John Singleton Copley‚ an 18th century American painter‚ was best known for his portrait paintings of middle-class New England colonists. Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (1771) and Midshipman Augustus Brine (1782) are prime examples of his neoclassicism work from the time period that display his talent of creating an illusion of people and objects within a space with dramatic contrasts between light and dark. The portrait of Daniel Crommelin Verplanck displays a well dressed young boy sitting on the
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Gyula Halasz‚ known as Brassaï was one of the most renowned photographers of the interwar period. Gyula Halasz was born in 1899 at Brasso‚ in Transylvania‚ a part of Rumania where at the time belonged to Hungary. He went to Paris in 1924 to become a journalist; moreover‚ he adopted the name Brassaï from the town of his birth‚ in 1925. He loved Paris and started to learn French by himself. During the time‚ he met lots of intelegnet artist‚ such as Salvador Dalí‚ Pablo Picasso ‚and Alberto Giacometti
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Photographer Data Alfred Stieglitz was an iconic photographer and gallery owner‚ who creates abstract art or symbolism in high-quality fashion. He was born on January 1‚ 1864 at Hoboken‚ New Jersey in a German-Jewish family. He spent most of his life in New York City‚ molding his photographs and leading a group of artists‚ called the Photo-Secessionist movement. They were a group‚ who looked for as much skillful and creative potential as possible of what a photographer can do. Because he was a
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1. The title of this painting is Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard‚ located on page 946 of the textbook. This oil painting on canvas measures approximately eight feet‚ eleven inches by seven feet‚ seven inches. Painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800-1801‚ this piece can now be found in Versailles‚ the Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon. 2. In this work of art‚ Napoleon is the only character riding a white horse and depicted front and center. All figures are anonymous‚ except Napoleon himself‚
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Visiting the National Gallery of Art‚ I discovered two beautiful paintings that I never have encountered before. Out of all the new paintings I encountered‚ my favorite is undoubtedly The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil by Claude Monet. Even though I love the Monet very dearly‚ another new painting I came to love is The Old Violin by John Fredrick Peto. While the differences between The Old Violin and The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil seem immeasurable‚ the paintings actually contain many similar qualities
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Katie Paterson’s artwork titled “Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight” (Figure.1)‚ 2008‚ is currently showing at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh. It aims to imitate the moonlight through artificial means. The artwork seeks to connect the viewer with nature‚ which provides transportation to the place and confronts the cyclical relationship between humankind and nature. In Collaboration with an engineer from Osram ‚ they measured the moon’s light spectrum and interpreted it to incandescent light bulbs
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s Disenchanted Night delineates the history of the industrialisation of light from the candle through the incandescent light bulb‚ demonstrating the relationship between the development of artificial light and the social‚ political‚ and economic milieu from which it emerged. This process was dependent on two social contexts which were integral to the pace and direction of the development of lighting technology‚ the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. The Industrial
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Gustave Caillebottes work‚ Paris Street; Rainy Day‚ is an oil on canvas painting measuring seven feet‚ ten inches by six feet‚ one inches. As mentioned previously‚ the art work is painted with oil on a large canvas. From a distance the brushstrokes are hardly visible in the painting. There appears to be little‚ if any‚ impasto evident. Upon closer inspection‚ the texture of the brushstrokes can be described as grainy and the lines dividing objects are not as crisp. The painting is fairly large.
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MAMAMOO - STARRY NIGHT Harpreet (Harper) Dhadde The Sun is Still a Beautiful Star With a beautiful mix of scenery and camera work‚ Mamamoo’s music video for ‘Starry Night’ creates an individual and aesthetic piece of art but it doesn’t quite match the criteria that the music sets. Viewers can tell that Mamamoo went for a natural and raw music video and the group did a wonderful job making conveying that. One can observe this through the artistic shakiness of the camera and the lack of jump cuts
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The Night Watch by Rembrandt The night watch is an oil painting done by Rembrandt Van Rijin during the Dutch golden age in 1642. The painting is large in size and stands at 11.91 feet tall and 14.34 feet wide. The Night Watch portrays a busy group of militia men starting to march into action. There are men pointing their swords‚ holding long spears and men with guns drawn. There are two men who stand on the foreground‚ one looks to be the captain and is wearing a dark robe with a white collar
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