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Most Famous Surrealist Paintings
2,591 wordsIn 1924 a French poet and critic Andre Breton published "The Surrealist Manifesto", which lead as a starter to the surrealist movement. Nicolas Pioch, a famous art historian, maintains that "the surrealist movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the rationalism that had guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of World War I. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of ex...
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Ecstasy The Second Piece Of Art
917 wordsArt: Woman looking out to Sea- Woman looking out at sea is a beautiful paper-mache model of a woman sitting peacefully on a what seems to be a chair of some sort looking out an imaginary window. This piece has three chief color of orange, yellow, and blue. This piece of art conveys a lot of feelings and emotions. The woman seems to be waiting for some one perhaps a lover or family member. Her face was sad and perplexed yet calm. I think what Paul Harris is trying to convey here is the sense of h...
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Time Courbet's Painting Style
588 wordsGustave Courbet was born in 1819 to a farming family in Organs, France. He was on his way in 1841 to Paris to study law. He than changed his mind and began studying art and painting. He learned to paint by copying pieces of master artists. Courbet started and dominated the French movement toward realism. This was a different type of art to many. The viewers were used to seeing pretty pictures that made life look better than it was. Courbet on the other hand portrayed real life, ordinary people a...
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Table In The Painting
871 words1. The museum I visited was The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York. The museum contains works of art from ancient all the way to modern times. 2. The museum was founded or incorporated on April 13, 1870, and began building on 1874 and completed on 1888. The museum since then has gone through continuous construction, expansion, and remodeling. The two original architects were Calvert Vaux and Jacob W rey Mould, and in 1971 when the museum was expanded the architects were Kevin Roch...
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Known As The Timken Museum Of Art
805 wordsTIMKEN MUSUEM OF ART The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900's from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by a millionaire uncle, Henry Putnam. The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Mas...
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Eakins Students From The Pennsylvania Academy
982 wordsThomas Eakins Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, and with the exception of four years of study in Paris and Spain, the city remained his home. Its school, public and private art collections, and community of artists, many of whom were recent emigrants from Europe trained in the academic tradition and familiar with new artistic styles, provided Eakins with an unusually wide-ranging art education for an American artist of his day. When Eakins arrived in Paris in 1866 to cont...
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Fra Lippo Lippi's Aesthetic Theories
1,565 wordsTHE BODY AND SOUL OF FRA LIPPO LIPPI Robert Browning's 19th-century poem entitled "Fra Lippo Lippi" centers thematically around the discussion of art. Fra Lippo Lippi is a 15th-century monk and artist whom engages in a dramatic monologue with the law. As an unreliable narrator, he reveals things about himself and those around him that perhaps he is unaware of revealing. Fra Lippo Lippi expects that his behavior is seen as wrong but dismisses it with his poetic narrative of how life has tried to ...
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Rafael Cauduro Painting Technique
1,828 wordsCompare and Contrast Works of Art Bright colors jumping at you asking for attention, images so real viewers can not tell the difference. These are the thoughts that came to my head as I gazed at two works of art by two Mexican artists at MoLAA museum of art. I visited two museums, Bowers Museum of cultural Art in the heart of Southern California and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach for my report unfortunately I only liked the works in MoLAA and will talk about it through out my pap...
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Thomas Moran Yellowstone
766 wordsOne of the most well known parks in the United State is Yellowstone. One of the most well-known landscape artists is Thomas Moran. What does this place and person have in common? Well, if it weren't for Thomas Moran Yellowstone would not be a National Park. Thomas Moran's art was greatly influenced by the nature of the west in the early romantic era. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1837, Thomas was taken to the United States at the age of 7. (Ency. Bio. Vol. 11). He was educated in Philad...
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Time In Raphael's Life His Works
1,197 wordsThesis Statement In my research, I have seen how Raphael individually personifies what the High Renaissance encircles. RAPHAEL OUTLINE I. Early Life A. Childhood B. Family C. Father as court painter D. Study in Perugia. II. Florentine Period A. Study under Leonardo da Vinci B. Works that he did while in Florence. C. Interaction with Michelangelo and other artists.. Roman Period A. Worked for Pope Julius II in Rome. B. Worked for Pope Leo X in Rome as well. C. Worked on many papal buildings. IV. ...
