Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wang Zhongyu (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wang Zhongyu; Wade–Giles: Wang Chung-yu); Date of birth unknown, was a Chinese painter during the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1398).Wang was known for painting people. Little else is known of his life.The Ming Dynasty (Chinese: ; pinyin: Ming Chao; Wade–Giles: Ming Ch'ao; IPA: [mi t ]), or Empire of the Great Ming (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Da Ming Guo; Wade–Giles: Ta Ming Kuo, also anachronistically simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Da Ming Di Guo; Wade–Giles: Ta Ming Ti Kuo), was the ruling dynasty of China from...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wang Lu Xiang ( in Chinese character, male, born 1956), is a Chinese nationally renowned scholar, art critic, and television documentary producer. He received his Bachelor of Art in literature from the University of Xiang Tan (1978–1982) and held a teaching position in the department of Chinese literature of the same university from 1982 to 1984. Soon he went on to obtain a MPhil in Philosophy at Beijing University in 1987. He taught literature at the Capital Normal University from 1987 to 1992 and did free-lancing writing jobs from 1992 to 2001. In 2001, he was invited to the newly formed department of art at Qing Hua University as a guest professor and Phd supervisor (the contract with Qing...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated in Nairobi at Loreto Convent Msongari (1978-1989) and afterward studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales (I.B., 1991). Mutu moved to New York in the 1990s, focusing on Fine Arts and Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Art and Design. She earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science in 1996, and then received an MFA from Yale University (2000).Mutu's work has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. War art is considered a genre of art. It is characterized by war, military subjects and war activities. The works described as war art represent a broad range of subject matter and styles. It includes sculpture, and other artistic media. War art includes painting, as a sub-type of history painting.Although war art is an account of one aspect of art history, it is also an expression of culture. War art combines artistic and documentary functions, and it becomes one of the significant legacies of any culture. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how "war shapes lives." War artists have explored a visual and sensory dimension of war which is often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating, or destroyed, as in Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting, The Apotheosis of War. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. War photography captures images of armed conflict and life in war-torn areas, beginning with Roger Fenton's photographs of the Crimean War in 1854-55, in which he was limited by his bulky equipment and the technology of the day, which had not yet developed a method for photographing moving objects.The photography of war depicts the terrors of war mingled with acts of sacrifice. Different to paintings or drawings of war, photographic images are not easily altered; although in some cases,...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The War Room (1967/68-2002), by Wally Hedrick (1928-2003), consists of eight canvases approximately 5 feet wide and 11 feet tall, all painted a deep black. Hedrick referred to these canvases as "wounded veterans". These canvases are bolted together to create a freestanding square room that could be entered via a small door in one of the canvases, thus creating an architectural painting. The black painted surfaces of the canvases face inward and the backs of the canvases face outward.The War Room is an 'environmental' painting where the viewer enters a small enclosure of painted blackness. The viewer is left to...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "War Zone" is episode 20 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Gary Campbell and directed by David Straiton, it was originally broadcast on May 9, 2000 on the WB network. In War Zone, Angel helps software millionaire David Nabbit track down a blackmailer, ending up in the middle of a gang war between a group of street kids - led by amateur vampire hunter Charles Gunn - and a vampire gang who have settled in his South-Central neighborhood. Angel offers to assist Gunn in tracking down the vampires who abducted and killed Gunn's sister. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art is located at 909 South Schumaker Drive, Salisbury, Maryland, United States. This museum has the most comprehensive collection of wildfowl carvings in the world, ranging from art sculptures to working decoys used by hunters. The museum was named after Lem and Steve Ward from Crisfield, Maryland, two pioneers that moved decoy carvings into the realm of fine art. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ward Sylvester is an American entertainment industry producer, manager, promoter, executive and consultant. He has served as President of Pacific Arts Inc., and Personality Productions; Vice President of Columbia Pictures TV and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sylvester served as a consultant for Group W, MCA and Merv Griffin.His television productions include The Day the Earth Moved, People Magazine on TV and Crimewatch Tonight. Sylvester is mostly known for managing the careers of The Monkees and Bobby Sherman. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ward Lernout (born 3 May, 1931, in Geluwe, West Flanders, Belgium) is a Flemish painter, living in Tervuren (Belgium).Lernout received his artistic training at the Stedelijke Academie in Menen, where the artists F. Wallecan and E. Van Overberghe also trained. Has been living in Tervuren since 1964, after a long stay in Africa. Although he was employed in the marketing and press business until 1990, he has presented annually in art galleries since 1970. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ward-Nasse Gallery is a nonprofit artist administered space gallery for the visual, spoken and performing artists. The Ward-Nasse Gallery, founded by Harry Nasse, first opened as a commercial art gallery in Boston during the early sixties. When Harry Nasse moved to New York in 1970, he switched to artist-run cooperative status for the gallery. All modes of contemporary art are exhibited, from traditionally executed works to more experimental art forms. Artists from across the country share walls with artists from Europe, Asia and South America. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A wardrobe stylist is the job title of someone who selects the clothing for published editorial features, print or television advertising campaigns, music videos, concert performances, and any public appearances made by celebrities, models or other public figures. Stylists are often part of a larger creative team assembled by the client, collaborating with the fashion designer, photographer/director, hair stylist and makeup artist to put together a particular look or theme for the specific project. A wardrobe stylist can also be referred to as a fashion stylist, fashion editor, or celebrity stylist. The job description varies greatly depending on the assignment. Stylists in the editorial and...