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    Max Macedo Art 216 Prof. Constantin A. Marinescu First Assignment I have seen this image‚ but don’t know the tittle. I have seen it in movies‚ cartoons‚ and parodies of the painting. The painting is a male and female who most likely live on farmland. The male is holding a pitchfork‚ both of them look very serious but looking in different directions. They may either be just posing for the painting or waiting for intruders to leave their property. The male and female look bothered with something

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    Pattachitra is a well-known traditional cloth painting in India‚ mostly from Orissa and West Bengal. The paintings are done by artists who are known as chitrakaras. These paintings are also inspired by Jaggannath and the Vaishnava cult‚ and they represent stories of Hindu deities. Pattachitra use to be a form of art that was dying by the early 50s of the last century since the kings did not condescend the artists nor did the public buy the paintings anymore. However‚ this all changed when an American

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    ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AS REFLECTED IN PAINTING: THE CONTRASTING VIEWS OF ECONOMISTS AND ART HISTORIANS [1] Manuel Santos-Redondo Universidad Complutense de Madrid [las diferencias con respecto al Documento de Trabajo disponible en la Web estan subrayadas] 1. Introduction The Moneychanger and his Wife is probably the picture most widely used to illustrate economic activity‚ and so it is (supposedly) well known by economists‚ managers‚ and accountants. The accounting book which appears

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    Army. Included in the belonging that were to be sent back to Idaho was an original painting depicting a Native American on a white horse in typical old west scene by Bill Gollings that was gifted to Taylor. Due to the fact that Abel was trying to leave the house as quickly as possible and trying to make sure everything went to its rightful place confusion arose. Because of this confusion the box containing the painting was accidentally picked up with the donated items that were being sent to the Salvation

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    art is a seascape painting‚ painted with oil and painted on canvas. The artist was Peter Monamy (1681-1749). The painting portrays three ships stuck in a storm. There is a main ship‚ a ship in the background‚ as well as‚ another ship behind that. Through research it is not known if the artist was depicting a certain event in time‚ but some say it was a depiction of “the great gale of 1703” or when Sir Cloudisley Shovell’s fleet was stuck in a storm in 1707. I chose this painting because it depicted

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    appear to be sheet gold‚ feathers‚ and amatl on wood. Feather painting (amantecayotl‚ in Nahuatl) was a traditional medium in precolonial Latin America‚ and the primary medium that indigenous artists utilized to replicate European styles and iconography in the viceregal time. Feather painting was a style mostly employed in New Spain during the 16th century.

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    photo on the title page is the painting I will be dissecting for elements‚ and principles that I have learned in the class. I could not find out the name of the artist; I could not find out the size or name of the painting either. The reason I chose this painting is that I believed it to be the most interesting visually and the easiest to interpret. The painting is in the Artisan’s Loft gallery in Staunton‚ but the painting had no tag beside it. I believe the painting is a fictional landscape of the

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    Thesis statement: Whereas there is no proven connection‚ in my opinion the lone white Iris flower in the “Irises” painting represents the need for individuality in Gogh and even people in society‚ given that there is no other white iris flower like it in this powerful painting. In "Irises‚" there is a war being pursued: one of franticness competing with quietness. Writhing and anguished lines in the leaves firmly stand out from the peaceful‚ etched brushstrokes found in the petals. Dispossessed of

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    The painting that I am choosing to talk about is called Circling the Enemy by Z.S. Liang. What this painting means is that basically in the mid-nineteenth century‚ there were problems with the residents of Native Americans got more aggressive as many more settlers continued their expedition in the Westward Expansion. But‚ what I thought this meant at first when I saw this was how the Indians were fighting for their land because settlers were moving west and got to their land. What I think this picture

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    Northwest Montana. Jessica unusually meticulous oil painting techniques is grounded in the varnish mediums of the Dutch Golden Age. The New York Times has described her works as “Straightforwardly beautiful” with “an element of weird”. Her work has been noted for its color and luminosity‚ it’s imaginative and evocative content‚ and for the high quality of her technique. This is exactly what I notice when I saw the painting of “The merry widow”. The painting depicted a heavier set women sitting down next

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