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Cole's First Major Painting
1,738 wordsThomas Cole David Jackson 8/2/04 Art AppreciationMaxwellPainting landscapes was very important during the 19th century. Thomas Cole was one of the most important figures in landscape painting in the United States. He went to many places searching for nature, which he painted to show the unmatchable beauty nature creates. His works of art helped people see and take pride in their great land, which was called America. Cole's works were often made people feel like they needed to go out in nature an...
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Johannes Vermeer
271 wordsJan Vermeer (1632-1675) Johannes Vermeer was born in 1632, in the city of Delft in The Netherlands. Johannes Vermeer was known as Vermeer of Delft, after his birthplace. Even though Vermeer was a Protestant in April 1653, at 21, he married a young Catholic woman, Catherine Bones. He had converted to Catholicism shortly before their marriage. In 1653, after his marriage, he was admitted to the painter's guild, of which he was to be head man for three years. His teacher was Care Fabritius, who had...
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Photography As Art
5,207 wordsStatus of Photography Paul Weiss (1961), in his Book Nine Basic Arts, classifies the nine basic arts as architecture, sculpture, painting, music ry, story, poetry, music, theater, and dance. Photography is not highly regarded by Weiss. In the last chapter he says, "They (photographers) have little and sometimes even no appreciation of the aesthetic values of experience. And when they do have such appreciation it is rarely relevant to their purposes. One need not... be an artist to use a camera w...
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Feminine Form Of Art And Neo Classicism
1,490 wordsHow Rococo and Neoclassicism Illustrate the Process of Deciding The artists Jean-Honore Fragonard and Jaques-Louis David both successfully embody their respective stylistic differences. Fragonard's style of painting is Rococo, which is characterized by its softness, asymmetry and curviness. Contrasting these ideals is David's style of painting, Neo-Classicism. Neo-Classicism is synonymous with strong gestures, symmetry, and solidness. Two works that best exemplify the ideals of each style of pai...
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Collection Of European Painting And Sculpture
999 wordsEuropean Painting and Sculpture The collection of European painting and sculpture comprises works of art from the twelfth through the early twentieth century. Ranging from paintings in oil on panel, canvas, or onyx through sculptures in alabaster, bronze, terra-cotta, marble, wax, silver, and painted wood, these works of art come primarily from Italy, France, Spain, the Low Countries (Holland and modern Belgium), Germany, Austria, England, and Switzerland. The collection of European painting and...
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Great Example Of Byzantine Icons
477 wordsByzantium - the state which has brought in the big contribution to development of culture to Europe of middle ages. Here the Christianity for the first time became an official religion. Christianity affected the Byzantine art. In Byzantine art the main subject of paintings - icons (Greek - image) were holy figures: Christ, the Virgin Mary, the saints, and the apostles. One of the most famous is icon with Archangel Gabriel, Byzantine (Constantinople or Sinai? ), 13th century. There is the exhibit...
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Monet's Painting
1,784 wordsPainting in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century During the second half of the nineteenth century, the ideal of self-determination fostered by the French Revolution and spread by Napoleon helped spawn a revolutionary spirit across Europe. This spirit of rebellion also infected artists of the period. Painters began to challenge the philosophy and the aesthetic principles of the academies, looking outside these conservative institutions for their training, subject matter, style, and purpose. ...
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Ken Wilber Discussion Of Art
1,043 wordsFrom the real to the surreal, Salvador Dali embodied it all. Once he was satisfied with his abilities to mimic what he saw in the world, he began to play with objects and space. He comprehended, perfected and finally transcended realism and his work became much more than paint on canvas. In a forward that trans personal psychologist Ken Wilber did for Alex Grey's book Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, he stresses that 'all of us possess the eye of flesh, the eye of mind and the eye...
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Pop Art And Andy Warhol
1,723 wordsIn the early 1950's many things had and where just about to begin. The war had just finished and the world of art was opening new forms such as dada and pop art. There was also people staring to experiment with drugs, rock and roll and sex, all helping them express themselves in there art and writing, such as the beatniks. The likes of Marcel Duchamp and how the politics and anger of world war one became the base on a movement called DADA. Then Pop art and Andy Warhol not to think about this man...
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Rothko's Pure Colour Use
1,561 wordsIntroduction to Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism started in America as a post World War II art movement. It was the first art movement that arose from America and put New York at the center of the art world. The term Abstract Expressionism was first applied to American art in 1946 by art critic Robert Coates. It is most commonly said that Surrealism is it's predecessor because of the use of spontaneous, automatic and subconscious creations. Abstract Expressionism gets its name from ...
