not be beautiful to others. Beauty can be found anywhere‚ at any time and any place. From the Jim Germaux’s exhibition in the Roper Gallery the painting Parallel Play was the most striking work of art. Not only is this work eye catching‚ but it so abstract it requires you to just stop and examine the artwork. There are various aspects of Germaux’s painting that create beauty through compositional elements beyond nature. The visual elements in this artwork include: line‚ shape and implied mass‚ color
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traditional Navajo sand paintings and the magery taken from them as subject matter that is being woven into rugs and artwork that is being sold for profit. This has resulted in a heated debate that has literally split the Navajo people into two separate groups‚ those that don’t mind the use of sand painting imagery and those that feel that it is wrong to use the symbols and forms of a sacred ritual for common artwork. This has sparked such a storm of controversy because the sand paintings are a Navajo art
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The painting‚ Boats Returning Home‚ depicts ships drifting at sea in the lull of the waves. Ritschel’s impressionistic style is shown through the vibrant waves of the sea. He uses brilliant shades of blue‚ green‚ and yellow in illustrating the waves. The painting was made in California at the onset of a new impressionist movement: which exemplifies the beauty of nature. Thus‚ it shows even the laboring fishing boats with a tranquil nature. It accentuates the union between man and the sea‚ and the
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Name of painting: Large interior‚ Los Angeles Name of painter: David Hockney Modern Art is not really on my good list. I am not a fan of it. Though when doing this project‚ I found a painting that to my eyes was beautiful and uplifting. It was painted by David Hockney a painter I am not familiar with. His works are beautiful but only one painting was noticed among the rest by me to be the best at the Metropolitan museum. It stood out with its bright colors and vivid play of light. It’s light
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Word count: 1‚836 Topic: 4 Painting was proclaimed dead in the 1980s. Discuss referencing Greenberg‚ the Conceptual Art movement and the revival of painting in the 1980s. I have written this work myself and have made every attempt to acknowledge the ideas of others. Painting has been declared dead numerous times since the 1960s but it refuses to die‚ even though the relevance and legitimacy of the medium is repeatedly questioned. Because of this‚ painting has had to constantly redefine
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One of the most famous paintings from the American Revolution is a painting of our first president George Washington crossing the Delaware. The painting is accurately named‚ “Washington Crossing the Delaware‚” and is set during an extremely tense time in the American Revolution. The Americans and the British had been battling for freedom for many years now‚ and tensions were still rising. The American army under General George Washington were not doing so well and really need to win a battle to gain
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The Gulf Stream‚ is an oil painting created by Winslow Homer in 1899. This piece of artwork showcases a young‚ African American man with only pants on for clothing‚ that has a destroyed boat and is in the middle of the ocean with sharks beneath him with crashing waves that are tipping his boat closer into the ocean all while he sits on the boat just looking out into the ocean. This artwork also shows us the mental strength of mankind‚ the ability to remain calm and collected in horrendous situations
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things‚ yet our mother still forgives us. Our mother didn’t want her child to be hurt or even have mosquito bite. Mary Cassatt painted a Young Mother Sewing on a rectangular canvas. She used oil paint. In the foreground‚ the young child in the painting was wearing a white and sky blue dress. Grey was used to highlight her dress in the light. She had brown eyes‚ brown hair and chubby red cheeks. The child was leaning on her mother’s lap looking at the viewer. The mother was wearing a white and black
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Haas and Hahn’s TED Talk‚ “How Painting Can Transform Communities” describes the effort and planning that is needed to create such astounding works of art. This duo’s first piece of artwork on buildings came from Vila Cruzeiro; this is a poor and dilapidated town in Brazil with buildings clustered together while each seems to scream with agony from the claustrophobic space. To begin with‚ the community was not very well-behaved and did not set an example for others; not many people ventured out of
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stroke size wanted on the artwork. 2. Analyze the characteristics of different painting media (3 minimum)- the advantages and disadvantages and discuss in examples. (100 word min) Oil painting lets the artist create luminous hardwearing colors that blend well with surrounding paints and are slower drying than water colors‚ but that can also be a disadvantage because it makes it hard to move into the next stage of painting. But oils and acrylics can contain toxins in some cases. But the acrylics do
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