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The Electronic Superhighway by Nam June Paik The electronic superhighway piece of art is one of the elegant pieces of work by a famous korean artist by the name Nam June Paik. The artist has worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video type of art. The electronic superhighway was created in the year 1995 it is a large installation of art categorized in the abstract art section. The masterpiece was constructed using three hundred and thirty six sets of television feeds in one closed circuit , fifty DVD players, steel plus wood framing three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet of wire cable and five hundred and seventy five feet of different coloured neon tubes the art work is approximately 15 x 40 x 4 ft. The electronic superhighway is located at the Smithsonian American art museum in Washington D.C, United States. The masterpiece art boldy brings out and explains how June Paik viewed and understood a wide nation through media technology which connects it together. In 1974 Nam June Paik submitted a report to the panel of art program of the Rockefeller foundation which is one of the first art organizations to support artists working with new media and trying new things in the diverse industry of art including television and video. Media planning for the post industrial society is the name of the report it argued that media technologies being used would soon become increasingly prevalent in American society and should be used to address pressing social problems that directly affect people such as racial segregation and discrimination the modernization of the economy and environmental pollution. generally Paik’s report foresaw and predicted the emergence of what he called a broadband communication network or electronic super highway including not only television and video but also audio cassettes,telex data pooling, continental satellites, micro-fiches ,private microwaves and eventually fiber optics on laser frequencies. Before the1990spaiks prediction and theory of an informatic electronic superhighway had become associated with a new world wide web which majored with electronic communication which came up just as he had predicted. The electronic superhighway creates a stupendous impact on visitors and brings life to the definition of art when they first see it. The sequence of audio and visual media in the elegant piece of art along with flashing neon lights of different colours make it an awesome experience and inspiring to young artists and an admirable sight to the human eye. It becomes quite hard for one to concentrate on any state in the fine piece of art that the neon lights border or the television feeds that play for each state.

Ginevra de Benci The Leonardo da Vinci painting titled Ginevra de Benci was painted at a time when Leornado da Vinci was still an trainee of Andrea del Verrocchio who was a famous Italian painter. The painting is an oil painting done with fine strokes from the best on wood and measures fourty two by thirty seven centimiters.. It is currently owned by the National Gallery of art Washington DC and is currently the only piece of art done by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas. Experts have debated for a period of time trying to authenticate and determine if it is really the great Leonardo da Vinci who painted the piece of art but the stupendous painting can only be done by no other than Leonardo da Vinci during the time around fourteen seventy and fourteen eighty. The Florentine female portrait is the 17 years old Ginevra de Benci who is an intellectual during her time. Relating to information from the historians the piece of art was termed as an engagement portrait for the celebration of her marriage to Niccolini. the background clearly shows the applied scientist kind of hazy sky trees and mountains with a unreal atmosphere. this impact of the hazy sky was done through an overlay of oil glazes making a skinny curtain of mist. on the reverse facet of the portrait may be a style of a wreath palm and laurel skirting a juniper sprig with an inscription in latin virtutem forma decorat that means beauty adorns virtue in english. the juniper might either mean chastity or it's going to be some reasonably an inventive mention since the italian name of juniper is Ginevra. the portrait is additionally thought to be commissioned by ginevras friend bembo a ventian ambassador for her wedding. this portrait of Ginevra shows the feminine with a marble-like skin and hair titled in ringlets framing a face portrayal a sulky and proud facial features. it's thought-about by several consultants that this image illustrates ginevra not being pleased with the approaching wedding. later in her life ginevra went into an exile on her can due to an malady and a romance tragedy. the portrait of ginevra american state benci currently sits at the national gallery of art in Washington d.c being the primary painting of old master to get on an yankee gallery in 1967.

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