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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
1,651 words... Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art. This period of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He was a great artist, but he became famous because he was able to do so many other things. He was an architect, a musician, inventor, sculptor, scientist, and ...
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Biography Of Vincent Van Gogh
1,330 wordsI'm not going to include a full biography of Vincent van Gogh since such information is easily enough obtained from the more traditional media (do people still visit libraries and book shops these days? ). As I mention on my References page, David Sweetman's Van Gogh: His Life and Art is an excellent biography and I would definitely recommend it. In addition, the chronology I include below gives a reasonable overview of the important events in the course of Vincent's life. For my own Van Gogh si...
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Vincent Van Gogh Brother Theo
1,942 wordsArt historian Griselda Pollock, in her documentary entitled The Legend of van Gogh, stated that there are several van Gogh's. To agree or disagree with this statement, one must firstly understand the point Pollock is attempting to get across. One could interpret this opinion as meaning that there are various artistic styles and several facets of van Gogh's life that can be critically analysed; having this understanding of Pollock's attitude toward van Gogh, it would be difficult not to agree wit...
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Canada Michelangelo The Life Of Guido Nincheri
1,475 words"I'm tired of people coming back from Europe and telling me how beautiful the churches are. We " ve forgotten what we " ve got here. " mac 1996 Between 1915 and 1973 the Italian-Canadian painter Guido Nincheri devoted his life to producing stained glass windows and frescoes for more than one hundred churches across North America. Although honoured in Montreal's three hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a builder of the city, few Canadians know of the identity of this craftsman. The purpose of th...
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20 Th Century Van Gogh
1,353 words... and atmosphere. Finally, living as a solitary in Aix rather than alternating between the south and Paris, C'elaine moved into his late phase. Now he concentrated on a few basic subjects: still lifes of studio objects built around such recurring elements as apples, statuary, and tablecloths; studies of bathers, based upon the male model and drawing upon a combination of memory, earlier studies, and sources in the art of the past; and successive views of the Mont Sainte-Victoire, a nearby land...
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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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Edouard Manet Manet Paintings
1,940 wordsThe paper discusses Edouard Manet's influence on the history of painting. The paper analyses Olympia and other works of Manet to explain how the artists works show the spirit of time and culture in which they were created. The paper discusses whether works of Manet lie at the origin of Impressionism, because his paintings arose out of depths of which Impressionism had no idea yet. Outline Introduction Body Manet's style Manet's paintings in Saloon Olympia Influence of Manet's paintings Impressio...
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Diego Rivera Mexican Revolution
768 wordsFrida Kahlo Contents Introduction 2 Childhood 2 Education 3 Love and Family Life 3 Life as a Painter 3 Conclusion 4 References 4 Frida Kahlo Introduction Frida Kahlo, one of the all-time-great painters in the world, was born on July 6, 1907 in a small town at the outskirt of Mexico City. By the time she was 19, she has matured into an outstanding painter performing all kinds of magic on the canvas using unique ideas and striking colors. Bulk of her work was self portraits that reflected her own ...
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Salvador Dali Modern Painting
2,390 words... real artist as far as he creates art for the sake of creating art: he never draws sketches or preparatory drawings, he always acts when he feels that this or that is right to do in a particular moment, when he really feels that he cant keep his feelings inside any longer he starts painting, writing essay, or expressing himself in his exhibitions. For it is only the pure idea that has meaning. Everything else has everything else. Everybody's soul is an individual thing it has its own vision a...
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Method Of Painting Funk And Wagnalls
1,382 wordsClaude Monet had an unbelievable talent of painting throughout his life. With an ingenious mind and the creativeness to paint the sky, Monet created a world of magic and emotions. He set the standards of Impressionism with determination. His painting method has brought a sense of beauty of light and reflections to the world, letting them understand where he has made his mark in the history of art today. Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France on the fourteenth day of November in 1840. At ag...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
2,451 wordsPainter, sculptor, inventor. Born April 15, 1452 near the village of Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary of Florence, who had no other children until much later. Ser Piero raised his son himself, a common practice at the time, arranging for Leonardo's mother to marry a villager. When Leonardo was 15, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading artist of Florence and a characteristic talent of the early Renaissance. A sculptor, ...
