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    In this response‚ I intend to discuss Arthur Streeton’s Fire’s On‚ a 183.8 x 122.5cm oil on canvas painting‚ produced in 1891 in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales‚ Australia. Fire’s On depicts the steep “walls of rock” “crowned” with “bronze green” “gums” and the “crest mouth” that he encountered on his journey through the Blue Mountains. Streeton created this painting to justly portray the rough‚ “glor[ious]”‚ unsung landscape of Australia‚ namely its “great‚ gold plains” and “hot‚ trying winds”

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    This painting is by Ellen Plankey‚ it is untitled and a pastel. For the purposes of this paper‚ I’ll call it “Young Girl on Blanket”. This is a picture of a young woman sitting on what appears to be a blanket. She’s looking off to her right and is wearing a dark blue skirt and a baby blue cloth around her head as a wrap. She’s topless‚ but how it’s shadowed only one of her breasts is very prominent; the other blurred by shadow. She’s surrounded by plants‚ all of which are leafy bushes. The sky in

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    story behind his/her painting. I believe every person sees a painting with different view and experience it differently. Each color the artist choose in every painting has message that he or she is trying to send to the viewers. One of the common color in my ten art work is gray. Gray is seen by people as unemotional‚ cold‚ and boring color because it is neither black nor white. I believe gray can deliver many emotions and not just depressed feeling. In each one of my painting‚ the artists choose

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    portraying life. This gives each painting or drawing a unique look that is almost the artist’s way of signing their work. Such as‚ the difference between one of the mural study pieces at the Pearl Fincher Museum and Sheep Shearing by James “Buck” Winn. This makes each painting look different‚ and gives each painting a different feel. Made by an unknown artist in an unknown year a mural study piece from the museum is an oil painting on a panel. It is a painting of several men raising‚ shearing‚

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    looks like a face. It also looks like the beach is in the sky and there is a war going on‚ on the right side of the painting. The serialist painting is made out a oil paint. It has a lot of recognisable objects and some objects you can’t tell what it is. The painting is horizontal‚ a little passed being a square. A lot of the different objects are the same thing. The colors of the painting are different shades and tints of white‚ brown and a little blue. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish was made in

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    conservative people didn¡¯t accept his innovative paintings which filled up with thick and short brushstrokes and brown dominated colors. But Jackson and the group members kept their mindset. They insisted European painting style is not suitable to depict the Canadian nature as rough and muddy rather than shiny and gold color fulfilled atmosphere with cow on the pasture field. Jackson was influenced by Impressionism and worked on improving his own way of painting style to depict the nature of Canada. He

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    most important part of the painting Poussin argues that the drawing is more important. In the paragraphs below I will talk about the paintings each individually and then compare them. The first painting I will be talking about is Rubens’ The Caledonian Boar Hunt. This painting is a depiction of mythological event. The myth that is depicted in this painting is when the goddess Diana sent a boar to punish King Oeneus because he failed to honor her with offerings. The painting is the moment when the

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    take up 1/3rd of the painting. By proportioning the piece‚ the artist was able to help spectators focus on certain aspect of the painting. Since there is so many different objects to observe‚ it is easy to become lost in the painting. However‚ the artist was able to capture the focus the picture by creating the proportions of the painting. For example‚ the sky is placed far in the back‚ with little noteworthy

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    Culture Professor Winn Visual Analysis Paper Due: 2/5/17 Pieter Claesz’s Vanitas: Two Paintings in One Claesz’s Vanitas Still Life is an Oil on Panel still life depicting various objects on a table. A violin rests on top of a booklet. A wine glass is keeled over the booklet as well. Behind the booklet is a human skull. Left to the violin lies a round silver ball that casts a reflection of the painter painting this picture. In front of the round silver ball lies a snuff box. Lying right next to

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    Neanderthal men started painting on the walls of the cave. Throughout the centuries‚ art has evolved to several forms among which are sculpting‚ painting‚ and even poetry. Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses‚ emotions‚ and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities‚ creations‚ and modes of expression‚ including music‚ literature‚ film‚ photography‚ sculpture‚ and paintings. The meaning of art is

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