My featured painting today entitled The Night was painted by Max Beckmann during 1918 and 1919. It is housed at the Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen‚ Dusseldorf. This is an early example of Beckmann’s grotesque and appalling visionary paintings with its misshapen figures. Before us we have an overcrowded room in a modern city. Beckman himself said he wanted this work to be looked upon as a large modern history painting tinged with a sense of evil. Three men have invaded the room and are terrorising
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Comparte/Contrast Van Gogh and Chagall For this essay‚ I chose to compare and contrast Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” with Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village”. The two pieces are lovely and most interesting to evaluate in relationship to one another. I personally love both artists and upon closely examining these famous pieces‚ I have noticed how similar yet different these works of art are. Vincent van Gogh was a deeply troubled‚ post-impressionist artist and his painting “Starry Night”
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et ‚ Renoir ‚ Cézanne ‚ Baudelaire .. and many others are famous impressionist artists that marked the nineteenth century with their work. Trying to maintain close ties with tradition‚ and establishing the aesthetic outcome of an artistic creation ‚ they all used their own words and images to paint the world from their own point of view ‚ regardless of what other people could think . Van Gogh was also one of them . His painting ‘Starry Night ‘‚ published on 1889 ‚is nowadays one of the most known
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I have chosen the oil painting The Persistence of Memory‚ by the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. This surrealism painting has had a lot of attention due to the odd objects that depicts several principles throughout. When first viewing this painting‚ many question what is going on. Dali had intended for this to be something from a dream as some objects look unreal. One of the most important principles used is line. Starting in the background the horizon line is used where the body of water and
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1. What is artistic expression? From past to present‚ all cultures enlist language‚ art‚ and music to react their daily lives event and societies and to communicate their visions‚ hope and dreams. 2. What about artistic expression is universal throughout human cultures? Cross nation cultural interaction and creative collaboration recently made possible because of the advancement of the technology‚ innovations such as YouTube and Facebook‚ etc. 3. Can you identify a particular speech‚ work of art
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Joslyn Art Museum I recently took a trip to the Joslyn Art Museum and was very impressed with the art‚ mainly the paintings. I had never really been to an art museum just to look around but I found that a lot of the paintings used the techniques that we discussed in class. I will be analyzing three paintings Fallen Angels by Francois Cibot‚ Saint Francis in Prayer by El Greco and Sacred Conversation- Madonna‚ Child‚ Saints and Donor by Giovani di Niccolo Mansueti. One of the most interesting
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Write a short post discussing your favorite painter born before 1900. Explain in detail what it is exactly that you like about their work. Use the knowledge you have learned about the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to discuss what you like about their work.‚ about the medium they use or the content they explore? minimum 200 words My favorite Painter born before 1900 is Vincent Van Gogh. I love the paintings done by Van Gogh because they are very expressive of what was going on
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In Monet’s water lilies‚ he uses alike colors green and blue. Water is colored blue while lilies are painted green. In Monet’s water lilies‚ he uses alike colors green and blue. Water is colored blue while lilies are painted green. Monet and Vincent van gogh their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great
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This paper is a formal analysis‚ treating Peter Paul Rubens’ 1612 masterpiece‚ Massacre of the Innocents. The oil painting stands at approximately 150 x 200 cm‚ a size offering the viewer a window-like gaze into a historical scene of twisted‚ bloody carnage. Formally‚ there is much cohesion with the overall disastrous theme of human chaos and disorder. On a compositional whole‚ the anguish and psychological suffering compliments scattered lighting‚ vivid color‚ and clustered space. The painting is
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Church’s painting serves as an artistic response to war due to the depiction of the American flag on the sky. The ingenious use of the brush strokes to mimic the stripes of the flag is breathtaking. The Artist brings out the stripes of the flag with the thin clouds in the middle of a light blue sky. The painting also shows the stripes waving similar to those of a flag when blown by the wind (Burke 39). A further response to war can be recognized when Church includes a star in the large light-blue
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