often considered one of the first pieces of Renaissance art because unlike pre-renaissance paintings‚ god is represented in human form behind Jesus on the cross. It was unheard of to actually paint God before this time‚ and painting God in this way also shows Humanism. God was often painted as a singular hand‚ as though God was an abstract force or power. Masaccio transformed the direction of Italian painting‚ and for the first time presented art in a more natural and humanist way – thus moving away
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was born in Peshawar‚ Pakistan. He completed his early education in Pakistan and for higher studies he went to United States‚ there he completed his Civil Engineering from Columbia University and Harvard University. During his studies he started painting for his soul satisfaction. Gulgee explains it like this: “My work is the externalization of my inner journey. Through it I communicate with the pulse of life. The calligraphic form and movement that emerge are not premeditated or cerebral; it is
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The water lilies was an series of approximately 250 oil paintings Claude Monet (1840-1926) produced late in his life while he was 74 till his death at 86 in his garden at Giverny‚ west of Paris along the Seine. Claude Monet was a impressionist. To illustrate‚ Louis Leroy‚ writing for the satirical journal Charivari‚ sized upon the tile of Monet’s painting IMPRESSION‚ SUNRISE while Monet exhibited his painting in Paris in 1874 (Marilyn 495). And this was the first time the term impression was used
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online‚ and knowing that it had a variety of different paintings ranging from European paintings to American and Russian paintings. After going in to the museum‚ I took a walk and viewed the entire collection of artwork displayed‚ as suggested in the video “How to Visit an Art Museum”. While doing so‚ I noted down the works of art that impressed me from the first glance. After I was done browsing the collection‚ I went back to the paintings that interested me and looked through them again; I then
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as beautiful‚ insightful‚ religious‚ descriptive‚ innovate‚ traditional‚ and probably an “Italian Badass”. However‚ we must look at his paintings‚ his masterpieces‚ in order to truly understand who Caravaggio really was. Notorious for his reckless private life and his provocative nature as a painter‚ Caravaggio wanted to make a statement in the arts. His paintings today are still alive with the high drama of his days and the stories he portrayed. While most artists of his day focused on religious
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this title saying‚ “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” This statement is true to an extent because her main topics of her paintings are love‚ lost‚ politics and surgery and they reflect the events of her life. The painting “Henry Ford Hospital” or otherwise known as “The Flying Bed” was done by Frida Kahlo in 1932 with oil on metal. The painting shows a figure of Frida Kahlo lying naked‚ exposed and bleeding on a hospital bed after suffering through a miscarriage. A tear is falling
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In the 17th century art In Europe‚ Gianlorenzo Bernini gave us a beautiful painting "Saint Teresa of Avlia in Ecstasy" 1645-1652. We also look at a another well done painting by Caravaggio "The Conversation is St. Paul" in 1601. Looking at both of these paintings we see they both have a huge influence on Baroque art. Taking a closer look at each painting gives us a better understanding on how important these two paintings really were of the generation they were presented in. The classification of
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Les Demoiselles d ’ Avignon I have chosen to write about Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon in response to this essay title. This large oil painting‚ which was created in 1907‚ is considered seminal in the early development of both Cubism and Modern Art‚ and is currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is composed of five‚ nude female prostitutes‚ painted facing the viewer in a confrontational‚ non- conventional style. What Picasso is displaying here
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Wanting to depict the “authentically lived experience” in each of his paintings‚ he painted in a representational style during the height of the Abstract Expressionism’s dominance. He did not find much inspiration to construct pieces stemming from abstract ideology. An example of Porter’s natural yet highly objective style of painting is The Artist’s Wife‚ an oil-on-canvas portrait painted in 1954. By placing the subject of the painting in the center and using various brush strokes and a muted color palette
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Braque’s oil painting is a cubistic still-life. It’s content seems to be made up of what looks like his belongings – a violin‚ a fruit bowl‚ a candlestick‚ a newspaper etc. As he lived in Paris at the time this painting was produced‚ these belongings would have been in his apartment in one of the most artistic city in the world. I am guessing the process he used to create this piece is by dabbing paint onto the canvas instead casually painting with it. This gives texture to the painting rather than
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