Derain’s Turning Road and Benton’s Haystack After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time‚ I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw last week‚ two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain’s The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton’s Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter‚ they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract
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Art History World Art Exam II 1. In this paper were going to look at four different cultures and two pieces of art work from each. These are cultures that we have discussed in class over this last semester and our found in the book Art a Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren . The four cultures of art that we are going to look at are Japanize‚ Chinese‚ Indian‚ and African. The Japanese started out in the beginning borrowing the Chinese and Korean culture‚ and blending
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appearing mostly on church walls‚ featured religious figures appearing in Catholic teachings. Due to the Church’s supervision of Filipino art and Spanish occupation of the Philippines‚ the purpose of most paintings from the 16th-19th century were to aid the Catholic Church.In the early 19th century‚ wealthier‚ educated Filipinos introduced more secular Filipino art‚ causing art in the Philippines to deviate from religious motifs. The use of watercolor paintings increased and the subject matter of paintings
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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: African-American Art A mural is an artwork of painting that is applied on the wall‚ permanent surface or ceiling. One of the distinguishing elements of a given mural is the architectural feature that is harmoniously attached on the image. Wall paintings are sometimes painted on canvases and then attached on walls. However‚ this is subject to controversy in the field of art. There are two types of murals in African and American setting. They include; Photographic mural
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Example of "magical realism" | Cultural or philosophical relevance | Crying When Tita is born: | Tita was so sensitive to the smell of onions that she started crying in the womb and eventually enticed her mother to give birth to her. There were so many tears that it flooded the kitchen table and floor. This showed that even before Tita was born she was already unhappy and also could not stand the smell of onions. | Chopping onions without crying: | There was a scene where the cook was
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woman as perceived by men as an object to be viewed or desired. Giorgione came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto in Venice. He was extremely influential to other artists and was one of the initiators of High Renaissance style in Venetian art. There is little record of his early life‚ however it is shown that Giorgione served his apprenticeship with Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini in 1490‚ who is well known to have revolutionised Venetian painting. His colour‚ technique and mood of his
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Christina Zevola May 5‚ 2009 Professor Strmiska World History- 1-2pm The Role of Art Throughout time each culture in the world has faced its own struggles and reached new heights. Many of these downfalls and achievements have been visible through economics‚ politics‚ society‚ and many more. Despite these‚ one way in which history will always be expressed is through art‚ both reserved and artifacts. Through historical paintings‚ sculptures‚ and architecture‚ many religious beliefs‚ societal
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Magic realism Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality‚ but was later used by Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain Latin American writers. The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri)
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I’ve chosen links to my theme in my own work as it involves body image and how people perceive different body shapes. Lucian Freud was one of the best known British artists‚ who started painting nudes from the 1950’s. The art movement Freud belonged to was mainly realism‚ occasionally experimenting with surrealism. To start off with Freud mainly used oil paints applying them to the canvas with sable brushes. In the early 1950’s he spent a weekend with the painter Graham Sutherland and his family
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What is ART - skill acquired by experience the conscious use of skill & creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects LASCAUX PALEOLITHIC cave painting (c15‚000 BC) MANUNGGUL JAR (c710-890) 2nd LGBT Flores de Mayo Q.C. CCP by leandro locsin (1969) DL UMALI HALL by Leandro Locsin (1965) Pahiyas Festival ‚ Lucban Quezon What counts as Art? * ART as an EXPERIENCE OF PLEASURE David
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