Copyright (c) 2013 Illinois Wesleyan University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj Recent documents in Honors Projects en-us Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:17:26 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/3 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/3 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:37:28 PDT What mysteries lie hidden in the arts of Japan? We, as Westerners, are even more being drawn closer to the Japanese and other Oriental arts. If an object is marked, "Made in Japan," we usually grimace, and the object is replaced to it original position without purchase. Since World War II, the influx of fine and minor arts (meaning utensils or furniture) are entering our vistas, and the study of Japanese art history is slowly reaching our universities and our galleries.

]]> Gay Bumgardner http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/2 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/2 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:29:53 PDT It has frequently been observed that while Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, Durer, da Vinci, Seurat, and other master painters knew the capabilities of the pigments they used, the artists of today do not.

]]> R. Bruce Handlong '69 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/1 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/art_honproj/1 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:04:37 PDT Perhaps there have always been discussions and essays about the condition of man and his relation to the universe, and perhaps there has always been some degree of pessimism, but few will deny that the present era has exceeded most others in pessimism if not in discussion.

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