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    John Brack The painting is called ‘Collins Street 5pm’and was painted in 1955. It is an oil painting on canvas‚ sized 114.6 x 162.9 cm. Collins Street 5pm‚ 1955‚ oil on canvas‚ 114.6x162.9cm Collins Street 5pm‚ 1955‚ oil on canvas‚ 114.6x162.9cm John Brack has used dull mainly consisting of black‚ brown and dirt yellow colour. He has used a very limited palette of colours. There was lots of repetition used in this painting: The people in the middle‚ the hats of the people in the

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    Frida Kahlo (1907-54)‚ whose body and biography were her chief subjects‚ mythologized them into a revealing life epic. Her paintings tell stories-intimate‚ engaging‚ terri­fying‚ and tragic ones. When she abandoned hope in her daily life‚ Kahlo embedded her despair within paintings‚ which‚ by virtue of their very existence‚ act as the artist’s envoys in search of salvation‚ or something like it. At times archaizing and romantic‚ at times brutally immediate‚ Kahlo’s subjects impose stasis on history

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    Rico on October 7th‚ 1992; however‚ lived many different places as she was in a military family. Growing up‚ her parents pushed her to pursue an art career. In 2014 she graduated from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting‚ Drawing‚ and Printmaking with a minor in Art History. She studied abroad many places‚ and classical artworks such as Shakespearean plays‚ Greek tragedies‚ and the renaissance and baroque eras influence her art. While currently working on a Master

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    With so many paintings that have been created over time‚ which ones are the best? Below you’ll find five of only the most famous paintings in the world. II. Famous Paintings 1. The Scream Everyone knows this painting. The weird looking guy with his palms on his cheeks‚ standing on a pier or something with the background in shades of blue and red. The original was created in 1893 by Edvard Munch in Norway‚ but several other versions were painted sometime after as well. The painting shows the

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    MUSEUM PAPER MARK ROTHKO AND HIS PAINTING “WHITE CENTER” Mark Rothko’s painting “White Center” is a breathtaking abstract painting I saw at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA). Rothko painted this 84 x 72-inch oil on canvas work in 1957. The painting is done in his signature style of using color and form-floating rectangular shapes. Rothko was part of the American movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism‚ which was more than just a painting style. It refers to the process

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    for this particular painting done by munch redefines that meaning with his famous painting: The Scream. The Scream is a painting done during a time period were majority of artist at the time were into realism style and depicting real worldly events or objects. This painting is maintaining a expressionism style of work and is supposed to be a self reflection of munch’s hard life that he has endured. He felt compelled to spill his inner feelings out onto the

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    Can Art be Limited to Single Categories What is Clement Greenberg’s definition of “modernism”? I do not agree with Clement Greenberg definitions of modernism‚ in his essay ‘Modernist Painting’. Because it is wrong to place artistic limits on artistic expression‚ whether that is painting‚ sculpture or any other artistic work. As Manet’s sad “art for art sack”. Single person cannot be permitted to make decision on what good art is. In doing so he took away the freedom to explore‚ and once needed‚ push

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    Painting Analysis at the National Gallery of Canada HIS 4001: History of Art II By: Gill Collens 2/14/2013 Professor: Ncole Sammut Simone Martini‚ St. Catherine of Alexandria‚ ca. 1322–23‚ tempera on wood panel‚ 83.2 × 43.5 cm‚ 32 3/4 × 17 1/8 in.‚ (with frame). Collection of the National Gallery of Canada‚ Ottawa‚ inv. no. 6430 Contents Table of contents……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………............1 Essay……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………2-5 Works

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    to create art is a defining sign of humanity‚ the body may well have been the first canvas. Alongside paintings on cave walls visited by early people over 30‚000 years ago‚ we find handprints‚ ochre deposits‚ and ornaments. And because the dead were often buried with valuable possessions and provisions for the afterlife‚ ancient burials reveal that people have been tattooing‚ piercing‚ painting‚ and shaping their bodies for millennia. All of the major forms of body art known today appear in the

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    Art has played an important role in human history‚ from cave paintings to masterpieces on the ceiling. They have displayed emotions‚ shown victories and defeats‚ as well as boasted major events. There are multiple paintings that display events during Paul`s life. Three major paintings that have shown important events during Paul`s life are; the Vision of Cornelius‚ the Death of Ananias‚ The Conversion on the Road to Damascus. They all display prominent events in Christian history. Eeckhout uses

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