"Fayum portraits" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 18 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Oval Portrait Syllabus

    • 1280 Words
    • 6 Pages

    (Quiz 1 will post Wednesday‚ January 23rd and is Due to be taken no later than Monday‚ January 28th) READ: PGS. 1 - 3 :"Femininities" PG. 4 : "Chapter 1: Women As Art" PGS. 5 - 8 : "The Oval Portrait" : Edgar Allan Poe PGS. 15 - 19 : "Their Last Visitor" : Young-ha Kim  "In an Artist’s Studio" : Christina

    Premium Psychometrics Education English-language films

    • 1280 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Frida Kahlo

    • 4432 Words
    • 18 Pages

    Frida Kahlo: The Wonders behind the Tragedies Nathalie Sarju Candidate Number: Visual Arts Mr. Randall Scott Session: May 2014 Word Count: 3‚829 Abstract Miscarriages‚ betrayal‚ sickness‚ and relationships all assist in forming the damaged‚ difficult life Frida Kahlo survived through her art. Upon encountering the harsh experiences she went through‚ Kahlo would use art as her escape and as a means to express her feelings. This research was conducted to reflect and discuss the in depth

    Premium Frida Kahlo History of painting Mexico

    • 4432 Words
    • 18 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Journey Story

    • 1370 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Ridwaan Khan Good Day Story 1 The sun was casting a dying red light over the court yard‚ as the shadows partly eclipsed the sun. The view from the enclosed cell chamber was tormenting him as it cruelly made him reminisce about that one‚ painful time he was forced to remember eternally. The walls beyond the prison gates showed stretches of dry barren land with blistering weather all year round. The barren empty earth extended far into the horizon. His head hung dejectedly‚ he closed his eyes

    Premium Paint Color Brush

    • 1370 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    depicted a very “overdosed” Mona Lisa with a stick of cigarette‚ a bottle of Red Horse‚ and face with clown-like make up. I think he was just trying to add a little bit of today in something very classic. The normal Mona Lisa shows a very pleasant portrait. Luis Lorenzana’s artworks usually show surrealism or bizarreness. This fact explains this rendition of the Mona Lisa. I think he created this just to show creativity and give people a different taste compared to the usual. Who would imagine Mona

    Premium Mona Lisa Portrait painting Leonardo da Vinci

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Hangs There Art is not always pleasant‚ but neither is society. Art and society have a reflective relationship with one another. During social‚ religious‚ and political controversy‚ artists such as Frida Kahlo incorporated imagery into their portraits of society which are often disturbing to the viewer. The role of an artist often includes acting as a social critic‚ to show us aspects of our cultural landscape that are unpleasant. In this manner‚ the art acts as a commentary on the negative aspects

    Premium Frida Kahlo Surrealism Diego Rivera

    • 2224 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Analysis of the archetype in O. Wilde’s novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray" The scale of the realization of ideas through the archetype of an animated portrait allows one to compare "Portrait of Dorian Gray" and Gogol’s "Portrait" as manifestoes of related epochs. In the first chapter‚ an analysis of the archetype in Gogol’s story was conducted‚ we will try to discover the archetype in Wilde’s novel by the same characteristics: • the inclusion of the archetype in ontological issues; • reflection of

    Premium The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray syndrome

    • 843 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    audience through his fingers‚ the subject of the Laughing Fool holds a pair of glasses‚ instead of wearing them. This 16th century dutch painting indicated the ignorance and blindness for immorality. Similarly‚ the Spanish imperial painting‚ the Portrait of a Young Woman‚ 1795-1810‚ depicted a young lady wearing extravagant clothing that displayed her wealth‚ but there were more to be implicated through the painting‚ especially the ignorance of the slave trades and the sugar trade‚ the complex history

    Premium Painting Woman Art

    • 979 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Frida Kahlo

    • 623 Words
    • 3 Pages

    * NAME : ABDUL RAHMAN BIN MOHAMED * GROUP : 12M13 * TOPIC : READING 1 – FRIDA KAHLO : TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS QUESTION 1: How do you think painting help Frida Kahlo with her problem? ANSWER: From my view of humanisation‚ painting helps Frida Kahlo so much. It is because only from painting will make her continues her hope about her life after turning point of her life made her really uncapable to do anything else such as to be one of the successful doctor only

    Free Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa History of painting

    • 623 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    illusionistic effects‚ just as that of the mirror used to attract the viewer’s visibility; rather it also portrays reflections of images that reside outside the view. In addition‚ the artist here has used three primary focal-points including self-portrait‚ half-length‚ and reflected mirrored images. However‚ the dimensions and depth of the painting have been obscured this has been accomplished through the use of various layers‚ shapes‚ colors‚ and tones that tend to overlap for outstanding effects

    Premium Diego Velázquez Observation Madrid

    • 321 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ambition in Life 1

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Ambition should be within one’s reach. There is no fun for crying for the moon. My ambition is to be a great painter. My teachers have always appreciated my paintings and encouraged me to paint. I have painted various subjects varying from nature to portraits. My paintings have always found a place in our school exhibitions. My imagination is sharp and sense of colours good. This and my vivid imagination have made me a good painter. I have been practicing painting for a long time now and I realize that

    Premium Painting History of painting Portrait painting

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
Page 1 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 50