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    Artist’s Studio on Street‚ La Boetie The Artist’s Studio on Street La Boetie is a remarkable cubism immersed drawing that dates back to 1920 during the neoclassicist and surrealist period. It depicts a time 2 a.m. in the skies of Paris opened over Claude Lantier‚ the talented painter‚ but impatient runs through the rain only to arrive at his studio and find a young woman sheltering from the storm. As the downpour wears off and the woman lying in bed‚ the painter sleeps on the couch only to wake

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    II he joined the Communist Party and devoted his time to sculpture‚ ceramics‚ and lithography as well as painting. In his late years he created variations on the works of earlier artists‚ the most famous being a series of 58 pictures based on Las Meninas of Diego Velázquez. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted

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    his peers. This artist shows everything‚ from dirty fingernails‚ to the dirty bottoms of feet‚ to the bruises and worm holes on apples and the holes in pierced ears. · What techniques did Spanish Baroque artist‚ Diego Velazquez‚ use in Las Meninas. Velázquez involves the viewer by creating a convincing space and eye contact with the subjects in the painting. · Description of Landscape with the Burial of Phocion by French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussin. Poussin arranges an idealized

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    of Ávila in Ecstasy. 1645–1652. Baroque. Italy. 22-B. Caravaggio. The Calling of St. Matthew. 1599–1600. Baroque. Italy. 22-14. Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630. Baroque. Italy. 22-23. Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). 1656. Spain. Baroque. 22-28. Peter Paul Rubens. The Raising of the Cross. 1610–1611. Flanders. Baroque. 22-38. Rembrandt van Rijn. The Night Watch. 1642. Holland. Baroque. 29-2. Germain Boffrand. Salon De La Princesse‚ Hôtel

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    Brazil is seen as a country that flourishes with life. The people appear to be friendly‚ life seems to be grandeur‚ and society does not seem to battling social issues. This is the image that Brazil portrays to the world. Behind this image there is a society is that it torn by identity and race. It is an internal struggle. The people of Brazil are a direct product of the past‚ personal motives and social feelings have changed. This will be shown by various examples of race throughout the colonial

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    Renaissance: Compare the two David’s: one by Donatello and the other by Michelangelo. Consider formal and contextual elements (FORMAL: viewpoint‚ materials‚ volume‚ texture; CONTEXTUAL: artist‚ patron‚ viewers‚ original location‚ political/religious/social messages- narrative moment‚ facial features/expressions). Donatello was an artist in the early Renaissance. His interpretation of David is the earliest known life-size bronze nude European art (Stokstad and Cothren 321). The sculpture stands

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    His first prints started out for the tapestry‚ but were too complex. The Blind Guitarist and Las Meninas (promised gifts) were two of these etching‚ and they displayed a more playful side of Goya’s art style (Voorhies‚ Online). However‚ after Goya went deaf‚ his style turned much darker. In 1799‚ he created a group of etchings called Los Caprichos (The

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    Pablo Picasso and Francisco de Goya were both prolific artists of their times‚ offering works of great “visual travesty of the glories of warfare and bloody victory” (Selz‚ 84). Goya was a lifelong rebel. A libertarian opposed to all sorts of tyranny‚ the Spanish artist began as a semi-Rococo designer for tapestries. Then he became painter to Charles IV of Spain‚ whose court was known for corruption and repression. Goya’s observations of the inhumane royal court and the prejudices of the church

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    appear to be mathematical‚ each of the lines are the same in length and distance. As you look at each of the lines‚ the colors are used more than once‚ but the tense of the color has changed. The lines in the piece are very organized. Las Meninas by Diego Velazquer is a very complex painting. When you look at the painting the focal point could be anyone. The first thing you notice is that the Princess and the Maids are focusing on each other. You will see the artist and the King and Queen

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    Quite possibly one of the most innovative and greatest artists of the past century‚ Pablo Picasso has certainly earned an important position in art history. Born in the city of Malaga on the southern coast of Spain on October 25‚ 1881‚ Picasso had a rather unprecedented start. Apparently as Picasso had told the story he was deemed a stillborn‚ as he had failed to breath‚ and was abandoned by the midwife. However‚ with an odd twist of fate his uncle—who was a doctor—was there at the time and had saved

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