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Velazquez Painting
599 wordsEXTERNAL HISTORY: . Considered along with LAS MENIN AS to be one of the most important masterpieces of DIEGO DE VELAZQUEZ, as if final peri do, this scene despite Minerra's dispute with Arachne over weaving abilities. Traditionally considered to represent women working at the tapestry workshop of Santa Is able but it now proved that it is mythological subject. It was probably painted around 1657. The title of 'THE SPINNERS', as it is popularly known, is a later invention and seems to have been i...
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Very Interesting Painting
1,206 wordsThe American Visionary Art museum is a very original and beautifully decorated structure. It was raining the day I went to visit, but it was beautiful nonetheless. The structure itself is architectural marvel. It has a very unusual shape and structure which makes it very aesthetically pleasing. The outside is covered with glass, mirror pieces and other materials. There is a giant whirligig located outside of this main building that is known as Baltimore's most beloved outdoor sculptural landmark...
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2 3 Artist Simon Dewey
1,601 wordsBESIDE STILL WATERS ART BY SIMON DEWEY ANALYSIS BY MICHAEL " HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES: HE LEADETHME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS. HE RESTORE TH MY SOUL: HE LEAD ETH ME IN THE PATHS OFRIGHTEUOSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE". PSALM 23: 2-3 Artist Simon Dewey is a British artist who specializes in painting pictures of Jesus. He was raised in a humble, suburban London home. Here, the experiences and upbringing that molded the young artist provided the talent, faith, and inspiration that are ...
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Oil On Canvas Painting
727 wordsEfthimios Mariakakis Art History 0085/7/01 Dr. Cohen John Peto, Elihu Vedder, and William Harnett are three very important and unique artists. The three artists are American artists and there respective works can be found throughout the country in various museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. John Peto was a still- life painter who excelled in rack type paintings- a vertical panel with ribbons tightly stretched and tacked, into which are tucked various memorabilia such as news paper ...
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Benton's June Morning
609 wordsI never go anywhere alone. After a depressive Saturday morning I finally crawled out of bed and went to the Cum mer Museum. Art is one thing that I don't understand. How people can find deeper meanings from paint on a canvas is Japanese to me. When I look at a painting I see exactly what is being shown and nothing more. There is no deeper meaning evident. Being at this museum cranky and solo trying to find a picture I felt connected to was almost impossible. It took me about ten minutes to go th...
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Details Of The Painting
1,604 wordsHow can Art influence our views Images have been used for thousands of years to change them. For example, the early religious figurines, or the present day modern media, photojournalism. What makes paintings (especially this one) special, is the way they grip you, nearly forcing emotions on you. The story behind it, if orally told is sad, and cruel; but the painting gives a much heightened sense of this, giving it more poigniency, and suffering. The painting in question: "Slavers Throwing Overbo...
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Degas's Subject Matter
532 wordsHilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas was born on July 19, 1834, at 8 rue Saint-George's in Paris. His father, Auguste, a banker, was French, and his mother, C le stine, an American from New Orleans. The family name "Degas" had been changed to "De Gas" by some family members in Naples and France in order to sound more aristocratic; the preposition indicated a name derived from land holdings. Degas went back to using the original spelling sometime after 1870, and that is how we spell his name today. He wa...
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Painting In A New Style
1,525 wordsDuring the days of World War I, a search began for new and fantastic subject matter, and so this brought together a number of young men. The writer, Hugo Ball, the painter, sculptor and poet, Jean Arp and the painter Hans Richter, as well as many others, all began this search of new and exciting styles that brought on the movement called Dada. This movement was largely a reaction to the destruction, hysteria and madness of the war. The Dadaists felt that reason and logic had resulted in war, and...
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Kahlo's Autobiography In Paint
685 wordsPreliminary Sketch: Introduction Many see Frida Kahlo as a person plagued by, but defiant of death. 1 The only influence in her work, it seems, is pain. Hers is tragic painting, always related to her inner life, pursued by two or three primordial, refined, and bloody obsessions, with bitter delectation's of pain, to free herself from it, and to exalt life. The authenticity of the feeling, of the anguish, is so patent that it created the language for her tortured monologue. Without her work, whic...
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Piece Of Art
1,166 wordsThe author, John Berger, discusses, in his article "Ways of Seeing", the many ways of viewing art. He also writes about how art can benefit society; such as helping people understand their past. Berger thinks of art as a much better way of teaching history than facts and figures. This is due to the idea that art is made to be interpreted differently by each individual person to fit their own life. This way the viewer can relate better to how the artist was feeling and thinking when they created ...
