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Korean People Natural State
632 wordsFirst and foremost, I think Korean art is realized by its love for naturalness. In everything from architecture to everyday furniture and ornaments to paintings, this aspect of Korean aesthetic is shown. If you look at the furniture pieces made of wood from the Korea and Chosen period, you can see that most of the furniture, except for some of the luxurious ones used in court, have their natural wooden texture to it, unlike the furniture or ornaments of China or Japan. Chinese and Japanese peopl...
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Iconic Oil And Painting
1,753 wordsHind 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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Late Nineteenth Century Thames And Hudson
1,715 words... the others, it is a very 'real' expression, she looks tired, disinterested, possibly she has had a very hard day before she went out to socialise. Manet depicted other social activities of the people of Paris. Manet loved painting any fun activity where crowds of people gather. An early painting where horses rush straight at the viewer while crowds of people watch on both sides is Racing at Longchamp, showing a popular social activity at the time. He depicted people skating in the aptly name...
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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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School Of Athens Italian Renaissance
472 wordsThe humanist and secularist beliefs of religion, individuality, and antiquity were evident in the style and illustration of Italian paintings and sculptures in the High Renaissance era. A deep sense of piety, Greek and Roman philosophy, and secularism, can be found in nearly all Renaissance paintings and sculptures, and the school of thought in Renaissance society that regarded the artist as genius contributed to all of these items. Historically, religion is the defining factor of nearly all pai...
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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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Art Theory Leading Into The 18th Century
1,358 words... would be the outline and such that defines each individual element of the painting. This is the only definition that de Piles excepted because he felt that the other definition was too broad and all the elements that went into a painting couldnt go under one huge label. This left him with the second definition of design and when one takes the second definition of design it is impossible to see this as the defining element of a painting without the use of color. Design, to de Piles, was as in...
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Vincent Van Gogh French Painter
1,254 wordsPostimpressionism Postimpressionism was a movement in late- 19 th-century French painting that emphasized the artist's personal response to a subject. Postimpressionism takes its name from an art movement that immediately preceded it: Impressionism. But whereas impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, postimpressionist's focused on emotional or spiritual meanings that the subject might convey. Although impressionist artists interpreted what they s...
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Style Of Painting Edouard Manet
1,685 wordsEdouard Manet is regarded as the inventor of modern art and the godfather of Impressionism. He is also the last figure of the great classical art. He wasn't the Impressionist but young painters adopted his dynamic style of painting, sharp natural lighting and bold colouring. Manet was a shocking artist; his career is studded with scandals that he did not seek to create. He rejected traditional, academic style of painting and conventional themes. He began taking everyday objects and pulling out o...
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The Significance Of Imagery Rural Life In
2,650 wordsThe Significance of the Imagery of Rural Life in the Work of William Sydney Mount and His Contemporaries The imagery of rural life in the works of artist is a very interesting and challenging theme. This is because most of the societies were moving from rural to urban through the history and therefore this transitional period is usually very important. During this period many changes happen to the landscape as well as to life of people in the overall context. Artists make pretty good representat...
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Body Of Christ Neo Classicism
1,216 wordsDescent from the Cross Giovanni Battista Pittoni Descent from the Cross by Giovanni Battista Pittoni, oil on canvas, circa 1750 is now exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, and Gospel of Luke, descent from the Cross took place in the evening. They also illustrate how Joseph of Arimathaea, a wealthy disciple wrapped Christs body in linen. According to John, however, the Gospel did not mention the time of day. He also wrote that Jos...
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20 Th Century Works Of Art
1,531 wordsToday we try to discuss two essays of the famous painters of 60 th. They are Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton. The both articles concerning such term Pop Art. The term ''Pop Art'' was first used by the English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism, defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism, and worship the god of materialism. The first essay For the Finest Art, Try Pop by Richard Hamilton devoted to the...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1,060 wordsDuring a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists in Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his artworks. The Italian high renaissance was marked by paintings expressing human grandeur and very humanistic values. No one better portrayed the Italian high Renaissance then Raphael Sanzio, with his painting? s clarity and ease of composition, Raphael was easily one of the greatest painters of this period. Born in an...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Rest Of Europe
1,818 wordsThe Italian Renaissance was called the beginning of the modern age. The word Renaissance itself is derived from the Latin word rinascere, which means to be reborn. Many dramatic changes occurred during this time in the fields of philosophy, art, politics, and literature. New emphasis was placed on enjoying life and the world around you. Talented individuals sought self-gratification through art, literature, and architecture, and their achievements would influence future generations for centuries...
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1,464 wordsRecognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical ability, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making his own special contribution to the history of grand manner portraiture. A true cosmopolite, he was also a painter of plain air landscapes and genre sce...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
2,365 wordsLeonardo Da Vinci was born in the year 1452 in a town called Vinci. His name -Da vinci- actually means from the town of Vinci. At fifteen Leonardo moved to Florence with his father. His father recognized Leonardo's artistic talents, and showed them to his good friend, Andrea del Verrocchio. Verrocchio was a painter and a sculptor. Verrocchio was so impressed when he saw Leonardo's work that he took Leonardo to be his apprentice at the young age of only about fifteen. In 1472 Leonardo was appoint...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Adoration Of The Magi
2,544 wordsThe objective of this essay is to provide an explanation of Leonardo da Vinci s life and work as an artist in context with his time spent in Milan. Following an initial introduction to Leonardo s formative years in Florence (and his apprenticeship to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, 1435 - 88), I will attempt to explain the significance of his presence in Milan with detailed descriptions of his work there. Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 74) was also an artist and architect, but is perhaps...
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World War Ii National Geographic
541 wordsPaul Nash s paintings delt with the Battle of Britain. Mainly from the point of view of the brave R. A. F. pilots, and what they may have seen during thier one on one engagements with the Luftwaffe. Nash also did paintings of the areal battle s as someone on the ground. His hope was to make a painting from someone on the ground as what they may have seen. Unlike the other painters, Nash s paintings were used by R. A. F. officials to help inspire their pilots to fight harder and defeat the Luftwa...
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903 wordsPaul Cé zanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860 s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the fleeting effects of l...
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Alain De Botton Art Of Travel Travellers
1,033 wordsToothbrush, bikini and dead poet The Art of Travel Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton? 14. 99, pp 272 Travel is now the worlds biggest industry, according to the World Trade Organisation. It beats arms and pharmaceuticals both in turnover and in numbers of people employed. Despite the post- 11 September dip, forecasts for the sector are measured not in billions of dollars but in trillions. Mans collective endeavours our god-like technology, our money, our precious time seem more and more directed a...
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