This half term is defined by a theme of the past, the present, and the future. However, anyone who hasn’t been in this class wouldn’t know anything else. So, have a grammar joke. The past, present, and future walk into a bar. It was tense. As for how past, present, and future relate to art, that is a more difficult question to answer. Art history could be included in a broad ...
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The oldest color available in a batik piece is blue. This was made, in the olden days, by mixing indigo leaves with molasses. The molasses acts as a binding agent so that the color comes out and stays on the fabric. Lime juices were added too, and the solution would be mixed up well. This sticky liquid is left to cure overnight, or at least for eight hours.
Batik is very simply a kind ...
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These three artists painted mainly landscapes. Grant Wood is the painter responsible for the painting titled “American Gothic” - the painting of the old farming couple in front of the farmhouse with the man holding the pitchfork. This is probably his most iconic piece now. He’s even painted a couple of self-portraits. Thomas Hart Benton painted a picture depicting Achilles ...
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The two letters that create the digraph in the word “fish” are “-sh”. A digraph, for those who don’t know, is simply a sound that is made when two letters are put together that resembles the sound of a single letter. “-Ph”, “-ey”, and “-gh” are good examples of other digraphs that are common in the English language.
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Piet Mondrian was born in the Netherlands. He’s a renowned Dutch painter. This particular painter was born on March 7th, 1872. He died on February 1st, 1944. A lot of great artists died in 1944, and Mondrian is just one of them. Fun fact: did you know that his last name was originally spelled Mondriaan? He dropped the second “a” in 1906. This was done to give him the ...
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Wassily Kandisky was born in Moscow, Russia. Why this isn’t a choice on the list of answers is baffling, but it can be corrected easily. Anyway, Kandisky was born on December 16th, 1866. He died on December 13th, 1944. This was just three days shy of his 78th birthday.
He’s well-known for his abstract paintings, and is credited with painting the majority of the first ...
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The large crane is a wading bird with a long neck and long legs. There are fifteen different species of cranes that live all over the world except on Antarctica and South America. Cranes easily adapt to their season and nutritional requirements, changing their diet from grains, berries and plants to small rodents, amphibians and fish.
The large birds lay eggs in nests that they ...
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On many farms, you can find a variety of animals, including a wide range of ducks. Ducks are beneficial to farms because they eat a variety of food sources such as aquatic plants, fish, grasses, worms, and small amphibians. Many ducks like to feed on land or on the surface of the water.
In some cases, the ducks will dive as deep as they can to find a food source. Diving ducks and sea ...
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Seas are bodies of water that are smaller than oceans and are still made of salt water. There are hundreds of seas around the world, some of the most popular being The Dead Sea, The Baltic Sea, and The Mediterranean Sea. Different definition seas are as follows:
1. Marginal sea: a division of an ocean that is closed off by islands or peninsulas but having an opening towards the ...
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Sea lions and walruses are sea mammals that primarily feed on fish. Sea lions are recognizable by their external ear flaps while walruses do not have ear flaps. The walrus is equipped with a large pair of tusks that are elongated canines that are present in both the female and the male walruses.
These tusks measure up to a length of 3 feet 3 inches with the male tusks longer and ...
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