they must explore deep into their sub-conscious to find who they truly are as a person and how they can represent that on a canvas‚ print or paper through the use of symbols and other techniques. Two artists who have done this are Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh. Frida Kahlo was one of the most important Mexican artists of her time. She is well known for her harsh revealing self-portraits. She started to paint at the age of 15 after she was in a horrific bus accident‚ where she then began her career
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Picasso ’s "Guernica" (1937) and Goya ’s "The Third of May" (1814) are paintings that are created to communicate an issue of concern of the artist. In order to truly understand the impact that these paintings have on people‚ and why that impact is so strong‚ a person must analyse the content of them. The first reaction of the "Guernica" by Picasso is one of mayhem‚ destruction‚ lost souls and death. The entire painting is dark with cool colours and no sign of warmth. There are scattered distorted
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Clement Greenberg‚ “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”‚ Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting‚ particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that‚ the same way Kant used reason in order to examine the limits of reason‚ Modernist art is when art became self critical because
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October 2011 Formal Analysis of Hôtel de France by Stuart Davis When I first saw the painting‚ 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
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Description An expressionist figure painting of a nude woman using oil paint on linen Head leaning back and sitting comfortably in her arm-chair‚ the woman’s left arm is slung over her chest and her right arm supporting her leaning into the armrest. She has her right leg relaxed and her foot gently touching the floor. Her left leg is folded up‚ pushing hard against the edge of the seat. There are no recognizable objects other than the woman and the arm-chair. The artist uses a primary color scheme
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For this painting Johannes Vermeer used charcoal‚ chalk‚ tempera‚ white lead‚ red and yellow ochre‚ vermillion and oil paints in various tones most of which he grinded up himself daily. No one knows how Johannes Vermeer made the initial drawing for this painting but it is thought that preliminary drawing on the canvas was to act as a guide during the painting and also intended to fix the significant contours of the composition. Once the initial outline drawing was finished he began the underpainting
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Within Frida Kahlo’s painting Self Portrait Along the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States she includes many symbols such as the lighting that carries throughout the painting‚ the statues‚ Ford hospital and factory‚ and the way her hands are folded and what they hold. Each of those contribute to the meaning Frida Kahlo wants to express in this painting which is how she feels about America and Mexico compared to one another. Those feelings she wants to express is that she truly values Mexico
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Introduction Monalisa‚ a famous painting about a woman in half-length is famous all over the world. This potrait has been considered to be the most renowed painting and at the same time‚ it is the most talked about painting in the world which makes it the most popular painting of all. What makes the painting so famous when the drawing just consist of a woman sitting with her hands folded and showing a half smile. Thesis Statement The reason why Mona Lisa is very famous is because of its painter
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Cave Art and Paintings and Their Meaning Dr.Elaine Marchello Vsc 160D1 001 Nov 20 2011 Paintings are one of the earliest discovered traces of art‚ and people first found them on the relics of the Aurignacian time period. Those paintings were drawn on the cave walls and ceilings‚ probably 32‚000 years ago. There are a lot of conjectures about the meaning of cave paintings‚ some people believe that those pictures are used to communicate with others‚ but others ascribe a kind of
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Sesshu’s painting known as “Winter Landscape” depicts the mountainous terrain of China with people settled across it. At first glance‚ without being technical‚ Sesshu uses only ink and paper to paint the mountain range‚ slowly adding less distinct mountains as it moves further away‚ and then vegetation in the form of trees is scattered about the mountain. There is a human presence mixed in with the nature in the form of a man walking up the mountain and a large temple or palace like structure in
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