“I Only Gave Her A Few Small Nips” In Schirmer’s Visual Library Frida Kahlo’s Masterpieces there is an interesting painting. The painting is one of Frida’s most bloody and gory painting. The social message that I inferred from the painting was the brutality against women in Mexican society. Mexican culture has been in part defined by machismo an intense strain of masculinity. Mexican men have been expected to be authoritarian‚ aggressive‚ and promiscuous. Kahlo forces the viewer to examine this
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Is This Painting Haunted? For centuries‚ it was believed that the painting of Lord Harold Von Coft III was haunted? Why? Well‚ the good lord was murdered in the Von Coft home by his wife‚ Helga Von Coft. Helga had wanted her husband’s fortune so she could run away with their three young sons and her lover‚ Mathias Everhart. She might have been a gold digger‚ but she did not count on her husband’s spirit returning the day she tried to take their sons out of the country. The painting - that had been
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El Greco’s paintings in the Chapel of San José de Toledo manifested an authenticity between the divine and the human. The altarpieces at the Chapel of Saint Joseph were one of El Greco’s most important commissions. This commission was an opportunity to demonstrate his considerable ability in executing the religious aspirations and taste of his patrons’. A well-known priest of the time‚ Dr. Martín Ramírez de Zayas decided to provide the family chapel with an ambitious decorative program‚ without hesitation
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Angels 1494 Oil on canvas This piece has been created by Carlo Crivelli and is called ‘The Dead Christ supported by Two Angels’. This piece shows the cycle of life‚ death and religion. The painting indicates that Jesus is dead by the colours that have been used in contrast with the rest of the painting. Colours that have been used on Jesus are dull colours such as grey and a washed out red‚ where as the angels and background have been painted in more vibrant colours such as yellow and orange
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NGatherers Research homework 1. Why do you think Paleolithic people may have created these paintings? To show what they see to other people in the best way they can. 2. What role might the paintings and engravings serve in Paleolithic society? It would play the role of informing as these paintings are very well done. 3. Select any three images that fit the purposes you consider the most likely explanation for their creation and identify specific aspects of those images that support
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HUM 1020 Unit 4 Study Guide Chapter 17: Romantic Era Define: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. bel canto gesamtkunstwerk lieder natural selection leitmotiv Times to Know: 1. Beginning of the French Revolution (1792) 2. American Civil War (1861-1865) Names to Know: 1. Louis Pasteur 2. Charles Darwin 3. Ludwig van Beethoven 4. Jacques-Louis David 5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England) 7. Charles Dickens 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. Emerson
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A Response To: Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg & Post-Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg In this paper I will be summarizing two essays by Clement Greenberg‚ one entitled “Modernist Painting” and the other “Post-Painterly Abstraction.” After summarizing the articles I will discuss and respond to them. In the first reading “Modernist Painting” Greenberg describes Modernism as being a method in which a discipline is used to criticize the discipline itself‚ for instance
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Katelin DeSieno April 16‚ 2013 Art 101 B01 Compare & Contrast Essay In this essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first is “Grainstack (Sunset)” painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light
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31‚ 2013 “Weeping Woman” In the painting‚ “Weeping Woman” by Pablo Picasso is a thematic continuation of the tragedy portrayed in Picasso’s epic painting “Guernica”. The focus of the image is of a woman crying. In www.pablopicasso.org‚ I found that Picasso the woman has the features of a specific person‚ Dora Maar‚ whom Picasso described as "always weeping". She was in fact his partner in the time of his life when he was most involved with politics. This painting is of a woman crying‚ holding something
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she married a year later. She could not have children with him because of the accident. Frida was a huge part of the surrealism movement‚ and a good example of this would be her painting‚ “Las Dos Fridas” (“The Two Fridas”). This work was painted in 1939‚ shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera. The painting depicts two different personalities‚ or versions of her‚ sitting on a bench. The Frida on the left is clad in a Victorian era wedding dress (this depicts the Frida that Diego left)‚
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