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Oudry Painted Menagerie The Getty Museum
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Oudry's Painted Menagerie; The Getty Museum
Introduction The exhibition Oudry's Painted
Menagerie (May 1 - September 2, 2007) at the Getty
Center is the mutual project of curators,
conservators and art historians. Oudry's Painted
Menagerie features twelve paintings. Originally,
the project was initiated in 2001 (Schwerin,
Germany) in result of the reemergence of two
Oudry's canvases, one depicting a rhinoceros and
the other a lion. The paintings were not available
to the public for more than 150...
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Full Of Life Cave Paintings
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Chris Ofili Chris Ofili is an interesting
contemporary artist. He was born in Manchester in
1968. He studied in London at the Chelsea School
of Art (1988 - 1991) and later he entered the
Royal College of Art (1999 - 1993). Chris Ofili is
an English painter, who has a Nigerian descent. No
wonder all his work reflect his African
background. In 1992 he won the scholarship, which
gave him the possibility to travel to Zimbabwe.
Chris Ofili's style is highly influenced by his
Nigerian origin as well a...
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Acute Georgia Okeeffe
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Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We
havent time and to see takes time like to have a
friend takes time. If I could paint the flower
exactly as I see it no one would see what I see
because I would paint it small like the flower is
small. So I said to myself Ill paint what I see
what the flower is to me but Ill paint it big and
they will be surprised into taking time to look at
it I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to
see what I see of flowers. Well, I made you take
time to l...
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14 Th Century One Can Understand
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Hind site is always 20 / 20. Looking back on
history, especially the history of painting, one
can decipher a great deal about the time it was
painted in and the changes in those times. One can
understand the value systems, the ethics,
government, morality, economics and personal lives
of the times reflected in paintings. Periods of
art change to what the society demands at the
time. The renaissance literally means the rebirth.
The rebirth of antiquity, the rebirth of God (the
Catholic Church), a...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
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Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in
the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the
name of his town for his last name. He lived
during the fifteenth century, a period when the
people of Europe were becoming interested in art.
This period of time was known as the Renaissance
period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He
was a great artist, but he became famous because
he was able to do so many other things. He was an
architect, a musician, inventor, sculptor,
scientist, and math...
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