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Eighteenth Century Hudson River
1,095 wordsArtwork during that Americans did were brought on by the European style of artwork. America eventually warped that style into their own personal style concerning the type of people from different cultures who had settled in America. Spanish and Indian cultures were where folk art came from. They were mainly of church and other religious focused artwork. The painting style from the English was also a hand in the definition of the nations artwork. Also before cameras were invented an artist would ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
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Intellectual Life Of The Painters Early Renaissance
1,309 wordsBefore attempting to answer the question it is important to consider what we mean by early Italian Renaissance. Unlike many periods in history the Renaissance has no obvious start and end dates, for the purposes of this assignment I will define the approximate period within which to look as about 1390 to about 1520. 1390 represents the time when the Carrara court in Padua was gaining an intellectual reputation of excellence, as well as this being about the time that two Roman coin like medals we...
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Favorite Character Human Beings
2,816 words... the most uncompromising intellectuality. But this is not the whole story. Draperies, as I had now discovered, are much more than devices for the introduction of non-representational forms into naturalistic paintings and sculptures. What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. A little of the knowledge belonging to Mind at Large oozes past the red...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,946 words... reached its peak in the uproar over Olympia at the 1865 Salon and indeed threatened to get out of hand. Degas, only two years his junior, had yet to show anything like the same originality, and at the 1865 Salon exhibited a hopelessly dull, hopelessly conventional historical painting entitled The Evils befalling the City of Orleans. The fact remains that there is richness in Degas personality that Manet's lacks. A gentleman painter, a man about town, Manet only skimmed the surface of some of...
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Difficult To Understand Piece Of Art
2,391 wordsSpirituality in Art Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life. Nick Bantock People do hundreds and thousands of things every day: get up, get dressed, wash up, have breakfast, get on a bus to get to college, write abstracts and essays, communicate with other people and hardly ever realize that any item of their usual daily program can become an art if they p...
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Baroque Style Baroque Period
1,662 wordsThe general period that is labeled Renaissance continued without any sharp stylistic break into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This period of art is called Baroque, although no one Baroque style or set of stylistic principles actually has been defined. Scholars gradually came to see that the Baroque styles were quite different from those of the Renaissance. The Baroque looks dynamic while Renaissance styles are relatively static. Like the art it produced, the Baroque era was manifold ...
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Kerry James Marshall Our Town Part 1
1,671 wordsKerry James Marshall "Our Town" I? ve always wanted to be a history painter on a grand scale like Giotto and Gericault... but the moment when that kind of painting was really possible seems so distant, especially after Pollock and Poker. Nevertheless, I persist, trying to construct meaningful pictures that solicit identification with, and reflection on Black existential realities... Robert Johnson? s blues are a musical equivalent. Their undeniable spiritual power is at once irreverently profane...
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Man Ray Violon D'ingres
2,518 wordsMan Ray's "Violon d'Ingres" The Violin In the middle of darkness, A soft light suffuses the place: There is a violin. But this violin is not a violin, It is a woman, naked, Turning her back to the lens. Her face is seen in profile, Her hair hidden in a scarf, Her body undressed, showing her forms: Round, soft and pure, As those of the violin, Which bears two symbols, Like the woman on her back. The womans beauty and, The softness of the music, blending In the same picture, Are a magic illusion. ...
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Horkheimer And Adorno Work Of Art
2,543 wordsClockwork Orange and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction For Walter Benjamin, the defining characteristic of modernity was mass assembly and production of commodities, concomitant with this transformation of production is the destruction of tradition and the mode of experience which depends upon that tradition. While the destruction of tradition means the destruction of authenticity, of the originally, in that it also collapses the distance between art and the masses it makes possible the liberat...
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Jean Francois Impressionist Movement
1,493 wordsCezanne Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860 s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the fleeting effects of l...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Middle Ages
1,327 wordsThe Renaissance was an era of beautiful artwork and structures that flourished all over Western Europe. The artists began to be more expressive and creative in their designs. Art evolved by way of subject matter, technique, influences, and of course the artists. Some of the most noted artists, architects, and sculptors of the High Renaissance include Giotto, Donato Bramante, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. It was one of the high points of humanism and the expression of creativity a...
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Time Life Books Ancient Egyptians
862 wordsWhen most people think of Ancient Egypt they think of Pyramids. To construct such great monuments required a mastery of architecture, social organization, and art that few cultures of that period could achieve. The oldest pyramid, the Step-Pyramids, grow out of the abilities of two men, King Djoser and Imhotep. Djoser, the second king of 3 rd dynasty, was the first king to have hired an architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb (Time-Life Books, 74). Imhotep was known as the father of mathematics, me...
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Series Of Etchings Goya Served Painter
569 wordsFrancisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. At fourteen years old, Goya was apprenticed to Jose Loan, a local painter. Later he went to Italy to continue his study of art. On returning to Saragossa in 1771, he painted frescoes for the local cathedral. These works, done in the decorative rococo tradition, established Goya's artistic reputation. In 1773 he ma...
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5 Th Century Bc Aristotle Believed
1,505 wordsGreek vase painting is one of the only surviving visual arts that we have that could possibly lead to historical connotations. Aristotle provides us with a particular way of viewing art that leads to an understanding of their time. Aristotle believed that Greek playwrights should write their plays with contemporary and local situations in mind, and by this they would gain the audience of posterity by virtue of universalizing their stories. I hope to illustrate Aristotle s Poetics through several...
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Washington D C Museum Of Fine Arts
1,464 wordsRecognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical ability, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making his own special contribution to the history of grand manner portraiture. A true cosmopolite, he was also a painter of plain air landscapes and genre sce...
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Son In Law King And Queen
1,136 wordsDiego De Silva Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599. When he turned twelve he was apprenticed to the painter Francisco Pacheco. After finishing his apprenticeship in 1617 he was married. With his wife, Juana, he had two daughters, Francisca, and Ignacio. Diego became a well known painter while living in Seville. The turning point in Velazquez's life occurred when he was appointed to paint the King, Philip IV. There was a sitting on 30 August 1623, and the portrait when finished received the gre...
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Leonardo Wrote Leonardo Left
1,747 wordsLeonardo da Vinci was born in the year 1452 in the small hill town of Vinci. His father was a successful notary and his mother a peasant woman. The little town of Vinci has changed very little in 544 years since then. Stone houses are clustered together around the protective battlements of a castle. The tall church bell tower is still an important landmark which can be seen for miles. Vinci is surrounded by fertile farmland. The hillsides are planted with grape vines and fruit trees and patches ...
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Royal Academy San Fernando
402 wordsFrancisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, in the year 1746, in Fuendetodos, a small village in northern Spain. At the age of fourteen he became an apprentice for a local artist, Jose Loan. Later he traveled to Madrid where he took interest in the last of the great Venetian painters. After attempting and failing to enroll in the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Goya then traveled to Rome, Italy. Then on to Sagossa in 1771 where he painted fresco in several local churches, establishin...
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Art New York City 20 Th Century
4,799 words[ ] Print Modernism. IntroductioPrint sectioModern Art, painting, sculpture, and other forms of 20 th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art to refer to art of the 20 th century in Europe and the Americas, as well as in other regions under Western influence. The modern period has been a particularly innovative one. Among the 20 th century's most important contributions to the history of art are the invention of ab...
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