in a wintry grove of trees is a masterpiece of the Ming dynasty painter Wen Zhengming (1470-1559). This painting depicts a peaceful scene of mountains and trees after snow‚ with the inscription of Wen’s close friend‚ Wang Chong (1494-1533). By analyzing the imageries and allusions of the poem and the pictorial meaning of the painting‚ this short essay will interpret the identity of Wen Zhengming as a virtuous scholar and amateur painter. This painting was Wen Zhengming’s gift for Hua Xia‚ who was a
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IT was a commissioned work by King Philip IV‚ the main point of the painting is the king’s daughter were she is encircled by the other characters‚ and the painter shows her clearly by using light colors where the rest of the painting is dark‚ and used space of the painting to draw the viewer’s eyes and make them to first look at her. The painter describes in his figure the true life style of the royal family and bound to make tiny distortions to create his idea of perfectly natural picture‚ this shows
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Impact on the World Most people only know Leonardo Da Vinci as a painter‚ but he was much more. Leonardo Da Vinci studied more fields than any other man in the world. Leonardo was a writer‚ botanist‚ cartographer‚ geologist‚ anatomist‚ inventor‚ engineer‚ mathematician‚ scientist‚ musician‚ architect‚ sculptor‚ and a painter. Leonardo Da Vinci created scissors‚ many people use scissors every day. Leonardo Da Vinci was an innovator who had enormous impact on today’s
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Leonardo da Vinci was an important leader in Renaissance Europe. He influenced both art and science significantly through his amazing intellect. Da Vinci was a painter‚ sculptor‚ artist and an engineer. He had an unlimited desire for knowledge and expanded the fields of science and art greatly. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452 in Vinci‚ Tuscany. At the age of 14‚ he was apprenticed to Andrea di Cione. He learned not only artistic skills but also technical skills like mechanics and chemistry
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first person to adopt perspective. The paintings of the architectural plan of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence (1434-82) he wrote are written by the perspective law‚ and it is understood that it is built faithfully based on it. Masaccio‚ a painter who taught perspective from Brunelleschi applied the mathematical perspective method in fresco "The Holy Trinity" of his work. In this way‚ the method of perspective had been spreading to the next
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out of 10. Unlike many painters of his time‚ he did not come from a family of artists or craftsmen; his father‚ Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn (1568–1630)‚ was a miller. His mother‚ Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck (1568–1640)‚ came from a family of bakers. Dutch painter and printmaker‚ one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art‚ possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and
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Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (21 February 1855 - 13 March 1913) was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century‚ and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal‚ Marcelo del Pilar‚ Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena‚ although he neither involved himself directly in that movement‚ nor later associate himself with the First
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The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) is the number of units that a company should add to inventory with each order to minimize the total costs of inventory—such as holding costs‚ order costs‚ and shortage costs. The EOQ is used as part of a continuous review inventory system‚ in which the level of inventory is monitored at all times‚ and a fixed quantity is ordered each time the inventory level reaches a specific reorder point. The EOQ provides a model for calculating the appropriate reorder point and
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John F. Moffitt’s describes 19th century Realism painter‚ Gustave Courbet as revolutionary. Along with Courbet’s’‚ 1855 painting Workshop of the Painter: A Real Allegory Summarizing A Period of Seven Years of My Life as an Artist as revolutionary but also having an underlying pictorial. The print being revolutionary itself‚ with the many-layered iconography and textual topoi‚ but also revolutionary because the underlying pictorial is based from the time period of Courbet’s political views and the
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“Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.” This is a quote by Dutch painter and Etcher. There have been several painters who focused on the atmosphere of the locations or spots that they chose to draw on their canvas. However‚ some of the painters founded themselves mysteriously involved into the environments of places that they visited. One of those painters is Grand Wood‚ who painted the American Gothic. Wood made certain atmosphere the bases of his painting and through his unique style of painting
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