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Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Langston's father once discouraged him from writing poetry. He believed discrimination would keep the young Langston from finding success as a poet. But Langston continued to...
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This area is made up of the counties of Saluda, Newberry, Richland and Lexington. Visit historical southern homes, state museums, and Riverbanks Zoo. Lake Murray is a haven for all types of water...
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Aerial photograph courtesy of SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Map Lab Featured Artists: Clemson Nature-Based Art | Nancy Basket | Nils Udo The rocky Blue Ridge of upstate South Carolina is the smallest...
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Aerial photograph courtesy of SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Map Lab Featured Artists: Billie Anne McKellar | Peter Werner | Petroglyphs | Steven Ferrell The mountainous upstate transitions into the...
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Aerial photograph courtesy of SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Map Lab Featured Artists: Brian Rust | Janet Orselli | Leslie Pierce The Sandhills is a band of 100,000 million year old sand dunes and...
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Aerial photograph courtesy of SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Map Lab Featured Artists: Arianne King Comer | Herb Parker | Tom Boozer Every year, the beaches, marshes, and other Coastal Zone features...
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Aerial photograph courtesy of SC Dept. of Natural Resources, Map Lab Featured Artists: Art in Park | Jimmie Dinkins | Pearl Fryar | Phil Greene | Tim Greene Ranging from slightly hilly to flat, the...
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Anonymous A Closer Look Artworks made during a particular time and place often look similar to one another. We call them "stylized." Many artworks from the Archaic Period of ancient Greece resemble...
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Michelangelo A Closer Look Do you think this sculpture by Michelangelo is finished...or is the artist making a statement about slavery? What do you think he would be trying to say? There is a strong...
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Edmonia Lewis A Closer Look We often hear that copying is wrong, but a good way to study techniques of art is to imitate the works of other artists. 400 years after Michelangelo, Edmonia Lewis lived...
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Isamu Noguchi A Closer Look Do you think this sculpture could be considered stylized? Do you notice a resemblance between it and another in our collection? Noguchi simplified the parts of the body and...
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Henry Moore A Closer Look Henry Moore’s work is organic, meaning that it flows and has a lot of curvy lines. Look at the outline of this sculpture. See how the spaces between and around the sculpture...
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Scott Joplin was born near Linden, Texas and raised in Texarkana, Texas, the son of a railroad laborer who had been a slave. Joplin showed an early and extraordinary aptitude for music, which was...
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Hugh Masekela was born in Witbank, South Africa on April 4, 1939. He began singing and playing piano as a child and as a teenager, was encouraged to play the trumpet by the British anti-apartheid...
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Igor Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882 in Oranienbaum near St. Petersburg, Russia. He started piano lessons at the age of nine and began the serious study of composition. At the age of 20 as a law...
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Mary Lou Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 1910 and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A prodigy, she taught herself to play the piano at the age of four. Williams could hear a piece...
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These are only a few types of poetry found throughout the history of the world. In this month's issue of Periscope, you will find that poetry comes in many shapes and colors. It is written for...
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Old dark sleepy pool quick unexpected frog goes plop! Watersplash.
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To The Rain Bringer of wealth Feeder of orphans Fall gently Come and feed us peacefully Oh, fall gently. - Acoli
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India, Pakistan & the Middle East, Part 1 In India, Pakistan and the middle east, a form of poetry called the ghazal (pronounced "guzzle") has been popular for over a thousand years. Ghazal means...
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Modern Aboriginal Poetry of Australia The songs and oral poems of the aborigines of Australia have been passed down for thousands of years. The poems explore their historical and spiritual connection...
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Woody Guthrie was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. A keen observer of the world around him, he began to travel across the country as a teenager and spent much of his...
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Celia Cruz was born and raised in the working class Santos Suarez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba on October 21, 1924. Brought up in a musical family, she began singing in local contests and later...
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Maria Callas was born Maria Anna Sophia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos on December 2, 1923 to Greek parents in New York, New York. At 14, Callas moved to Greece to study at the Athens Conservatory of Music. A...
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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 and raised in the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child he was a street singer and learned to play the coronet while in reform school...
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Moses Old Bull A Closer Look A shape is a two-dimensional representation of an object showing its width and length. The outline of a figure is called a skeletal shape. Geometric shapes use straight...
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Emil Armin A Closer Look Emil Armin produces a sense of depth in Wild West by changing the values of his colors. One way to change the value of a color is to mix in its complement, its opposite on the...
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Franz Marc A Closer Look In The Large Blue Horses, Franz Marc uses rich, bright colors and curvy lines. The curves of the horses are repeated in the hills in the background. Notice how the horses take...
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Jacob Lawrence A Closer Look Sometimes artists tell stories without words, as Jacob Lawrence has done in The Life of John Brown, No. 11 – John Brown Took to Guerrilla Warfare. This painting is part of...
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Paulus Potter A Closer Look Paulus Potter has chosen a handsome spotted horse as central to this painting. What visual devices does he use to bring attention to the horse? Look at the various textures...