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![Spotlight Artist: Middle East - Persian Art](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_e8ddb88a75e744c3be7f17822a92268b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_e8ddb88a75e744c3be7f17822a92268b~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artist: Middle East - Persian Art
Persian miniature, The Arrival of the Messenger (Prince), Painting mounted on illuminated margin, Ink, watercolour and gold on paper and...
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Spotlight Artist: Africa - El Anatsui
River Crossing 2007 Aluminum and copper wire 103 × 141 inches © El Anatsui Art Code: "Create as much as you consume." Synopsis El Anatsui...
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![Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Nunuma Mask of Antelope](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_17951e78c6294c8d8c4d23d649412d32~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_17951e78c6294c8d8c4d23d649412d32~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Nunuma Mask of Antelope
Nuna animal masks follow a general stylistic pattern. They have large round protruding eyes, surrounded by concentric circles, and a...
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![Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Head of a Ruler, Ife](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_f97b8cd97e18425f9f4ef9aebf7787a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_f97b8cd97e18425f9f4ef9aebf7787a7~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Head of a Ruler, Ife
In January 1938 workmen were clearing away topsoil for house foundations they struck metal and found a group of sculptures in the form of...
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![Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Djenné Terracotta Seated Figure - Mali Empire](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_3052331a37ad4edbbc28c762d8c55ba8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_3052331a37ad4edbbc28c762d8c55ba8~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artwork: Africa: Djenné Terracotta Seated Figure - Mali Empire
Among the earliest known examples of art from sub-Saharan Africa are terracotta figures like this one from the inland delta of the Niger...
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![Spotlight Artist: Fan Kuan - Song Dynasty, China](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_1c127859263849659ad06627e1c6f8da~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_1c127859263849659ad06627e1c6f8da~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artist: Fan Kuan - Song Dynasty, China
One of the most important Chinese painters, Fan Kuan is best known as the creator of the Travelers Among the Mountains and Streams....
![Spotlight Artist: Martin Puryear (b. 1941)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_c33ff485ccc546799d6782da4e61dcb4~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/29e36b_c33ff485ccc546799d6782da4e61dcb4~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artist: Martin Puryear (b. 1941)
From VMFA: "Puryear’s abstract sculptures, while often simple in shape and materials, are richly allusive. This combination of qualities...
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![Spotlight Artist: Dada Movement - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_4bc3ea0ac1574668aefd959d3c0555ab~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_4bc3ea0ac1574668aefd959d3c0555ab~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artist: Dada Movement - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
FIRST: watch the video below. Along with the "criteria for art" that you considered with AS #14, consider now the "purposes for art" as...
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Spotlight Artist: Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello (Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian...
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![Spotlight Artwork: Giotto (1267 - 1337) - Gothic/Proto-Renaissance Art](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29e36b_01a2356d619e4452a34fd7edcb97c72d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/29e36b_01a2356d619e4452a34fd7edcb97c72d~mv2.webp)
Spotlight Artwork: Giotto (1267 - 1337) - Gothic/Proto-Renaissance Art
LamentationArena Chapel (Capella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6’ 3/4” x 6’ 3/4” Synopsis In his Lives of the Most...