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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Mother About to Wash Her Sleeping Child: Mary Cassatt Lauren Eddie Gierard Art History 318 Professor Enholm April 2nd 2015 Mother About to Wash Her Sleeping Child‚ is an oil painting by Mary Cassatt painted in 1880.1 It is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‚ on the third floor of the Art of the Americas Building. 2As the title states the painting depicts a motherly figure bathing a sleepy child. The arrangement and treatment of these figures embody many of
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The first piece of artwork I’ve decided to write about is "Falling Landscape IV" by Evon Streetman and was created in 1994. It was roughly the same height as me‚ and was nearly 4 feet wide. It was a large piece‚ which was wonderful for exaggerating the features and details. The medium used was cibachrome‚ which is a positive-to-positive process used to reproduce film transparencies on photographic paper. I think "Falling Landscape IV" was the most beautiful piece in the entire museum‚ and I enjoyed
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Community Art Connection The 1861 painting‚ The Iceberg by Frederic Church was one of my favorite pieces of art during my visit to the Dallas Museum or Art. What grabbed my attention were the colors of the painting. The different shades of blue gave me a sense of calmness and peace. The reflectivity of the sunlight on the iceberg was very well executed to the point where the viewer could easily tell which parts of the iceberg were colder and which parts were heated by the sun. Another
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John Gast‚ a Brooklyn based painter and lithographer‚ painted this picture in 1872 on commission for George Crofutt‚ the publisher of a popular series of western travel guides. Few Americans saw the actual painting‚ but many encountered it in reproduction. The painting is so rich in detail that many usually imagine it to be a large canvas. But in fact it is tiny‚ just 12 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches in size. This painting can be analyzed in a few different ways; Ionographic‚ Feminist‚ and Contextual points
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1‚ "The Basket of Bread" by Salvador Dali‚ 1926‚ is the title of the work of art I choose. 2. The dimensions for this work art are: 31.75 cm by 31.75 or 12.5 in by 12.5 in. A surrealist S. Dali use oil paint on canvas. The paintwork has a black color in the back and a range of beige in the scene. It looks like a bi-dimensional figure. (50 words) 3. This work of art gives us a scene of Spanish culture back then. The fiber-woven basket has four loaves of bread‚ all of the loaves have butter on them
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In the oil canvas called “Still Life with Chair Caning” the artist multiple art elements. The artist uses lines‚ shapes‚ texture‚ values‚ and colors. The lines are vertical and horizontal but are in patches across the picture. The lines are straight not curved and also thin. The artist uses many shapes the entire oil canvas is an oval while there are triangles‚ squares‚ and rectangles in the upper right part of the oil canvas . He also uses circles in the lower woven looking part. The oil canvas
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The first piece of work that caught my eye at the Ackland Museum of Art was a piece entitled “After the Rain.” “After the Rain” was created by George Wesley Bellows in 1913. The artwork is relatively small at around fifteen by twenty inches‚ and is surround by a golden frame. The piece is an oil artwork depicting a forest landscape on a cliff overlooking the ocean. This piece is similar to other pieces in the exhibit because of simply what time period it was created in. The exhibit incorporated different
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Composition Figures Round a Table by Candlelight is a large oil on canvas created by Gerrit van Deurs c. 1663-1664. This painting is horizontal is 52 ¼ in. x 74 ¼ in and hangs in the Power-Piety Prestige Gallery at the Columbus Museum of Art. Figures Round a Table by Candlelight has some traditional compositional techniques‚ but also displays some interesting non-traditional methods that work well to create a strong composition. Three figures are seated around a small rectangular table‚ occupying
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Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life was the piece of artwork I picked out from the Dixon here in Memphis. I have chosen this piece because it stood out to me more than any others that were on display. I thoroughly enjoyed going‚ even when I didn’t think I would. This piece was painted by Mr. Thomas Cole in 1842 and was a part of a series that represented the four stages of human life: childhood‚ youth‚ manhood‚ and old age. I particularly like this painting because it is a part of a series that tells
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