de France by Stuart Davis When I first saw the painting‚ Hôtel de France‚ painted by Stuart Davis‚ I thought that was just an ordinary painting of a building and a street that is pretty‚ especially in a way that looks old-fashioned. I had to come to realize that the painting was painted from what the painter sees from the scene. The painting is a picture of a four-story building of the hotel named‚ Hôtel de France. On the left side of the painting are the sides of other buildings. In front of the
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2012 Analysis of “La Carte Postale” by Rene Magritte This paper will discuss the painting “La Carte Postale” by Rene Magritte. It will compare and contract the primary relationships of focusing and scanning‚ position versus movement‚ organic versus geometric‚ high definition versus low definition and formal versus informal relationships as the basis for analysis. “La Carte Postale” is a formal painting with a strong sense of position. This paper will support this and suggest in detail that
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Orgaz” analysis The Burial of Count Orgaz is a painting by famous renaissance artist El Greco. The painting is sixteen by eleven feet and was drawn with oil on canvas. The painting depicts a burial scene of Count Orgaz and a heaven scene with Christ above them. This painting is the most intriguing for El Greco’s use of two focal points. In El Greco’s career The Burial of Count Orgaz is widely accepted as his greatest work. In describing the painting itself it is divided into two sections‚ one being
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Southern Italian art) * Other unusual things: * Jesus isn’t the center of the painting (VOID – Empty space) * Anatomy was thrown out the window * Unsettling (Arm fades from hot pink to pale white) * Skin tight clothing * Missing cross (Deposition)‚ but has a weird fluffy cloud * Emulated source: Pieta by Michelangelo (Pontormo greatly admired Michelangelo) * Painting is supposed to depict the moment after the Pieta * Artist painted himself in the top
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and these paintings have become very famous. The one I have chosen is titled Two Tahitian Women and I think it is a good example of gender discourse. The Tahitian culture at the time was very accepting of the human body and people had no shame walking around half naked. Gauguin’s paintings represent a culture that has yet to be touched by ‘civilisation’. The culture was more centred around nature and freedom rather than the dull repetition of the European life Gauguin knew. His paintings
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El Greco was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and an architect. When in Spain he was the first great genius of his Spanish school. El Greco’s real name is not the one you see on all of the paintings his real name is Domenikos Theotocopoulos. El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614. None know of his childhood. In 1566 he became a master painter and moved or traveled to Venice. Later in 1570 he traveled to Rome to meet Giulio Clovio a miniaturist. Very few of his pieces survived the years. One of the surviving
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Expressionism can be mostly applied to “Action Painting”‚ “Figurativism” and “Colour Field Paintings”. |[pic] |An example of Action | | |Painting. | | |Franz Kline‚ Painting | | |Number 2‚ 1954‚ The | | |Museum of Modern Art | Action Painting is a kind of gestural abstraction. It is
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Western Lowland Gorillas October 23‚ 2009 Introduction: When I was around 14‚ I saw one of the best movies. The movie was Gorillas in The Mist‚ starting Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey. It was one of the most impressive movies of my life. My step-mother at the time notice how must I liked the movie and game me her very well torn copy of Gorillas in the Mist to read. I still have that book and since the first time I read it‚ I have been fascinated with these great apes. This is way I believe
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activities‚ but here refers to the visual arts‚ which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. The Son of Man is my favorite piece of art. The Son of Man is a Belgian surrealist painting. It was painted in 1964 by Rene Magritte. The painting was originally intended to be a self-portrait. The painting conveys a man in an overcoat wearing a bowler hat and standing in front of a short wall. Behind this short wall
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Leger’s main focus was the obvious woman in the center foreground of the painting. She appears to be looking at you‚ the audience‚ as if she were trying to bring you into her space. Although she appears to be nude‚ Leger tries to make the main focus in the curves of the woman by exerting his color and balancing out the composition. The highly saturated yellow in the woman’s pants draws your attention to the middle of the painting were it displays the woman laying down holding a book. The distinctive
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