Church’s painting serves as an artistic response to war due to the depiction of the American flag on the sky. The ingenious use of the brush strokes to mimic the stripes of the flag is breathtaking. The Artist brings out the stripes of the flag with the thin clouds in the middle of a light blue sky. The painting also shows the stripes waving similar to those of a flag when blown by the wind (Burke 39). A further response to war can be recognized when Church includes a star in the large light-blue
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Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (3 November 1954-31 December 1869) "What I dream of is an art of balance‚ of purity and serenity‚ devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter‚ an art which could be for every mental worker‚ for the businessman as well as the man of letters‚ for example‚ a soothing‚ calming influence on the mind‚ something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." – Henri Matisse-
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Kehinde Wiley was born in 1977 in Los Angeles‚ California. His father is Yoruba from Nigeria‚ and his mother is African-American. His mother supported his love for art since a early age and enrolled him in art after school art classes. When Kehinde was 12 he spent a little time in at an art school in Russia. Kehinde did not grow up with his father‚ at the age of 20 he traveled to Nigeria to explore his roots and meet him. Kehinde earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and his
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Cormac McCarthy gives his story All the Pretty Horses an unique organization. The book only has four chapters within‚ yet each chapter is lengthy. There are also very few flashbacks in this story. This flashback was needed‚ however‚ to show how things did not change after John Grady Cole’s grandfather died. “On the wall opposite above the sideboard was an oilpainting of horses. . . . his grandfather looked up from his plate at the painting‚” shows the painting being there while his grandfather
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Edgar Degas was a famous French artist that created many precious paintings and sculptures. However‚ Degas developed diabetic retinopathy which led to the loss of his vision. As Edgar Degas lost his vision‚ his art style and the way he created his art changed. For example‚ Degas swapped out oil for pastels as his material of choice. Also‚ Degas’s paintings became very crude and his only option was to create sculptures. Degas’s impediment changed his art career for the worse. As Degas lost his vision
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The Cataract 3 by Bridget Riley is a Polyvinyl Acetate painting involving a series of wavy‚ horizontal lines across a 7’3 ¾” x 7’3 ¾” canvas. Bridget Riley is famous for making wonderfully illusive optical art (op art) pieces including Cataract 3. The work consists of very concentrated lines with light blue tones on the top and bottom that combine with a red hue towards the middle. This combination of primary color values causes the piece to appear almost violet (a secondary color) from far away
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The Connections of 19th Century Painting and the Stories of Chopin and De Maupassant In terms of art in western civilization‚ the 19th century was truly a transformative time for artists and writers alike. Two writers emerged from the mid to late 19th century that are very influential in their era- Kate Chopin and Guy De Maupassant. Their stories reflect 19th century Europe very well‚ and capture the modernity of that time period. When examining their stories‚ there is an interesting connection
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Every artist has their own personal details they like to add onto each of their pieces. They might like their work to have a specific look or idea. For example most of Leonid Afremov paintings are colorful like the one that is shown above. This particular painting by him is known as Night Fantasy. A person can tell almost right away that even though it looks almost bleak and rainy in some spots like over on the top right side of the painting it is still meant to be taken as euphoric and amative
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The water lilies was an series of approximately 250 oil paintings Claude Monet (1840-1926) produced late in his life while he was 74 till his death at 86 in his garden at Giverny‚ west of Paris along the Seine. Claude Monet was a impressionist. To illustrate‚ Louis Leroy‚ writing for the satirical journal Charivari‚ sized upon the tile of Monet’s painting IMPRESSION‚ SUNRISE while Monet exhibited his painting in Paris in 1874 (Marilyn 495). And this was the first time the term impression was used
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The incredible inspiration‚ Pablo Picasso once said‚ “He can who thinks he can‚ and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable‚ indisputable law.” Pablo Picasso was a very successful painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist‚ stage designer‚ poet and playwright who led a very odd life with some extremely interesting aspects. Picasso was an artist with many fields but painting was his forte. His most famous masterpiece is the Guernica‚ which is a very abstract and surreal painting. Another
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