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During the High Renaissance the passionate sculpture of Michelangelo Buornarroti brought life to inanimate marble and he along with his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael Sanzio, created apparently living breathing individuals within carefully scripted enigmatic and intellectually complex scenes. Shortly thereafter Peter Paul Ruebens in Flanders creates exuberant motion and tension while the emotions of the private man are revealed by Rembrandt van Rijn in Holland. Both reveal the inner physic state of the individuals portrayed.

In the Modern period painting Artists have striven to create emotion in the observer. Francisco Goya conjures horror, Eugene Delacroix inflames the imagination, Joseph M W Turner calls up the awe and fear of the natural world.

Claude Monet manipulates our sense of light and time.

Auguste Renoir places us in social settings were we become a part of the gathering.

Edgar Degas gives us snapshots of contemporary life.

Paul Cezanne creates landscapes with shifting, receding perspectives.

Vincent van Gohg expresses his emotions when confronting the world in brilliant colors.

Auguste Rodin using romantic ideals and symbols, sculpts realistic and impressionistic art in a unique personal style that anticipates expressionistic forms.

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Peit Mondrian, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvadore Dali, Henri Matisse, Anderew Wyethn and Cristo all built upon the foundations laid by their predecessors, expounding and compiling to reach a new plateau, by portraying their vision in a unique and expressive manner!

I, myself, am a avid follower of the Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement. I love creating things with my own two hands. I feel the handcrafted woodwork, glasswork, ironwork, brickwork, fabrics and ceramics combined with the methods of production and the buildings in which much of the handiwork came to life associated itself with and harmonized with the natural environment. There is a certain pride and comfort in living simply on the Earth that is prevalent among the followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Architecture requires the combination of artists skills with the skills of an engineer some of the best were ... Imhotep ... Ictinus, Callicrates and Phidias Anthemius of Tralles ... Isidorus of Miletus... Michelangelo Buornarroti ... Cristopher Wren ... Thomas Jefferson ... Charles Rennie Mackintosh ... Philip Webb ... Peter Behrens ... Walter Gropius ... Louis Sullivan ...Antonio Gaudi ... Le Corbusier ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohr ... Louis Kahn ... Robert Venturi ... Buckminster Fuller