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international movement (thing)

2003-02-26T09:30:29Z

Term represents the mainstream of modern architecture from the 1920âs-end of 1950âs or even up until the 1970âs. Importance shifted from the mass of a building to the volume. Also regularity in structure became more important than axial symmetry. Considered part of a social revolution that included the commence of mass production and a greater sense of order in design with a greater significance placed on residential architecture. Le Corbusierâs âfive points of a new architectureâ helped him define the new style. They included: free standing supports, a roof garden, the free plan, the ribbon window and the freely composed faÃ§ade. Each country tended to have a different interpretation, but each was clearly modern and often influenced by cubism. Le Corbusier was by far the most influential International architect. Others included Amyas Connell, Maxwell Fry, Berthold Lubetkin, Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto.

Arts and Crafts (thing)

2003-02-26T09:27:57Z

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a âsolid and functional approachâ to design and architecture. Largely based on the notion that good craftsmanship was necessary in providing quality decoration, William Morris, a major player in the movement, believed it also to be a âsocial program.â The primarily British and Scottish movement stresses an honesty in the expression of materials and the importance of functional architecture. In addition to Morris, other key architects and designers included Philip Webb, Charles Annesley Voysey, Richard Norman Shaw and Sir Edward Lutyens. Important buildings include Philip Webbâs Red House, Deanery Garden and Viceroyâs House.

Romanesque vs. Gothic architecture (idea)

2003-02-26T09:26:20Z

Purpose of main architecture:

Although the achievements in architecture in both the Romanesque and Gothic time periods were religiously focused, the Romanesque church was focused around accommodating the great numbers of pilgrims whereas Gothic churches were a sense of pride for the town where they were located. The Romanesque church was primarily a shrine to relics or a home to a monastic population. Each church acted as a stop on pilgrimage trails. Gothic churches became a point of competition. A townâs pride often laid in their cathedral, and as technology increased, the specific height of the building became a factor in the competition: the higher the better.

Actual Architecture:

The Romanesque church was monumental and massive. It was fairly squat and had solid walls which provided the support for the building. The buildings used a classic Roman vocabulary and gave religious meaning to it. Towards the end of the period, the buildings did grow…

Norah Jones (person)

2002-09-01T20:27:13Z

Born in New York City in 1979, then raised by her mother (her out of the picture father is Ravi Shankar) in Texas, Norah Jones attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (as did Erykah Badu) where she studied jazz piano. Although the University of North Texas attracted Jones with its renowned reputation for its music school, in 1999, Jones visited New York City and decided to stay.

In NYC, Norah Jones performed with the bands Laszlo and Wax Poetic and soon formed a band of her own. She recorded a demo ep for Blue Notes Records in October of 2000 and she was signed onto the label in January of 2001. Come Away With Me contains fourteen songs, three of which she wrote or co-wrote, that range from jazz to soul to country to rock. Because of this fusion of music types, Jones has gained a wide audience and gets air time both on classical jazz radio stations and VH1. She can also be heard covering More Than This and Day is Done on…

I want to be a muse (idea)

2002-09-01T00:48:17Z

I've always joked that my grandest goal in life was to be the muse of someone fabulous. Not a Dora Maar who was depicted as a symbol of war, with her face constantly rearranged and tears sobbing out of her misplaced eyes. Rather, maybe an Olga Kolkov or Marie-Therese Walter.

Inspiration, I suppose, can be found anywhere, but to be the person who changes art by just being so beautiful, so radiant, so incredible as to affect an artist that much...it must be quite gratifying.

It is not just the entrance into the art world, a world that immortalizes great people, places, ideas and things; but it is having someone who sees me as beautiful and can capture that. Just in the way one takes a photograph of another, that relationship is captured. Plenty of muses have been the lovers of the artist and although they must put up with all that being involved with a "creative type" entails, they are shown how much they are truly adored by the person they are with.
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Phedre (thing)

2001-05-20T22:09:37Z

The reason Wilde wrote this poem to Sarah Bernhardt was because she usually played Racine's Phedre, a French classic about Greek figures. The list of characters goes as follows:
Thesee: King of Athens, son of Egee, raped Antiope resulting in the birth of Hippolyte, married to Phedre.
Phedre: Wife of Thesee, mother of two, loves Hippolyte.
Hippolyte: Son of Thesee and Antiope, in love with Aricie.
Aricie: Daughter of Egee's sister (making her cousins with Thesee), in love with Hippolyte.
Antiope: Queen of the Amazones.
Theramene: Gouvernor of Hippolyte.
Oenone: Phedre's confident.
Ismene:Aricie's confident.