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    image. This is exactly what Artemisia Gentileschi has done with oil painting mediums. Known as one of the famous female Baroque artist‚ all of her works are perfectly painted with great detail and colors. When one looks at her works‚ one can see the excellence in her skills that are portrayed in her paintings. Oil painting has been around since the 7th century AD in Asia; during this time‚ unknown artists‚ in order to create painting in the caves of Bamyan‚ Afghanistan‚

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    Oil Paintings During Romanticism Times And Cubism In cubist paintings‚ objects are broken up‚ analyzed‚ and reassembled in an abstracted form‚ instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint‚ the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to present the piece in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at what seems like random angles presenting no coherent sense of depth. In Romanticism artwork exalted individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and

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    The painting that I am choosing to talk about is called Circling the Enemy by Z.S. Liang. What this painting means is that basically in the mid-nineteenth century‚ there were problems with the residents of Native Americans got more aggressive as many more settlers continued their expedition in the Westward Expansion. But‚ what I thought this meant at first when I saw this was how the Indians were fighting for their land because settlers were moving west and got to their land. What I think this picture

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    Formal analysis of painting The Dying Mazzini Is death always painful? In his 1873 portrait‚ The Dying Mazzini (30 1/8” X 39 ½”‚ Providence‚ RISD Museum)‚ Italian realist painter Silvestro Lega captures the final hours of Mazzini Morente’s life. In this painting‚ rather than depict the terror of death‚ a topic which people dislike and always associate with separation‚ fear‚ agony and sadness‚ Lega shows an incredibly peaceful and serene scene of dying Mazzini. With his eyes closed

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    Dan Rebok Art History 100 3/2/2010 Compare/Contrast Paintings at Palmer The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter 1650 by Pietro Vecchia is a rather unusual painting. The premise is that he must sacrifice his own daughter because of a deal with God. In the painting she has her arms across her chest covering her naked self and is bent over almost in a ball. This cowering is a stark difference to‚ Giovanni Baglione’s St Sebastian healed by an Angel 1603. Sebastian is in repose with his hands behind

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    Three paintings depicting mental illness and how society tried to rid the people of these illnesses before modern time are Hieronymous Bosh (Flowers of Folly/Stones of Madness)‚ Brueghel’s Stone Operation‚ and Girolamo Di Benvenuto’s painting of Exorcism. In Bosh’s painting‚ there are four individuals: a man with a funnel hat‚ attempting to cut open the second man’s brain to extract the stone of madness‚ there is also a man who is holding a vase and a woman who is watching the event‚ while she balances

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    Painting Styles Neoclassicism Neoclassicism was an art movement closely associated with the era beginning from the end of the 17th century through the 18th-century. The Neoclassicism art movement came from a combination of the last half of Baroque art to the burgeoning scientific interest in classical Greek and Roman antiquity (Sayre‚ 2010). This new found art of Neoclassicism led to the cause in a rapid growth of collections of antiques (Sayre‚ 2010). In addition‚ during the Neoclassicism art

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    Siegman 1Prompt: Casta paintings‚ produced for elite criollo audiences (i.e.‚ those of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas)‚ bolstered economic and social inequality and legitimized a racial hierarchy that kept criollos at the top. The development of a highly complex and somewhat variable Casta system in the Spanish colonies and at home is a way of encoding economic hierarchy onto the body of colonial subjects produced through population contact in Spanish colonies. These paintings were produced for

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    Persian Miniature Painting Within the Potter’s House; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Unknown) Persian Miniature painting: Gouache on paper Late 19th- Early 20th century Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931) MH 1991.4.50 I. Discussion of the Image This miniature is a beautiful example of later Persian book painting that displays adaptations of the classical style to suit a more global viewership in the late 19th- early 20th century‚ the era of British colonialism (see figure

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    The Absolut Vodka painting was done in Stockholm‚ Sweden (Wrenn‚ and Abraham). This painting turned out to be the painting that allowed Wenner to be known by a wider audience. Another painting he was hired for was for Disney in Glendale‚ California (“Kurt Werren”). This job grew into a relationship between Wenner and Disney; he trained some of the top engineers at Disney Imagineering as well as theme park designers to use unusual uses of perspective (“Kurt Wenner”). The National Gallery of Art in

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