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    interpretation on Juan Luna’s painting‚ “Picnic in Normandy”. I made this essay for my ArtStudies2 class. Ermmm… the painting is at the Vargas Museum‚ University of the Philippines – Diliman‚ Quezon City‚ Philippines. If you have time to visit our university‚ drop by at the Vargas Museum coz there are lots of things to appreciate there. :) The painting entitled‚ Picnic in Normandy‚ is the painting that caught my attention when I visited the Vargas Museum. It is an oil painting on canvas made by Juan

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    in Mantua‚ Italy. This painting covers an entire room and all the surfaces within it. It is a fresco that puts the viewer in the center of the piece when seen in person. The room makes whoever is standing within it feel as if they are apart of the actual painting itself. This is an easy task since each wall including the floor and ceiling were all made with the intention of making the painting overwhelm the viewer and make them feel insignificant. The hall where the painting is located is in a square

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    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 in the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazia‚ Milan‚ Italy. A fresco painting is a method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster. This painting shows Christ at the center of the painting. It shows

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    art in the victorian era

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    shape. Realism was very popular for hundreds of years and people became used to having paintings look really realistic so that why when a new form of art came along it wasn’t accepted right away. Since the church controlled a lot of what was happening during this period the paintings had to be about historical biblical or mythological references. Some of the other standards that each painting had to meet was that it needed to be really tall most came around to 6 feet tall and the

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    formal education in art but would often travel many times to Europe. He is best known for his later works‚ landscapes influenced by the swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. His Landscape paintings went from a more realistic and luscious style the that of evocative atmospheric backgrounds. Innesses late paintings resonate with affinities to both historic and contemporary work. Religious freedom in the United States gave birth to a vast group of religions that catered to the needs of a diverse populace

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     and shape. These design elements move the eye throughout the painting in a continuous interaction between the elements. Each section is well balanced and rich in content. The large mountain in the foreground sets the foundation for the painting by serving as a barrier‚ keeping the viewers eyes from leaving the page. The area showing the travelers moving in the stream sets a sense of motion‚ engaging the eye to travel through the painting. The grand scale of all the elements inspire the viewer to

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    sur plat) is a still life painting by french artist Antoine Vollon. It is an oil painting on canvas depicting four eggs and their yellow yolks in a pan‚ sitting on a shelf or bench next to a pitcher of (presumably) water or milk. It was painted in the period between 1885 and 1890 and is now a part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The artist‚ Antoine Vollon‚ was born in France in the year 1833. He focused primarily on still life painting but also painted figures and

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    Landscape With Icarus

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    Pieter the Elder’s Baroque painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus‚” was supposed to focus on Icarus drowning in the ocean after being near the sun for too long. Instead‚ the focus was shifted towards the landscape where the two farmers are working in the field. The reason why this occurred was because the mass of the painting made it so to distract me from searching where Icarus was in the painting. The landscape based on its mass carried more weight in the painting than the ocean as it showed

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    Mother and Child‚ an oil painting on canvas completed by Mary Cassatt in 1908‚ engages its audience with thick‚ blurred brushstrokes and the uses of warm toned colors in addition to its unexpected lines and form that transitions off into blank canvas that direct one’s eyes to the faces of the pair. The inviting image that Cassatt painted highlights a mother‚ in a traditional 20th century dress‚ holding her nude daughter while smiling down at her. In the painting‚ the porcelain-skinned mother is beaming

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    essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states: Original paintings are silent and still in a sense that

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