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The image was widely distributed in Europe, and in America it has adorned postcards, postage stamps and coffee mugs.
Shows emphasis on the moral significance of the painting to the general public.
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Leutze, a German who arrived in America at the age of 9, returned to Europe 16 years later to further his artistic career and painted canvases celebrating democracy and the love of liberty. After he created the Washington painting in Düsseldorf, he rolled it up and presented it to the public in New York on Oct. 29, 1851. It was an immediate sensation, and within four months some 50,000 people had paid to see the painting before it was bought for $10,000 by a collector, Marshall O. Roberts.
Although this doesn't seem like a large amount of people or money. It is important to note that the American economy has come a long way from where it was then. A time where it was not that easy pay or travel long distances to view artwork as it is today. The amount ($10,000) was also considered a large sum of money for the time period it was sold in. Thus showing the significance of the painting and its value.
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Meanwhile, in Long Island City, Queens, a master woodcarver, Félix Terán, has completed a two-foot-long test carving of the frame’s elaborate eagle crest from blowups of the Brady photograph. Working in the 11,000-foot studio space of Eli Wilner & Company, a former eggroll factory, Mr. Terán created the mockup to test the depth of sculptural relief and the placement of the frame’s embellishments.“It’s a challenge to carve, since there isn’t a whole lot of detail in the blowup,” said Mr. Terán, who was born into a family of woodcarvers in a town of woodcarvers, San Antonia de Ibarra, in Ecuador.
This suggests that although many professionals are working on the frame, being a very large scale project it is proving difficult for even the most skilled woodcarvers.
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She explained that conservators are refining a plan to remove layers of varnish for the painting’s first surface-cleaning in decades. Currently the image is yellowish; at places in the blue sky clots of dirt and debris suggest a nonexistent flock of birds. And the prophetic morning star above Washington is barely visible.
As all artefacts, paintings also age and tend to gather dirt and thus darkening and creating yellowing on the protective layer of varnish. Although conservators are planning to remove these layers and reveal much more accurate and visible Washington Crossing the Delaware.
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The challenge is reminiscent of the construction of the Hayden Planetarium around the 15.5-ton Willamette Meteorite in 1935, a feat repeated in 2000 when the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space was built around that same artifact.
Being reminiscent of the construction of the Hayden Planetarium means it will cost a similar amount to the Rose Centre for Earth and Space which was also built around that same artefact. Thus such a large scale project as this could cost about $210 million.
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Since the canvas cannot be removed through the doorway of its home on the second floor of the museum’s American Wing, its years-long refurbishment will be carried out within the gallery. And an entire new suite of galleries for American paintings and sculpture — scheduled to open in 2010 as the finale of the American Wing renovations — must be built around “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”
The highlight on "must be built around the "Washington Crossing the Delaware" emphasises how important the painting is and its significance in American history.
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has collided with a 9-foot-3-inch-high doorway. The doorway won.That is because the heroic and stupendously popular 1851 “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” familiar to generations of schoolchildren, is one of the largest paintings in the museum, measuring 21 feet wide and 12 feet high.
The "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is one of the largest painting is the museum being 21 feet wide and 12 feet high. Therefore colliding with the doorway. "The Doorway won." Is used ironically as the painting was being to symbolise the victory and heroism of General Washington.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
A very well known museum and the largest is the United States. It is said to be among the few most visited in the world.
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Driving this shift is Taiwan’s underlying geopolitical strategy to decrease its dependence on Mainland China and increase its ties with the rest of Asia.
Taiwan's goals on becoming a pan-Asian identity through decreasing its dependence on Mainland China may not have been the best or well thought out plan. This is because it can cause a lot of negative outcomes. One reason may be that the US does not recognise Taiwan's Independence, ending all diplomatic relations with them but not with China. This is a prime example of how even though Taiwan is looking for change and trying to become pan-Asian, the rest of the world may not share their ideology.
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pan-Asian
Pan-Asian. An ideology that enforces the unity of Asian people. Although in this case it is specifically aimed at Southern and Northern Taiwan.
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Curators ensured that prized antiquities—such as the crowd-pleasing Jadeite Cabbage, a piece of jade carved into the form of the green vegetable—would make their rounds at the Southern Branch and attract local visitors. The inclusion of a permanent exhibition about tea culture across Asia offered an additional point of entry to residents of these counties, where tea cultivation is a major sector of the local economy.
