Assignment #1 Eratosthenes 1. Discuss the degree of verisimilitude in the account of events Verisimilitude in short‚ is the appearance of truth. The more truthful that something seems‚ the closer it is to the actual truth. Euphiletos was on trial for conspiracy to commit murder. Given the facts from this case I would have to say that he is innocent. If we are to just go by the facts and testimony‚ Euphiletos was justified for the murder of Eratosthenes because Athenian law allowed him
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1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting. In 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris‚ where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir‚ Frédéric Bazille‚ and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art‚ painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes.
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Institutionalization of the "fine arts” and the nature of academic instruction * The academy set the standard for what was art. * Very specific criteria * Only allowed to do History Painting: an event out of history‚ the bible‚ or mythology * Other than history – portrait‚ still lives‚ genre painting * Subject matter: history/mythology/politics * Studying in Rome was the high point of artistic development * Mengs‚ Parnassus‚ 1761 * Theme: the origin of poetry-
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impression on the critics‚ artists‚ and public of the time. Here was a painting that was a collage of contradictions—impressionist paintings were all about modernity‚ plein air painting‚ spontaneity‚ and improvisation. The Grande Jatte was a painting of modern life‚ but it was hardly impressionistic. There was nothing spontaneous about the painting. Everything was clearly modeled and studied. Figures were rigid. The painting was enormous (2 meters by 3 meters). And the surface of dots was unlike
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created their world progressed from painting what they would see to how they would see the subject and ultimately how they felt about a subject much like Van Gogh did. After Romanticism and then Realism‚ in Europe at least‚ many painters were used to painting what was in front of them‚ eventually using real life as their subject. But something changed in Paris in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century that caused its painters to rebel and experiment with a painting style called Impressionism.
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My first impression of this pair of paintings is that Matisse’s View of Collioure is more pleasant‚ lighthearted and naturalistic visually‚ while Picasso’s Factories at Horta de Ebro is more heavy‚ rigid and unnatulistic. I’d say View of Collioure is like a classic plein air oil painting done in a different way. The colors are not realistic at all. They are much more vibrant and warm ---- the mountain in the background is straightforwardly pink with some strange green patches‚ the foreground
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that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death‚ he averaged one painting per day. Van Gogh is generally regarded as the greatest Dutch painter since Rembrandt despite the fact that he did not become famous until after his death. His influence on Expressionism‚ Fauvism and early abstraction‚ was remarkable and some of his paintings rank among the most expensive ever sold at auction. This essay will discuss a descriptive analysis‚ interpretation of
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Exploration In Both The Visual and Emotional Qualities of Art For many artists their primary goal is in exploring both the visual and emotional qualities of art. The Frames and The Conceptual Framework are both ways of exploring both the visual and emotional qualities of art. The Frames are applied to the process of judging‚ investigating‚ explaining‚ understanding‚ indentifying and expressing ideas on artworks. The Conceptual Framework refers to the agencies of the art world. In this essay
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Museum The Laguna Art Museum’s collection consists of works from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The museum was celebrating The Plein Annual Laguna air Painting show‚ which consists of various painters that painted in and around Laguna Beach. The public was encouraged to view the painters during the week as they created the paintings which were available on the second floor of the gallery for sell and viewing. The Artists in California‚ Early Twentieth Century from the Permanent
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Analysis The Path on the Island of Saint Martin‚ Vetheuil‚ is a medium scale oil painting that was created by Claude Monet in 1881. Claude Monet uses the technique known as en plein air by painting the natural landscape that surrounded him. Monet‚ like most Impressionist painters‚ had desires to capture and paint his initial impression of several different outdoor scenes. Impressionist artist escaped the classical ways of painting by creating pieces that had a sketch-like‚ or unfinished quality to them.
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