8/28/2012 Vermeer’s paintings are known across the world to people who have an artistic eye. In the novel The Girl with the Pearl Earrings Griet is the maid in Vermeer’s house hold. The family feels that he should paint faster so he can earn more money. Griet secretly becomes Vermeer’s assistant as well as his inspiration for his next famous painting. Vermeer’s paintings are more than just paint on a canvas it tells a story‚ it’s inspirational and says a lot for a painting. The novel helped me
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During my trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ the painting that caught my attention the most was the Old Woman (Woman with Gloves) painted by Pablo Picasso in France‚ created in 1901. This painting was located in the The Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ Resnick Rotunda room and apart of the The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. This painting was painted during Picasso’s Blue Period. The Blue Period is defined as a depressing and cheerless period. During this era‚ Picasso had a love for drawing
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Image A depicts a Renaissance style painting‚ which was heavily focused on during the 1400s to the 1600s. The Renaissance form usually focused on religion and in this painting‚ it is clear that the artist used religious influence for the painting. We can see that the woman appears to be praying and also has a subtle halo around her head. Also‚ the painting uses various different techniques to make it look three-dimensional‚ something that Renaissance artists often did compared to earlier works. Foreshortening
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story behind his/her painting. I believe every person sees a painting with different view and experience it differently. Each color the artist choose in every painting has message that he or she is trying to send to the viewers. One of the common color in my ten art work is gray. Gray is seen by people as unemotional‚ cold‚ and boring color because it is neither black nor white. I believe gray can deliver many emotions and not just depressed feeling. In each one of my painting‚ the artists choose
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portraying life. This gives each painting or drawing a unique look that is almost the artist’s way of signing their work. Such as‚ the difference between one of the mural study pieces at the Pearl Fincher Museum and Sheep Shearing by James “Buck” Winn. This makes each painting look different‚ and gives each painting a different feel. Made by an unknown artist in an unknown year a mural study piece from the museum is an oil painting on a panel. It is a painting of several men raising‚ shearing‚
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The Monuments Men The Monuments Men were a group of men and women who served to recover the stolen paintings in World War II. They recovered millions of paintings that were stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s in World War II. The Monuments Men were an important military group in World War II because of their origin‚ assignment‚ and number of paintings recovered. The Monuments Men were created from 14 different nations who were either museum directors‚ curators‚ art historians‚ archivists
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beautiful painting due to its value scale with the complementary harmony of blue and orange. Balancing the cool and warm colors‚ we can make out that the color with the strongest chroma is blue. The value scale shifts from light to dark‚ but the painting does not go completely dark and has gets lighter in the sky with the ocean being the darkest thing in the painting. The color and the value scale of the painting helps visualize the positive and negative space‚ the complete design of the painting‚ and
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his thickly impasto portrait and figure painting Smith‚ Roberta 2007). His works are noted for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model (Smith‚ Roberta 2007). From the 1950’s he began to work in portraiture‚ often nudes‚ through his first full length nude was not painted until 1966 according to (NPG2012). Freud’s portraits often depict only the sitter‚ sometimes sprawled on the floor or no a bed but the one painting that impressed me and also is very beautiful
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Lastly‚ the two paintings use perspective‚ color‚ and light very similarly. In Death of General Wolfe‚ the artist‚ West‚ clearly and realistically paints the figures in the foreground and in the background in uniforms that would have been common during that time. Similarly‚ Giotto paints his figures in robes which were common‚ and what painters usually depicted their figures wearing. They both have knowledge about what it is their are painting are are able to use color to accurately show what may
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Crayola The painting by Audrey Flack titled "Crayola" (#1 in Bibliography) is a representational photorealist painting (#2 in Bibliography) created in 1992-1993. The size is 28X40 image of Crayola Crayons‚ but I was unable to find the type of medium used in my research. The overall hue is warm and bright because of the polychromatic color scheme. The shapes throughout the painting are geometric and realistic being medium size and being proportional in shape. Flack creates an illusion and a sense
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