books on artists before 1945. Jack always felt that being a realist was some king of ‘us against them’ moral crusade. He thought that Frank Stella was the devil or something. It’s true that I don’t have a lot of books on Velasquez and the history of portrait painting and that I was really interested in trying to make art today. I was much more interested in work that was being made today than I was in the art of the past.”1 This quote is from artist Chuck Close‚ who was a key player in the Photorealist
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While walking through the Guggenheim Museum you walk past several different works of art. A nice painting here‚ a cool sculpture there‚ some interesting lights‚ it’s all pretty neat. You then walk into a room with two seemingly opposite types of art. On one side of the room you see a rock pile and a few pictures of some big rocks. The other side has some odd looking sculptures and several paintings that don’t look like much at all. You think that maybe the curator of the museum got mixed up and
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just wasn’t enough. They have a vast collection of Impressionist paintings from the well-known artist like Monet and even lesser known artists. There is so much to see here I could have spent the whole day. I went to do a project for art history and loved it. At first it’s hard to find your way around‚ but the staff was extremely helpful and kind. Strangely enough when I found myself getting “lost” looking for a certain genre of paintings‚ that’s when I found some of my favorites. If you are hungry
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centuries have much visual pleasure to offer. Manet As so often in the past‚ the center of artistic activity was Paris‚ where Édouard Manet (1832-1883) created a sensation in 1863 with his painting Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). Public outcry was directed against the subject of the painting: a female nude among two fully clothed young men and another clothed female figure. Other artists had combined nude females and clothed males before in a single picture‚ but Manet’s scene has
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The famous artwork that I chose to recreate is [ Composition II in Red‚ Blue and Yellow]‚ which is made by Piet Mondrian in 1930. The reason why I decided this art piece is really clear and easy to understand‚ this one is the only artwork in the Abstract Expressionist Art period that I could paint and my ability and talent could afford. Actually‚ Piet Mondrian was not from the AEA period‚ this talented Dutch painter was a donor to the De Stijl art movement and group. De Stijl means ‘the style’ in
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nine children in the family of a clergyman‚ which put a lot of financial stress upon her family. Emily’s’ mother‚ Mary Osborn‚ encouraged her to continue painting as her mother talent developing in her daughter at an early age through her paintings of her brother and sisters. She was fortunate enough that her parents possessed a love for painting and had encouraged Emily to pursue art as a form of making a living. She pursued an education as a painter at Dickinson’s Academy located in London‚ shortly
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through her art. Upon encountering the harsh experiences she went through‚ Kahlo would use art as her escape and as a means to express her feelings. This research was conducted to reflect and discuss the in depth symbolism Frida Kahlo used in her paintings as a way of overcoming the experiences she endured in throughout her life. Over time‚ how effective was Frida Kahlo in displaying her life experiences and her emotions connected with them in her artwork through her use of symbolism? Throughout
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“I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold” is an art piece painted by Charles Demuth‚ an American Artist born in Lancaster‚Pennsylvania from 1883-1935. This specific piece was painted in 1928 and is made of oil‚ graphite‚ ink‚ and uses gold leaf paint on paperboard. This art piece is encompassed of varying hues of red‚ yellow‚ orange and gray paint. The most important aspect of this piece is the number 5. The point of this is to pay homage to a poem by William Carlos Williams. In Williams poem‚ he writes about
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Braque both struggled with the problem of representing three dimensional objects and figures in the two dimensional medium of painting; “their solution was to create an abstract form that could display two or more sides of an object simultaneously”. Whilst Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon is generally viewed as the first Cubist painting‚ Read (1994) argues that the painting might be more usefully viewed as ‘pre-Cubist’‚ or ‘proto-Cubist’‚ as it was so heavily influenced by Iberian or African art
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during the Renaissance period. Both Renaissance artists painted religious scenes‚ approaching their artworks in diverse ways according to their personal framework and attitudes. Where Michelangelo’s tortured soul was portrayed directly onto his paintings‚ Caravaggio’s almost arrogant attitude and need for action and drama resulted in his dark‚ melodramatic pieces. Both artists were working on commissions from the church; consequently they both had religious subject matters. However‚ where Michelangelo
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