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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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    2.Oil painting‚ life-size portrait painting and the use of perspective 3. The history paintings dramatise and recreate various episodes of British imperial history. These paintings celebrated the British—their power‚ victories and supremacy. One such painting is the one shown below. The discovery of the body of Sultan Tipu by General Sir David Baird‚ 4 May 1799‚ painted by David Wilkie This painting‚ like most imperial history paintings‚ aims to project the superiority of the Britishers over

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    Sleep is a painting done by an artist named David Hockey in 1972. Hockey was born in Braford‚ England in 1939 and was an English painter‚ printmaker‚ stage designer and photographer. He was also involved in pop art movement in the 1960’s. Most of Hockey’s works were prints‚ portraits of his friends‚ and stage designs in New York City. He is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. David Hockey began this painting in 1972 and then abandoning the painting a year later

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    Greco. The painting depicts the landscape of Toledo‚ Spain‚ the city where the artist worked and lived for most of his life. This is a very significant work for several reasons: it is considered to be the first landscape in Spanish art‚ one of only two surviving landscapes painted by this artist‚ and because this artist rarely painted non-religious subject matter. View of Toledo is considered to be one of the most dramatic and individual landscapes in the history of art. The painting is not an accurate

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    used‚ as well as the historical context of the painting Marie-Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun‚ finished after 1783 . The painting can currently be found at National Gallery of Art. Washington DC. Vigée Le Brun skillfully used different elements of art and principles of design to create an informal‚ relatable painting of Marie Antoinette that strayed from the normal style that was used in portraits of French Nobles. This particular painting was created using a canvas as the ground‚ and

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    to create art is a defining sign of humanity‚ the body may well have been the first canvas. Alongside paintings on cave walls visited by early people over 30‚000 years ago‚ we find handprints‚ ochre deposits‚ and ornaments. And because the dead were often buried with valuable possessions and provisions for the afterlife‚ ancient burials reveal that people have been tattooing‚ piercing‚ painting‚ and shaping their bodies for millennia. All of the major forms of body art known today appear in the

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    and his friends viewed a magnificent red‚white‚ yellow‚ black‚ brown bulls‚ bison‚ deer and horses. Artists used brushes made from animal hair and plant fiber and with sponges made from fur. The paintings took back to the Magdalenian period‚ which was over 15‚000 years ago. Cro-Magnon people drew the paintings on the caves.The people who lived during 2‚500‚000 B.C. to 10‚000 B.C. were nomadic hunter and gatherers (which means they travel from place to place for survival). Archaeologists believe three

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    Similarities between the music of Debussy and the painting of Turner The music of Claude Debussy and the painting of J.M.W. Turner are‚ in most people’s minds‚ two entirely different things. However‚ each man was considered the founder of impressionism in his own artform. Impressionism was a movement in late 19th century European art‚ which was a reflection of the realizations in physics about the properties of light. Turner’s atmospheric paintings and Debussy’s tone poems‚ although different forms

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    Can Art be Limited to Single Categories What is Clement Greenberg’s definition of “modernism”? I do not agree with Clement Greenberg definitions of modernism‚ in his essay ‘Modernist Painting’. Because it is wrong to place artistic limits on artistic expression‚ whether that is painting‚ sculpture or any other artistic work. As Manet’s sad “art for art sack”. Single person cannot be permitted to make decision on what good art is. In doing so he took away the freedom to explore‚ and once needed‚ push

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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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