Apart from being the focus of the country's literature and theatre, Dublin is also the focal point for much of Irish Art and the Irish artistic scene.

The term " graphic design " can also refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication and presentation.

Statues in the round were avoided as being too close to the principal artistic focus of pagan cult practices, as they have continued to be ( with some small-scale exceptions ) throughout the history of Eastern Christianity.

From the 1890s to the 1930s American heiress Natalie Clifford Barney held a weekly salon in Paris to which major artistic celebrities were invited and where lesbian topics were the focus.

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a " literary " or artistic sensibility, and a focus on " soft " as opposed to hard science.

With the arrival of punk rock in late 1976, the artistic focus of the band changed.

By the 1830s, the foundations of Czech literature were laid and authors now began to focus more on the artistic merits of their work and less on developing the idea of Czech literature and culture as a whole.

By 1917, he was back in Vienna, able to focus on his artistic career.

The shift in the intellectual priorities within the SI resulted in more focus on the theoretical, such as the theory of the spectacle and Marxist critical analysis, spending much less time on the more artistic and tangible concepts like unitary urbanism, détournement, and situgraphy.

Most artistic impressions of the myth focus on the moment of transformation.

When originality alone is used to determine artistic genius, using it as a single focus may become problematic when the art of some periods is examined.

Bresson's early artistic focus was to separate the language of cinema from the theater, which often heavily involves the actor's performance to drive the work.

Because of the large number of works that reference " Children's Crusade " for various artistic purposes, it is beyond the scope to list them all here, this list is focused on works that are set in in Middle Ages and focus primarily on a re-telling of the events.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

During this same period, however, with a great deal of cheap accommodation on offer, it is arguable that Moseley also enjoyed its most creative and cosmopolitan phase as the focus of artistic and student communities.

As early as 1853, English painter William John Newton proposed that the camera could produce artistic results if the photographer would keep an image slightly out of focus.

He often said in interviews that he saw images " in series ", and his artistic output often saw him focus on single themes for sustained periods — including his crucifixion, Papal heads and later single and triptych heads series.

The passages on their old school hip-hop predecessors only focus on the relevant artistic contributions.

In 1922, after concluding that avant-garde art was becoming commercialized and stiffened into academic convention, he reduced his focus on artistic expression such as painting and poetry.

The clubs and organizations offered to students focus on several different aspects of student life, including but not limited to: professional, ethnic, volunteer, academic, and artistic interests.

The Museum also mounts temporary exhibitions that focus on a particular artist, an art movement or artistic period, or art that was created in a specific region or country.

She withdrew from this scene in the early 1980s, believing that its focus had shifted from artistic process to product.

The centre of Cockermouth retains much of its historic character and the renovation of Market Place has been completed, now with an artistic and community focus.

Thomas has described his artistic focus as being the " gestalt of culture, geography and sound ".

New artistic movements included the Realists and Impressionists, which each sought to depict the present moment and daily life as observed by the eye, and unattatched from historical significance ; the Realists often choosing genre painting and still life, while the Impressionists would most often focus on landscapes.

This technique was designed to capture the effect of the live performances of Loie Fuller, beginning in 1891, in which stage lights with colored gels turned her white flowing dresses and sleeves into artistic movement.

And subsequent artistic / cultural movements found him equally amenable to their cause: the Decadents turned him, like themselves, into a disillusioned disciple of Schopenhauer, a foe of Woman and of callow idealism ; the Symbolists saw him as a lonely fellow-sufferer, crucified upon the rood of soulful sensitivity, his only friend the distant moon ; the Modernists converted him into a Whistlerian subject for canvases devoted to form and color and line.

In England, Anne largely turned from political to social and artistic activities.

In 2000, the Burnavon Arts and Cultural Centre opened on the site of the former Town Hall on the Burn Road and began to attract large scale cultural and artistic events to the town whilst a year later, a development scheme began which saw the former LMS Railway Terminus turned into a shopping centre.

As it turned out, these works would be his final artistic statement to the world.

Rattle made it a condition of his signing with the Berlin Philharmonic that it be turned into a self-governing public foundation, with the power to make its own artistic and financial decisions.

The drawings, subsequently turned into prints, of John Flaxman used very simple line drawing and figures mostly in profile to depict The Odyssey and other subjects, and once " fired the artistic youth of Europe " but are now " neglected ", while the history paintings of Angelika Kaufmann, mainly a portraitist, are described as having " an unctuous softness and tediousness " by Fritz Novotny.

From 1999, Tyson ’ s interests practice turned from the Artmachine towards an artistic approach which explored the same thematic terrain, but this time directly by his own hand.

Zevon turned to a musical career early, including a stretch with high school friend Violet Santangelo as a musical duo called lyme & cybelle ( exercising artistic license, the band name eschewed capitalization ).

On the occasion of a lunch on the Führer's birthday in 1943, the people around the Führer turned the conversation to the Reichstag building and its artistic value.

Nowadays black-and-white has turned into a niche market for photographers who use the medium for artistic purposes.

In 1995, Tapie turned to artistic endeavors because he was unable to pursue his previous interests: he was personally bankrupt and therefore unable to pursue business ventures, he was declared ineligible to run for political office, and he was banned from football.

Beginning in June 2007, however, Blades turned some of his attention back to his artistic career, presenting an " online tv show " titled Show de Ruben Blades ( SDRB ) on his website.

In northern Europe the artistic discourse on sodomy was turned against its proponents by artists such as Rembrandt, who in his Rape of Ganymede no longer depicted Ganymede as a willing youth, but as a squalling baby attacked by a rapacious bird of prey.

His early artistic efforts focused on painting, after which he turned to sculpture in 1968.

A few years later, they also turned to software art and artistic computer game modification.

The performance of his play The Jerusalem Syndrome, in January 1988, led to widespread protests across the whole country, whereupon Sobol resigned from his post as artistic director and turned to devoting himself exclusively to writing.

Tea strainers in themselves have often been turned into artistic masterpieces of the silver-and goldsmith's craft, as well as rarer specimens of fine porcelain.

A movement away from Hollywood productions in the 1950s turned cinema into a more artistic independent endeavor.

Eigtved's superior artistic insight meant it turned out more beautiful than the north wing.

He immediately exhibited his progressive artistic theories in a country rooted in the conservative European sensibility, that imposed the epithet of " quality " on everything imported from the old country, which soon turned Torres García into a controversial figure.

Phenomenology would play a major role in the transition to the later phase of his work, in which he turned his attention to the philosophy of communication and of artistic production.

Under imminent pressure to release a follow up to " Mr Twist " and amidst the great success of their " ska " contemporaries, the band recruited music producer Stoker and, for the first time, turned the artistic reins over to a music pro looking for the commercial success that had eluded the band.

In fact Saunders had twice turned down proposals from Walter Sickert, and in later life said that she thought it was not to the woman's advantage when two artists married, as she would inevitably relegate her own artistic needs below those of her husband's.