...Rembrandt vs. Rubens Andrew Ulrich Prof. Hutson ART 38716-ART IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND RUBENS 1/22/15 Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn were two of the most famous and successful painters in 17th century Europe. Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter and was admirably recognized for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes and historical paintings of mythological characters. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was also known for his etching. His greatest successes are told through his portraits of the people who surrounded his life, his self-portraits and paintings of scenes in the Bible. Both artists received a traditional education and then continued their education with several apprenticeships to learn the basics of art and painting. These artists were treated with immense success in the 17th century, especially considering the amount of turmoil that was happening with the ‘Eighty Year War’ happening all around them. The journey to success contained personal triumphs and setbacks for both artists, albeit each journey was draped with divergence. The differences between upbringing and lifestyle of each artist led to a different approach to their paintings as well as a different style of art in general. One main difference between artists is that Rubens chose to travel to Italy to study Italian art and culture, Rembrandt elected to stay-put in Amsterdam to continue his studies. This factor, as well as many other differences...
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...My name is Peter Paul Rubens, and I am a painter from the late Renaissance period. From the beginning of my career to the present day, I have painted and been commissioned a countless number of times, and I am known to many as one of the best painters of the century. You, Holy Roman Emperor Gurney III, have given me as well as many other artists the opportunity to have a museum based around our works. I believe that I would be the most qualified to be the one featured in this museum financed by the Holy Roman Emperor himself. Let me tell you a little about myself. I was born on June 28, 1577 in Siegen, Westphalia, to my parents Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelincks. After my father’s death, I moved with my family to Antwerp, Belgium. I was raised as a Catholic and received a humanist education, with Latin and classical literature included in my education. Once I turned fourteen, I began studying under Tobias Verhaecht, who taught me how to paint. I also looked to Adam van Noort and Otto van Veen as a source of study. Once I completed my apprenticeship in 1598, I joined the Guild of St. Luke. I moved to Italy in 1600 to study paintings from famous artists, such as Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. I also traveled...
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...Northern California’s hottest new club to hit the bay area. Club IT brings a LA nightlife ambiance to its visitors. Owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, have become the talk of local event magazines. With the extensive remodeling Ruben and Liza have put into Club IT, transforms the club scene in the downtown area. With its high ceilings and its high tech energy lighting creates an illuminating lounge setting and dance venue at the same time. Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada are current musicians themselves, which brings musical background to the club. Not only with his and her musical talent, Ruben and Liza completed studies in Business Administration in 2005. With the extensive background in business administration, Ruben and Lisa were able to open the club of their dreams. Ruben and Liza have extensive background in business administration and music, however, are in need of informational technology to boost sales, marketing, and data management. Club IT’s mission is to, “offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle”. (Wiley, 2005) Without the proper knowledge of data management, the structure of the club could be at stake. Ruben and Lisa took the initiative to hire name as an intern to analyze, strategize, and provide input to Club IT’s growth that will elevate not only the club’s communication externally but internally. Ruben and Liza will be able to view several aspects of different possibilities to find customer demographics; furthermore, through...
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...Final Project: Club IT, Part 3 Wayne G. Hatfield XBIS/219 Shenise L. Soto Club IT, owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, is a fresh, hot night club located in the center of downtown Chicago. It is a hotspot for people to come and enjoy food, drinks, and local concerts. When Ruben and Lisa designed this night club, they began to think how they could attract more than just night club customers. By implementing a good ethical standard for new businesses, Ruben and Lisa made this business a Web base business. Customers can register online and place their orders ahead of time. Also they can pre-register for upcoming concerts, upcoming events, and receive a discount. The two owners had many goals for this business when it first opened. One of the many discussions included with the management team and that they were happy with the technology department. However, they would like to see it improve over the next several months. A major concern they had was that they needed to find a better way to run the technology of the building in a faster, more effective way before they could open another building. The vision Ruben has is one day running both buildings on the same technology system. This can be done, however it will take the right team of professionals to implement the programs. Club IT should also have not just one, but multiple computer programs to aid them in running the facility. Different questions could be asked. How does the staff take orders at the bar? What about...
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...Executive Summary The following marketing plan addresses the marketing of Tetra pack. A history of the company is given, objectives are established, and the internal and external environments are analyzed. Obstacles Tetra Pak could face are discussed and solutions are presented. Tetra Pak is in an industry most would consider boring, packaging. Yet somehow the company has continued to grow throughout the last 50 years. Tetra Pak now supplies packaging for a large number of major food suppliers. Tetra Pak’s designs are influenced by their Swedish heritage. Their packaging is simple yet elegant. What may seem like small changes to the untrained eye are actually revolutionary leaps for food. It is these revolutionary leaps alone that have catapulted Tetra Pak to success. In an industry full of competitors with a product that has a low switching cost, they must continue this innovation if they are to continue their growth. Tetra Pak’s strengths are innovation and brand. No one would have expected there to be so many different ways to produce a straw—no one but Tetra Pak. Now that they have built their reputation in the mind of businesses Tetra Pak can build a more sustainable competitive advantage by positioning themselves in the mind of consumers. If consumers believe Tetra Paks are superior to other cardboard boxes producers may feel the pressure to use Tetra Paks when they would use an alternative. In order to continue their growth tetra Pak needs to focus on innovation...
