Delacroix (1798-1863) and Gustave Courbet (1819-77) were two painters who didn’t see photography as a threat to painting. They and others later‚ quickly embraced it as a means of referencing such details as facial expression‚ ephemeral light effects‚ and motion. Delacroix even wrote in his journal that ‘if a man of genius should use the daguerreotype as it ought to be used; he will raise himself to heights unknown to us’. Some painters‚ notably Edgar Degas‚ Pierre Bonnard‚ Edvard Munch‚ and Ernst
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Europe‚ and Australia (Kirkham 1). They were part of the team that produced the first American multimedia presentation in 1953‚ and they designed enormous projects for companies like IBM‚ Polaroid‚ and Herman Miller (Eames: The Architect and the Painter).
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CIMABUE: Virgin and Child in Glory surrounded by six angels‚ c. 1280‚ wood‚ Musee de Louvre 1. ARTIST: Cimabue- also known as Cenni Di Pepi’ a. Generally regarded as one of the first great Italian painters to break away from the Italo-Byzantine style‚ a.i. he still relied on Byzantine traits. b. Painter and mosaicist‚ b.i. Cimabue used the formal traits of Byzantine art‚ b.i.1. Brought emotional aspects‚ b.i.2. An increased concern with naturalism‚ b.i.3. New awareness of three-dimensional
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Elisabeth’s style of art was very different from the abstract and pop art we’re used to seeing today. She was a Neoclassic painter who specialized in the high royalty and actresses who lived during the French Revolution.Neoclassicism either captures an image of someone posing in a still space‚ or gives an image to old Greek or Roman legends. Neoclassicism has often been called just the style of portraits‚ but that is far from the truth. Portraits can be done in pretty much any style‚ from Pop to
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During the 19th century Romanticism era‚ Albert Bierstadt was one of the most influential painters brought into this time. Bierstadt best known for his paintings that took place in the later 1800s that predominantly consisted of the landscapes of the American West. Although Bierstadt was not the first painter to record these sites‚ he was the one painter who had people look forward to his own version of these paintings. In the 1860s‚ Bierstadt went west for the first time and it would change his
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Gentileschi. Gentileschi was a female Italian painter that painted
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Hôtel de France‚ painted by Stuart Davis‚ I thought that was just an ordinary painting of a building and a street that is pretty‚ especially in a way that looks old-fashioned. I had to come to realize that the painting was painted from what the painter sees from the scene. The painting is a picture of a four-story building of the hotel named‚ Hôtel de France. On the left side of the painting are the sides of other buildings. In front of the Hôtel de France building is a public urinal building. Beside
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Artemisia Gentileschi was a painter during the Italian Baroque period‚ and is widely considered one of the most prolific and influential artists of her time. She was contemporary to Caravaggio and greatly admired his style‚ as well as being the daughter of a painter herself. However‚ despite being arguably the greatest painter of her generation‚ many of her works are wrongly attributed to her father‚ and her influence is still being downplayed to this day. Artemisia’s greatest antagonist however
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IV/ Written work: 2. Waiting for the Shop to Open Waiting for the shop to open (1943) is a painting by L. S. Lowry. Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English painter and became well-known for his oil paintings of industrial and urban landscapes of the North of England in the mid-20th century. The scene of the painting takes place in a street which is in front of a greengrocer’s shop called “fish and fruit”. Furthermore‚ the number of the street‚ 117‚ on the door’s shop was the same as Lowry’s house:
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Holbein the Younger “An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments” (1530) I have chose Hans Holbein the Younger‚ as my artist for this critical essay. He was an accomplished portraitist during the Tudor Dynasty‚as well as King Henry’s private painter. I would have like to have done some of his portraits‚ but I felt that it would be very difficult for this assignment‚ as his portraits were more of a modeling‚ as opposed to creative imagery art. The piece that I have chosen is “An Allegory
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