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Man And A Woman Van Eyck
1,413 wordsAn 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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1,956 wordsHenri 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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1,301 wordsLeonardo 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
1,209 words... 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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1,384 wordsQuestion: 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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Claude Monet Edgar Degas
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Van Gogh Starry Night
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Piece Of Art Early In The Morning
2,628 wordsIn 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
2,624 words... 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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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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1,301 words? 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
8,828 wordsBritain 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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1,333 wordsLeonardo 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
1,432 wordsLucian 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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3,050 wordsPablo 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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1,064 wordsSandro 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
1,852 wordsA 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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