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...when they know they are likely to lose/or be defeated’ Markus Zusak’s novel, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, is a story about two teenage brothers, Cameron and Ruben and their family, ‘survivors’ is how Cameron explains them. Although this family is being defeated by life itself as the father has lost his job and cannot earn money, they all still fight to survive. Cameron and Ruben compete in boxing fights every week. Although Cameron knows he will lose many of his fights as he is physically week, he still shows his courage. Lastly, although Ruben knows he will someday lose a fight, he keeps fighting, because he wants to find whether he has a heart like the rest of his family. He fights even though he might lose or be defeated by himself. The Wolfe family prove that they are willing to fight even though they could be defeated as they all show they were willing to support the father when he left to get the dole. “‘We can’t let him’, not because were ashamed of him. We just know that he’s fought for so...
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...The Art of modern living (The Square, R. Östlund ) Swedish director Ruben Östlund after winning the jury's Un certainty for the Force Majeure (2014), returned this year to Cannes with his latest work The Square and this time he went back home with Palm d'Or. Östlund's The Square is a satirical guide through modern life, at the surface level, while in its metaphors lies the great director's philosophy of living. Bite of reality In the opening scene of the film, we meet Christian Nielsen (Claes Bang), curator of the fictional X Royal Museum of Modern Art in Stokholm, while giving a statement to journalist Anne (Elisabeth Moss) about the upcoming exibition "The Square". While Anne tries to penetrate Christian's "sublime artistic mind," asking...
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...The three artist, I have chosen is Peter Paul Rubens, Michelangelo Merisi Da and Rembrandt Van Rijn. All of these artist are artist from the Baroque era and all of the works of art I have chosen have some sort of religious meaning or content. Rembrandt Van Rijn painting of the return of the prodigal son is painted as an expressive work of art. Rembrandt painted his picture on an oil on canvas, he used different shades of lighting and coloring is in the setting of the painting shows the influence and effects of the Prodigal son returning home to his father. In this painting Rembrandt portrayed the prodigal son to be overwhelmed and out done by his rebelliousness. In the painting the father is holding out his arms welcoming his son home with compassion. The painting of the Prodigal son symbolize the return of the defeated rebellious son and the ability of his father to accept his son faults and welcome him home with open arms. Rembrandt spend money carelessly and as results of this sent him into financial troubles. Although Rembrandt had financial troubles he still managed to buy an expensive home which put him into more debt. In the painting of the Prodigal son Rembrandt painted himself as the Prodigal son because recognized his flaws of being rebellious by spending more money than he could afford. Peter Paul Rubens, the Raising of the Cross makes use of classical Baroque techniques to accentuate countless religious facts. Rubens painted this portrait with the distinction of...
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...Peter Paul Rubens The Fall of Phaethon. 1604 The Fall of Phaethon is about Phaethon who wanted to take place that his father was on, he wanted to drive his chariot, but his father would not let him, because he was mortal and no mortal could drive his chariot “I choose to take your place for the day” (Hamilton 137). Because the only way that he gets to drive is father chariot it was to take his fathers place.Phaethon was on his father chariot sailing with his horses and his men when a struck of lightning came down from the sky. Phaethon was killed by Zeus because Phaethon was very arrogant burning people and Zeus punished him and was killed when the sun went down. This picture takes place near the ocean during the Greek period. This picture...
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...runs a boardinghouse and provides unflagging support to a young boy, Ruben, who is the narrator of the movie that is based upon the experiences of actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Ruben was born in 1956 to his Puerto Rican father Ruben Santiago and his African-American mother Alena Hudson. This movie is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001 and was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The movie dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. Lackawanna Blues movie recreates the upstate New York boardinghouse and evokes the cultural climate of a world in transition in the 1960s. This means that within the segregation-era Lackawanna, NY, Rachel "Nanny" Crosby is being an incredible woman whose...
