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    Frescos‚ is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid‚ or wet lime plaster. Frescos style decorated the interior of the chapel and especially played a part on the ceiling. Under the rule of Pope Julius II‚ the pope wanted the ceiling of the chapel to be painted. He demanded an

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    in 1953 and is an oil on canvas painting. Easter Sunrise depicts a mountain side and shining from the corner of the mountain is a brilliant white cross.   As far as the technical excellence of this painting‚ the colors are varying degrees of browns‚ gold and white. Georgia O’Keeffe uses form really well. Even though she uses one mountain as the main focus‚ in the background there are other mountains and road leading into the distance. In the forefront of the painting there are trees and the road.

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    acquire “modern” techniques in order to apply more life like and three-dimensional characteristics to their paintings. Artists started to study human and animal anatomy in order to really understand how to best portray their subject in their painting. Despite the fact that in the article Painting and Experience in Fifth Century Italy‚ Baxandall would say that in the early renaissance paintings that were painted with higher quality and material were thought to be more valuable than an individual’s skills

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    including handcrafted jewelry‚ pottery‚ and paintings. The drawing Loss of the Minnesota Red Pine by Mary Ann Laxen beautifully incorporates authentic red pine tree bark. The bark adds to the desert scenery as the bark is in the shape of two cactuses. Since this picture is a drawing‚ the color is comprised of different shades of black lead from a pencil‚ with a hint of green for a small section of grass and yellow for the sun. Therese Master Jacobson’s painting Red Guitar Pick illustrates a yellow‚ white

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    Some similarities between the painting and the poem titled‚ “The Fall of Icarus” include the storytelling and the little amount of significance shown Icarus while differences include the way the authors chose to emphasize other aspects of the story. Despite the fact that the author and the painter were trying to tell the same story in different forms‚ they still told the story in very similar ways. In the poem‚ the author chooses the last two words to be‚ “Icarus drowning.” This shows that Icarus

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    Dying Lord This semester I focused my research on Andrea Mantegna’s painting The Man of Sorrows with the Two Angels and his ability in portraying the meditative importance of the slain Christ. (Next Slide) The history of painting the Lord‚ slain from crucifixion had been a very popular and well exercised practice for many centuries. The iconography of His crucifixion has been dated back as early as the fourth century. But not until about the thirteenth century did we start seeing Christ being portrayed

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    In my opinion‚ one word to describe Eileen Pollack’s journey through life is resiliency. Honestly‚ I wasn’t looking forward to attending the lecture at first because I assumed she was going to bash on males and promote feminism for an hour. I also believed that I would be the only guy there. Nonetheless‚ my assumption was completely wrong‚ and I was immature to even think that for a minute. Within the first moments of listening to her talk‚ I was moved and inspired. She grew up in New York in the

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    misinterpret the Blue Horse I as representational. However‚ Franz Marc’s oil painting cannot be: representational because although the viewer can tell there is a horse in the painting‚ but horses cannot be blue; nonrepresentational because the image refers to something in the natural world; or realism because this painting is not something we actually see on top of the hills. The artist painted a horse and anyone who looks at the painting will‚ without a doubt‚ know it is a horse. In addition‚ a viewer can

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    In this Greek vase painting of Theseus showing some of his many labors and great adventures. Starting at the center of the vase the artist showing Theseus most famous minotaur scene I believe that this is the point where Theseus has just killed the minotaur and dragging him out the labyrinth because the sword is still in his right hand and only half his body is showing. As I continue around the vase some of the scenes are easily to identify then others like the scene of Theseus killing Skiron‚ by the

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    He brought the brush to the canvas‚ carefully mixed in an assortment of reds and blues and waited for the next stroke. It had taken him five hours just to mix the paint and when he brought the finely tipped horse hair brush to the canvas‚ he couldn’t do it. The vision he had thought on for 4 months just wouldn’t come‚ it just couldn’t be converted into the frame. What had happened to him over the years? Once he was running around the studios of New York‚ working non-stop to meet the next gallery

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