In Pietro Lorenzetti’s triptych‚ Birth of the Virgin‚ the artist’s gift for pictorial illusionism is clearly evident. The painting is 6’1’‘X5’11’’ in dimensions and painted with tempera on wood. Lorenzetti enhances the illusion by using various vertical lines as well as painting a column through one of the figures. This creates an illusion of extended space within the painting. Lorenzetti uses shades of red‚ brown‚ green‚ black and blue. The clothing of the figures are darker in shade compared to
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ADDITIONAL CASES I CASE 11.2 ASSIGNING ART It had been a dream come true for Ash Briggs‚ a struggling artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He had made a trip to the corner grocery store late one Friday afternoon to buy some milk‚ and on impulse‚ he had also purchased a California lottery ticket. One week later‚ he was a millionaire. Ash did not want to squander his winnings on materialistic‚ trivial items. Instead he wanted to use his money to support his true passion: art
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Noone 1 Mr. Majeski AP Lit P1 Voyage of Life Response 9-6-12 Life’s Beginning and End In Thomas Cole’s series of paintings‚ “Voyage of Life‚” shows the different stages of a person’s life. The message of the series is how a man’s life can be summarized in four stages that are guided by angels from birth to death. The first painting‚ “Voyage of Life: Childhood‚” shows a lavish landscape full of thriving plant life. This represents brand new life. A holy figure that stands
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one of the art things he is most recognized for is his unique still life paintings. Like any other artists‚ he puts himself in the paintings. This means that he puts about him and his thoughts and feelings on his still life paintings. Specifically‚ one of these paintings is the painting called “My Budd”‚ a still life painting by Manny Farber. This painting was inspired by the Ranown Cycle‚ a film series he liked. In this painting‚ Manny embraces the phrase a picture is worth more than a thousand words
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Albert Bierstadt’s “Seals” - Bierstadt organizes the painting in such a way that the two seals are the center and focus. The background of ice‚ water‚ sky‚ and rock are important and help create the feel of the painting‚ but the landscape is of secondary importance compared to the animals. When I compare this landscape to the vast majority of his other paintings‚ it seems almost barren and dead. Despite this‚ in the focus of the painting we see that there is life‚ young life at that. He gives the
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literature in Spain during that time frame1. One of this women was the famous sculptor Luisa Roldan while the other was Josefa de Ayala‚ known for her paintings that incorporates a hybrid of styles and a highly personal expression of talents that makes her unique as an artist during that time period. My paper will explore Josefa de Ayala’s painting Nativity‚ done in 1669 and currently displayed at the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon‚ to showcase how Ayala became known as an accomplished painter
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the world created by Francisco Jose De Goya y Lucientes there existed no boundaries. Through much of Goya’s artistic body of work we can see diversity‚ mystery and honesty fueled entirely by his attitude. He is greatly known for his enriched paintings‚ etchings and lithographs‚ which he did excessively‚ dramatically and emotionally. He left no stone unturned in terms of portraying society at the time. The biggest influence to him was the dark and bright side of human nature to which he used
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CHAMELEON PAINTING: This chameleon may have been one of the animals acquired in 1612. It is the flap-necked chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis)‚ a (usually) bright green species widely distributed throughout east Africa‚ and probably bought as a curious pet by Portuguese traders on their voyages to India around the African coast. Mansur’s miniature is a scientifically precise depiction of this species: he accurately recorded the pale stripe at the corner of the mouth‚ the line of white scales running
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the French revolution‚ Jacques- Louis David painted the Oath of the Horatii. The painting Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David is about three Horatii brothers saluting three swords held by their father (McCoy‚ n.d.). Around 669 B.C.E.‚ Rome and Alba Longa were at war‚ both cities grew tired and decided to have someone represented their city in a fight-to-death battle. The Horatii brothers‚ the ones in the painting‚ represented Rome‚ and Alba Longa selected the Curiatii brothers‚ both set of brothers
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obedience and is part of the mother. The second child; is oppose of the other child because she isn’t part of either of her parents. She in the painting is not fully turned‚ facing her father and also clearly‚ unruly based on her hair and posture. The father is in a position of being worried about her or something else going on in his life. He made this painting and some of his earlier portraits in the spirit of recuperation. “Recuperation; is of the minutely descriptive‚ fully consumed and accoutrement
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