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Home In Cornish Maxfield Parrish Painting
870 words
Maxfield Parrish, born Frederick Parrish, was one
of the greatest illustrators of his time, ranking
among top artists Van Gogh and Paul Change. From
his day of birth July 25 th 1870 in Philadelphia,
to the day he died in 1966 at the age of 95 in
Cornish, Parrish lived a full wealthy life without
many disappointments or sorrows in what was called
the Golden Age of Illustration. Parrish's works
will be forever remembered as enchanting realistic
paintings of fantasy and romance that hung in the
hom...
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Francois Joseph Navez Pilgrimage In The Roman Campagna Painting
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Looking at Pictures (Berger) Final Draft Upon
receiving the assignment to visit the Museum of
Fine Arts and pick a painting that seems silent
and still yet invites conversation I was
originally frustrated and wanted to just get it
over with and pick out the first painting I saw.
However, once I entered the museum my stress and
frustration decreased and I wanted to take the
time to appreciate the artwork and find a piece
that thoroughly grabbed my attention. The classic
quiet building put me at e...
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Sistine Chapel Ft Tall
730 words
There are many different pieces and many different
style of art in the world. But none may hold more
power and creativity than the one about to be
discussed. This pics of art is known to us as The
Sistine Chapel. The Encyclepedia of America says
"this chapel was built by Giovanni de' Dolci
between 1471 and 1484 for Sixtus IV."This
masterpiece" as it was called by Carlo Pietrangeli
the writer of the report on the Sistine Chapel.
Even though The Sistine Chapel is considered my
many to be just a pi...
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War Of 1812 United States Of America
1,189 words
The United States of America, a country whose
roots had been founded on new revolutionary
theories of government (Democracy), had found
itself in a great position of new national wealth,
after the war of 1812, which ignited the fire in
the countrys patriotic policies. The country,
although wrongly informed, believed that they had
been victorious in the War of 1812, because of the
battle that was fought in New Orleans, and was an
American victory. Although the Americans had won
the battle of New ...
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Salvador Dali Mental Problems
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ter> (1904 - 1989) Salvador Dali was
born into a middle-class family on May 11 th, 1904
in Figures Spain. In 1921 he entered the San
Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid where he
made friends with Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis
Bunuel, and Eugenio Montes. He pursued his
personal interest in Cubism and Futurism. In June
of 1923 Dali was suspended from the Academy for
having indicated the students to rebel against the
authorities of the school. He was let back in
October of 1925, and a y...
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Da Vinci Six Months
1,127 words
Leonardo's "Last Supper" is among the most famous
paintings in the world. In its monumental
simplicity, the composition of the scene is
masterful; the power of its effect comes from the
striking contrast in the attitudes of the twelve
disciples as counterpoised to Christ. Leonardo did
not choose the portrayal of the traitor Judas
customary in the iconographic tradition; he
portrayed, rather, that moment of highest tension
as related in the New Testament, "One of you which
earth with me will betr...
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Michelangelo Creation Of The Heavens
396 words
Michelangelo was explained to be somewhat of an
idealist in his vision of religion. He saw God as
loving and compassionate, and man as he was first
created; pure, noble, and innocent. From the
Sistine Chapel, The Creation of the Heavens, as it
is titled, shows his view of God perfectly and
clearly. In fact, the image shows the way others
viewed God, as cruel and angry, as well. Many
people in Michelangelo's time felt God was cruel
and angry; that he was without mercy for man. They
had seen many ...
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Van Gogh One Kind
1,396 words
In Ion, Plato presents a dialogue between his
influential teacher Socrates and a distinguished
rhapsody, Ion. While Socrates considers himself a
common man who only speak the truth (47), Ion is
proud and boastful, regarding himself as a
rhapsody who can speak about Homer better than any
man (47). The primary issues between these two
contradictory characters are the difference
between gift of speech and knowledge of speech, as
well as the attending of oneself to moral by
understanding an idea as ...
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Classical Greece And Early Twentieth Century Art
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... 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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Salvador Dali Brush Strokes
802 words
Salvador Dali is a master painter who has honed
his abilities in the arenas of style, technical
skill, representation, realistic rendering,
concept, and thus, above all else, surrealism. His
method and motivation, surrealism, he defined as
the effort to take implausible situations,
ridiculous ideas, the grotesque, and translate
them in a manner that suggested their reality.
