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Anthony Lister
415 wordsFox Galleries (103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley) has opened the doors on it newest exhibition, "Anthony Lister: subtitled". The showcase displays Anthony Lister's unique brand of street art. His works can be described as anywhere from abstract to pop, to graffiti. The style is very free-form and none confined. Many mediums were used to create his art but he seems favor putting it all on canvas. When Lister paints he tells a story about whatever kind of environment he's in at the moment. Th...
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Milan And Florence
566 wordsLeonardo da Vinci It started long ago as a little boy. I discovered I had many unique talents. I was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence of Italy in the year 1452. I was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman. When we moved to Florence, in the mid-1460's, I was given a wonderful education. I was a fine musician and improviser. But in 1466, I began painting. Painting became one of my beloved hobbies and it started to become my life. Andrea del Verrocchio...
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Peaceful Village In A Sense Of Harmony
507 wordsArtist: Vincent Van Gogh Name of Piece: Rain at AuversDescription - Verbal From the piece of artwork "Rain at the Auvers". I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain. The artistic style is brush stroke? Aesthetic is the function or purpose of the work. The subject genre is still life. The image is impressionism. Oil and Crayon Watercolour paint was used with a variety of diffe...
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Caravaggios Head
1,137 wordsStephanie Jacobs Art history 415 A Julie Plan 11/13/00 Rough Draft Caravaggio Michelangelo Mers i was born at Caravaggio in Lombardy on September 28, 1573. His childhood was lived in a quite atmosphere in the small town located between Brescia and Milan. Caravaggio became orphaned at a very young age, and coincidentally was sent to Milan to study painting. This is where his career started. During the Eighteen years between his arrival in Rome and his death, Caravaggio enjoyed the pleasures of be...
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Their Own Style Of Painting
956 wordsThe Guide to High Performance Programs We invite you to visit our new subject area - High Performance Programs - for those who enjoy the challenge of learning a new skill. You " ll find detailed descriptions of programs that include automobile racing, bridge & chess, caving, climbing & mountaineering, cycling, dancing, dog sledding, equestrian skills, farming & ranching, gymnastics, ice & in line skating, hang gliding & paragliding, martial arts, performing, running, shooting & archery, snow ski...
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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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Icarus Fall Into The Water
657 words"The Old Master's; how well they understood it's human position". In Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden, the "Old Master's" understood that people often turned a blind eye to one another's suffering. It uses an analysis of one art form (paintings) by another (poetry) to make the statement about people's lack of interest in the suffering of others. The poem explores the depth of humanities indifference to one another. The "Old Masters' understood that death caused much suffering to those whose li...
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Customer 5 C
493 wordsJasper Johns was a painter, sculptor, and a printmaker. He was one of America's best known post abstract expressionists and minimalists. When people think of Jasper Johns they usually think about pictures of flags and numbers. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955. He was born in Allendale, South Carolina and grew up with no formal art training but did attend the University of South Carolina for two years. In 1949, he moved to New York City but was drafted into the Army. Returning to N...
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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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Useful Purpose
286 wordsInhalants Inhalants are very dangerous. The come from ordinary house hold products like aerosols. Inhalants are used to get a high. They are being use by younger people. Inhalant use is intentionally breathing in a vapor of gas with the purpose of reaching a high. Inhalants are legal everyday product, which have a useful purpose. Some of these substance are paint, glues, white out, air conditioning refrigerant, felt tip makers, spray paint, air freshener, butane and even cooking spray. Inhalants...
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Number One By Pollock
570 wordsBeing poor in the fifties was not the ordeal it had been during the Depression. Artists scrambled from week to week, month to month, without deep fears of complete ruin, and now they can't recall precisely how they managed. Even memories of first sales are dim. Most of the hard facts about artists' incomes in the fifties float on the currents of Jackson Pollock's legend. According to Tony Smith, Pollock's art earned him about $2,600 in 1950. One sold for $6,000 in 1954; soon afterward, Blue Pole...
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Man In The Painting
943 wordsA Bit of War History: The Contraband; The Recruit; The Veteran, 1865-5, Thomas Waterman Wood: These three paintings individually have powerful imagery that, when brought together, represent American society during The Civil War. They depict the controversy over the literacy of slaves, and their right to fight in the war. The Contraband, which depicts an African American man who seems to be preparing to set of to war, is the first of the three paintings. The title the Contraband refers to the man...
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Peter Paul Rubens Prometheus Bound
873 wordsMy trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art was definitely an enjoyable trip. When I first arrived I was in awe at the size and beauty of the building. The building's architecture reminded me of a lot of European architecture. The inside of the building was also very nice. While walking around I was fascinated with many of the exhibits they had set up. My favorite of the displays was probably the ancient arms and weapons. In that particular exhibit they had many ancient guns and swords and many di...
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Painting Of My Favorite Artist Edgar Degas
749 wordsGoing to Norton Simon Museum for the firs time was a wonderful experience for me. I was so amazed by collection that this museum owns, so many great artworks. For this assignment I've decided to pick a painting of my favorite artist Edgar Degas and compare is to another very interesting painter Henry Toulouse-Lautrec. First painting that I will going to analyze in next couple of paragraphs was painting done by Edgar Degas. The title of this masterpiece is "Dancers in the Wings and it was done in...
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Fryd's Essay On Edward
481 wordsIt can certainly be argued that most artists are trying to express something through their work, either to an audience or themselves. When a single theme continuously appears in one's catalog, it suggests that this subject is an important one to the artist. The most convincing pieces of evidence supporting the importance of women in Edward Hopper's paintings are, how frequently they appear, the way in which they are shown, or not shown and the dominant role they take in the painting. The fact th...
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Rich Tradition Of Painted Pichwais
659 wordsLocation: Nathdwara, a sleepy, dusty, small town set on a hill some 50 kms (30 miles) from Udaipur, is the scene of most lush and vibrant visual art forms in India, Pichwai paintings. History: In the 17th century, when Aurangzeb prohibited the worship of images, Hindu devotees in Mathura, home of Lord Krishna, became fearful that their sacred statues might be smashed & decided to take them to safer locations. The images of Sri Nathji were loaded on a chariot and sent on its way to Mewar. At Sika...
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Matisse
455 wordsCross and Signac were experimenting with juxtaposing small strokes (often dots or "points") of pure pigment to create the strongest possible visual vibration of intense colour. Matisse adopted their technique and modified it repeatedly, using broader strokes. By 1905 he had produced some of the boldest colour images ever created, including Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) (1905, States Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen), a striking picture of his wife. The title refers to a broad stroke of brilliant gre...
