FIGURE IN ART CONTEMPORARY VS RENNEISANCE CULTURAL From historical Renaissance aspect‚ the nude figure in art has always been represented as innocent and pure‚ as well sensual and sexual. Therefore contrasting to the contemporary point of view‚ whereas the nude is often a mirror reflecting the darkest parts in society through dehumanization‚ distortion and repulsion. Religion in society was quite superstitious back in the 1400’s and the artists beliefs in God where very strong and faithful‚
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Representational Art The piece “Young Mulatto” was painted by Emily Guthrie Smith in 1942. This painting consists of warm colors like peach‚ gold and beige and was obliviously done in fluid media: oil on canvas. The painting shows a young black woman‚ dressed in white‚ sitting with a shawl around her. She seems to be tying the strings on top of her dress. We can see the different strokes she painted and this adds a unique touch. This helps create depth and details. The painting is portrait of the
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Leroy Burton Art Gallery Essay In completion of this assignment the art gallery that I chose to visit was Mark Gallery in Englewood New Jersey. When you walk up to the establishment there are floor to ceiling glass windows that allow you to see everything inside. Facing the gallery there were so many colors that enticed you to enter. The arrangements and art work was spaced out nicely not causing clutter. This allowed you to individually take in each piece on by itself. All of the pieces
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outward movements of the artist. So the shapes have acted as a STORE for those movements. Based on the shapes in the painting and the shapes give tension in the paint. While the tension makes the emotion in the painting. So‚ to understand how an art-work functions‚ we have to understand how the viewer can RECOVER‚ from the shapes‚ the E-MOTIONS of the artist The shapes are acting liking a memory store of an artist E-MOTIONS Leyton/s books have developed new foundations for geometry in which
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Sculpture in art refers to a branch of visual arts that involves the three dimensional depiction of art forms. According to Wikipedia‚ sculpture is one of the plastic arts‚ that is‚ arts which involve the physical manipulation of plastic mediums such as clay or plaster. Sculpture originally referred to the addition of material‚ that is modelling and the removal of material‚ that is carving‚ but the reduction in the distinction of the various art forms coupled with modernism has changed what might
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Course: Art Appreciation Instructor: Ms. A. Miller Date: 04/01/13 Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. The University Cheikh Anta Diop is where she was a student and she got her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in the year of 1997. Renegade Delirium‚ another famous artwork by Julie Mehretu displays the fact that she is an abstract artist. In 2004‚ Mehretu articulately created the painting that was named “Stadia II”. As soon as my eyes set upon her art‚ I
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Art Essay ‘Persimmons and silk’ was printed in 1997 by Cressida Campbell‚ an Australian artist born in Sydney 1960. This piece of artwork is a woodblock print‚ drawn directly onto a plywood block using a linear drawing technique and is …cm x …cm. The theme of this print is a still life composed of flowers and fruit on a silk tablecloth. It is not a symmetrical print; while it is very balanced it is asymmetrical in design. In the left foreground there is a bowl of persimmons and the flowers are
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OFFICE ART MEMO 1 Assignment #2: Office Art Memo‚ Brenda Roper Professor Lynn Wilson World Cultures II – HUM 112 March 3‚ 2013 OFFICE ART MEMO 2 The three impressionist painting I choose is Dance Class by Edgar Degas‚ Lunchon of the Boating Party by Piette Augustine Renoir
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it seems as if time on earth will go on without end. Priorities become distorted‚ but vanitas paintings remind us that life’s journey has an end‚ and the things we concern ourselves with aren’t all that important when looking at the big picture of life and death. Although the mortality theme is in each vanitas‚ the artists express their meaning individually with use of color‚ iconography‚ and other artistic techniques. Two vanitas that are worth comparing are the Wheel of Fortune that was painted
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: Art is that three-letter word which encompasses literally everything around us. The world we live in and everything in it that spells beauty‚ creativity and innovation‚ is a piece of art. The world itself is God’s creation‚ a piece of His art. We human beings‚ and everything ’living’ are God’s masterpieces‚ His works of art. And then there are miracles man created... his works of art. Forms of art are many...music‚ dance‚ drama‚ painting‚ pottery... and the list just goes
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