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Comparison Of Monet And Claude
1,720 wordsClaude's The Sermon on the Mount is a relatively large painting in a horizontal rectangular shape. It is a landscape painting with Jesus giving a sermon to a crowd of his followers as the subject. It states in the acoustic guide that Claude is trying to depict the landscape of Mount Tabor surrounded by the Dead Sea on the right and the Jordan River on the left. The painting is done from a high vantage point. One can see this because as the viewer looks at the painting he can see far into the dis...
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Roman Painting And The School Of Athens
1,307 wordsIn the early 1500 's Raphael was chosen by Julius II to paint a number of fresco's in the Stanza Della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome. Among these was the School of Athens which I have selected to discuss in this paper. Raphael, who had studied art since the age of seven under the teacher Perugino in Umbria, arrived in Florence at the age of twenty-two and achieved immediate success. Raphael was influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci, and Michelangelo who were the artists who had established the High Renaiss...
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Classical Greece And Early Twentieth Century Art
1,482 words... l as promising young artists, to design relief panels for the project designed the arch. American sculptor and art patron, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, designed one such panel. Her bronze sculpture stands twenty-four inches high and sixty-four inches wide. On one side of the panel is a soldier standing at attention as he salutes. The opposite side of the panel depicts five men with their rifles drawn engaged in battle. This section of the monument clearly shows the horrors of war and the her...
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Demoiselles D Avignon Les Demoiselles D
2,096 wordsAlthough George Braque (May 13, 1882 Aug. 31, 1963) was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century his name is all but forgotten. He has received little credit for his efforts towards the creation of analytic cubism. Many art historians believe that his prestigious role as father of analytic cubism was cut short because of Picasso's fame. Many arguments have arisen asking the question: Who is the father of cubism? There is no doubt that Picasso started the spark which ignited ...
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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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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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