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Warehouse Live is a live entertainment venue located in East Downtown, Houston, Texas.Warehouse Live is one of a handful of live entertainment venues in the Greater Houston Area, the largest of which are Toyota Center, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and Miller Outdoor Theatre. Other mid-sized venues similar in size to Warehouse Live include Verizon Wireless Theater, the Engine Room, and Fitzgerald's.Warehouse Live was converted from a warehouse built in the 1920s. The venue is distinctive for its LED chandeliers. There are two separate rooms that can each hold separate events. The smaller room, the "Studio" has room for 150 people, and the larger, the "Ballroom" can fit 1500. All...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warenar is a Dutch play written by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft in 1617, based on the play Aulularia by Plautus.The story's protagonist, Warnar ('Ware Nar, or 'True Fool'), has inherited a pot of gold from his father, who inherited it from his father (Warnar's grandfather). Warnar is stingy with the inherited fortune, and keeps changing its hiding place, without spending any of the gold. Warnar's daughter, Claertje, is about to marry Warnar's neighbour, Rijckert. However, Claertje is pregnant from Rijckerts nephew, Ritsaert. Ritsaert offers to marry Claertje, instead of having Rijckert marry her. Both Rijckert and Warnar agree. In the meantime though, Lecker, one of Rijckert's servants who helped...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warja Honegger-Lavater (28 September 1913 - 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words (or even pictures).Honegger-Lavater spent the first nine years of her life in Moscow and Athens. In 1922, her mother (the author Mary Lavater-Sloman) and father Emil Lavater (an engineer) settled the family back in Wintherthur. After attending High School, Honegger-Lavater studied graphic arts in Zurich from 1931 to 1935 at the Fachklasse fur Grafik an der Kunstgewerbeschule Grafik (School of Applied Arts)....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warlugulong is a painting by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri that in 2007 set a new price record for a contemporary Indigenous Australian artwork sold at auction. Painted in 1977 and owned for many years by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the work was sold by art dealer Frank Ebes at auction on 24 July 2007. It was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million. The painting portrays the story of an ancestral being called Lungkata, together with eight other dreamings associated with Clifford Possum's country. It exemplifies a distinctive painting style, developed by Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, that blended representation of the landscape with ceremonial iconography....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WMG is the only one of the big four record companies that cannot trace its ancestry to either the Columbia Phonograph Company or Berliner Gramophone. WMG's roots date back to the founding of Warner Bros. Records as a division of the Warner Bros. movie studio in 1958, in reaction to one of its contracted actors, Tab Hunter, scoring a hit for Dot Records, a division of Paramount Pictures. In 1963, Warner Bros. purchased Reprise Records, founded by Frank Sinatra three years earlier so that he could have more creative control over his recordings. Reprise was operated in conjunction with Warner Bros. Records. With the Reprise acquisition, Warner gained the services of Mo Ostin who would be most...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warner Sallman (April 30, 1892 – May 25, 1968) was a Christian painter from Chicago. He created commercial advertising images and worked as a freelance illustrator. He is most associated with his portrait, The Head of Christ of which more than 500 million copies have been sold. In 1994, the New York Times called him the "best-known artist of the century".Warner Elias Sallman was the eldest of three children born to Elias Sallman and Christiane (Larson) Sallman who were immigrants from Finland and Sweden. He trained by apprenticing in local studios while attending the Chicago Art Institute at night. There he became a protege of Walter Marshall Cluett, a newspaper illustrator noted for his work...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warner Williams is an American artist noted for his realistic paintings of mundane California scenery. He was born in Carmel, California, and received a B.A. from Stanford University.The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States with a strong emphasis on scientific, technological and social science research. The university is located on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus in northwestern Santa Clara Valley approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco. Данное издание не является...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first release (WAP1) was by Forgemasters (produced by Robert Gordon), whose limited 500 copy pressing of "Track With No Name" was financed by an Enterprise Allowance grant and distributed in a borrowed car. It set a trend for the early releases both in terms of sound and the use of purple sleeves (designed by The Designers Republic). The follow up was Nightmares on Wax's "Dextrous", which charted, selling 30,000 copies despite a lack of promotion. This led to greater commercial success; by its fifth release the label had its first top-twenty chart entry with LFO and their eponymous single, "LFO", which sold 130,000 copies and peaked at #12 in the UK chart in July 1990; by coincidence, that...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Warren T. Thompson (active 1840 - 1870) was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 he worked in Philadelphia. He also worked in Paris.In 1843 Thompson refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. With this technique colours could be built up in the manner of some types of printmaking. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warren B. Davis (1865-1928) is an American painter and illustrator known for his dry-point etchings and tempera paintings of idealized young women. Davis studied at the Art Students League in New York and is often compared to similar artists of his time, N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish.His commercial work include illustrations for Vanity Fair, Life Magazine, and The Ladies World.Now his work can be seen at The Richter Gallery in Bellows Falls, Vermont and at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Warren Sattler (born 1934) is an American artist and cartoonist, who contributed work to many popular publications from the early 1960s through the 1990s.Sattler started cartooning at an early age and was first published in a newspaper at age 15. He got his education at the Wilcox Technical School in Meriden, Connecticut. He later taught at the Famous Artists School from 1957 to 1962. In the 1960s, he assisted on the comic strips Barnaby and The Jackson Twins. His own strip, Grubby, ran from 1964 to 1997. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Warren Neidich is an American artist. He lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.Neidich's diverse practice explores the interstitial spaces between art, culture, language, society, mind and the brain using a conceptual approach.As an artist, curator, writer and teacher, his projects span film, choreography, performance, public art sculpture, fine art, and theoretical essays.Without adhering to a specific visual motif or branded form of representation, Neidich's multidisciplinary work investigates the evolving conditions of historical materialism, general intellect, Theory of Mind, and the ways in which art...

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