Describe and analyze the characteristics of the Fauvism using Henri Matisse's Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life) as an example.
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The ideal answer should include:
1. Fauvism is characterized by forceful color and impulsive brushwork, and the vibrancy and energy of the style conveyed a new intensity of visual experience.
2. Matisse's painting is a vibrant arrangement of luscious colors, in which naked revelers dance, make love, commune with nature, or simply lounge in their idyllic, seaside setting.
3. Freed from naturalistic constraints, colors contribute as much to the joyous mood as the uninhibited figures themselves.
4. The long, flowing curves of the trees and the sensual contours of the nude bodies animate the composition with a continual movement and at the same time offer a refreshing "relief from the stress of modern life," as Matisse characterized his own work from this period.
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a. ?Agbekor. b. ?Afrobeat. c. ?the BaAka. d. ?postal workers’ singing.
Using the discussion in Worlds of Music, briefly outline the history of opera in China
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Saturday Night Live uses a format established in early vaudeville that was a popular form of entertainment in the early twentieth century.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
________'s deeply spiritual poems reflect a visionary and moral perception of nature.
A. Shelley B. Wordsworth C. Blake D. Hegel