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    Painting number one is titled “Boundless”. The artist is Steve Hanks. He is one of the best watercolor artist in the United States. The painting is a hand painted watercolor painting. Hanks was an artist who loved women and children. He painted them with such a tender caring-ness. Hanks grew up in Southern California. Hanks felt like the ocean made strong and lasting impression on him growing up. After high school Hanks went to the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Than he transferred to the

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    artwork are you discussing? When did the piece appear? What form was the artwork (painting; sculpture; quilt; etc.)? What artist produced the artwork? How was the artist received by audiences/critics (QUOTE FROM AT LEAST ONE SOURCE)? What was going on in the U.S. (or globally) when your artwork appeared? What aspects of the 1930s were particularly in the foreground during this time? The artwork I picked was the painting “Frozen Assets” (1931-32) made by Diego Rivera. The Art Historian Ph.D. Greta Berman

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    ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AS REFLECTED IN PAINTING: THE CONTRASTING VIEWS OF ECONOMISTS AND ART HISTORIANS [1] Manuel Santos-Redondo Universidad Complutense de Madrid [las diferencias con respecto al Documento de Trabajo disponible en la Web estan subrayadas] 1. Introduction The Moneychanger and his Wife is probably the picture most widely used to illustrate economic activity‚ and so it is (supposedly) well known by economists‚ managers‚ and accountants. The accounting book which appears

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    in 1953 and is an oil on canvas painting. Easter Sunrise depicts a mountain side and shining from the corner of the mountain is a brilliant white cross.   As far as the technical excellence of this painting‚ the colors are varying degrees of browns‚ gold and white. Georgia O’Keeffe uses form really well. Even though she uses one mountain as the main focus‚ in the background there are other mountains and road leading into the distance. In the forefront of the painting there are trees and the road.

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    Greco. The painting depicts the landscape of Toledo‚ Spain‚ the city where the artist worked and lived for most of his life. This is a very significant work for several reasons: it is considered to be the first landscape in Spanish art‚ one of only two surviving landscapes painted by this artist‚ and because this artist rarely painted non-religious subject matter. View of Toledo is considered to be one of the most dramatic and individual landscapes in the history of art. The painting is not an accurate

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    to create art is a defining sign of humanity‚ the body may well have been the first canvas. Alongside paintings on cave walls visited by early people over 30‚000 years ago‚ we find handprints‚ ochre deposits‚ and ornaments. And because the dead were often buried with valuable possessions and provisions for the afterlife‚ ancient burials reveal that people have been tattooing‚ piercing‚ painting‚ and shaping their bodies for millennia. All of the major forms of body art known today appear in the

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    Sherman was born on January 19th 1954‚ and is an American photographer who uses her portraits as social commentary- particularly on female stereotypes. She created her famous ‘Film Stills’ work in 1977 and developed and progressed through her works since then. Throughout my art project‚ I have been mimicking her self portrait style when creating my photographs styled as ‘Rapunzel.’ ‘Untitled’- 2004 For this portrait‚ Cindy Sherman has gone with her usual style of styling herself to unrecognizable

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    and his friends viewed a magnificent red‚white‚ yellow‚ black‚ brown bulls‚ bison‚ deer and horses. Artists used brushes made from animal hair and plant fiber and with sponges made from fur. The paintings took back to the Magdalenian period‚ which was over 15‚000 years ago. Cro-Magnon people drew the paintings on the caves.The people who lived during 2‚500‚000 B.C. to 10‚000 B.C. were nomadic hunter and gatherers (which means they travel from place to place for survival). Archaeologists believe three

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    Similarities between the music of Debussy and the painting of Turner The music of Claude Debussy and the painting of J.M.W. Turner are‚ in most people’s minds‚ two entirely different things. However‚ each man was considered the founder of impressionism in his own artform. Impressionism was a movement in late 19th century European art‚ which was a reflection of the realizations in physics about the properties of light. Turner’s atmospheric paintings and Debussy’s tone poems‚ although different forms

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    Can Art be Limited to Single Categories What is Clement Greenberg’s definition of “modernism”? I do not agree with Clement Greenberg definitions of modernism‚ in his essay ‘Modernist Painting’. Because it is wrong to place artistic limits on artistic expression‚ whether that is painting‚ sculpture or any other artistic work. As Manet’s sad “art for art sack”. Single person cannot be permitted to make decision on what good art is. In doing so he took away the freedom to explore‚ and once needed‚ push

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