This artwork is called Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass otherwise known as Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David. This artwork depicts a very Romanesque portrait of King Napoleon I in a full military uniform riding on top of a horse that is kicking up onto its hind legs‚ while Napoleon is striking a pose with his right hand pointed up towards the sky. The Composition of this painting has Napoleon front and center in the middle of the canvas‚ on top of his horse‚ and he is actually highest
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Impressionism because all of his works started to look too similar‚ so he decided to shift his focut for a few months and decided to visit Italy. He became fascinated by Renaissance art and became influence by works of the Old Masters‚ such as Raphael and Ingres. By the late 1880s‚ Renoir started to fall away from the form and distinct shape of the Old Masters and began adding lines and dabs of paint back into his work. After a few years and some successful works‚ he again shifted his style and maneuvered
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1. Ingres choice of materials influences the character of his drawing‚ by the use of lightness and refinement in the drawing. The graphite pencil and smooth paper that were used in this drawing‚ allowed Ingres to cope with repeated erasing when needed‚ to bring a moderate degree of realism in his character. Ingres line work is rhythmically repeated. The contour lines on the left arm‚ on the dress are parallel to the lines on the right arm‚ of the dress. Looking at the lines of the back of the woman’s
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Romanticism and Classicism Romanticism and Classicism are two different styles of art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries‚ they are both famous for varied and contradictory definitions.But however‚ they are also two styles that are not very easy to tell apart at some points. While the Classicists considered of the world as having a rigid and stern structure‚ the romanticists considered of the world as a place to express their ideas and believe. Romanticism allows the artists to free their
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The first picture I selected for my color theory application paper‚ was produced by Raphael. The title of the photo is “The Madonna of the Meadows”. The artist used “triadic harmonies” to direct the viewer’s eye to Madonna‚ along with John the Baptist and the young Jesus. He used a bright hues of red and blue for Madonna’s robes. Her hair is of a yellow tint. The red‚ blue and yellow colors are the primary colors in the picture and complement one another very nicely. John the Baptist and
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women reclaiming their identities and correcting historically maligned portray. Novel ‘In the eye of Sun’ written by Ahdaf Soueif. It’s a story about woman Asya who cheats her husband and has a brief affair with a person in England. Concept of odalisque and the stereotypes people have has been explained
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This essay will discuss what is Enlightenment followed by the impact of the Enlightenment upon on art. A movement occurred in 17th and 18th centuries that emphasises reason and individualism rather than tradition in Europe which is known as Enlightenment (Oxford Living Dictionaries‚ n.d.). The art form and style change from Rococo to Neoclassic‚ showing the impact of religion on art would be challenged. The formation of the art academy is influenced by the idea of efficiency‚ standardising the form
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The (joy of life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s‚ because the joy of life It is a large-scale painting that has a brilliant colored forest which has been depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with‚ meadow‚ sea‚ and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion while Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has sensual eroticism with these kinds of aggressively crude pornography that has a landscape
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Henri Matisse [pic] Woman Reading‚ 1894‚ the Cone collection of the Museum of Modern Art‚ Paris Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist‚ known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman‚ printmaker‚ and sculptor‚ but is known primarily as a painter.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded‚ along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp‚ as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the
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Neoclassicism‚ an 18th century art and architecture movement‚ looked to Greek and Roman art for models of harmony‚ idealized realism‚ and reason and drew on Enlightenment thinking. Neoclassical art‚ therefore‚ closely resembles the art of classical antiquity. Neoclassical Literature • Neoclassical playwrights turned to subjects based on classical myths and adhered to classical unities of time‚ place‚ and action. Neoclassical theater was characterized by grandiosity and opulence; this was reflected
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