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    It was painted on oil and canvas. Sargent was an American artist who settled in England. He was considered to be the “leading portrait painter of his generation”. I liked this painting because of its laid back nature. It seemed like these were people of a fairly wealthy family because of the way they are dressed. They are just young adults lounging out on the river having fun on a calm‚ warm‚ sunny‚ Sunday afternoon. The boy in

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    meat stall painting by peter aertsen: He was the 1st person to create compositional inversion paintings’’. In the painting of the Meat Stall emphasis on what you can see and should see with the naked eyes. The painting encourage the markets of good and service. The Meat Stall also shows abundance in a creating way to encourage economy; and also trade with other people and region. The background of the painting is a holy family in flight to Egypt. The message or the moral of the painting is to remember

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    Behind the Clothesline In Mary Whyte’s watercolor painting Sweet Pea‚ a young African-American girl with braided hair is depicted wearing a light yellow shirt‚ holding a doll and appears to be standing behind a colorful‚ vibrant clothesline. What is the young girls reasoning for standing behind the clothesline? Based on the young girl’s familiarized demeanor in Sweet Pea‚ one can infer that she is standing behind the clothesline because it’s a place that she has been acclimated to being around.

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    Look carefully at Plate 1.3.32‚ Paul Cezanne’s painting Still Life with Plaster Cast‚ c. 1894. How do the form and content of this painting contribute to our understanding of it as a modern work? According to art critic Clive Wilson‚ writing in 1914‚ Cézanne was ‘the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form (Harrison‚ C‚ 2008‚ p.63). Considered a revolutionist‚ Cézanne helped pave the way for other modern artists and his abstract tendencies contributed to the Cubist Movement. Robert Cumming

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    Summative Art Write-Up Acrylic Landscape Painting Where did your idea/image come from? Is it your own image or did you use someone’s artwork or photograph to work from for a practical exercise? Briefly describe the image? (colours‚ the scene itself) (5 marks) My idea/image came from a social media app called instagram‚ and the image was take in Lake Minnewanka in Alberta Canada. I did use someone else’s photograph. The individual who took it remains unknown‚ however their instagram account is

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    What was the effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography

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    The writer aims to describe to the reader the nature of love through what love is not‚ and uses techniques such as repetition and allusions. In the opening lines of the sonnet‚ the persona bids the reader to “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments.” It is inevitable that we make a connection to the Episcopal Book‚ where it is stated‚ “…if either of you do know any impediment why you may not be lawfully joined together in marriage‚ that ye confess it.” While it is important to

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    Greek Vase Painting‚ Archaic and Classical Periods A Comparison of Back and Red-Figure Painting Rich Grudzinski Art History One Black-figure and red-figure painting techniques were the most popular methods of painting vases and other vessels during this period. A third method‚ the white-ground technique was too delicate for everyday use and was mainly used for making lekythoi (a type of pottery used for storing oil‚ commonly placed in Greek graves as offerings to the deceased). Therefore

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    after the hundreds of years of revolution it has seen. The constant change that Russia has undergone and yet its resistance to keep its culture makes it a very independent country. Ilya Repin’s painting “They Did Not Expect Him”‚ is a token of how much a country can undertake and yet still be strong. The painting depicts the struggle of the Russian people but also how they have managed to strive forward know matter what obstacles get in

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    Blog describing the ethical issues in international business practices Ethics is: Ethics‚ also known as moral philosophy‚ is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing‚ defending‚ and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term comes from the Greek word ethos‚ which means "character". Ethics is a complement to Aesthetics in the philosophy field of Axiology. In philosophy‚ ethics studies the moral behaviour in humans‚ and how one should act. Ethics may be divided into four

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