Art II: Final Portfolio Paper Over the past semester‚ I can strongly say that I have grown immensely as an artist. I have been able to widen my range of skills as well as increase them overall. One of my best works‚ as well as one of my favorites is my Expressionist painting. Ih results in a nspired by one of my best friends‚ Eleanor‚ my painting displays a variety of Expressionist principles. Expressionism is based on the distortion of form and color‚ which often results in a wide array of expressed
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In 1863‚ Joaquin Sorolla was born in Valencia‚ Spain. In 1865‚ his parents died leaving him and his sisters with their aunt and uncle who took care of them. When he has 14 years old‚ Sorolla began studying art‚ his passion. At 18 years old he decided to move to Madrid in order to study the paintings situated at Museo del Prado. After four years of living and studying in Madrid‚ he decided to return to Valencia. While in Valencia‚ he met his wife‚ whom he had three children with. And then decided
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Don DeLillo’s Mao II sheds light that reveals the invisible world between the makers and the consumers of images. DeLillo presents the treatment of Beirut’s image in three ways‚ with various degrees of their ability to effect change among the masses. His fictional character Brita treats the image from an individualist perspective illustrating the difference between reality and how the image was represented. The treatment of Beirut by the capitalists‚ and by Abu Rashid‚ a terrorist leader‚ fragments
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The title of this work is View of Toledo by the Spanish artist El Greco. The painting depicts the landscape of Toledo‚ Spain‚ the city where the artist worked and lived for most of his life. This is a very significant work for several reasons: it is considered to be the first landscape in Spanish art‚ one of only two surviving landscapes painted by this artist‚ and because this artist rarely painted non-religious subject matter. View of Toledo is considered to be one of the most dramatic and individual
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Ad parnassum is one of the greatest painting that it was drawn by such a famous artist ‘Paul Klee’ and he had used so many different techniques in his painting. So‚ during 1928 to 1929 Paul Klee was traveled to Egypt so after he was back he drew this painting so the paint represent his trip to Egypt he wanted to give us a message of what he have seen in Egypt. In this artwork he had drawn so many small squares and he had colored them to represent a painting. And I liked the way he has used some techniques
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VLB was born on April 16th‚ 1755 in Paris. Her father was a pastel painter not very well recognized but greatly encouraged VLB’s interest and talent in painting. As a child‚ she was constantly drawing‚ so much so that she would get in trouble with the teachers for decorating her school work. At home‚ she had plenty of opportunity and support to experiment and create. She could draw alongside her father in his studio‚ and friends of her father would give her lessons in drawing‚ as well as invite her
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Currently residing in Los Angeles‚ the artist has previously lived in China‚ Japan and Holland and consequentially the metaphor of travel runs vividly throughout Monahan’s art work‚ in both his compression of genre‚ history and its subsequent displacement. There is a feeling that these sculptures have been ‘lived’‚ and not just made‚ and they have come about through years of fascination‚ observation and experience by the artist. Monahan’s sculpture typically combines charcoal drawing with carved
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For over half a decade now‚ I have been having an undeniable pleasure of observing a creative path of my friend‚ an outstanding painter‚ Józef Czerniawski. Easel painting‚ large-format wall painting‚ performance‚ stage design both for movie and theatre‚ and interior design constitute just a part (fragment) of his artistic activity field. Immense abundance [great richness] of means‚ the variety of materials contribute to this continuously vivid‚ creative and revelatory [exploratory] path. The determination
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Jackson Pollock was a very well known artist known for his abstract work. Pollock was born on January 28‚ 1912‚ in Wyoming. Throughout the early stages of Pollock’s life‚ his family moved all around different parts of the west. Pollock’s father who was abusive and an alcoholic left his family when he was just eight years old. Jackson Pollock’s older brother Charles stepped in and acted as a father to Jackson. Charles was an artist himself and influenced Jackson in a big way. He enrolled in a Manual
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Over the years‚ art has gone through many phases. Many famous artists from the past are still recognized throughout their art in today’s time. There are few painting that I consider to be monumental during their time and era. The art painting brought us great ideas on how the world is viewed and the meaning to each painting. One of the earliest paintings that I consider to be a great monumental during its time was The Scream by Edvard Munch in 1893. In his art‚ he uses a human like figure that is
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