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    dated 1886. Two Self-Portraits and Several Details‚ Drawing‚ Paris‚ 1886 Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam (F1378r) Self-Portrait with Dark Felt Hat at the Easel‚ 1886 Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam (F181) Self-Portrait with Pipe‚ 1886 Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam (F208) Self-Portrait with Pipe‚ 1886 Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam (F180) Self-Portrait with Dark Felt Hat‚ 1886 Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam (F208a) Self-Portrait‚ Autumn 1886‚ Paris Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

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    chosen to write about Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon in response to this essay title. This large oil painting‚ which was created in 1907‚ is considered seminal in the early development of both Cubism and Modern Art‚ and is currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is composed of five‚ nude female prostitutes‚ painted facing the viewer in a confrontational‚ non- conventional style. What Picasso is displaying here is the ‘Reversed Gaze’‚ in that these

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    Les Demoiselles D Avignon

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    Les Demoiselles d’avignon is an oil painting drawn by Pablo Picasso of five nude prostitutes with three of them wearing African mask. Les Demoiselles d’avignon was painted in 1907. The painting is in the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City (picked from power point slide number 17 chapter one). The painting originally began as a narrative brothel scene with five prostitute’s two men‚ a sailor and a medical student but as time moved on Picasso ended up painting over those people leaving the

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    I chose The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh because it is a very well known piece of art. People throughout time have always looked at this piece of art as one of the most fascinating pieces. Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands and died July 29‚ 1890. He was staying in an asylum at Saint-Remy. Starry Night is believed to show the view from his bedroom window. The theme of evening and nighttime

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    Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who painted several pieces of art that have become world famous and have been showed around the world; one being The Starry Night. Van Gogh at the time of this painting was in an Asylum after being in a long depression‚ and this is believed to be the view from his window. The painting displays a village over a night sky with an immense cypress tree in comparison to the other objects in this paining. Also shown is many stars in the sky with a very bright moon the top

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    approaches in distinctive ways. Vincent Van Gogh‚ the post-Impressionist artist‚ is the most legendary and well-renowned of all modern Dutch artists. He started painting in his last ten years of life‚ however failed to sell any of his nine hundred paintings during his life. His drawings and oil paintings are now regarded as one of the best known and most expensive art-works in the world. Most of his pictures can easily be recognized from the broad brushstrokes of thick impasto paint. It was applied

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    I chose the painting Autumn Rhythm 1950 by Jackson Pollock. When I first saw the painting‚ I knew from the start that this was the masterpiece perfect for this project. My initial response to this painting was confusion. I did not understand it; I did not know what I was looking at. I thought to myself‚ is there something I’m supposed to look for? It seemed impossible to find something due to the numerous slobs of paint everywhere. I did not understand how this could even be a masterpiece. After

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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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    in his own mind. I want to dive deeper into the life of this brilliant‚ yet completely crazy man‚ who has produced more than 2‚100 artworks‚ made up of some 1‚300 watercolors and 860 oil paintings(Vincent Van Gogh Biography‚ quotes & paintings‚ The Art History Archive; retrieved 12 July 2011)‚ It remains a mystery what exactly drove him to this point‚ who and what were some of the people and things that

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    The Carnegie Museum of Art houses many fine art paintings that span throughout the centuries‚ including famous works by countless artists in different styles‚ from renaissance to contemporary. One famous work includes a piece by Vincent van Gogh’s Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers)‚ painted in 1890 in Gallery 8‚ Scaife Galleries of the museum. It was acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaige Family‚ and its acquisition number is 68.18. The painting’s dimensions are

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