The Conversion of Magdalene is a profound piece of art painted by a man named Bernardino Luini (1475-1533) of Italy. Having been delineated with oil paint onto canvas‚ the painting was able to appear three-dimensional and achieve a more realistic look. Mary Magdalene is portraying a worldly woman of sin. The light that radiates upon her is not really coming from any particular direction and yet ignites her face and breasts in a glowing fashion. This light is meant to bring focus on Magdalene’s features
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Tom Wesselmann’s acrylic painting on linen Smoker #9 was created in 1973‚ a time when sex appeal could sell just about anything. His billboard style painting is simplistic yet very dramatic. The picture concentrates on a limited number of object: a woman’s mouth‚ a cigarette‚ a woman’s hand and smoke. Isolated on the wall‚ these elements are deprived of a background allowing the shape of the canvas provides an empathetic boundary between the world of the picture and the world around it. Tom uses
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Madonna on the Rocks Madonna on the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci or also known as Virgin on the Rocks caused quite a commotion between Da Vinci and the commissioners due to his unorthodox methods. Madonna on Rocks was one of the only paintings left unfinished by Da Vinci. Da Vinci was commissioned to paint a alter piece for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception‚ in the Church of San Francesco Grande in Milan on April 25‚ 1483. It was debated that the conflict was due to monetary payment or
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Rucellai Madonna‚ Duccio Duccio di Buoninsigna was an Italian artist from the city of Siena. He lived during the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th. Throughout his life he was hired to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. During the 1300’s Duccio became one of the most favored and progressive painters in Siena. He is now considered one of the founders of Western art. Not much is known about Duccio’s life. But there are records saying
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What was the effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography
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Funpon for learning 7 3‚1 The learning curriculum in the Kobikichō Kano workshop 7 3‚2 Shitsu-ga and Gaku-ga 8 4‚ Funpon for painting production 13 4‚1 The succession of motifs and styles 14 4‚2 The succession of motifs and styles on the commission of large scale 16 4‚2‚1 The nature of funpon
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Both sets of caves have several paintings that are very similar‚ as well as many that are vastly different. The styles of art in both are fairly similar‚ although more colors are used in Lascaux‚ as well as a wider variety of angles (Lascaux has a horse in frontal view). The red ochre is consistent throughout both caves. The hand prints‚ both positives and negatives‚ seem entirely absent from Lascaux‚ while there are many more “symbolic” signs‚ such as the XIII‚ leading me to believe that they may
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This painting is called Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée‚ 1761–1835) and it is oil on canvas. The artists name is Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French‚ Paris 1755–1842 Paris). It is a representational painting of a lady is sitting on what looks like a chair and is looking off and up to her right. She has a giant blue ribbon on the top of her hair that matches the bow on the front of her dress. She looks as if she is thinking of something that will make her happy or as if she was looking out
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The Harbor of La Rochelle is a 50.5 x 71.8 cm oil on canvas painted by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in 1851. In this painting‚ the artist depicted a picturesque scene of the everyday life in a placid harbor city in a sunny warm day. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting. His work simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. The
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La Madonna dei Fusi: Two Lenses As any mere mortal gazes upon one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s pieces‚ a sense of divinity and wonder befalls him—visualizing those brush strokes exuding from his paintbrush as he gives life to a blank canvas is mesmerizing. Throughout history‚ this Renaissance man has intrigued many‚ and his legacy has been immortalized by his works and by his many biographers. The earliest Leonardo Da Vinci biographer was Giorgio Vasari‚ a fifteenth-century Italian artist‚ famous for
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