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Celeste Orlosky
ART HISTORY
Democratization in French Impressionist Paintings and Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints: 1850s-1900s
Beyond simply forming an alliance with Japanese ideals, Japonisme democratized art and art processes through the direct influence of France’
Biblical Floods and Sunny Waves
The dissimilar approaches of John Martin and Claude Monet to their ocean scenes result in two vastly different final pieces. Martin’s piece…
The Florentine Family in Filippino Lippi’s Madonna and Child
“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.” — Leon Battista Alberti On the Art of Building [1]
Salisbury Cathedral from Meadows: Grief and Divinity
“the sound of water escaping from mill dams; willows; old rotten planks; slimy posts; and brickwork I love such things…”
Revelations of a Caged Bird in America: Art of the African Diaspora
Between the 1600–1860’s millions of enslaved African people were transported to the Americas via the Transatlantic slave trade bringing…
Southern Gothic: American Craftivism
The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design’s exhibition, Call and Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism gathers artists working in a…
A Mysterious Tableau
Here is an example of a 3rd century roman lenos sarcophagus. Titled “Triumph of Dionysus and the Seasons,” this sarcophagus lives at The…
An Ancient Sumerian and Akkadian Menagerie
We can interpret the relationships between secular and spiritual life based on the context and importance of the animals represented in…
Philosophies of Conservation in the Age of AI
Even from the beginning stages of art conservation, there was much disagreement about what should be conserved or not. On the restrictive…
A Kiss by Any Other Name
The subject matter of Auguste Rodin and Constanin Brancusi’s “Kiss” sculptures are the same, two figures embracing, arms draped around one…
Georgia on my Mind
Georgia O’Keeffe is an artist whose career spans nearly seven decades. She was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and after studying art at several…
Journeys through Space from Land(art): Sun Tunnels
A loosely connected group of artists came about during the late 1960’s who called their work “land art.” The piece most frequently shown as…
URBAN DESIGN
Eco-Housing Architecture: Drop City, Arcosanti, and Earthships
The most ancient forms of environmental architecture are vernacular buildings, which are concerned with climate responses such, as water…
Micromobility Trends and Integration with Existing Transit
INTRODUCTION
The Future of Historic Preservation
On the surface, the preservation of historic buildings and districts would seem a net positive. It maintains aesthetic and culturally important structures and neighborhoods, as well as providing…
Historical Character, Street Art, and Public Life in the Mission District of San Francisco
The Mission District is sometimes referred to as the “city within a city.” Taking up 1800 acres, it lies in a flat valley at the heart of…
An Expansive View of the Home Unit
Housing should meet the needs of the people, not people having to work within what best fits the housing industry’s bottom line. Most…
Mokum: Amsterdam, a “safe place”
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands is located in the region of North Holland. (Fig 1) The purpose of the paper is to provide an…
MISCELLANEOUS
Our Aurgnacian Ancestors: the Oldest Musical Instrument Ever Discovered
East of the medieval town Tübingen in the German region of Swabia, are a series of UNESCO world heritage site caves. The caves were granted…
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