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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The first painting in consideration is Picasso’s 1937 oil painting‚ “Guernica.” Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish republican government‚ to paint a piece for the 1937’s world fair. Picasso’s piece was the cubism work‚ Guernica‚ an anti-war painting in response to the bombings of Guernica the 26th of April 1937. Deciphering this piece is not an easy feat‚ the black and white and gray colors give off a gloomy feel‚ death and commotion are apparent in this painting. The space is compressed and
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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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Analysis of Sonnet 29 Sonnet 29 is a poem written by Edna St Vincent Millay. It shows that the poet realizes that the one she loves did not love her long enough. Throughout the entire poem‚ she employs metaphors in order to connect the ideas with the message of suffering love causes. Edna St Vincent echoes “Pity me not” in the sonnet because it highlights the reader should not feel guilty about anything that goes wrong with her. As in the first six verses she talks about how nature also deteriorates
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The style of painters from the Romantic Era to modern times radically changed as their environment‚ other artists‚ and their overall worldviews influenced them. It is fair to say that the way artists created their world progressed from painting what they would see to how they would see the subject and ultimately how they felt about a subject much like Van Gogh did. After Romanticism and then Realism‚ in Europe at least‚ many painters were used to painting what was in front of them‚ eventually using
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