric Company Thomas-Houston's Electric Company expanding 1892 - The two companies merge to become General Electric Multinational Company Headquartered in Fairfield Connecticut- Incorporated in Schenectady NY Four Segments - energy, technology infrastructure, capital finance, and consumer indutrial Operates in 160 countries, employs 300,000 employees worldwide What led to the Issue 5 General Electric's use of PCB's at two capaciter plants in NY Burying of PCB's in school yards and playgrounds General Electric’s Reaction 6 1976- GE charged by EPA for violating the clean water act GE knew since around 1936 that PCB's were harmeful GE delays cleanup for decades How General Electric could have prevented the issue 7 Should have stopped use of PCB's Managers had an ethical and moral obligation to do what was right My Course of Action 8 GE should research other products that would be safe to use Companies have more laws now to follow What General Electric is doing today 9 1997- GE told by EPA they would be fined if clean up didn't start 2005- EPA gets commitment from GE to start the first phase of the cleanup 2009 - Phase one of the cleanup starts 2010- EPA completes Evaluation report December 2010- GE agrees to start phase two June 6, 2011 - The final phase is started- estimated to last five to seven years Bibliography 11 General Electric- Environmental Pollutions Back Ground on General Electric and the Environmental Issue of Pollutions from General Electric’s dumping and burying of Polychlorinated
Business Law And Business Ethics The Jack Welch Era at General Electric Story of General Electrics 1879 Alva Edison ft J.P Morgan Started Edison Electric Light Company 1892 ELC became General Electric Company 1900’s GE started to make research and invention to locomotives and new electric appliances 1960 Next Invention in X-Ray Machine, Motion Picture with sound, etc 1981 Jack Welch Era started Jack Welch Born in 1935 from a working-class Irish Parents in Massachusetts Started working at a General Electric plastic factory in 1960 Became GE CEO in the era of 1981 - 2001 Competitive & Aggressive Highly confidence person Temperament Hard worker Jack Welch era at GE Welch Guide Vision : Every GE Business would be the number one or number two player in its industry. If it failed this test, it would be fixed, closed or sold Compact GE Business to one of three areas : core manufacturing, technology or service (closing 73 plants and selling 232 business, acquired RCA) Eliminated jobs through attrition, layoffs, and outsourcing (eliminated 132.000 workers) Strategy & Action Jack Welch era at GE Attacked the GE bureaucracy • Demolished hierarchy by laying off thousands of central staff in strategic planning, personnel, etc • Promoting the notion of a “boundary-less” organization • The practice of workout sessions Emphasized Globalization • Every manager of each GE Business was held responsible for globalizing the business Differentiation • Differentiate between employee : Inept Manager called Turkeys and Dinks, Standout manager called “all-starts”. • Designed annual performance measurement, categorized managers into a vitality curve rank : A (20 %) – B(70 %) – C(10 %). Jack Welch era at GE The Result & Achievements • More than 400 acquisition of GE business • GE business shifted
Photography and the Industrial Revolution During the Industrial Revolution, a factory driven time period and move away from beauty, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer of “The Hand of Man”, showed how something so dark and mechanical like the locomotive train could be transformed into a work of art and beauty using ones own creativeness and artistic ability. Alfred Stieglitz, an American photographer and modern art promoter, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864. Growing up, he was trained as an engineer in Germany where he would then move to New York in 1890 to try and prove that photography was an acceptable work of art during this time period. While in New York, he joined many camera clubs and held exhibitions throughout the city to show his work (Minneapolis Institute of Arts). In 1903, Stieglitz created a magazine called “Camera Work” that was completely devoted to photography and contained only photographic images in it (Greenough, Sarah).
Watson and the Shark, a painting executed in the medium of oil on canvas by Copley, was completed in 1778 and belongs to the ‘18th Century American political’ period. The painting stands 71 ¾ inches (182.2 cm) tall and 90 ½ inches (229.9 cm) wide. It can be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., while a full scale copy that Copley made for himself is owned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The grisly subject depicted in the painting is an account of a traumatic ordeal that 14-year-old Brook Watson experienced in 1749. The painting was commissioned by Watson who had been attacked by a shark in Havana harbor and had been lucky enough to be rescued.
One hundred year of oil: Oil was found at Masjed Soleyman in southwestern Iran on May 26, 1908, and three years later was piped down to a newly built refinery at Abadan on the Iranian side of the Shatt alrab, not many miles below Basra. Its global importance was immediately recognized, not just by the Admiralty in London, looking for new sources of supply for its oil-fired battleships, but in other European capitals as well leading to a brief British-German-Turkish skirmish for control of the pipeline at the start of World War I. How oil is formed: Millions of years ago, plants and animals living in the ocean absorbed energy from the sun and stored this energy in their bodies in the form of carbon. As these animals died, their bodies sank to the bottom of the ocean where they were covered with layers of sediment deposits. OPEC: OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry.
In the history of art, on the other hand, the student of modernism can expect to run a gamut from the French painting of the 1860s to the American art of a century later and may even be directed as far back as the later 18th century (Modernism, 2003). When I was reading the information about Romanticism in the text Gardner’s art through the ages, I became fascinated by a painting I saw, “The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On).” This oil on canvas painting was