While visiting the San Diego Museum of Art I chose to examine the artwork Portrait of a Lady‚ by Marie-Guillemine Benoist which was painted in 1799. The artist of this painting was a frequent salon contributer after the Paris Salon began to allow female artists to submit their own artwork. Benoist often paints portraits of varius people in the same fashion with oil on canvas. Portrayed in this artwork is a woman wrapped in a gold shawl with a soft and pleasant face. The woman grasping her gold shawl
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The Machinist: A Psychological Portrait of a Killer Despite being an esoteric genre‚ several films dare to delve into the realm of psychological thrillers. Films such as “Pi”‚ “Mulholland Drive”‚ “Jacob’s Ladder”‚ and “Memento” are some examples of suspenseful movies which tap into the human psyche. However‚ Brad Anderson’s 2004 film “The Machinist”‚ is a bit of an exception to this genre. Written by Scott Kosar‚ although still suspenseful‚ this film focuses more into the psychological aspect‚ rather
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compared (Narrative techniques) Mentor: Student: Dr. Muhamet Hamiti Arbnesha Kusari Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………3 2. Biography of Charles Dickens….………………………………..……....4 3. Oliver Twist……………………………………………………………….5 3.1. Plot of the novel……………………….………………………………..5 3.2. Narrative form……………………………………………………
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..Janis Joplin.. There are many people I have come across in my life that have earned my gratitude and respect. Of all the great musical artists‚ I feel that Janis Joplin was much overlooked and was a woman far beyond her time. She was a very talented artist. She was a painter all through high school. She started singing after she graduated and she said it changed her life‚ "Painting is kind of a hold in and be quiet kind of thing and singing is a more free...‚ flow out kind of thing. Your whole
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Use ONE analytical framework to compare and contrast TWO art works. One artwork must have been produced before 1970 and one produced after 1970. Analytical framework: Formal Framework Artist’s name: Rene Magritte Title and date: The Companions of Fear 1942 Artist’s name: Peter Booth Title and date: Untitled 1976 What you see is what you get in Rene Magritte’s artwork ‘The Companions of Fear 1942’. Magritte uses minimal dull colours though he changes tones within his colours to create shadowy
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Journal #2 (A Hunger Artist) A possible point the author could be making about society and art is that the society’s likes and what is going on at that point in time has an effect of what is seen as art. The narrator describes his art as being “in fashion” which is a way of calling it a trend. Trends like bell bottom jeans and afros in the 70’s and even skinny jeans and hash tagging now‚ have and will change over time based on the era. In the story‚ the appeal for hunger art faded away and other
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Lichtenstein The colours used are pretty bold‚ consisting of blue‚ black‚ white‚ red and yellow and shows a high contrast of shading used for the foreground depiction of the plane. It is of a comic-like sort and is using the ‘Ben-Day Dots’ technique‚ named after illustrator and printer – Benjamin Day. Depending on the effect‚ colour and optical illusion needed‚ small coloured dots are closely-spaced‚ widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots‚ for example‚ are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s
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Lyonel Feininger Self Portrait is oil on canvas painting. The painting is an image of Lyonel Feininger. Lyonel painted the Self Portrait in 1915 during the world war. The painting is a part of the modern art time period. In the paper I will attempt to place Lyonel Feininger Self Portrait into its cultural context. Lyonel Feininger is a German-American artist‚ who was born and Raised in New York. Both of lyonel parent were German musicians‚ expecting their son lyonel to become a concert violinist
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and the masklike faces derived from his study of African art. From 1909 to 1912 Picasso worked closely with Georges Braque—the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way—and they developed what came to be known as Cubism. The artists presented a new kind of reality that broke away from Renaissance tradition‚ especially from the use of perspective and illusion. Neither Braque nor Picasso desired to move into the realm of total abstraction in their Cubist works‚ although they implicitly
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English based graffiti artist‚ political activist‚ and film director whose identity is unknown. He is most known for is stencil graffiti which is when an artist uses an outline to produce an image that is easily reproduced. Most people would say that his style is similar to Blek le Rat aka the father of stencil graffiti. Banksy says he was inspired by an artist by the name of 3D. An artist who became one of the founding members of Massive Attack. He started as a freehand artist and said he change to
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