Child’s Physical, Psychosocial, Cognitive and Development July 23, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM A boy child of a friend. The observation occurred in the living compound of the child’s home environment. I was invited to observe the baby and we settled in a proofed room with different toys on the floor, a play mat and cartoons were on running on the television in […]

What Do Astronomers Do? What Do Astronomers Do? I had several hopes while enrolling in this class. My major interests in this course were learning about planets and their moons, how the solar system was formed, and why planets revolve around the moon. I was also interested in knowing why interplanetary spacecraft navigate through space. This class has greatly changed my preconceived knowledge of the […]

Terracotta Warriors took us back in the past during the warring kingdom of China where soldiers where brilliant and ruthless. This is more than 2000 years ago and the reason why most scientists, artists, and archaeologists are interested in exploring them is because the there was diversity and individuality among the warriors. Remember we are talking about clays warriors who were found in pits near […]

The two artworks, Madonna and Child with Angels (Madonna with the long neck) by Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino and Harmony (The Three Graces) by Hans Baldung were both created during the mannerism period. Mannerism is an artistic style which is characterized by artificiality as well as artiness, by the development of technical proficiency and elegance, and by a refined indulgence in the strange. The […]

How Do We Recognize Renaissance Art Painting Series: (“Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government, Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country, and Allegory and Effects of Bad Government in the City and the Country, c. 1337-40, fresco, Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace) also known as the Sala dei Nove (the Hall of the Nine), 7.7 x 14.4m (room), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena”) (“Ambrogio […]

Comparative Analysis of Realism Comparative Analysis of Realism Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1850, Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France Gustave Courbet’s monumental canvas, A Burial at Ornans, presents entrenched hierarchy of suitable acceptable art subjects. Rather than a historical event or biblical tableau, Courbet depicted a humble peasant funeral as grandly as any state occasion. His unflinching focus on ordinary working people and gritty realism, […]

Theodore Gericault and Romanticism: Contemporary Connections Géricault’s famous painting The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) depicted the aftermath of a tragic 19th-century shipwreck, criticizing the French monarchy’s indifference and incompetence. Almost two centuries later, the street artist Banksy recreated the iconic scene of desperate survivors signaling for rescue as a stenciled mural (2015). By connecting the historical disaster and the contemporary refugee crisis, Banksy highlighted […]

1. How did the article and video content increase your understanding of the purpose of art history? This week’s materials have increased my awareness about art and helped shed light on why art history is important in today’s society. In the research conducted by Smarthistory (2020) on “what people study and why they study it”, it is evident that humans are in constant search for meaning […]

How Social, Political, and Economic Factors are Fundamental Determinants of Health Rudolf Virchow’s assertion that medicine is a social science and that social, political, and economic factors interact to produce sickness can be supported by a critical analysis of contemporary and historical health issues found in modern society. This is in support of Delaney (2021) and his colleagues who argued that colorless medical policies that […]

Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro The research discusses Sir Thomas Allen’s rendition of the Marriage of Figaro. The concert is an opera buffa that has four acts. Sir Allen is the performer of the overture backed up by the orchestra of the Royal College of Music. The second and third pieces are performed by Susana Figaro, Basilio, and Count. The venue of the concert is the […]