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Upper Class Class Woman
873 wordsPierre Auguste Renoir was a late nineteen- century French impressionist painter whose works were often ridiculed throughout his life, because of his sensuous celebration of women and nature. He was considered to be one of the most famous artists of his generation, due to his representation sensuality and pleasure in his paintings. When his paintings were first exhibited, they were considered to be shocking and culturally taboo, however after time society became more accepting of Renoir's style a...
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Glass Doors Dimensional Space
1,220 wordsIt was the day of April 13, 2000. I woke up at exactly 12 oclock because my boyfriend was to pick me up at 1 like we planned the night before. The day looked quite nice, but I was in a fowl mood. I got into a car accident the night before and had a huge argument with my parents about the car. I finally dragged myself into the shower and got ready in half an hour. Then I went downstairs, sat on my couch, and repeatedly told myself the day would hopefully turn out better than last night. At around...
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Marcel Duchamp Avant Garde
1,073 wordsThroughout the period that covered the last half of the nineteenth century, Western Europe enjoyed the gatherings of a great wealth that was accumulated by the industrial-colonial economy. The revolutionary changes in the stratification of the society and the functioning of the production system brought new perspectives to view the individual and the world that surrounded him. The bourgeoisie reached the summit of its rise since the French Revolution, and industrial European cities became the ce...
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Involved In The Surgery Emotions
523 wordsIn 1874, Thomas Eakins took a second course in anatomy at Jefferson Medical College. He attended surgical lectures and clinics presided over by Professor Samuel D. Gross. Eakins painted The Gross Clinic, to show the emotion involved in medical procedures. It appears as if the doctors performing the surgery have emotionally removed themselves from the situation at hand. By removing themselves from the emotional aspects of the surgery, the doctors can complete the task much easier than they would ...
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Ansel Adams Early Morning Merced River
1,140 wordsAnsel Adams, b. 1902, was important to photography through history and through his works helped contribute to the respect photography is now given as a fine art. He first discovered photography when he received a Kodak # 1 Box Brownie in 1916 from his father as a birthday present. At the time he aspired to be a concert pianist as he was an amazing musician, however, when aged 14 on a family vacation to Yosemite National Park, he discovered the Sierra Nevada mountains and returned there at least ...
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Marcel Duchamp Salvador Dali
1,680 wordsMarcel Duchamp Nude Descending Staircase 1912 Marcel Duchamp, born 1887 and died in 1968, was a modernist artist. His painting, Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 was painted in 1912 using oil on canvas with a dimension of 58 x 35 inches in size. It was first exhibited at the New York Armory Show in 1913, where it aroused great controversy, and is now kept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Louise and Walter Arsenberg collection. Duchamp was influenced by the increasing trend of artists disco...
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Mad Hatters Tea Mad Hatters Tea Party Dark
1,114 wordsBlackman's Schoolgirl in the Lane painting displays an ominous scene of a young schoolgirl wandering alone through a bleak ally way at night. The girl appears carefree as she is skipping along, portraying just how ignorant and vulnerable the innocent child is to this dark, threatening atmosphere. Dreary colours such as greys, browns and dull blues, contrasted with black build up the sinister mood of the piece. The girl is contrasted with a reddish-brown colour that does not appear anywhere else ...
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Hai Ying Wang Great Wave Utilizes Art
942 wordsArts 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 persons 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 art e...
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Film Analysis Of Ridicule And Queen Margot
1,308 wordsThrough the two movies, Ridicule and Queen Margot, we get many different insights into the way life was in 16 th and 18 th century France. The movies showcase culture and society through the characters and events, while also going deep into what life might have been like in the time period. Both films use cases of class struggle and separation to bring to light the true human spirit of the age. Ridicule, taking place about two hundred years later than Queen Margot, shows 18 th century French roy...
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Industrial Revolution Industrial Age
1,748 wordsArt Wassily Kandinsky's First non-objective water color Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. His interest in art and intellectual matters was stimulated by his sympathetic father, a man of unusually broad views and great talent in drawing. In his early autobiography, Kandinsky warmly acknowledges his indebtedness to this parent who consistently encouraged him and also to an aunt who fostered his interest in music, books, folklore, and what he called the profound essence of the Russian p...