This also benefited local economical development greatly as more of the local population were attracted and visited these exhibitions.
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To that end, museum officials transferred some of the institution’s most popular attractions to the Southern Branch and offered free admission to residents of three southern counties for the first three months after its opening.
This form of behaviour is very beneficial for both cultures. The cultural communication demonstrates by the museum officials will allow all to view and learn about the same things. Thus pushing towards cosmopolitanism.
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To that end, museum officials transferred some of the institution’s most popular attractions to the Southern Branch and offered free admission to residents of three southern counties for the first three months after its opening. Curators ensured that prized antiquities—such as the crowd-pleasing Jadeite Cabbage, a piece of jade carved into the form of the green vegetable—would make their rounds at the Southern Branch and attract local visitors. The inclusion of a permanent exhibition about tea culture across Asia offered an additional point of entry to residents of these counties, where tea cultivation is a major sector of the local economy.
This form of behaviour is very beneficial for both cultures. The cultural communication demonstrates by the museum officials will allow all to view and learn about the same things. Thus pushing towards cosmopolitanism.
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By creating a new southern branch of the National Palace museum, the government would correct cultural policies that privileged the more developed, metropolitan North, where Taipei is located, over the more rural, agricultural South. With the opening of its Southern Branch in early 2016, a poor Jiayi farmer can access Taiwan’s cultural resources as easily as a wealthy Taipei banker.
As the government is trying to form cultural equity it is not only benefiting rural and agricultural South but also the more developed, metropolitan North. This is due to presenting equity for both cultures as it enables them to form the same values and live up to similar morals. Thus the government is trying to push Taiwan into cosmopolitanism.
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chauvinism toward cosmopolitanism.
Chauvinism is a form of exaggerated patriotism or prejudiced support for one's group or cause. Whilst Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to one single community. Based upon shared morals and values.
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Taiwan’s cultural policy also shifted—from elitism toward inclusivity and from cultural chauvinism toward cosmopolitanism.
This was due to the great shift in people's morals and values that were enforced by the democracy. That they were able to change from a chauvinism toward a cosmopolitanism.
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As Taiwanese society grew more democratic from the 1970s onward, and as Taiwanese identity grew more distinct from Mainland China,
From the 1970's the Taiwanese society had grew to a more democratic community. This meant they were becoming more distinct and creating their own identity from Mainland China. I believe this was highly due to the change in cultural policy.
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In Taiwan, a robust East Asian democracy that last January elected its first female president, cultural equity is serious business—and it offers a strong model for the U.S. to consider
Although equity is a model for all countries to consider, I do not believe it will be achieved solely through a female president. It would be through a good president, gender and sex is irrelevant.
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But the question of who has, and who doesn’t have, cultural access has garnered relatively little attention. Between 2005 and 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts distributed $38,937.71 per 10,000 residents in grants to New York County, while Arkansas’s Faulkner County received $88.31 per 10,000. While a New York or Washington D.C. resident can choose from dozens of free museums and cultural institutions where they can interact with art from across the globe, residents of rural America might be hard-pressed to reach a single one.
Although it is true the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) payed little to no attention to rural America. It is also important to take into account that rural America does have a larger population but even that does little justice to $38937.71 to $88.31 per 10,000. It is also important to note that the funding may not be just for locals to learn from cultural institutions but also for tourists to view and learn more about America. Thus this is why the NEA may not have payed much attention to rural America as they did to other coastal states.
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The fraught United States presidential election cycle of 2016 has revealed a country divided along geographical and ideological lines. It has also bolstered a narrative of haves and have-nots, pitting the so-called coastal elites against “heartland” America.
The 2016 US presidential election caused a huge divide among the country both geographical and ideological. There was a divide against the coastal states and "heartland" America. Where economically large coastal states such as California had been won over by Hillary, from the democrats. This was due to sharing similar values and ideologies. On the other land the majority of heartland states had voted for Trump, the republican party.This was mainly because people in the heartland states were still affected by the financial crisis of 2008. There was economic revival for the coastal states, heartland America was still affected. Thus this caused geographical and ideological division among the American people.
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