A Portrait of Mona Lisa Courtney Wilder ENG121: English Composition I Prof. Laloni Christenson July 22‚ 2013 A Portrait of Mona Lisa Art is a traditional work that is painted in many different pattern of objects. Many people create portraits of art as an expression of how they feel. In the modern world‚ art is shown in different cities‚ subways‚ parks and etc. The greatest art was created in the early century and was called a masterpiece. This portrait was
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understanding both the artist and the works. The work that resonated with me the most was the oil painting Muse (2003). This is a painting of Zoe Bray’s husband’s (then boyfriend) naked body. The scene is taken in morning in a bedroom. The whole picture is dim‚ only with a small beam of light casting on the man’s body through the curtain‚ reminds people of privacy and intimacy. Generally‚ the tone of the painting is brown and grey indicating an intimate and peaceful atmosphere. The man is lying in the twisted
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The Arnolfini Portrait‚ created by Jan van Eyck‚ is a complex oil painting that was created in 1434. It is a representational work because it references real life events‚ which in this case‚ are the marriage rituals of that day in age between husband and wife. For the very first time in history‚ van Eyck became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term. This portrait is very complex due to the fact of its iconography. It is very symbolic and has been interpreted in several‚ countless
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(American Artist 77). Van Gogh visualized many things and would simply go out and begin painting what he saw‚ the way he saw it in his mind. “He did not throw his paint on the canvas in a burst of emotion‚ but considered carefully the effects he was striving to achieve.” (Art Newspaper 49-50). Painting brought Van Gogh much joy in his life and is quoted to have said that‚ “The only time I feel alive is when I ’m painting.” “Van Gogh ’s greatest resource was his visual memory and raw instincts.” (American
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt‚ and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci. There is an art in writing poetry‚ for you must embed meaning within it while not just blatantly writing the message. In poetry there are many different ways of doing this‚ so it is up to the poet’s stylistic choice how to deliver these messages. Seamus Heaney‚ in translating the poem Beowulf from it’s original dialect is able to use stylistic choice to bring out different
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Assessment art Georges-Pierre Seurat was a post-impressionist I will analyse his painting “ Sunday Afternoon” I will also analyse Claude Lorraines work “Seaport with the Embarkation of St. Ursula” he’s style is classical. Firstly I will analyse “Sunday afternoon”. The colours in the painting are simple and bright‚ the artist does not blend colours instead he dots pure colours and lets the eyes blend them. This takes a long time to do and a lot of patience‚ but it eliminates the grey colour you
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Portraiture Case Study “Some of the most fascinating portraits are those that offer the viewer an emotional or psychological insight into their subject” Compare and contrast the work of THREE artists who have explored the genre of portraiture. A portrait is typically defined as a representation of a specific individual‚ such as the artist might meet in life. “It could be drawn‚ painted‚ sculpted or photographed. A portrait is usually a statement‚ made firstly by the sitter‚ who wishes to be seen
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Although it is highly personal for the artist‚ the piece can still be viewed by outside audiences and for them they will see a part of the author and even a part of themselves‚ as they search the colours and textures discovering different phases of the painting that they too can relate to in themselves. For the artist Freydoon Rassouli‚ born in 1943 the emotions he conveys come from a blissful childhood in Iran. He grew up in a home with a strong reverence for art and poetry and quickly learnt how to
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Essay on Three Paintings by Michael Marino-157897 Paintings give us a feeling of despair‚ disgust‚ hope‚ rebellion‚ splendor‚ love and beauty among other emotions. Each artist had something the artist believed important to say‚ some message the artist needed to communicate when creating the painting. This is an essay describing‚ comparing and contrasting three different paintings by three different artists. We will examine The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church‚ Battle of the Amazons
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literature stretching from Josquin to Bach without a thorough grasp of one of the more important classes of text-influence: namely‚ word painting. The variety of ways in which words may influence music can be formed into a surprisingly symmetrical array (Figure 1). Figure 1. Classification of Text Influences vol24id199 In this classification‚ word painting represents only an option of one of the eight primary surface effects (rhythmic‚ phonetic‚ formal‚ rhetorical‚ dramatic‚ lyrical
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