Evolution of Visual Arts: Renaissance to Contemporary
Visual arts have undergone profound transformations from the 14th to the 21st century, reflecting cultural, social, technological, and philosophical changes across epochs. This essay highlights the evolution of artistic expression over this extensive period, highlighting significant movements, innovations, and the enduring relationship between art and society.
The Renaissance (14th to 17th Centuries)
Key Characteristics:
- Revival of classical ideals.
- Emphasis on humanism, realism, and perspective.
- Technical
Fungi: Characteristics, Classification, and Uses
Order of Characters for Identification in Fungi
The following characteristics are used to identify fungi:
- Gross appearance of the colony
- Type of hyphae
- Placement of sporophores
- Presence of sterigmata (sporangiophore or conidiophore) and their order
- Shape, size, and distribution of spores
- Presence or absence of rhizoids. Occur only in non-septate fungal hyphae. For example: Rhizopus, Rhizomucor, Absidia
- Practice biochemical identification tests.
Fungi have been treated as vegetables since ancient times, due
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Baroque Painting
Baroque painting is the style of painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. Painting assumed a prominent role in artistic expression, becoming the most characteristic expression of the weight of religion in Catholic countries and the bourgeois taste in Protestant countries. The best and most important painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque. Baroque art
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Types of Publics
General public: Linked to public opinion, assumes that everyone is part of that entity.
Voting public: The electorate is the public that expresses its opinion on public affairs by voting for a candidate.
Attentive public: Made up of informed people who follow media.
Active public: Made up of people whose commitment to public affairs leads them to participate in both organizations and political parties.
Perspectives
- Collective (sociological model): Opinion is understood as a supra-individual
Consumer Psychology: How Brands Influence Your Choices
Consumer Psychology: How Brands Influence Your Choices
1. Expectations
If you think something will be great, you might actually experience it as better, even if it’s not. This happens automatically without you realizing it. For example, if you drink water from a fancy bottle, you might think it tastes better than the same water from a plain cup because you expect it to.
2. Goals
Brands can make you want to achieve something, like being healthy or saving time. Just having that goal in mind can feel
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Film Processing: From Shooting to Screening
In traditional filmmaking, the film processing journey can be summarized in the following phases:
Revelations and Visions
The exposed film is labeled and classified. It is then sent to the laboratory sealed in cans after each day. Here, it is developed and printed, allowing for the viewing of unedited footage. This is known as “dailies” or “daily rushes.” Today, it is common to perform a telecine (electronic scanning) and then view a video copy, as editing
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