enjoys creating portraits because he enjoys exploring how self-identity is constructed in different individuals. He also likes to use grids in his paintings to symbolize how every part of an image is important in the construction of the whole piece (The Art Story). Lastly‚ Close likes to crop out the subject’s body language and background. The reason being‚ it allows him to invite the viewer’s attention (John Berggruen Gallery). The artist created six other large portraits of his family members and friends
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Art 101 Week 3 Assignment 2 When comparing the lines in the Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting and Sol LeWitt’s the Wall Drawing No. 681‚ the lines are the opposite. In the Starry Night painting the lines of the sky are very curvy and flowing‚ but the lines of the buildings are very straight. The artist in this painting is showing you a vision he has had during the time he was in the asylum. The lines of the sky are erratic‚ and it shows how the artist was feeling very unstable
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The Oxbow In the hands of an artist like Thomas Cole‚ the complexity of applying oil to canvas‚ allows a masterpiece such as The Oxbow to come into being. This 51 ½” X 76” work of art was created in 1836 (Frank 2013). Cole’s artwork is a balance between chaos and peace‚ as well as the untamed land and progress. Storm clouds hover over the wilderness on the left side‚ as bright sky’s shine above the lush farmlands and clear blue water below on the right. Thomas Cole artistically brought together
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The first painting I will contrast is the most famous Starry Night by the most vnoted Van Gogh although the reason of not denying the popularity of Starry Night‚ it’s also interesting to bring to mind that there is very little known about Vincent’s own feelings toward his work. As studies read Vincent would often discuss specific works in great detail‚ but not so in the case of Starry Night. As it yet difficult to say‚ due to him not expressing the strong feelings for the famous painting
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Giotto revolutionized painting techniques in many ways‚ though primarily through placing significant importance in the “realness” of art. He observed humans and their form closely and reproduced their gestures‚ movements‚ and expressions in his work. To achieve this realism‚ Giotto utilized a combination of techniques in his paintings‚ including lines‚ color‚ light‚ shading‚ and tight brush strokes. He made outstanding use of space‚ using horizontal‚ diagonal‚ and vertical lines‚ frequently in the
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philosophy about the “softness” and the “hardness”. The melting watches are one symbol that is commonly associated with Salvador Dali’s Surrealism. They are literally meant to show the irrelevance of time. According to the Wikipedia website‚ one famous art history professor named Dawn Ades wrote‚ “The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time‚ a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order.” In addition‚ there are some interesting subjects
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The Starry Night Co.1889 is considered the most famous piece of painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist‚ Vincent van Gogh. The masterpiece was painted during van Gogh’s stay at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum in France after a mental breakdown in 1889. The painting shows a small village under a wild night sky. A large cypress tree stand in the foreground while rolling mountains subject in the background. Considered as the finest artwork the famous artist had composed‚ van Gogh used multiple
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the sky view of the town. The sky has a rhythm of wave’s direction going towards the moonlight. The archirture church has pointy steel it points in the steep hill mountainside. The color pallets are classified as bright colors in the painting and the art textures are designed on oil pastel. The grass has some of the bright and dark of green. Therefore‚ the shadow can contrast by the pattern to make the picture more detailed.
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Edward Hopper’s‚ Nighthawks Edward Hopper’s painting‚ Nighthawks‚ is perhaps one of the most famous pieces of art in which he completed in his eighty-four year lifetime. Nighthawks was painted in the early 1940’s and portrays three people sitting at the bar of a well lit corner diner‚ in the city‚ late at night or even early into the morning. There is a single male worker behind what appears to be triangular shaped wooden bar. There is no exit door. The lighting in the diner appears very bright
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Description: Koger’s skyscape painting imitates the Aurora Borealis with the narration of a fantasy story. The soothing gradient of the dark blue starry sky to the pink-white clouds elicits a tranquil atmosphere and strongly contrasts with the Northern Lights‚ represented by asymmetrical groups of bright colours (yellow‚ green and pink). Furthermore‚ there’re two ‘camouflaging’ human faces located in this artwork; one face is on the top right-hand corner and the other face is on the middle left
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