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Man And A Woman Van Eyck
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An essay written by a renowned art historian,
Erwin Panofsky, discusses the controversy over a
famous painting. The disputation was over the
identification of the two people portrayed in the
painting. The painting was a portrait thought to
be Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, and the artist
was Jan van Eyck. Panofsky wrote this essay to
prove that this painting found in 1815, which he
refers to as the London portrait, is identical to
a picture which was once acquired by Queen Mary of
Hungary, amo...
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Artistic Innovations Of Renaissance Florentine Painters
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Artistic Innovations of Renaissance Florentine
Painters During the Renaissance, many new,
different styles of painting were developed. Many
of these techniques were perfected by Florentine
painters. Some of these styles techniques include
perspective, life-like human forms, realistic
looking objects and chiaroscuro. These
developments began to form in the early
Quattrocento and were slowly perfected by a long
flow of artists. Their influences included new
scientific discoveries as well as new ou...
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High School I Played School I Played Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau, the Dounier, as many people called
him lived in a world of his own. It was a world
filled with ghosts and goblins, eternal Sunday
paintings, and simple worries. This world, I
believe, I also share with Henri Rousseau. We are
alike in many aspects of personality, talent, and
friends. Not many people remind me of myself, but
Rousseau is the only person to have done this. We
are different in some aspects of our talents,
because his lies in the arts while mine lie in
sports. Our pers...
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Claude Monet At The National Gallery Of Art
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Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art Claude
Monet is most definately my favorite Painter of
all time. Widely considered the foremost
Impressionist painter, Monet inspired Masters like
Degas and Renoir. Monet's paintings, characterized
by their blurred lines, quick brush strokes and
interpretation of light, capture the essence of
the subject without the harsh realism of previous
centuries. Earlier on in his career Monet's
paintings attempted to catch the momentary light
and mobility of his...
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One Of The Greatest Da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most famous
complex artist of the Renaissance and perhaps all
time. But what many people dont know is that he
wasnt just a genius in art he also excelled in
sculpting, architecture and he was also an
inventor. Leonardo was born in a small stone house
on April 15, 1452. Leonardo started off
interesting from the way he was conceived to what
happened to his grave after he died. He was born
an illegitimate child in the small town of Vinci.
We dont know much of anyth...
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Primary Colors Urban Life
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... goes of bourgeois, proletarian, and peasant
classes, proved so compelling that Marxist notions
affected public policy throughout the
Euro-American world for nearly a century. The arts
were similarly affected, both in practice and in
theory, by Marxist systems stressing fundamentally
economic forces that underlie all modern
civilization. This influence produced numerous
Impressionist images that present or analyze class
relations, family structures, and individual
anxieties in the midst of so...
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Jean Louis David Jacques Rousseau
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Question: In what ways and to what extent is an
understanding of historical context important in
approaching the works of (a) David and (b)
Rousseau? "The Lictors Returning to Brutus the
Bodies of his Sons", is a painting by the French
artist Jean-Louis David in 1789. Having led the
fight which overthrew the monarchy and established
the Roman Republic. Brutus tragically saw his sons
participate in a plot to restore the monarchy. As
a judge, he was called upon to render the verdict,
and without h...
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Sandro Botticelli The Renaissance Artist
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Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro Mariano
Filipepi, was the son of a tanner. He was born in
Florence around 1445 and showed a talent for
painting at a very early age. Botticelli was first
apprenticed under a goldsmith named Sandro, from
whom it is believed he derived his nickname. At
the age of sixteen, he served an apprenticeship
with the painter Fra Filippo Lippi (Durant, 1953).
From Lippi he learned to create the effect of
transparency, to draw outlines, and to give his
pictures fluidity and...
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Claude Monet Edgar Degas
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Impressionism was the most important Art movement
of the nineteenth century, having a great
influence on the development of Modern Art. The
name impressionism itself comes from a painting
Impression sunrise created by Claude Monet (a
member of the group) being influenced by Japanese
Art 1863 was considered to be the start of
Impressionism. However the name of the group did
not appear until 1874, when the first exhibition
was held. Impressionism consisted of landscapes,
seascapes, snow scenes, ba...
