the individual in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii". Rousseau’s publication‚ The Social Contract‚ states that "Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains". His belief is that everyone is equal and nobody has authority over anyone else. This was the source of the revolutionaries’ ideas (p96 Blk 3). In order to be free while living in society’‚ Rousseau’s solution is that the individual adopts the general will. This view is also reflected in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii"
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Issue131 The arts (painting‚ music‚ literature‚ etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society." Do the arts always express the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of society? I fundamentally agree with what the speakers has asserted. However‚ besides showing otherwise hidden thoughts and stimulus of society‚ they are also used to express the author’s personal feelings and emotions‚ or mirror the beauty of nature. In this respect‚ the arts are regarded as something for their
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in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in European painting. Countless artists strived to paint or sculpt the most perfect or intriguing idea of feminine beauty. This brings us
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and Italian paintings / Eitan Kenner The piece St. Luke Drawing the Virgin‚ c. 1435-40 by Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden is an oil and tempera painting presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Its narrative is a popular theme in art‚ showing St. Luke painting the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. Such paintings were often painted for chapels of Saint Luke (saint patron of artists) in European churches during the Renaissance. Fifteenth century Flemish painting in general and this
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Still-life painting was appearing to become more popular in Italy‚ northern Europe and Spain in the 16th Century. Over time‚ it became more common in these places‚ and artists began to change what they painted‚ and instead focused on painting plants‚ animals and man-made objects. The objects that were put into the still-life paintings were that of new discoveries‚ when the Spanish and the Dutch began to explore overseas territory. The ‘foreign specimens’ created huge excitement with the people of
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FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN WALL PAINTING The wall paintings evolved from around 2nd BC. Romans created these extravaganza works to emphasise their wealth. The evidence for the techniques used is described by Vitruvius ’ in _De Architectura._ He noted that wall paintings were interior wall designs as frescoes‚ which were executed using damp plaster (lime and sand mixed together). There must have been at least several layers of this plaster‚ where the top layers were burnished with marble powder to make
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How has Picasso Used his Art Making in his painting “Guernica” to Comment the Atrocities of War? Guernica‚ is a painting by Pablo Picasso‚ a famous Spanish artist. It was painted as a reaction to the bombing of Guernica‚ Spain during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The painting is a large canvas mural‚ stretching 7.8 metres wide - 3.5 metres tall. Originally painted to be displayed at the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica shows the tragedies of war as well as the anguish and destruction it
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I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I-- I took the one less traveled by‚ And that has made all the difference. Aesthetic connections: painting and poetry I have chosen the poem entitled The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost and the picture painted by Edvard Munch which bears the title of Two Beings (Two Lonely Ones). I have selected these two masterpieces of arts as they both depict
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Arts"‚ by W.H. Auden‚ I was under the impression that the poem was a simple interpretation of a painting. In order to fully grasp the significance of the poem‚ I suggest that one become familiar with the history behind not only the myth of Icarus‚ but also Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting‚ "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus". A thorough background allowed me to make a more skilled analysis of the painting-poem relationship and how it affected me. In the beginning‚ I found it beneficial to analyze
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MY THESIS TITLE: Poetry in paint and painting in words: Analogy between Wallace Stevens and Joan Miró’s surrealist creativity yielding cosmic imagescape by FAHRETTIN ONDER SUMMARY: This thesis tries to conduct an analogical analysis of the relationship between poetry and painting known as "ut pictura poesis" as reflected in Wallace Stevens’s "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (1937) and Joan Miró"s "The Constellations" (1940-41) in terms of Surrealist movement and philosophy and the influences
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