the Mona Lisa As Donald Sassoon emphasizes in Becoming Mona Lisa‚ the Mona Lisa has managed to maintain its status as the world’s most recognizable work of art. The author notes that many who visit the portrait find themselves wondering just what makes it so special. The lady in the portrait is not particularly beautiful and the painting itself is beginning to look its age. Yet despite all this‚ art historians continue to write and argue over the painting‚ and tourists continue to visit it in
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in the XVII century‚ so it is impossible to determine who was presented on it. Historians often say that this is a self portrait of the artist . Was it him?I would like to think so. However‚ this is not an allegation. The painting really has distinctive features self-portrait as depicted a man sits as if looking at himself standing in front of him mirror. Thus‚ the portrait deliberately given the similarity with reflection. The size and position of the head is roughly equivalent to what the viewer
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believe. The painting standing only 30 inches by 21 inches is a portrait of a woman‚ on poplar panels done with oil acrylic. This piece created a lot of ground breaking techniques for the period in which it was painted for the art world. It was said that there was a possibility this piece was at first a commission piece of Lisa Gherardini who was the wife of a famous businessman in Florence. Some also believe it was a self portrait of the painter himself as feminine. He supposedly never finished
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Sargent caught my eye with its beautiful poised portraits of mostly sisters‚ wives‚ and daughters. He seemed to enjoy capturing family relationships. Coming across this particular painting‚ I noticed its differences from the rest of the gallery. This was intended to be a family portrait of Boit’s four young daughters‚ however it became an interpretation of what Sargent saw the girls’ personalities as‚ contrasting from many of his other works of portraits. I interpreted his strategic placement of the
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photographs taken by Lorraine Field. These pieces are categorized into self portraits‚ portraitures of landscapes and interior. Internal Differences 1 And 2 are the only pieces in this exhibition that depict a scenario indoors. Internal Differences 1 features Roger Field’s arm chair; internal Difference 2 features the bed Roger Field and Lorraine Field shared. The works Levelled Years 1-4 is another series of self portraits Fields took through the first year after the death of her husband (2013) to
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Meeting Vincent van Gogh changed my life. At least that’s what I tell people when I describe falling in love with museums. I was twelve years old‚ visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with my grandparents‚ when I locked eyes with van Gogh’s 1887 Self Portrait. I experienced a profound connection with history at that moment: although van Gogh had been dead for over a century‚ here we were‚ face to face. When I reported back to my classmates at the beginning of the following school year‚ I could not believe
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PLOT SUMMARIES OF ELEONORA Eleonora is about an unnamed narrator and his love life. The narrator lives with Eleonora‚ his cousin and his aunt. Their valley is isolated from others and no strangers ever enter it. The narrator only knows Eleonora‚ his aunt and the valley. This valley is named as the valley of the colored grasses and it is described as a paradise of fragrant flowers‚ fantastic trees‚ and a "River of Silence”. They live there together for fifteen years before they realize that love
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Similarly self pity is evident throughout time but is the manifestation of isolation due to an individual’s inability to maintain mental stability. Though written in different periods of T.S. Eliot’s life the poems ’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’ and ’Preludes’ uses a variety of poetic devices to portray these thematic concerns. Through the portrayal of his numerous protagonists Eliot explores the effects of exclusion and its tendency for the individual to feel self pity. In the
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commodification of art. The most prevalent arguments were the debates of aesthetics‚ traditionalists versus the avant-garde. Traditionalists valued realism‚ technique‚ and the use of perspective which was scene in historical paintings and portraits. In comparison‚ avant-garde focused on a deliberate change of style which included impressionism‚ and unnatural use of color. Although‚ neither side of the debate is clear cut. Many traditionalists experimented with the aspects of traditional painting
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Yasumasa Morimura The Man Yasumasa Morimura was born on the 11th of June 1951. Today he is a well-known Japanese artist whom appropriates famous images by incorporating himself into the images. He does so with the firm believe that “all people have a common desire for transformation”. Morimura’ artworks involve maintaining the original image of another place and/or person but replacing the face of a subject with his own. By doing so he is subtly demonstrating to the audience how everything is
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