the individual in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii". Rousseau’s publication‚ The Social Contract‚ states that "Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains". His belief is that everyone is equal and nobody has authority over anyone else. This was the source of the revolutionaries’ ideas (p96 Blk 3). In order to be free while living in society’‚ Rousseau’s solution is that the individual adopts the general will. This view is also reflected in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii"
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of the painting‚ man at the cross road was to depict the social
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Issue131 The arts (painting‚ music‚ literature‚ etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society." Do the arts always express the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of society? I fundamentally agree with what the speakers has asserted. However‚ besides showing otherwise hidden thoughts and stimulus of society‚ they are also used to express the author’s personal feelings and emotions‚ or mirror the beauty of nature. In this respect‚ the arts are regarded as something for their
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in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in European painting. Countless artists strived to paint or sculpt the most perfect or intriguing idea of feminine beauty. This brings us
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and Italian paintings / Eitan Kenner The piece St. Luke Drawing the Virgin‚ c. 1435-40 by Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden is an oil and tempera painting presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Its narrative is a popular theme in art‚ showing St. Luke painting the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. Such paintings were often painted for chapels of Saint Luke (saint patron of artists) in European churches during the Renaissance. Fifteenth century Flemish painting in general and this
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Still-life painting was appearing to become more popular in Italy‚ northern Europe and Spain in the 16th Century. Over time‚ it became more common in these places‚ and artists began to change what they painted‚ and instead focused on painting plants‚ animals and man-made objects. The objects that were put into the still-life paintings were that of new discoveries‚ when the Spanish and the Dutch began to explore overseas territory. The ‘foreign specimens’ created huge excitement with the people of
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have the unique ability to portray their own interpretation of different topics through their individual work. These interpretations are in form of music‚ films‚ paintings‚ plays‚ or poems. Art provides a great way for people to express their emotions and opinions. Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on July 6‚ 1907. She started painting while she was recovering from a terrible bus accident‚ which she had
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dangerous factories in America are but not maquiladoras. What are maquiladoras? they are Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. In the painting “Self Portrait Along the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States” by Frida Kahlo‚ one of Mexico’s most famous artist‚ She shows how America is affecting her country‚ Mexico. She painted something to show her culture and how it is being ruined. The factories‚ Maquiladoras‚ are effectuating
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The composition of Still Life with Parrot and Flag is exquisite with vivid colors. In this painting‚ Frida was still able to paint in the sophisticated detailed manner for which she was known. A Mexican flag was included in the painting to symbolize her renewed interest in the politics of Mexico. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist (1907-1954) who kept parrots and did several self portraits with them. My university degree was in art and I took quite a few art history courses with my goal being a Masters
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Arts"‚ by W.H. Auden‚ I was under the impression that the poem was a simple interpretation of a painting. In order to fully grasp the significance of the poem‚ I suggest that one become familiar with the history behind not only the myth of Icarus‚ but also Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting‚ "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus". A thorough background allowed me to make a more skilled analysis of the painting-poem relationship and how it affected me. In the beginning‚ I found it beneficial to analyze
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