Christina’s Cruel World When I first seen “Christina’s World‚” a painting by Andrew Wyeth‚ I came across a lonely girl‚ and I wonder. What is she doing lying in the field by herself? Was she laying in the long grass on a hot summer day enjoying a nice summer breeze? It’s hard to tell her age. Is she a widowed wife to a soldier lost in the war thinking of days long past? Perhaps she’s a teenage adolescent‚ resting in the grass after a long day of chores? Something caught her attention. She
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in France. He attended Willem II College for two years and after some time passed he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Van Gogh completed more than 2‚100 pieces of work‚ consisting of 860 oil paintings‚ and more than 1‚300 water colors‚ drawings‚ and sketches. Several of his paintings now rank among the most expensive in the world. Vincent Van Gogh’s style and periods of art were; Pointillism‚ Neo-impressionism‚ and Point-impressionism. Pointillism is a
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his life he was hired to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. During the 1300’s Duccio became one of the most favored and progressive painters in Siena. He is now considered one of the founders of Western art. Not much is known about Duccio’s life. But there are records saying that he was married and had seven children. There are also records that show that he often had debts and fines. So even though he was a successful artist‚ he still had trouble managing
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Three Decades of Acquisitions" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York. The painting is very small and measures only 11 by 8 1/8 in.‚ which in comparison is about the size of a legal sized piece of paper. Considered to be a rare and uniquely important early Renaissance masterpiece‚ The Met purchased this painting in November 2004 for something in excess of $45 million. The painting is one of the few Duccio’s created as an individual work of art and not part of an ensemble. La Orana Maria
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doi: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2010.00137.x The psychological contract and the transition from office-based to home-based work Susanne Tietze‚ Nottingham Business School‚ Nottingham Trent University Sara Nadin‚ Sheffield University School of Management‚ University of Sheffield Human Resource Management Journal‚ Vol 21‚ no 3‚ 2011‚ pages 318–334 This article explores how the transition from office-based to home-based work impacts upon the psychological contracts of employees involved. Adopting a qualitative
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The (joy of life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s‚ because the joy of life It is a large-scale painting that has a brilliant colored forest which has been depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with‚ meadow‚ sea‚ and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion while Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has sensual eroticism with these kinds of aggressively crude pornography that has a landscape
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Moore 1 Alexis Moore" Professor Braden" English 101" 03 December 2013" The Persistence of Memory! " In 1931‚ an artist by the name of Salvador Dali created one of his most famous painting to date‚ The Persistence of Memory. Dali did most of the painting one evening when he was alone waiting for his wife‚ Gala‚ to return from the movies. “He claims that the idea came to him when a headache triggered‚ that waiting for Gala seemed interminable and the distortion of time made him think of melting clocks”(Sperling
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Composition Figures Round a Table by Candlelight is a large oil on canvas created by Gerrit van Deurs c. 1663-1664. This painting is horizontal is 52 ¼ in. x 74 ¼ in and hangs in the Power-Piety Prestige Gallery at the Columbus Museum of Art. Figures Round a Table by Candlelight has some traditional compositional techniques‚ but also displays some interesting non-traditional methods that work well to create a strong composition. Three figures are seated around a small rectangular table‚ occupying
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In the Museum of Modern Art‚ many paintings are illustrations of nature portrayed in different ways. Vincent van Gogh’s The Olive Trees and Gustav Klimt’s The Park are clear examples of this. The Olive Trees‚ painted in 1889‚ and The Park‚ painted in about 1910 or earlier‚ are both from the Post-Impressionist movement‚ this explaining why they are painted in a realistic manner. The paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh both illustrate the trees and nature and are oil on canvas‚ but in
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The piece is oil on canvas‚ and is 73.7 x 92.1 cm. Starry‚ Starry night is home to The Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The curving‚ swirling lines of hills‚ mountains‚ and sky; the brilliantly contrasting blues and yellows; the large‚ flame-like cypress trees; and the thickly layered brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night are ingrained
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