A Comparison of Great Art Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci are two of the worlds greatest artist. In their art paintings they often exhibit the usage of detailed imagery‚ vivid colors and an unconventional way of creating depth and volume in their works. It is hard to compare every single piece so in this paper I am only going to focus on one piece of work from each artist. In a piece named "Virgin of the Rocks‚" Da Vinci creates
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Michael Craig-Marin’s work is unrealistic‚ it’s modern and is conceptual while Harmen Steenwyck’s work is more realistic‚ dark and looks very medieval (even though it wasn’t painted in the medieval period). The colour MCM used in this piece of art are complementary and they contrast from each other and are not the original colours of the real object. While the choice of colour which Harmen used are the actual colours of the real object if not‚ they are close. I also notice that Harmen shades a lot
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Lovely Bones Assignment The title of my artwork is "Killing the Dead". The subject matter of my artwork is landscape‚ narrative history. The medium that are used for my artwork was watercolour pencils and the technique that I used was colouring both horizontally and vertically. The elements of design that are shown are movement‚ balance‚ and unity. The elements of design were arranged so that they would looked together and clean. The emphasis in my artwork is the skull. I’ve made the location of
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The Famous Artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci Lady with an Ermine (1489–1490) The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani‚ and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Lodovico Sforza‚ Duke of Milan and Leonardo was in the service of the Duke. Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine is one of the most important woks in all of Western art. St. John the Baptist (1513-16) The pointing gesture of St. John toward the heavens suggests the importance of salvation through
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The artwork “Arcadia Revisited” was created by John Matos which his nickname is Crash. Matos was born in New York 1961 and began his journey as an artist by the age of 13. He would go to train yard and do graffiti the trains which they call that “bombing”. During the 1980’s‚ he advances his graffiti artistic career from trains to galleries. Also‚ Crash is recognized as one of the first generation of a graffiti artist. Additionally‚ Matos use his style of defining graffiti to gain popularity in
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On August 1st 1914‚ Germany declared war on Russia‚ and on the 3rd‚ declared war on France. Starting at the top of the previous page the first piece of artwork I chose to review is Max Beckmann’s piece Der Kriegsausbruch (Declaration of War)‚ created in 1914 as the declarations of war had just been announced. This is a drawing depicting the reaction of passers-by in Berlin to the news of war being declared. I chose this piece specifically because of the "sketchy" style of drawing. I find that
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Contemporary Artwork Comparison And Analysis Art Essay The two pieces that I have selected for comparison and contrast use similar photographic technology and content to evoke various feelings of viewers‚ this is one of the way in which contemporary visual arts show the incredible glamour to audience. Comparing “Fringe”(Belmore‚ 2007/2008) with “Self-Portrait/Cutting” by Catherine Opie in 1993‚ both works break the rule of thirds‚ making the female form in the center of composition. AS a result
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HERAKLES BY Piero della Francesca From: http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/browse?filter=artist:1899 Piero della Francesca (c. 1415[1] – October 12‚ 1492) was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists‚ to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its serene humanism‚ its use of geometric forms and perspective. His
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The death of Alexander the Great inspired the beginning of the Hellenistic era of the fourth century. The characteristics of this period marked a separation and divide from earlier Greek’s works. Hellenistic artist’s begun expressing their sculptures with such high degree of naturalism contrasting with the earlier religious sculptures that used the idea of realism. Another essential idea that Hellenistic artists used to convey their message on sculptures was the use of emotion‚ drama‚ lighting and
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Religious Artwork of the Renaissance In this paper I will be comparing three different pieces of artwork. I will be examining how these pieces portray their biblical themes‚ and any different technique each artist uses in their paintings. The first painting is The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci‚ c 1497. It is a Fresco painting. Fresco painting is color that is ground up in water or a limewater mixture. It is painted on a fresh and moist plaster surface. It is 15’1”x28’10 ½ “. It is currently
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