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Before reaching the tender age of thirty, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted David and Pičta, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art.
Like fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo was a shining star of the Renaissance and a genius of consummate virtuosity.
His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and architect are unique - no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multi-faceted, and wide-ranging oeuvre.
Only a handful of other painters and sculptors have attained a comparable social status and enjoyed a similar artistic freedom.
This is demonstrated not only by the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel but also by Michelangelo's monumental sculptures and his unconventional architectural designs, whose forms went far beyond the accepted vocabulary of his day.
Such was his talent that Michelangelo was considered a demigod by his contemporaries and was the subject of two biographies during his lifetime.
Adoration of this remarkable man?s work has only increased on the intervening centuries.
This sumptuous tome also takes account, to a previously unseen extent, of Michelangelo's more personal traits and circumstances, such as his solitary nature, his thirst for money and commissions, his miserliness, his immense wealth, and his skill as a property investor.
In addition, the book tackles the controversial issue of the attribution of Michelangelo drawings, an area in which decisions continue to be steered by the interests of the art market and the major collections.
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Painted or printed images on glass were among the earliest forms of projected "motion picture" entertainment.
Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views.
Brightly colored, handcrafted slides, depicting human activity, fantasy figures, and landscapes, were typically presented with live narration, music, and sound effects, in what became popular by the 1870s as Magic Lantern shows.
Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis.
Projected side by side, the slides create a mesmerizing wide-screen spectacle.
A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discs - complementary artifacts of nineteenth century moving-image technology - are also on display.
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onedotzero's 2007 festival tour is about to kick off, with huge events in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Zurich, Switzerland.
In addition, onedotzero has some very special events taking place as part of Nuit Blanche, Paris, and the Shanghai eArts festival.
These packed three day festivals will be the first opportunity to view onedotzero's brand new screening programmes, including favourites wow+flutter, wavelegth, and extended play, as well as retrospectives including a focus on Bjork's music videos.
The curated compilations showcase the freshest and most innovative new moving image work from all over the world, much of it premiering here, and some pieces made especially for onedotzero.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, a compelling exhibition that traces the searing graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s.
Douglas's iconic work helped create the identity of the party, defining the trademark visual style of the group's newspapers, posters, and pamphlets.
His work also serves as a powerful testament to the efficacy of visual art to communicate a political position.
Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Sam Durant, the exhibition will be on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center October 21, 2007 through January 20, 2008 and includes approximately 150 of the artist's most influential works.
MOCA Director Jeremy Strick comments, "Emory Douglas is a seminal, political, contemporary artist whose work MOCA is proud to present 40 years after the artist first made his indelible mark on the Black Panther Party.
More than ever, Douglas's work shows how significantly visual art can effect social discourse and political change and mold popular culture-a phenomenon at the heart of MOCA's thinking."
From 1967, the year Douglas joined the Black Panthers, to its discontinuation in the early 1980s, the party cultivated a strong identity that was often described as angry, militant, and incendiary.
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A dress made by metal and plastic materials and landscape paintings by plywood, and all of these "strange" art works will be shown in Beijing next month.
The "Hybricity Singapore", an art designing exhibition, will be held in Beijing from 13 to 21 October as the first program of The 2007 Singapore Season in China.
Seven groups of art works, including paintings, jewellery, potteries and fashionable dressing, will be exhibited to show the cross-cultural viewpoints of Singapore designers.
Sauhoong Lim, a famous advertisement designer in Singapore, said "all what we learned in the past are our sources of creation, no matter which country or which culture they stemmed from."
Tan KAY Ngee, a celebrated architect of Singapore, "I use most popular architectural material plywood to re-explain the traditional Chinese art of paper cutting and paper folding.
It's another kind of Chinese landscape painting."
Works of other famous artists, such as fashionable dressing designer Ashley Isham, Jessie Lim, the first woman takes an individual pottery exhibition in Singapore, are particularly created for this exhibition.
"Most of these works are initially designed for this show, and part of them are classic ones, but all are unique," Tan said.
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