life painting but also painted figures and landscapes. During his lifetime he enjoyed the status of a celebrity and was widely acknowledged with a great reputation. After completing an apprenticeship as an engraver‚ teaching himself painting and printmaking‚ he moved from Lyon to Paris in the year 1859 to further his craft. He was very inspired by the Dutch style of still life painting during that time‚ which is evident in his own style. The painting is realistic‚ however it is not fully refined
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Further into Cézanne’s career‚ portraiture was common. In his work‚ Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Armchair of 1890 (Figure 10)‚ Japanese influence cannot be denied. The “great simplification and flattening of modelling and color‚ the structural anchoring of the figure against the edges of the picture‚ and the horizontal weighting combined with a diagonal accent‚” (Berger 118) that Cézanne used in his painting were common features in Japanese work. Although Cézanne did not specify whether he viewed
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4/18/2011 Mr. Brad Scott Board Member at King Chavez Neighborhood of Schools Dear Mr. Scott: It has come to my attention that you have concerns with integrating arts into the curriculum. I would like to take this time to show you what I have collected along the way of learning more about how important integrating the arts can be and the positive impact it will have on any classroom and school as a whole. We have been looking for something to help raise test scores‚ to help students
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Renaissance. Along with your descriptions‚ include answers to the following questions: • What are the social and cultural similarities between the Italian and Northern European Renaissance? • What are the social and cultural differences between the Italian and Northern European Renaissance? • What are the relationships between the arts and the cultures of the Italian Renaissance and the Northern European Renaissance? • How are the social and cultural differences reflected in the arts
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portraitist grew during the 1630 ’s in Amsterdam‚ Rembrandt chose to focus not only on commissions but on biblical and mythological scenes. Although Christ Preaching is an etching and not a painting‚ it can still be understood in this context. Printmaking provided a way for Rembrandt to reach a wider audience still‚ and accordingly he chooses popular imagery that appeals to a wide range of viewers. Likely depicting Christ during his time in Rome‚ this detailed work shows all members of society‚ brought
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The background of Locomotive by Brian Floca can be traced back to 1869. As a picture book‚ older age people can appreciate its details and history. Brian Floca takes his readers to a cross-country journey with him in Locomotive. According to one of its book reviews‚ “In a collegial direct address‚ he invites readers to join a family-mother‚ daughter and son- on one of the first passenger trips from Omaha to Sacramento after the meeting of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific in May 1869” (Kirkus)
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Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting
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interconnectivity of art and music. One of Warhol’s project was using commercial items and borrowed images such as Campbell Soup Cans for his artwork (Scherman‚1999). His masterpiece contained 32 paintings of different types of Campbell soup cans by printmaking and it was a big art movement. Although Warhol didn’t create the labels of the Campbell soup cans‚ he used the image and made it modern art by taking a different observation and focus of the cans. In addition‚ he claims that he changed mundane cans
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The Pop Art Movement was one of the biggest visual art movements of the 20th century. Therefore it is extremely significant. Pop Art is simply an abbreviation for popular art work. Numerous artists such as such as Andy Warhol‚ Roy Lichtenstein‚ James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg started this phenomenal movement form the 1950’s and onwards. It came at a time after a two decade period where abstract art was extremely popular. Pop Art is the movement in art when artists began to create art with the
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Mother About to Wash Her Sleeping Child: Mary Cassatt Lauren Eddie Gierard Art History 318 Professor Enholm April 2nd 2015 Mother About to Wash Her Sleeping Child‚ is an oil painting by Mary Cassatt painted in 1880.1 It is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‚ on the third floor of the Art of the Americas Building. 2As the title states the painting depicts a motherly figure bathing a sleepy child. The arrangement and treatment of these figures embody many of
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