Australian contemporary artist Gordon Bennett’s acrylic painting Camouflage #7‚ references the war in Iraq and issues of secrecy‚ depicting the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Evident in Bennet’s incorporation of appropriation art in his creative method‚ ‘remix culture’ enables artists to open up and re-define the way language and images construct identity and history. An interdisciplinary art practice consisting of painting‚ print‚ photography‚ installation and performance reflects how Bennett
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intricate details Francia painted but up close they become apparent. Francia went as far as painting the creases and lines within the palm and fingers of the baby Christ giving the subject a sense of realness. Up close one can see the small embellishments on Madonna’s gown and cloak. Around the neck of the gown and edges of the cloak there is an intricate white pattern. The hair on the angels looks like each and every strand was painted separately. Francia even painted the light bouncing off the
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In the two short stories‚ “Young Goodman Brown” and‚ “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a romantic view of people and sin. Hawthorne himself is the great grandson of one of the judges who accused people mistakenly at the Salem Witch Trials. Because of this memory‚ he is tormented by morals‚ and most of his literature is romance‚ where the setting is dark and gloomy and the main character does not give in to evil‚ even though he or she experiences its powerful prevalence. Apart
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us. he could write songs that would sound like he was talking to us‚ about us‚ and for us. Kurt Cobain was loved for what he wrote in his songs. his words are truthful and honest. he was very opposed to racism and tried to pierce the veil with problems. he was painted as depressed but was happy when he was with the
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by ancient marriage poems‚ known as “epithalamia‚” the painting was apparently painted to celebrate a wedding and Venus’s body type and facial features were taken from that of the bride to be’s. The painter included a few items in the picture that relate to Venus and to the sacrament of marriage. On Venus’s head is a crown (considered a “crown” in those times but we call it a tiara today [it’s much smaller]) with a veil cascading down the back. Rose petals line her sexual attributes and she holds
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all humans were capable of being evil. Their writing was often complex‚ mysterious‚ and filled with emotion. Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”‚ Edgar Allen’s “The Masque of the Red Death”‚ and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minster’s Black Veil” are romantic stories because they emphasize on passion‚ nature‚ the individual‚ and the unusual. Even though Hawthorne‚ Poe‚ and Irving are all romantic writers‚ they use different elements to develop their stories. Washington Irving uses several
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Is a smile always just a smile? This would seem to be the question that the artist who painted the “Mona Lisa” was trying to convey. The “Mona Lisa”‚ also referred to as the “Portrait of Lisa Gherardini”‚ was commissioned by an unknown person or persons around 1503 A.D. and painted by the highly revered artist Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci‚ known now as Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519). Da Vinci used poplar wood for the canvas of the “Mona Lisa” and created the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric
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period. She is wearing thick layers and a veil. The layers of her clothes represent her imprisonment. She is trapped by the man in her life‚ unable to reveal herself to others. In Da Vinci’s time‚ this was a common view of women. Women are to be seen‚ not heard. Her thoughts and opinions lie underneath the layers of clothing‚ because it takes that much to hold it all in. The veil on her head was a common garment worn to cover the face. With the veil over the face‚ although it is not in this
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“Enthroned Madonna with Saints” /The Ognissanti Madonna/or”Madonna in Maestà” was probably painted between 1305 -1310 for the Church of Ognissanti. The “Virgin with child Enthroned” was created around 1200- 1025. Both of them belong to the Uffizi Gallery‚ Florence. The Ognissanti Madonna is much bigger/3.25 x 2m/ and it was painted for the altar of the church of Ognissanti in Florence. Both pieces of art are painted with tempera on wood. During that time it was considered disrespectful to represent Jesus
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Leonardo Da Vinci‚ who painted ‘Madonna of the Rocks’ in 1485‚ was very interested in science. He did various studies of plants‚ water and even controversial studies of the human anatomy where he cut open the deceased to see how the inside of the body works. All this was to provide the perfect naturalistic painting. In the painting ‘Madonna of the rocks’ his study of water can be seen in Mary’s hair and there is numerous plants and rocks that he studied. Leonardo was the inventor of ‘blue air’ or
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