Subway and The Tube Train George Tooker‚ an American artist painted “Subway” in 1950. Cyril E. Power‚ a British artist‚ created “The Tube Train” in 1934. With a quick glimpse of the eye‚ one may think these two pieces of artwork are similar. After all‚ a subway and a tube train are basically the same thing. To a trained eye‚ one can see the many differences in the two pieces. Tooker was associated with the Magic Realism movements‚ and is best known for his depictions of alienation in modern
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"For the first time since the plantation days artists began to touch new material‚ to understand new tools and to accept eagerly the challenge of Black poetry‚ Black song and Black scholarship."1 By 1934 the economic destruction wreaked by the Great Depression had put between eleven and fifteen million people out of work. Ten thousand of these jobless citizens were artists. A year earlier‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ the newly elected president‚ had signed into legislation the Federal Emergency Relief
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1. Examining a work of art in its historical‚ social‚ and political __________ enables you to better understand it. A. design B. context C. element D. genre E. ideology 2. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished __________. A. genre scenes B. self-portraits C. landscapes D. still lifes E. assemblages 3. Until modern times‚ art works have been primarily devoted to __________ themes. A. war B. religious C. secular D. rural E. political 4. An anti-commercial
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period. Robert Rauschenberg is most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s‚ in which he uses non-traditional materials and objects in combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture‚ Rauschenberg has also worked with photography‚ printmaking‚ papermaking‚ and performance. Robert Rauschenberg’s “Estate” is both abstract and expressionism. He uses abstract shapes and color patches in his work. There is a lot of use of warm colors such a red‚ orange and yellow in which gives one a hot
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Silkscreening 2 The subject and content of my portfolio for the semester will be an investigation of how to utilize my hand drawings for transformation into the layering process of silkscreening. The content will be a variety of studies and images collaged together from all sorts of visual facets and collected imagery from human and animal anatomy to found images‚ and personal drawings. Taking influences from art noveau‚ i would like to create a visual paradox‚ a base of work that is as
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Uriah Funk Leila Armstrong Art 110 7 February‚ 2013 Formal Analysis of Durer’s Knight‚ Death and the Devil My first impression upon looking at Durer’s “Knight‚ Death and the Devil” is one of impending doom met with courage and a feeling of resigning to one’s fate. The figure of the Knight is surrounded by the figures of Death on his sickly horse and the beast faced Devil‚ along with a treacherous landscape that seems to fold in upon itself and hold other unseen dangers. The knight marches
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Germany’s great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker‚ Albrecht Dürer is considered to be one of the great artists of the Northern European Renaissance. He was born on may 21‚ 1471. Disciplined in his father’s goldsmith shop and apprenticed to one of Nuremberg’s best artists‚ Dürer adapted an early talent for drawing and engraving. Influenced in style by trips to Venice and Italy. Dürer produced world wide famous works by the time he was 30 years old‚ he painted just about everything‚ and with
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How does Randall Jarrell use the imagery in Durer’s engraving of the knight‚ the devil and death to symbolically convey a philosophy of life using powerful poetic devices? ‘The knight‚ Death and the Devil’ poem written by Randall Jarrell‚ based on the engraving by German artist ‘Albert Durer’ depicting a valiant knight‚ on horseback treading along the path of life. A path beset on all sides by many obstacles‚ and the dark forces ranged against the knight in his journey. Created in 1513‚ Durer’s
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Brittany White Art V01 Actual Museum Visit Carnegie Art Museum Oxnard‚CA-November 12‚2010 The Theatre Series‚ dated 2010 Artist-Trujillo Puamier The first piece of art that I chose to write about titled “The Theatre”. The median of this art is Chromogenic Print. I chose this particular piece of work because it reminds me of when my family and I go to different cities to watch different plays. We love to go to the different theatre’s. Looking at this painting reminds me of a particular place
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"It used to be thought that growing up in America was a serious handicap for an artist." [Tomkins 13] The reason behind that being art has always been pushed aside in America‚ never truly taken seriously; which at points today is still held to be just as true. This was not the case for all artists though‚ one of their names was Robert Rauschenberg. Robert Rauschenberg was born on October 22‚ 1925‚ in Port Arthur‚ Texas. Incidentally‚ that is not his original name. Rauschenberg ’s original first name
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