not be beautiful to others. Beauty can be found anywhere‚ at any time and any place. From the Jim Germaux’s exhibition in the Roper Gallery the painting Parallel Play was the most striking work of art. Not only is this work eye catching‚ but it so abstract it requires you to just stop and examine the artwork. There are various aspects of Germaux’s painting that create beauty through compositional elements beyond nature. The visual elements in this artwork include: line‚ shape and implied mass‚ color
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traditional Navajo sand paintings and the magery taken from them as subject matter that is being woven into rugs and artwork that is being sold for profit. This has resulted in a heated debate that has literally split the Navajo people into two separate groups‚ those that don’t mind the use of sand painting imagery and those that feel that it is wrong to use the symbols and forms of a sacred ritual for common artwork. This has sparked such a storm of controversy because the sand paintings are a Navajo art
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The painting‚ Boats Returning Home‚ depicts ships drifting at sea in the lull of the waves. Ritschel’s impressionistic style is shown through the vibrant waves of the sea. He uses brilliant shades of blue‚ green‚ and yellow in illustrating the waves. The painting was made in California at the onset of a new impressionist movement: which exemplifies the beauty of nature. Thus‚ it shows even the laboring fishing boats with a tranquil nature. It accentuates the union between man and the sea‚ and the
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Name of painting: Large interior‚ Los Angeles Name of painter: David Hockney Modern Art is not really on my good list. I am not a fan of it. Though when doing this project‚ I found a painting that to my eyes was beautiful and uplifting. It was painted by David Hockney a painter I am not familiar with. His works are beautiful but only one painting was noticed among the rest by me to be the best at the Metropolitan museum. It stood out with its bright colors and vivid play of light. It’s light
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things‚ yet our mother still forgives us. Our mother didn’t want her child to be hurt or even have mosquito bite. Mary Cassatt painted a Young Mother Sewing on a rectangular canvas. She used oil paint. In the foreground‚ the young child in the painting was wearing a white and sky blue dress. Grey was used to highlight her dress in the light. She had brown eyes‚ brown hair and chubby red cheeks. The child was leaning on her mother’s lap looking at the viewer. The mother was wearing a white and black
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The Gulf Stream‚ is an oil painting created by Winslow Homer in 1899. This piece of artwork showcases a young‚ African American man with only pants on for clothing‚ that has a destroyed boat and is in the middle of the ocean with sharks beneath him with crashing waves that are tipping his boat closer into the ocean all while he sits on the boat just looking out into the ocean. This artwork also shows us the mental strength of mankind‚ the ability to remain calm and collected in horrendous situations
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stroke size wanted on the artwork. 2. Analyze the characteristics of different painting media (3 minimum)- the advantages and disadvantages and discuss in examples. (100 word min) Oil painting lets the artist create luminous hardwearing colors that blend well with surrounding paints and are slower drying than water colors‚ but that can also be a disadvantage because it makes it hard to move into the next stage of painting. But oils and acrylics can contain toxins in some cases. But the acrylics do
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Olivia Peguero Art and Paintings: Its Symbolism and Meanings At first look Olivia Peguero’s oil paintings are magnificent and lavish tropical visions of the Dominican Republic and Caribbean. Her art has been inextricably linked to the idea of island life and the splendor of its landscapes and botanical diversity. Peguero only produces a few pieces each year‚ some taking months to complete. She is often seen in images‚ flanked by her assistant or with only her easel and set of oils. Spending weeks
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Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay”Exhibition. On a smaller canvas than two other similar paintings‚ Vincent Van Gogh carefully painted for the third time his bedroom in Arles‚ a charming town in the south of France‚ and thus created this approximately 22 ½ x 29’’ artwork. In fact‚ Van Gogh made three almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom and are named « Bedroom in Arles ». The first one‚ kept at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is painted
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Greco. The painting depicts the landscape of Toledo‚ Spain‚ the city where the artist worked and lived for most of his life. This is a very significant work for several reasons: it is considered to be the first landscape in Spanish art‚ one of only two surviving landscapes painted by this artist‚ and because this artist rarely painted non-religious subject matter. View of Toledo is considered to be one of the most dramatic and individual landscapes in the history of art. The painting is not an accurate
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