Alice Neel’s painting titled David Bourdon and Gregory Battcock displays a relationship that appears to have gone dreadfully wrong. Alice Neel painted this painting in 1970 with the characters David Bourdon and Gregory Battcock as the titles suggests. With the different colors being used and Neel’s placement of these two men in the painting makes them seem to be at a cross road. This relatively large‚ naturalistic portrait being at 59 ¾ inches x 56 inches done on oil on canvas shows a failing relationship
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"Offering Truth" was painted by Kendra Runnells. This painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel‚ but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd. Throughout the painting one can see darkness and sadness. It appears to be raining. When it rains‚ it sometimes makes people sad. It also makes things really dark‚ not just the sky‚ but also
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Presented in 1830‚ Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is an oil painting on canvas. Its measurements are 260 by 325 cm or 8.5 by 10.67 ft. This grand size adds significance to the subject matter. Liberty Leading the People is currently being displayed in the Musée du Louvre. Although there is not an official patron‚ the work was created to acknowledge the demolition of the rule by Louis-Philippe. In essence‚ it is an admission to celebrate the July Revolution of 1830. With the depiction
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In an essay‚ discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignoncan be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free ofPaul Cézanne’s‚ The Large Bathers. Refer to specific visual references in your discussion. The Large Brothers finished in 1906 made by Paul Cezanne‚ is a post-impressionism painting‚ which looks more like a sketched painting with a lot of unfinished canvas showing through. It appears to be fresco and flat. The women seem to have
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I was able to listen to a podcast called famous tumors. It talked about many different types of rare case tumors. Such as president Ulysses S. Grant‚ Tasmanian devils‚ a man with a safety pin‚ a nun and God‚ and a lady and her daughter. The first segment was over a tumor that president Ulysses S. Grant had died from. They talked about going to see the squamous cell carcinoma that actually killed the president. They then go on to talk about actual Tasmania devils that the photographer Christo Baars
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A Falling Friend In the painting “Miss Olson‚” Andrew Wyeth delivers another painting of one of his most famous models‚ Christina Olson. Wyeth grew up visiting Maine during his summers‚ where he met his wife Betsy Wyeth. It was from her that Wyeth would be introduced to the Olson family‚ specifically spending time with siblings Christina and Alvaro Olson. Through the years‚ many paintings of the Olson’s were worked on‚ but it was his captivating paintings of Christina Olson that would allow him
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My core composition is about creating awareness for animal abandonment. I got this idea‚ through an article I read in the Sydney Morning Herald The title of the article was “Abandoned: Man’s best friend”. What I wanted to express through the radio advertisement was‚ how modern day society would coin the phrase‚ “a dog is a man’s best friend‚” yet have the heart to abandon their “best friend.” I placed emphasis on concentrating the conscience of the listener‚ by basing the storyline on two different
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Vincent van Gogh’s (1853-1890) painting of Starry Night is one of the most renowned and recognizable works of all times. Many are familiar with the curbing‚ swirly line of the bright sky‚ the large flowing cypress trees‚ and the contrast of the yellows and blues. The painting was completed thirteen months before he died‚ and only three months before he was released form Saint Remy de Provences Asylum in 1889. Many aren’t aware of the fact that van Gogh suffered from mental illness. Vincent van
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The use of distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my appreciation of peter goldsworthys maestro & Vincent van goghs starry starry night . this has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in maestro and the use of colour‚ shading‚ lighting and placement in starry starry night. Goldsworthy’s maestro uses distinctively visual features to create an image of the charcters location & the charcters feelings. The novel is about paul crabbe
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of news about Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) drew my attention. It said that this nonprofit museum suffered decreasing investment and donation since the worldwide financial crisis in 2008; indeed‚ it lost about 18% money. It is no doubt that the great power of financial crisis damages the development of nonprofit museums‚ which rely on the endowments and donations from the individuals‚ institutions‚ government‚ etc. There may be some negative expectation on the future of nonprofit museums because of the
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