Kindred Spirits vs Christina’s World When you look at two pieces of art‚ side by side‚ there are always things you notice. Some of these observations may be similarities‚ some may be differences. So‚ what observations can we make about the two classic American pieces Kindred Spirits and Christina’s World? Let’s find out. Kindred Spirits is a painting made in 1849 by Asher Brown Durand. It was a tribute to the deceased Thomas Cole‚ a friend of Durand. It shows Cole standing
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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was an American painter and art critic who studied socially relevant art and produced realist artwork during the majority of his career. Wanting to depict the “authentically lived experience” in each of his paintings‚ he painted in a representational style during the height of the Abstract Expressionism’s dominance. He did not find much inspiration to construct pieces stemming from abstract ideology. An example of Porter’s natural yet highly objective style of painting
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Located in the Art Institute of Chicago is Claude Monet’s “Arrival of the Normandy Train‚ Gare Saint-Lazare” painted in 1877. This artwork is representational because based on the historical train station known as Gare Saint-Lazare. The reason for his inspiration for painting this piece is Monet was intrigue by the industrial revolution of transportation so he rented an apartment start painting different time setting of day of trains in Gare Saint-Lazare. Then Monet gave this for Impressionist exhibition
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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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Marshall McLuhan sees that technology is evolutionary and he claims that everything has grown from electricity and he links this to the human nervous system. McLuhan’s core argument is “the medium is the massage”‚ in which he goes further on explaining the claim that each medium influences the human sensations and perception. In his text‚ Raymond Williams explains how the social practices have a dominance over the technological practices in the development of human processes. Williams is a cultural
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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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