The Paper Fan is a piece of art that in its time has been in the presence of princesses‚ ninjas‚ and college students. Taking on several roles both in an imaginary and reality. Each experience aging the paper that stretched across bamboo frame. Opening it reveals a water color and ink print covering the face of the fan. Painted is a family of birds before a background of greenery. Fully expanded the width reached to fourteen inches and standing in length at nine inches. Width shrinks drastically
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Fauvism Fauvism started as a loosely associated group of artists who used explosive colors to portray emotion. They were not constrained by the Realists color palette and used this new found freedom to explore and experiment with other styles‚ helping to cut a path to 20th Century Modernism. Fauvism respected expression on a individual basis. An artists’ emotional response to all things natural‚ or intuition were far more important than classical training or lofty subjects. Another goal of the
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the most acclaimed painters of the Northern Renaissance who amazed his viewers with paintings of prosperous landscapes and showing the brighter side of the low class society of peasants by them enjoying the here and now of everyday life instead of them being in the misery of their labor. According to most art historians‚ Bruegel was born around 1525 in Berda which was one of the small neighborhoods in the town of Bruegel. Although there was unknown information
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Eye of the Artist When comparing and contrasting the painting‚ American Gothic‚ and the photograph‚ Rural Rehabilitation it is clear that different styles of art show different views of reality. For example‚ in a painting‚ everything is seen through the artist’s eye. They choose what you see and how you see it. While in a photograph‚ you view a less biased reality. In the case of American Gothic and Rural Rehabilitation‚ we see warm‚ almost fuzzy colors in the painting as opposed to stark
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New knowledge about the Minoan culture has been revealed in the Island of Crete. In the video‚ Sandy McGillivray believes that the Knossos palace‚ the largest Cretan palace‚ was more of a temple rather than a palace to harness the power of the sun. He realized that each of the doorways aligns with the rising sun on different key days of the year‚ and believes that it is a solar temple‚ like the Egyptians who worshipped the sun‚ moon‚ and stars. In the palace‚ there were many potteries and fresco
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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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