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Claude Monet At The National Gallery Of Art
1,286 wordsClaude 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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Sistine Chapel High Renaissance
420 wordsThe Italian painter, sculptor and architect Michaelangelo was brought to Florence right after birth and grew up in the care of a stonecutter's wife. With 13 he became an apprentice to the Ghirlandajor and later was taken into the Medici household. In 1501, he returned to Florence from Rome and received a lot of recognition. During this time he completed "David", a monumental, classicizing, heroic nude in which the body's magnificent structure of bone and muscle is combined with alert, resolute e...
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War Of 1812 United States Of America
1,189 wordsThe 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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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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Claude Monet Van Gogh
1,230 wordsIn 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. The unfriendly reviewer Louis Leroy to a canvas by Claude Monet first applied the name impressionism in 1874; it has come to be used very freely. In easiest terms, French Impressionism was an especially undersized, avant-garde movement whose affiliates tested from 1870 to 1880 with painterly habits to attain light on canvas. Impressionism entails a certain technique, primarily the acquirement of light on canv...
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Da Vinci Six Months
1,127 wordsLeonardo'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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Washington D C Caught My Attention
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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Claude Monet Brush Strokes
713 wordsClaude Monet always stood alone; his feet resounding heavily on the solid road that he was determined to follow until the very end. With tiny, dabbing brush strokes his paintings, more often than not exploded in the golden richness of the sun. With Monet a brush stroke, while imprecise, can suggest an infinity of objects that go beyond the instant and eternalize it. Born in Paris on the 14 th November 1840, Claude Monet was one of the masters of the style of art known as Impressionism. The name ...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
2,451 wordsPainter, sculptor, inventor. Born April 15, 1452 near the village of Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary of Florence, who had no other children until much later. Ser Piero raised his son himself, a common practice at the time, arranging for Leonardo's mother to marry a villager. When Leonardo was 15, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading artist of Florence and a characteristic talent of the early Renaissance. A sculptor, ...
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Washington D C Art New York City
1,348 wordsPicasso, Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881 - 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, is considered one of the greatest artist of the 20 th century. He was a inventor of forms, innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, and one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20, 000 works. Training and Early Work Picasso was Born in M? last on October 25, 1881, he was the son of Jos? Ruiz Black, an art teacher, and Mar? a Picasso y Lopez. Until...
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Form Of Art Taking Place
1,500 wordsDouglas Barmore What constitutes as graffiti? Graffiti is defined as any type of writing on a surface of any type. If that is the case, then would a cave mans drawings be considered graffiti? If it is considered graffiti, then what is different about then and now that would change the worlds views about graffiti. Why is graffiti against the law? Is graffiti an art form? Can something that is done against the law, and with a total disregard for others property be considered art? The definition of...
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Leonardo Da Vinci One Of His Most Famous Painting
394 wordsLeonardo da vinci This essay is on the work of Leonard DA Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. Leonardo was born in the town of Vinci, this was not far from florentine. His fathers name was Piero Da Vinci and his moms name was catering. Now a days he is known for being a great artist and scientist. People started to hear about his talent in 1469. He meet a women that helped him with his painting career. Her name was Andrea Verrocchio. She was a leading renaissance master. He join...
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Fifteenth Century Three Dimensional
1,330 wordsDuring the fifteenth and sixteenth century, one of the key aesthetic goals of the Netherlandish art is realism. The realism of figures, setting, and especially space is a distinguished aspect of the early Netherlandish painters and it has long been seen as a feature in paintings, retable's and other various art forms. At times, the realism in the artworks of the Netherlands represent a variety of aesthetic and / or religious reasons; however, a majority of the Netherlandish artists were concerne...
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Royal Academy Art
1,228 wordsBorn on March 30, 1746, in Aragon province of Spain. The reason for this man? s two lastname's is that it is a Spanish custom to take on both parents? last names to make a combination for their own, his father? s last name was Goya and his mother? s, Lucientes, but he is most widely known by the name Goya. He lived in a very common family of the time, he worked as a gilder for a short while with his father in the town he was born in, Fuendetodos. But due to the economical needs of his family, Go...
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Leonardo Da Vinci 16 Th Century
2,013 wordsWorld Civilization I The Renaissance/ Italy's Decline Identification: The Renaissance /Italy's Decline Definition: The period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. Set in the city-states of Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the constant uncertainty, both economic and political, and extreme volatility of the historical situation provided the m...
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Georgia Okeeffe Alfred Stieglitz
468 wordsFilling a space in a beautiful way. That is what art means to me (Georgia OKeeffe). Born in 1887 on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia OKeeffe became an important American artist as early as the age of 17. After high school she studied for one year at the Chicago Art Institute under John Vanderpoel. She continued her studies in New York City at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. Also in New York she attended Columbia Teachers College. There she studied with Arthur Dow, wh...
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2500 B C Great Sphinx Egypt
889 wordsThe Great Sphinx of Giza is a monument recognized all over the world. It is a symbol that represented the essence of Egypt for thousands of years. It is the biggest sphinx statue ever found. There are more than one sphinx, for example there is the Sphinx of Greece and The Sphinx of Martian (all that is, is the shape of the sphinx s head on the planet Mars. ) But the Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt is the most famous of all. The Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The lion was a ...
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Pleasure And Pain Grecian Urn
472 wordsKeats Ode on a Grecian Urn deals with the perplexing and indefinable relationship between life and art. Paradoxically it is the life of the urn that we would normally associate with stillness, melancholy and bereavement that is shown to be representative of life. Indeed the decorative scenes on the side of the urn identify a world that is enriched through a myriad of senses, such as sight, sound and touch. Yet throughout this ode Keats has illustrated a number of ambiguities, Heard melodies are ...
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Vincent Van Gogh Early Works
614 wordsGogh, Vincent Willem van (1853 - 1890), Dutch post impressionist painter, whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. Early in life he displayed a moody, restless temperament that was to thwart his every pursuit. By the age of 27 he had been in turn a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and an evangelist among the miners at ...
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Forms Of Art Form Of Art
1,755 wordsArt is something which can be analyzed to give deeper insight as to the common values and beliefs shared by the members of a certain society. Regardless of the place of origin or the time period of a form of art, it will always be a reflection of the social structure in which its creator / s lived. However, the way the artist perceives the culture common to his time period is very relative. People pertaining to a higher social class had different values and ideologies than members of a lower cla...
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