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    The art of money making

    The lines that distinguish between art and craft are often times blurred. Craft is utilitarian, art is for looking at, but sometimes a particular craft is so precise that it might as well be art. Let us explore the world of engraving as an example. Beginn

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    Technique and style

    Technique, a French word, is loosely defined as "a procedure that is used to accomplish a specific task." Now used as a noun, the word can apply to procedures specific to any profession, trade, or even to the many things that we all do in life.

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    A revolutionary painter

    Before the camera made it so easy for us to document specific moments in time, the job was left up to the artistically inclined. The only visual record of what people looked like, or how events happened to unfolded are depictions made by artists. Before 1

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    Rod Sterling helped shape television history

    On Aug. 25, 1934 Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971) held the first public viewing of his all electric television in Philadelphia, Penn. While he was not the only inventor working on this far-out concept, he was the first and only one to offer a complete system

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    The Prairie Style

    Historians study architectural style because it closely reflects the ideals and beliefs of the builders. Distinctive and identifiable artistic form in architecture also helps us to understand the mood of an era. The particular styles of a past culture, a

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    The Columbian Exposition

    It is always entertaining to try and imagine what the world will be like a century from now. Even though it is impossible to fully comprehend what the future has to hold, we need only to look at the strides taken during the past one hundred years to get s

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    Renaissance to Baroque

    Beginning early in the 14th century, the western world, which did not include the Americas, was just coming back to intellectual life. While leaving the middle ages behind, a cultural movement known to us as the Renaissance was taking hold in Europe. Duri

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    Fashionable artist

    Soon after the turn of the 20th century, every field of art seemed to be in flux. During this time there were several artists whose work would serve to influence, and thereby change, the direction that art would take.

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    The Palace of Fine Arts

    It is fascinating to realize how the discovery of gold here in California had an impact in many places worldwide. For instance, as a direct result of the 1849 gold rush, leaders in this country began thinking more seriously about connecting the Atlantic a

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    The Persistence of Art

    I would like to dedicate this article to my fellow artisans -- of all persuasions -- who are experiencing turmoil due to unfriendly economic times. I have been through more than one "down-turn" during my 40 year career, and while this one is par

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