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Boundless By Steve Hanks: Painting Analysis
Painting number one is titled “Boundless”. The artist is Steve Hanks. He is one of the best watercolor artist in the United States. The painting is a hand painted watercolor painting. Hanks was an artist who loved women and children. He painted them with such a tender caring-ness. Hanks grew up in Southern California. Hanks felt like the ocean made strong and lasting impression on him growing up. After high school Hanks went to the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Than he transferred to the California College of Arts and crafts, where he graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Hanks died at the age of 66 on April 21, 2015.

I believe Hanks gave the perfect title to painting number one “Boundless”. I see a woman that is free. I see a full of joy, peace, and contentment. I see a woman that is ready to do anything. I see a woman leaping in the air embracing the sun shine a pond her face. I think the painting is “Boundless” is a representational because it portrays natural object in recognizable from. ”Boundless” is painted giclee on a canvas.
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The artist is Johanner Vermeer. The painting is a tronie, oil on a canvas. Vermeer specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. He was moderately successful in his life time, but was not wealthy. Vermeer was a slow painter but, he painted with great care and used expensive materials (pigments). Vermeer died in December 1675. The painting “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” was a painting that was not meant to be painted. It is a painting of a European girl wearing an exotic dress an oriental turban and a large pearl earring. It was painted in

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