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Hoppers Paintings
1,015 wordsEdward Hopper is American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960's and 1970's. Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, between 1901 and 1906, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Hopper traveled to Europe three times between 1906 and 1910, but he remaine...
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Edouard Manet's Painting Olympia
1,298 wordsEdouard Manet (1832-1883) a French impressionist painter was a very significant person and made great contribution into the world art. Manet recreated French art as he was the inspiration to later Impressionists to sweep across Europe. He was of a wealthy background but did not use this wealth to help further his career. He mingled with much of high society, such as the great poet Charles Baudelaire, and used them in much of his pieces. His first works were among the many that were rejected from...
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Outward From Sages Paintings
1,087 wordsMy room has two doors and one window. One door is red and the other is gray. I cannot open the red door; the grey door does not interest me. Having no choice, I shall lock them both and look out of the window. -Kay Sage The work of Kay Sage (1898-1963) is known to be some of the most abstract art produced during the Surrealism movement. (Chadwick, 1997) Although it does not appear at first glance to be anywhere near as abstract as other Modernist artists such as Sonia Delaunay or Lyubov Popov a,...
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Old Testament Trinity By Audrei Rublev
1,062 wordsAn Icon to Remember During the Late Byzantium Period a new burst of creative energy grasped the Russian artists. More artists emerged as Russians became increasingly interested in art. Earlier in the Byzantium Period art that had to do with religious worship, like statues and any religious imagery throughout the empire, was destroyed under Leo in iconoclasm (Kleiner and Mamiya 326). This era lasted nearly one hundred years. During this period icon painting became very popular. These paintings ar...
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Most Famous Pieces Of Art
989 words"Art's inception occurred the instant man was able to think for himself". This fact, uttered by its anonymous speaker, holds true because artistic expression is what allows a person's thoughts, feelings, and points of view to be represented. Art knows no limits, and has no boundaries. For example, humans today are able to decipher and understand relics of art from million-year-old societies, even though we no longer know their language or customs. Presently, a favorite genre of art to study by a...
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Modern Type Of Colors Artists Use
1,718 words# # Alfred Alexander Gockel was born in 1952 in Ludinghausen, North-Fine Westphalia, Germany. In 1973, he started his studies in the specialist field of design, with emphases on typography and graphic design. Gockel worked in the advertising industry for many years also. Gockel was not only a designer and an artist, but during his free time, he often lectured in his alma mater, Munster Polytechnic, in his specialized fields: typography and graphic. He was fascinated by the magic of the color on ...
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Ofili's Painting Dream
1,948 wordsI first came across Chris Ofili's work at the 'Sensation' art exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts London. 'Space and 'Popcorn Tits' were among five of his latest works being shown in the gallery. These two paintings caught my attention immediately, as they seem to be very similar to the sort of images which I had taken an interest in during the last few years. Although much of his work seems to be 'in your face', bright, psychedelic and very detailed, there is a vast range of influences whic...
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Lucian Freud's Main Characteristic In Painting
1,549 wordsBy 1962, the term New Realism was being used in the United States and France (where it was called Nouveau Realism) as a name for Pop Art. That use never caught on in the United States, and then the term began to signify instead, a new breed of Realism. "The traditional variety had linked humanistic content with the illusionistic representation of observed reality and the rejection of flattened pictorial space derived from Abstraction". Today's realists are signaling a return to values rejected b...
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Pop Art's Use Of Banal Subject
1,727 wordsPop Art turned form the highly personal abstraction of Abstract Expressionism to images from popular culture. Pop Art was a movement from late 1950's to the early 1960's, predominantly in London and New York. Pop Artists looked at popular culture for their source of inspiration. Andy Warhol established and enhanced the status of Pop Art. Warhol's screen-print, "Green Coca Cola" 1962 consists of multiple images of coca cola. By the repetition of such a banal object, the audience is reminded of ma...
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Alice Neel's 1978 Margaret Evans Pregnant
1,883 wordsAn Alice Neel ALICE NEEL An exhibition of portraits of the family by Alice Neel, one of the finest painters of her generation, is at the Norton Museum of Art February 14 through March 29, 1998. Both critics and the subjects of her paintings have written of Neel's ability to portray the dynamics of relationships. Kinship's focuses on particular family relationships: siblings, domestic pairs, parents and children, and members of her own family. The exhibition was organized by the Tacoma Art Museum...
