Zhao Mengfu’s piece entitled Twin Pines‚ Level Distance features two pine trees a small piece of land and it is surrounded by rocks. In the background we can see more rocks‚ or mountains‚ drawn in very delicate cursive-like lines. The exact location that this painting took place in is unknown‚ but we can assume that it is in China. This painting was made in 1310 during the Yuan dynasty. It is currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was painted with ink on paper and was
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The legacy and art of Pierre Auguste Renoir spans from the 1800’s to the 1900’s. “At an early age‚ Renoir had already decided that painting was his true career; and with the money he managed to save from his commercial employments he began his studies in art school (Renoir‚ 1983)”. Renoir learned early on that the essentials of art stood outside of the school doctrine for art. Through this liberating style of the artist‚ he graced the world with beautiful art. The art of Pierre Auguste Renoir
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In Eryn Anderson’s art piece‚ the Heron She emphasizes the beauty of blue heron by using cool colors and realistic brushwork. The background is a simple black which helps the bird pop more inside the masterpiece. The brushstrokes on the bird’s feathers are a softer and more blended while the bird’s head is exact and harder brushstrokes. The canvas of the painting is really long with a short width. It was painted using acrylic selling for 250$. The artist did a good job at filling the canvas using
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s Music-Pink and Blue II‚ 1919 is an oil on canvas piece now being held at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. The form of this piece work of art‚ in my opinion‚ is abstract. The media of this piece is oil but to me‚ it also closely resembles watercolor paint. The emphasis/focal point of this piece is the dark blue oval-like shape at the bottom right‚ the implied line‚ in my opinion‚ is in this shape‚ the shape looks like it is sort of floating or swimming to the top. The colors
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The subject matter on which I am doing this assignment on is a piece of photography. This piece was done by a local photographer Greg Hill. He accordingly named his work “Pierre Pressure”. This piece of photography captures a pierre and its surroundings in Sebastian‚ Florida. Above the pierre is the focal point of the artwork‚ a breath-taking Florida sunset. The sunset is constructed of various hues of pink‚ orange‚ and yellow. The alluring sunset is ever so slightly hidden by a veil of oddly formed
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The school of Impressionism‚ which continues to attract adherents among artists‚ coalesced around a number of French artists who took light‚ open air and interpretive color as their guide. This school was itself an outgrowth of Realism as practiced by painters like Courbet and Corot‚ who sought to depict everyday settings and people in their art in opposition to existing conventions that dictated an idealization of the world within narrowly defined subjects for painting. Undoubtedly the best known
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The painting The Nighthawks is a painting I personally like because of its use of colour‚ form and value. The elements of design‚ form is used to give a three dimensional feeling about the people inside the shop and the shop itself. When you look at this painting you can get this feeling that the people and the shop are three dimensional. When the elements of design form‚ is used in this painting‚ to me‚ it looks more realistic and gives me the feeling that the people are actually there and alive
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The Harvesters was a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1540-1603). The Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant. The Dutch Renaissance painting represents the 16th-century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries. Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. At that period‚ making the life and activity of peasants the main focus of a work was rare‚ and he was a pioneer of the genre painting. He was a passionate observer
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Art Criticism: Summer in Cumberland The title of this work of art is named summer in Cumberland. It was painted in 1925 by James Durden which has collected in the Manchester Art Gallery. The dimension of this painting is 101.5x101.5cm. Durden used oil to pain on canvas. James Durden (1878-1964) was born in Manchester. Before studying at the Royal College of Art in London‚ James Durden studied at Manchester School of Art in Manchester. He later lived at Keswick in the Lake District. In 1927‚ he
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I did an analysis on the irises. The subject matter is the same for both pieces. The first painting portrayed a highly realistic and very detailed iris while the second painting‚ by Georgia O’Keeffe‚ is painted to fit her unique style. The first painting is very strict in portraying realistic shadows‚ lights‚ and colors. The artist did a tremendous job with their technical skill‚ showing the browning holes of the green leaf and the velvety texture of the indigo petals. While analyzing this piece
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