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Van Gogh Starry Night
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Van Gogh had always been somewhat fascinated by
the night. This fascination seemed to manifest
itself further in Aries; Van Gogh often painted
images of the night and nightlife during the
night. He completed Cafe Terrace at Night as well
as The Night Caf 1081; . The Night Caf 1081;
was a further example of Van Gogh's belief that
artists should "paint things not as they are...
but as they feel them" (Philpott 40 - 41). Van
Gogh had long associated particular colors with
particular emotions. I...
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Piece Of Art Early In The Morning
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In 1841 an American artist John Rand invented
collapsible metal tubes for oil paints. For
impressionists, who often painted out-of-doors,
this new convenience was indispensable. Before the
invention of tubes, painters would have carried
bladders (see image below left) to store the paint
that they would have made in their studio. The
bladders would have been made from pig membrane
and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude
air. About the same time, railway expansion was
making the countrysi...
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Landscape Painting Yale University
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... this particular painting, the focal point of
the golden mean is the sun on the horizon, and
characteristically he uses the sun to give the
painting depth. In around 1635 forgeries of
Claude's work began to appear, so he began
recording the pictures he sold in his Liber
veritas, which contains sepia drawings and
etchings of almost all his paintings, creating a
record of his most beautiful draftsmanship. Claude
did not construct these sketches as finished
items. He always thought ahead, their ...
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Salvador Dali Modern Painting
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... 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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Washington D C Caught My Attention
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? Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art?
Claude Monet is most definately my favorite
Painter of all time. Widely considered the
foremost Impressionist painter, Monet inspired
Masters like Degas and Renoir. Monet? s paintings,
characterized by their blurred lines, quick brush
strokes and interpretation of light, capture the
essence of the subject without the harsh realism
of previous centuries. Earlier on in his career
Monet? s paintings attempted to catch the
momentary light and mobility o...
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Romantic Poets Edmund Burke
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Britain had English Painting INTRODUCTION Britain
had one century of painting. Elie Faure's
statement summarizes best what critics, art
researchers and collectors havent had the space,
the heart or the inspiration to say in their
restless attempts to present English Art. WHY? To
answer this question we must take into account
more than history and documents, we must evaluate
the essence, the soul of the creator, of the
English man. Andrew Crawley describes in his book
(England), the English peopl...
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Leonardo Da Vinci People Don T
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Leonardo Da Vinci Dustin Jackson November 17, 1999
Mr. Teal Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most
famous complex artist of the Renaissance and
perhaps all time. But what many people don? t know
is that he wasn? t just a genius in art he also
excelled in sculpting, architecture and he was
also an inventor. Leonardo was born in a small
stone house on April 15, 1452. Leonardo started
off interesting from the way he was conceived to
what happened to his grave after he died. He was
born an illegitim...
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Attention To Detail Human Body
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Lucian Freud Master of The Flesh Lucian Freud,
born grandson to Austrian Psychologist Sigmund
Freud, was an English painter known and highly
appreciated for his ability to render the human
body with such technical precision. He was born in
Berlin in 1922, and still lives today. He
emigrated to England with his family as a child.
He began to receive training at the Central School
of Art in London, the East Anglian School of
Painting and Drawing in Dedham, and Goldsmiths
College in London between ...
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Art New York Demoiselles D Avignon
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Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso A Brief Biography
Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso was the most famous artist of
the 20 th century. He was born on October 25, 1881
in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at
an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city
life and was fascinated by the circus. He also
enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life
of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also
very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Black,
was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his
mother, Maria P...
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Older Brother Medici Family
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Sandro Botticelli, (1445 - 1510) was a famous
Renaissance ari t. His real name was Alessandro di
Mariano Filippo; his nickname came from Botticelli
(little barrel), which was either the nickname of
his older brother or the name of the goldsmith who
first taught him. Botticelli was born in Florence
to the tanner Marianne di Van and his wife in a
small place called Smeralda which is now Borgo
Ognissanti No. 28 in Florence. He was one of eight
children born to his parents, Botticelli being the
youn...
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Stark Contrast John Singer
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A Survey of Romantic and Realistic Paintings
Fantasy and reality occupy our worlds everyday.
One sees this world around himself and he retreats
to what he wishes it was. Why shouldn? t he paint
about it? The portrayal of fantastic and realistic
notions occupied the activity of painters from the
mid 1800? s to the 20 th century. The period of
Romantic painting lies roughly from the mid 1700 s
to the mid / later 1800 s, while paintings from
the movement of Realism are grouped from the mid
1800 s t...
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