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    School name Your name Date Instructor Reading Art: Understanding Iconographic I chose a painting from Jan Van Eyck‚ a Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife.  This portrait hold a lot of symbolic meaning‚ and a lot of hidden symbols. The four  roles that the artist Jan Van Eyck uses in the portrait ``The Arnolfini Marriage`` is faithfulness‚  purity‚ Loyalty‚ and love. In order to incorporate deeper meaning to his portrait Jan Van Eyck uses oil to paint this beautiful painting.

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    [Type the company name] | UNDERSTANDING Iconography | Art/101 | | Rita Ford | 6/4/2011 | Art/101 | I use the reading material in both chapters one and two to find my selected portraits and I feel I choose two different pieces of art but both are paintings. One symbolizes religion‚ while the other symbolizes the Indian Heritage. The two I choose was Figure 6 in chapter one and was painted by Jan Van Eyck known as a God

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    Buddhist Art and Iconography As Asian culture became popular‚ Buddhist art became very familiar to Americans. We can find statues of Buddha not only at Asian restaurants but also at bars‚ night clubs and even at furniture stores. Buddhist art is becoming less associated with religion; however statues of Buddha and other Buddhist motifs such as lotus flowers have significant religious meanings behind them. Although some of people who are interested in Buddhist art are non-Buddhist

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    Understanding Iconography Jeremy Kivi ART/101 May 19‚ 2013 Elizabeth Unterman In art there are endless ways one can express themselves. Specifically‚ there are four roles of an artist. Each of which are essential to distinguishing an artist and their style as well as how their art speaks to the viewer. The four roles of an artist consist of helping us see the world in new and innovative ways‚ create a visual record of their time and place‚ make functional objects and structures

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    | An Analysis of Iconography and its Importance in Italian Renaissance Art Mariah Garlitos Art 323 Margaret Goehring November 30‚ 2012 Upon first glance at a work of art we are tempted to distinguish recognizable figures and apply a deeper meaning to them. It becomes a sort of challenge to figure out what the artist intended for their audience to get out of their work. As we examine particular pieces of art‚ focusing on art of fifteenth century Italy‚ we come to realize Italian artists

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    ART Art is something which can be analyzed to give deeper insight as to the common values and beliefs shared by the members of a certain society. Regardless of the place of origin or the time period of a form of art‚ it will always be a reflection of the social structure in which it’s creator/s lived. However‚ the way the artist perceives the culture common to his time period is very relative. People pertaining to a higher social class had different values and ideologies than members of a lower

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    knight is on fire because he is losing his battle‚ just like the main character in Bradbury’s novel. http://literarymumblings.wordpress.com/2009/05/ o An explanation of the iconographic or symbolic significance of one work of art Two Venetian Ladies really does create a visual record of the artist’s time and place. In addition capturing two women who represented that time period through their clothing‚ he also uses several iconic images that suggest deeper meaning

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    Painting Materials: Oil‚ Tempra‚ Pastal on Cardboard Colors: Black‚ Red‚ Orange‚ Dark Blue‚ Yellow Iconography Edvard Munch‚ in 1893‚ presented his painting that became very popular world-wide. It was named “The Scream” by the artist. It has almost 4 different versions‚ but all are very same. Scream had gained reputation as an iconic art-work‚ and it remained source of inspiration for a long time. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and most of his work is based

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    Reading for Understanding: Bones In the story "Bones" by J. Lee Engfer‚ we meet a young‚ 27 year old‚ self diagnosed hypochondriac named Lea who acts as if she doesn’t appreciate life. Lea in the beginning of the story is a pessimist but towards the end we see a change in her ideas and thinking until she becomes optimistic about her life. We also meet a young spirited older woman named Thea who is vivacious and fun loving with a sense of style which makes her almost 1940’s Hollywood-esque

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    The Iconography of Nepalese Buddhism by Min Bahadur Shakya [Text Version] e DHANET ’ UD BO B O K LIB R A R E-mail: bdea@buddhanet.net Web site: www.buddhanet.net Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. S Y e of Nepalese Buddhism  M B S A  A Min Bahadur Shakya is a scholar of Newar and Tibetan Buddhism. Among his major publications are  hort istory of uddhism in epal‚ . ntroduction to uddhist onasteries of athmandu alley

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