Baroque Art: Painting and Sculpture in the 17th Century

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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Public Opinion, Media Effects, and Political Communication

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
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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 and Types: A Comprehensive Look

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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Visual Representation Systems and Formal Sciences

Subjective System of Representation

That is, the author of the image makes it their way.

System-Performance Objective

That is, the author of the image follows rules.

Format-Paper

  • A4 210 x 297 mm
  • A3 420 x 594 mm
  • A2 840 x 1188 mm
  • A1 1680 x 2376 mm
  • A0 3360 x 4752 mm

Airlines-Standard

In each type of technical drawing, lines have a different meaning. Their use depends on the correct interpretation of the plans.

  • The limitation: The system will indicate the specific measure of an object.
  • Lines of altitude: Lines parallel
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Social Questions: Industrial Revolution to Church’s Social Doctrine

The Social Questions

The Industrial Revolution saw Great Britain, the world’s largest power, and other nations create a proletariat around factories. The economic ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo supported this revolution. Their doctrines stated:

  • Economic laws are natural and cannot be judged as good or evil.
  • Open competition regulates supply and demand.
  • The state should not intervene in the economy.

This caused enormous inequalities. Owners controlled the means of production, while workers faced

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