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Claude Monet Van Gogh
1,230 wordsIn 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. The unfriendly reviewer Louis Leroy to a canvas by Claude Monet first applied the name impressionism in 1874; it has come to be used very freely. In easiest terms, French Impressionism was an especially undersized, avant-garde movement whose affiliates tested from 1870 to 1880 with painterly habits to attain light on canvas. Impressionism entails a certain technique, primarily the acquirement of light on canv...
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Jackson Pollock Three Dimensional
1,263 wordsExplain Czanne and Pollock's contribution to Modernism by: Describing their new techniques / materials (practice) Innovation in concepts, theories and intentions Explore the significance of their work and the influence they had on other artists (support with critical and historical quotes / comments . ) I want to make of Impressionism something soled and durable, like the art of the museums Paul Czanne The source of my painting is the unconscious Jackson Pollock Modernism is the revolutionary id...
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Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol
1,017 wordsAndy Warhol We have seen photographs of the electric chair, and of Marilyn Monroe, we have seen Campbell Soup ads, but never in the isolation and starkness of Warhols presentation. The attitude implicit in his choice of images is much more complex than simple satire, grotesqueness, horror or celebration: We are forced to the personal confrontation in his art with the most vivid representations of sex, food and death but always through the intermediary of previous exposure through movies, the pre...
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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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Commedia Dell Arte Pablo Picasso
1,613 wordsThree Musicians Within the conceptual framework of this research, we will elaborate on "Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso. We will consider the visual vocabulary of the artist, the subject matter of the work, its relation to other work produced in the same period (not only paintings, but also literary works), and its patronage and reception. Picasso's brief biography will be provided at the beginning of the research, and the paper will be concluded by the analysis of Cubism based on Picasso's pi...
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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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Light And Dark John The Baptist
678 wordsThe Baroque style of painting during the 1600 and 1700 s reflects an intense interest in expressing human emotion through art. Biblical scenes and representations of biblical characters are a common link between art works of that time throughout the different areas of Europe. Caravaggio represents the typical Italian Baroque artist at that time but possesses many artistic qualities uniquely his own. Bartolome Eseban Murillo, represents the typical Spanish Baroque painter. Both these painters dem...
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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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Avant Garde Soviet Socialist
1,010 wordsGerhard Richter combines abstract and figurative elements in his paintings to express his own perception of reality. I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, says of Richter's paintings: Ways of seeing are more certain than what is being seen. Richter organizes the formal elements space, line, colour, form, repetition and balance to fuse visual and invisible reality into a unified whole. Born February 9, 1932 in Dresden, East Germany, Richter knew he wanted to beco...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 wordsThe 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary subject of this painting is a man with three boys in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At the center of this painting is the stern of the sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on the high end of the stern with his knees up and his bare feet plante...
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French Painter Open Window
1,129 wordsJuan Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was Jose Victorian Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of the French painter Georges Braque. Gris first cubist paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso and Braque, appeared in 1912. He spent the next summer in C? et, France, with Picasso, and while...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Sperm Count
1,226 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Drug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In fact, 63 % of you stated in my survey that you had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of you are under 25 years of age and have your whole lives ahead of you. Some of you may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitu...
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Dodd Mead Sperm Count
1,291 wordsDrug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In fact, 63 % of you stated in my survey that you had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of you are under 25 years of age and have your whole lives ahead of you. Some of you may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitude to have considering the...
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Levi Strauss San Francisco
844 wordsLoeb Strauss, whose name was later changed to Levi, was born on February 26, 1829, in Buttenheim Bavaria in Germany. He was born to his Jewish parents Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. His father, was a dry goods peddler who traveled around the country selling dry goods. Hirsch Strauss had five other children Jacob, Jonas, Louis, Role and Mathilde from his first wife, who had died several years earlier. Loeb and his older sister Fanny were the two children Hirsch had with...
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Years Of Age Sperm Count
983 wordsMarijuana: Problem or Cure? Drug use and abuse is becoming more common today than in recent years. In fact, 63 % people taken in a survey said they had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of them were under 25 years of age and have their whole lives ahead of them. Some may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitude to have considering the damage that marijuana may cause to the body. Man...
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Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali
1,213 wordsThe painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus was created in 1937 by oil on canvas by Salvador Dali. This painting uses a lot of images to say what it means, for example, a person, a hand, water, a starving dog, a chess board, a canyon or cliff, and people. This is not to fill the paper or distract the viewer from the suggested meaning or point, but to support the idea that hope and despair are reflections of one another; on opposite sides of a coin, spinning in mid-air, waiting to land and fix or des...
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Imaginable Pictorial Harmony Compact Imaginable Pictorial Harmony Lines
1,791 wordsEverything was spotless white, like a laboratory. In a light smock, with his clean-shaven face, taciturn, wearing his heavy glasses, Mondrian seemed more a scientist or priest than an artist. The only relief to all the white were large mainboards, rectangles in yellow, red and blue, hung in asymmetric arrangements on all the walls. Peering at me through his glasses, he noticed my glance and said: Ive arranged these to make it more cheerful. Thus Champion von Wiegand on Mondrian's New York studio...
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Oil On Canvas Camera Obscura
969 wordsCanaletto is renowned for his paintings of Venice. He uses linear perspective to create most of his paintings. This essay will therefore be reviewing Canaletto life and will analyze his paintings and methods. Giovanni Antonio Canal was born in Venice in 1697. He was christened in the church of San Lio. Canaletto was the son of a theatrical painter. People called him Canaletto so that they could distinguish him from his father, Bernardo Canal. Canaletto got a lot of his practical experience by wo...
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Art School Early Years
1,394 wordsThe Early Years Of Kandinsky's Life Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow. His father was a successful tea merchant named Vasily Silestrovich, and his mother was a teacher named Lydia Kandinskaia. From early on in his life, Kandinsky acquired a love for travel. His parents to Florence in 1869 where the young Kandinsky attended Nursery School. When his fathers health began deteriorating in 1871, Wassily and his parents moved back to Russia, this time to the smaller town of Odes...
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