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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Rogier Van der Weyden was a Flemish painter of the mid-15th century. Rogier was chiefly influenced by his first teacher‚ Robert Campin. Although details of his early training are sketchy‚ it is generally accepted that he entered the workshop of Robert Campin‚ the foremost painter in Tournai and dean of the painters’ guild‚ in 1427 at the age of 27 (http://www.belgium.be). Rogier remained in Campin’s studio for five years‚ becoming an independent master of the guild on August 1‚ 1432. Van der Weyden
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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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In this essay by Walker Percy‚ entitled "The Loss of the Creature" the notions of perception‚ appreciation‚ and sovereignty are strongly analyzed. The essay brings to our attention some of the most common things around; which are biases of likeness and manufactured conditioning‚ en vogue today. It is often said‚ "perception is reality." Reality to us is the way we look at things‚ see them‚ or perceive them. In this decade however‚ with the fast growing technological innovations and the rapid commercialization
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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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The Bay of Marseille‚ Seen From L’Estaque‚ painted by Paul Cezanne‚ is a very beautiful painting due to its value scale with the complementary harmony of blue and orange. Balancing the cool and warm colors‚ we can make out that the color with the strongest chroma is blue. The value scale shifts from light to dark‚ but the painting does not go completely dark and has gets lighter in the sky with the ocean being the darkest thing in the painting. The color and the value scale of the painting helps
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Edward Hopper’s‚ Nighthawks Edward Hopper’s painting‚ Nighthawks‚ is perhaps one of the most famous pieces of art in which he completed in his eighty-four year lifetime. Nighthawks was painted in the early 1940’s and portrays three people sitting at the bar of a well lit corner diner‚ in the city‚ late at night or even early into the morning. There is a single male worker behind what appears to be triangular shaped wooden bar. There is no exit door. The lighting in the diner appears very bright
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Starry nights streaked with the white glow of the Milky Way have disappeared. Light pollution has played a key role in the diminishment of theses natural beauties. Many children who live in cities have never seen the beauty of the night sky because of light pollution. In this prompt‚ Bogard makes very clear statements about why darkness remains so important. He uses clear images to show why darkness remains a necessity in the fast-growing society. Bogard uses word like “across sugary spreads of
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The Night Watch by Rembrandt The night watch is an oil painting done by Rembrandt Van Rijin during the Dutch golden age in 1642. The painting is large in size and stands at 11.91 feet tall and 14.34 feet wide. The Night Watch portrays a busy group of militia men starting to march into action. There are men pointing their swords‚ holding long spears and men with guns drawn. There are two men who stand on the foreground‚ one looks to be the captain and is wearing a dark robe with a white collar
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