For my final art paper‚ I chose my favorite work from my favorite artist: Autumn Cycling by Rob Gonsalves. In this piece‚ the first thing you notice is there are three boys riding bicycles on a street covered in a bed of orange leaves‚ surrounded by trees without their leaves. There are a few houses on the street‚ and also some streetlights‚ which would make it seem as if these boys are riding their bikes in a neighborhood. Though at a closer look‚ the leaves on the street double as leaves on trees
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common in Baroque Art‚ with the Catholic Church having a great influence. Akin to other artists in the Baroque era the Catholic Church directly influenced his art. However his great number of self-portraits is quite unique and was not seen in until van Gough. He painted and etched landscapes and historical and biblical sense‚ but what he focused on was portraits. In fact‚ many of his most recognized paintings are portraits such as The Return of The Prodigal Son‚ many of his self-portraits and the
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understood by all‚ help US citizens to develop and define culture‚ and provide a necessary outlet to every age group across the country. First of all‚ the arts foster a universal language that no other program or department of study can compete with. Van Gogh’s Starry Night is just as meaningful in Venice‚ Italy as it is in Tokyo‚ Japan; each part of the arts has the ability to astound and create beauty anywhere and everywhere despite language‚ race‚ nationality‚ gender‚ and education. A common argument
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information about the area that the artist grew up in his early years‚ however‚ by viewing actual events that occurred in the artist’s life‚ Bruegel must have stated learning his craft by becoming a pupil under his future father-in-law Pieter Coecke van Aelst who
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However most of his major work were focus on self- portraits and describe the feeling of the characters’ feeling. Rembrandt was also famous by oil painting and carvings. Rembrandt Van Rijn said “choose only one master- nature” or he also said “I cannot paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.” Basic on the two quotes that he had said‚ we can tell that he tried to make his works as naturalistic as he can. He would
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata written by John Misto creates images through distinctively visual elements. Through the use of projected images‚ carefully selected music and descriptive dialogue‚ challenging aspects of life can be represented. An image we see early on in the play is Singapore Harbour burning down in 1942 when the Japanese first invaded. This is shown as Bridie and Shelia are discussing their experiences on the boats. This shows the ignorance of the British as they did not evacuate the women
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Color is defined as “the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object‚ usually determined visually by measurement of hue‚ saturation‚ and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue” (Webster’s Dictionary). Color is an extremely powerful psychological tool used across the globe. Our world would be bland and boring without the use of color in our everyday lives. Using color psychology can encourage sales‚ calm a crowd‚ and even help a person send
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attention on spaces with large amounts of light and or shade rather than focusing on the details as other often would. This is what lead to majority of his creations to be worked in with layers. Essentially‚ the first layer was the basics needed for the painting as the second carved away shading and provided more details and texture along with correcting any defects that presented themselves. The last layer was used for finishing touches such as blending colors or smoothing the lines to make them
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St. Philip Neri Saint Philip Neri is an important person to learn about. Philip Neri was a humorous man. He used jokes to teach people about the catholic faith. Philip’s feast day is on May 26th‚ which is also the day he died in 1595. After his death‚ people continued to look up to Philip and he was finally canonized in 1622. Philip was born on July 21‚ 1515 in Italy. He was always a curious a child‚ which lead him to trouble. Saint Philip Neri was officially recognized in the church’s eyes
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The British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen has also been influential to me. McQueen was known for his theatrical‚ dark and extravagant work. For several seasons‚ he created series of pattern on pattern suits. Pattern on pattern work is seen in Watchmen and Schnick Schnack Jungle. Schnick Schnack Jungle is made up of found objects which I connected together to create original miniature sculptures. I then painted a repetitive pattern composed of many different sizes. This has the
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