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One Of The Reasons Edgar Degas
1,127 wordsUniversity: Lecturer: Course: Date: Edgar Degas Outline of contents Content Page Abstract 2 Introduction 2 Life and works 2 Social depiction 3 Old age 4 Works cited 6 Abstract This paper trails the lifetime achievements of Edgar Degas, one of the most gifted artists to ever live in France. It mainly focuses on the social environment which influenced his paintings and drawings, and which became clearly depicted in them. It also portrays the artist as a unique stand-alone in his era, for his many ...
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Small Empty Boat Fishing Boats With Hucksters Bargaining Turner
1,061 wordsPaintings Art is one of the most amazing crafts humanity ever had. It is just unbelievable how much emotions can motionless picture to reproduce. We can for hours watch the most uncommon and mysterious paintings trying to memorize each detail. Some of the paintings seem to be alive, they are breathing and living creatures trapped by the hand of artist in the canvas. In this paper I want to compare to masterpieces of fine crafts: Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish William Turner and...
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Oil On Canvas Human Effort
549 wordsBrains, Blood, Sweat, and Tears C. Peters, Memorial Bridge (Oil on Canvas, 1932) R. Crawford, Whitestone Bridge (Oil on Canvas, 1939) You can accomplish anything with thought and hard work Justin Craig-Kuhn To overcome obstacles is human. When something stands in our way, its Give me liberty or give me death! in many cases. No matter how difficult a project may seem, hard work and determination will pull us through (or at least, thats what we tell ourselves). In many cases, it turns out that we ...
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Male Figures Vanishing Point
1,329 words" Chance Meeting" By Martin Lewis Essay, Research" Chance Meeting" By Martin Lewis Chance Meeting is a dry point etching print by Martin Lewis and was created in the early 1930 s. The subjects are two figures, male and female, who have happened upon each other in the setting of a public sidewalk at the entrance of a storefront. It may be a dichotomy in terms to call the piece, " Idealized Urban Realism, " though Lewis work does harmonize well with the Urban Realist ...
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World War Ii End Of World War
1,119 wordsFinal Paper While looking for two designs to examine for this final paper, I came upon the New York Worlds Fair Poster designed by Joseph Binder and a poster entitled Victory 1945 by Shigeo Fukuda. In looking at both of these designs and comparing and contrasting them, I wish to show just how significantly large scale cultural issues can effect the collective conscious of a society and the resulting every day designs and images that they are subjected to. Although not much information exists sep...
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Fourth Of July Homer
1,753 wordsHomer Winslow and Jules Breton, two men painting the canvas of the nineteenth century. Comparing their art gives birth to numerous differences and unique qualities hidden within their work and lives. Dressing For The Carnival, Homer 1877, and The Weeders, Breton 1868, are fine examples of their careers as artists. Beyond the aesthetic merits of his work, Breton is significant as the painter whose vision of French rural life best embodies a set of late nineteenth- century ideals: the charm and wh...
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Life After Death Museum Of Fine Arts
2,219 words-Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) -Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? - 1897 -Oil on Canvas, 5 feet by 12 feet -Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? , is the self-acclaimed masterpiece of Paul Gauguin's career. It represents the culmination of his ideas and beliefs that he acquired throughout his life as a painter. Many visual characteristics of the painting, such as the color, line, and light are unrealistic in nature, but serve to e...
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Scene Ii Lines Act Ii Scene Ii
1,847 wordsShakespeare s plays reflect not life but art. Make use of this remark in writing an essay on Shakespeare s use of Metadrama. Shakespeare constantly plays with metadata and the perception of his plays as theatre and not life with the complications inherent that in life we all play roles and perceive life in different ways. The play has recognition of its existence as theatre, which has relevance to a contemporary world that is increasingly aware of precisely how its values and practices are const...
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Mise En Scene Present Day
660 wordsAlthough the average viewer is rarely conscious of it, mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix, in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting, costume, and staging i...
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Left Shoulder Blue Green
983 wordsStylistic Analysis of Madam Matisse: The Green Line Henry Matisse, one of the most influential members of the Fauve movement, was responsible for much of the attention brought to it and its respective members. One of his works, Madame Matisse: The Green Line, more or less serves as an excellent example of what he was trying to accomplish in art: the use of color to express and convey emotions. The composition of the work consists of a portrait of Madame Matisse in the foreground and a background...
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