Look carefully at Plate 1.3.32‚ Paul Cezanne’s painting Still Life with Plaster Cast‚ c. 1894. How do the form and content of this painting contribute to our understanding of it as a modern work? According to art critic Clive Wilson‚ writing in 1914‚ Cézanne was ‘the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form (Harrison‚ C‚ 2008‚ p.63). Considered a revolutionist‚ Cézanne helped pave the way for other modern artists and his abstract tendencies contributed to the Cubist Movement. Robert Cumming
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Summative Art Write-Up Acrylic Landscape Painting Where did your idea/image come from? Is it your own image or did you use someone’s artwork or photograph to work from for a practical exercise? Briefly describe the image? (colours‚ the scene itself) (5 marks) My idea/image came from a social media app called instagram‚ and the image was take in Lake Minnewanka in Alberta Canada. I did use someone else’s photograph. The individual who took it remains unknown‚ however their instagram account is
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What was the effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography
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Greek Vase Painting‚ Archaic and Classical Periods A Comparison of Back and Red-Figure Painting Rich Grudzinski Art History One Black-figure and red-figure painting techniques were the most popular methods of painting vases and other vessels during this period. A third method‚ the white-ground technique was too delicate for everyday use and was mainly used for making lekythoi (a type of pottery used for storing oil‚ commonly placed in Greek graves as offerings to the deceased). Therefore
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after the hundreds of years of revolution it has seen. The constant change that Russia has undergone and yet its resistance to keep its culture makes it a very independent country. Ilya Repin’s painting “They Did Not Expect Him”‚ is a token of how much a country can undertake and yet still be strong. The painting depicts the struggle of the Russian people but also how they have managed to strive forward know matter what obstacles get in
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de France by Stuart Davis When I first saw the painting‚ Hôtel de France‚ painted by Stuart Davis‚ I thought that was just an ordinary painting of a building and a street that is pretty‚ especially in a way that looks old-fashioned. I had to come to realize that the painting was painted from what the painter sees from the scene. The painting is a picture of a four-story building of the hotel named‚ Hôtel de France. On the left side of the painting are the sides of other buildings. In front of the
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difference of opinion‚ controversy‚ and many other contemporary issues. Art can also been viewed in many different mediums; such as music‚ paintings‚ the written word whether that be prose or poetry‚ photography as well as many more forms. I will be discussing the famous painter of Van Gogh and a painting that he described as ugly. Van Gogh described this painting as “…one of the ugliest I have done…” He then stated that he tried to show the fervor of the human race describing various colors when
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Funpon for learning 7 3‚1 The learning curriculum in the Kobikichō Kano workshop 7 3‚2 Shitsu-ga and Gaku-ga 8 4‚ Funpon for painting production 13 4‚1 The succession of motifs and styles 14 4‚2 The succession of motifs and styles on the commission of large scale 16 4‚2‚1 The nature of funpon
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Picasso ’s "Guernica" (1937) and Goya ’s "The Third of May" (1814) are paintings that are created to communicate an issue of concern of the artist. In order to truly understand the impact that these paintings have on people‚ and why that impact is so strong‚ a person must analyse the content of them. The first reaction of the "Guernica" by Picasso is one of mayhem‚ destruction‚ lost souls and death. The entire painting is dark with cool colours and no sign of warmth. There are scattered distorted
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Critical Review of a painting at the Jaycee Park Center for the Arts While visiting the Jaycee Park Centre for the Arts‚ this picture of cowboys rounding up cows on a ranch instantly caught my eye. The picture is a standard size of 3x3‚ and is square shaped. It is enclosed within a golden frame‚ which makes it more conspicuous. I was drawn to the picture by the cowboy who is wearing the red scarf‚ and sky blue shirt. The artist James Spurlock‚ has used him to capture the observer’s attention by
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