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Fifteenth Century Three Dimensional
1,330 wordsDuring the fifteenth and sixteenth century, one of the key aesthetic goals of the Netherlandish art is realism. The realism of figures, setting, and especially space is a distinguished aspect of the early Netherlandish painters and it has long been seen as a feature in paintings, retable's and other various art forms. At times, the realism in the artworks of the Netherlands represent a variety of aesthetic and / or religious reasons; however, a majority of the Netherlandish artists were concerne...
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King And Queen Work
1,228 wordsthe coronation Francisco Goya With the coronation of the two Catholic rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella in 1479, the country of Spain slowly began to unite. Piece by piece, the King and Queen recaptured once lost lands and built their empire. In 1516 Carlos V rose to power, establishing the Hapsburg reign. The Hapsburg ruled for nearly two hundred years until the death of Charles II. With him died a Golden Age for Spain that the Catholic rulers established. Spain fell into a time of mass poverty, d...
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Royal Academy Santa Maria
2,502 wordsJoseph Mallord William Turner, the son of a barber and wigmakers, was born in London in 1775. As a child Turner made money by colouring engravings for his fathers customers. At the age of 14 he entered the Royal Academy. He exhibited his first drawing, A View of the Archbishops Palace in Lambeth in 1790. Two years later he providing illustrations for the Copperplate Magazine and the Pocket Magazine. In 1792 Turner went on his first sketching tour. Most of his pictures during this period were cat...
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Century B C Heaven And Hell
4,635 wordsIn order to go into Taoism at all, we must begin by being in the frame of mind in which it can understood. You cannot force yourself into this frame of mind, anymore than you can smooth rippled waters. But lets say that our starting point is that we forget what we know, or think we know, and that we suspend judgment about practically everything, returning to what we were when we were babies when we had not yet learned the names or the language. And in this state, although we have extremely sensi...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
657 wordsThe first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane. Leonardo da Vinci Since Renaissance means new birth, it is obvious that it cannot stand still. Once something is born, it begins to grow. But never has there been growth as lovely as that of painting as it matured into the High Renaissance. The High Renaissance dealt with the realism of art. The Italian Renaissance was one of the most colorful, vital, and exciting times in history. ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Battle Of Anghiari
2,293 wordsLeonardo Da Vinci 2000 - 07 - 02 Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to Catherina, a peasant girl. His fath...
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Rest Of His Life Claude Monet
1,838 wordsI have always been interested in the impressionist style of art, especially the work of Claude Monet. When making my book selection I took this under consideration and chose a book written by Raymond Cogniat entitled Monet and His World. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings, Cogniat helps to illustrate not only the life of Monet, but also the world of Impressionism, art and French society during Monet's time. You are...
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Pablo Picasso Painting Period
425 wordsFamous Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Famous painter Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. His father, an art teacher, recognized his sons talent at an early age. Pablo attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where his father was appointed professor in 1896. When he was only 16, Picasso had his own studio and had already mastered realistic technique, and did not have much use for school. Picasso's personal style began to form from 1901 to 1904. This period was known was his blue...
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God Must Exist Greater Than God
1,186 wordsThroughout history It has been man kinds quest to find a proof of the existence of God. Even today, religious archeologist, plunder the Earth, looking for Noahs Ark, The Ark of the Covenant, or the site Jesus Christ was thought to have been buried. These men and women are searching for artifacts to prove the existence of God to people who believe there is no God. Many people, however, do not need artifacts to prove Gods existence, they have faith, and like St. Anselm of Canterbury, believe that ...
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