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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On the other side of Rembrandt’s works‚ basically he used the light to create a strong contrast between light and dark in his drawing‚ painting. The light and dark in his works often go alternate or the light just focus on one direction to catch people attention at the points that he wanted to express. In my opinion‚ the ways that Rembrandt showed the light and dark in his painting can express a quiet moments‚ and deeply inside people heart. Whenever I looked at his art works‚ it can bring me a
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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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I used cardboard because I wanted to be able to poke into it to try and make contour lines and for the textured surface. I started out with drawing in pencil and I had originally planned on using oil pastels and crayons‚ but they weren’t showing up quite the way I wanted them to so I used oil paints instead. After drawing‚ I used a pencil to poke holes in the outlines of the wave‚ cloud‚ trunk of the palm tree‚ and the circle of the sun. Initially‚ I was only going to poke the holes around the wave
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Comparison Paper Both of the pieces that will be compared are from the post-impressionist era of art. The first in Paul Cezanne’s Still Life With Basket of Apples‚ which was painted from 1890 to 1894. The Second in Paul Gauguin’s Mahana no Atua‚ which was painted in 1894. Aside from being from the same time period and movement in art‚ there are a few other things that these paintings have in common. From face value‚ there are also many things that set them apart. The first similarity between the
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The painting Still Life with Peaches‚ Bread‚ Wine glass‚ and Pitcher can be found at the La Salle art museum in the 18th century room section. The painting is about 33 x 41cm in size. The medium is said to be oil on canvas. The artist Henri-Horace Roland De La Porte was born around 1725 in Paris‚ France. He also died in Paris around 1793. His specialty was paintings of flowers and still life’s. The Still Life with Peaches‚ Bread‚ Wine Glass‚ and Pitcher is a painting with very neutral and dark colors
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24‚ 1632‚ Delft Netherlands. Antonie Leeuwenhoek father was a basket maker while his mother was a brewer. Antonie was educated in school in the town of Warmond. When he was a young boy he lost his biological father. Soon after‚ his mom married a painter named Jacob Jansz Molijn. The stepfather Jacob Molijn died in 1648. Atonie went to Amsterdam to become an apprentice to a linen draper. He also lived with his uncle at Benthuizen. Antonie created a
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