This idea is something for which Dali came to be
known. A great example of his surrealistic efforts
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F Distinctive Features Images F Handprints Art
920 words
Ever since the beginning of the humankind history
people were trying to express their thoughts and
feelings, and deliver them to the next
generations. The first examples of the art form
are dated back to the prehistoric ages. The
paintings on the cave walls is just one of the
many forms of art that managed to live through the
many centuries. Sometime between 30, 000 and 40,
000 thousand years ago modern humans began
creating the first signs ever created on earth.
These signs were something ther ...
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Religion In The Paintings Of Van Gogh
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Religion in the Paintings of van Gogh Nowadays,
perhaps, it is difficult to find the person to
whom name Vincent Van Gogh would be unfamiliar,
the Dutch artist, who created his masterpieces at
the end of XIX century in France. He has been not
recognized as great artist by contemporaries, but
at descendants has got unprecedented popularity.
Canvas of his brush, after hundred years after
their creation, became not only one of the most
expensive products of the modern art, they, at
last, have been ...
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U S Armed Forces World War Ii
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Navajo Indians were one of the determining factors
in the United States victory over Japan in WWII.
The United States and Navajo Indians problems
began to escalate in the late 1860 s. In order to
force the Navajo off their land, U. S. Colonel Kit
Caron burned cornfields and gardens, killed
livestock and game, as well as many Navajos. The
survivors, now homeless, began three hundred mile
walk to New Mexico. At Fort Summer, the Navajo
were treated as the Jews in Nazi Germany
concentration camps. T...
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Vel Zquez Goya Painter
530 words
His name, Francisco Goya, born in 1746, one of
Spain's most innovative painters and etchers; also
one of the triumvirate including El Greco and
Diego Vel? zquezof great Spanish masters. Much in
the art of Goya is derived from that of Vel?
zquez, just as much in the art of the 19
th-century French master? douard Manet and the 20
th-century genius Pablo Picasso is taken from
Goya. Trained in a mediocre rococo artistic
milieu, Goya transformed this often frivolous
style and created works, such as t...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Arts And Sciences
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The Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance
was a time of rebirth, questioning and exploration
in Italy beginning in the early 1300 s. During
this time the arts, sciences, and literary
philosophy flourished. Italian scholars and
artists studied the work, learnings, and art of
the ancient Roman and Greeks in attempts to
recapture the works of ancient Greece and Rome in
their own literary and philosophic works. The
Italian Renaissance overlapped a period called the
Middle or Dark Ages. This wa...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469, in
Florence, Italy. He eventually became a man who
lived his life for politics and patriotism. Right
now, however, he is associated with corrupt,
totalitarian government. The reason for this is a
small pamphlet he wrote called The Prince to gain
influence with the ruling Medici family in
Florence. The political genius of Niccolo
Machiavelli was overshadowed by the reputation
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Figure Ground Relationship Empire Of Light Ii Painting
559 words
I tossedMamo MOMAtossed and turned all night with
a horrible cold. I awoke with a feeling of This is
just not going to be my day. I tortured myself
with my eyes wide opened, unable to sleep, before
I knew, it was time to wake up Major and begin our
journey to the Museum Of Modern Art. As soon as, I
walked into the Museum I seem to feel miraculously
better. The Museum is a well lit building full of
beautiful and tasteful paintings, helicopter, and
sculptors. Major and I proceeded to the second
fl...
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Manet Painting Viewing Public
1,168 words
Manet Still Life Clarity, Contour, urbanity and
virtuous ability to handle paint-such are the
qualities that first strike us in Manet s art.
Before we attempt to analyze the meaning of what s
within Edouard Manet s work entitled still life,
Grapes and figs, one must first identify, and
note, the somewhat colorful events which occurred
within the artist life, and note the way in which
they must have led his work. Born in France in
1832, Manet was raised by his parents Auguste and
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Color And Form Madame Matisse Artist
700 words
Matisse, Henri +mile Be t (1869 - 1954), French
artist, leader of the fauve group, regarded as one
of the great formative figures in 20 th-century
art, a master of the use of color and form to
convey emotional expression. Matisse was born in
Le Cateau in northern France on December 31, 1869.
The son of a middle-class family, he studied and
began to practice law. In 1890, however, while
recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis,
he became intrigued by the practice of painting.
In 1892, hav...
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Years Of Age De Vinci Gallery
855 words
For my cultural event I chose to visit the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ive always, even while
I lived in Portland, had a wish to visit it and to
experience the feeling that was so popular among
those who have been there before. I often imagined
what it would be like, but when on Saturday the 14
th of October I actually went there for the first
time I was speechless. It was a lot more then what
I pictured it to be. I spent 4 hours there and in
that time I was only able to see the first floor
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