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...Fundamental Concepts, Methods and Modes In the Humanities Imagination, Values, and Emotions Renaissance versus Baroque February 2014 The Renaissance era has been considered a time of move into the modern day. The term Renaissance means rebirth, and came from the French. The Renaissance started in Italy and extended throughout Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth century. It was throughout the Renaissance that Europe saw many large social, scholarly and economic changes. Old-fashioned values of the Church were lost which in turn permitted artists the freedom and liberty to discover the human mind and body. The Renaissance era allowed art to progress far past conventional and traditional religious focus to imitate human feeling and realism in art. Although faith continued to be the core guidance during the Renaissance, the beginning and acknowledgment of human form, expression and scientific study became very lively inspirations within the arts. Renaissance art saw the rebirth of nature and the human figure. Sculpting and painting practices advanced greatly throughout the Renaissance. Artists started using different methods like laws of portion, physical appearance, the linear perspective, balance, and physical appearance. Main characteristics of Renaissance art included admiration and tribute to the human body and nature, realistic linear perspective and importance on the association of light and shadow. Some of the world’s...
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...[pic] “Did the development of a middle-class ‘public sphere’ significantly alter artistic practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?” In The Structural transformation of the Public Sphere[1], Jürgen Habermas describes how this area in social life, both separated from the “private sphere” and the “sphere of public authority”, where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems and trough that even influence political action, has not always existed. Its creation was part of a long process that had its peak at the turn of the eighteenth century. He also explains how, although this phenomenon concerns the whole of the European society, the British case stands out. The genesis of the public sphere is first of all associated to an economical factor. As a result from the modernization of the economy, based upon a systematic use of public credit and the free circulation of goods and capital, it is especially the city of London that expanded at a remarkable speed with the sudden and fast development of merchant banking and insurance, as well as warehousing and trading. This new horizon of possibilities on terms of wealth and independence unfolds simultaneously to important shifts in the political arena. After years of blood spill trough civil war, which ended with the execution of King Charles I, a constitutional monarchy was finally established. The idea of a freer, more horizontal conception of social relations started...
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...“Prometheus Bound” by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyder “Prometheus Bound” by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyder is a personal new favorite painting for me. From the first time I laid eyes on this work of art I was immediately drawn in by the image of this defenseless man, chained up, and the gruesomeness of seeing the an eagle ripping his liver from his side. The tale behind this painting and the process by which the Rubens created this painting are equally fascinating. Being raised Catholic during the Baroque period, much of Ruben’s paintings reflected his religion. He produced religious paintings such as “Daniel in the Lions’ Den”, ”Raising of the Cross”, and “Descent from the Cross.” He worked in a studio where he had other artist working on paintings with him. He had artists who specialized in painting certain forms such as fish, birds, and clouds among many other forms. In “Prometheus Bound” Frans Snyder is actually credited with painting the great eagle. “Prometheus Bound” is about the legend of Prometheus, the Greek Titan who gave fire to humankind, which defied Zeus’s order. As punishment for defying Zeus, Prometheus was bound with chains to the side of Mount Caucasas for eternity. It was here that a great eagle would come every day to feast on Prometheus’s liver. Being a Titan, Prometheus’s liver would regenerate every night and the eagle would come back every day and repeat the excruciating punishment. When I look at “Prometheus Bound” I see dark, mountainous,...
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...Art Appreciation Emily Yost March 12, 2011 Art is a form of work which encompasses so many things. You can have art that is from the same Era, but yet be very different. Art can consist of some of the same things which you can find in common with another time period. I want to try and take a look at three individual pieces of art belonging to the same style and era. I will then try to evaluate these works from tool s that I have learned. I have chosen the Baroque style of art. This style is known for its use of drama and high use of theatrical methods. It was a creation of the Catholic Church (Sayre, H. M. 2007, 477). This style of art developed and bloomed in Europe somewhere around the early 17th to mid 18th century. It has its emphases up on drama, swirling forms and very intricate and elaborate ornamentation. The calling of St. Mathew is one of the most magnificent masterpieces there is. This was painted by Michelangelo Mersi Da Caravaggio . The painting reached completion in 1599-1600. In this painting there appears to be a single window in the foreground. Not much light happens to be filtering through the panes (http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol6is3/st-matthew-calling.html). There appears to be some kind of table at which five individuals are sitting at. One appears to be looking at money, another like they just sat down. The outlook of the room appears dull and very gloomy. To the right of this art there appear to be two men. Jesus...
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...Baroque Period Unit 4 IP Art Appreciation Nicole Woodford American Intercontinental University May 6, 2012 Abstract “Baroque was born in Italy, and later adopted in France, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain. The word "baroque" was first applied to the art of period from the late 1500s to the late 1700s, by critics in the late nineteen century. Baroque covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture we recognize three main forms of Baroque: Baroque that was primarily associated with the religious tensions within Western Christianity: division on Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. In response to the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteen century, the Roman Catholic Church had embarked in the 1550s on a program of renewal known as the Counter - Reformation.” (htt2) http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/figures/st-paul.jpg The Conversion of Saint Paul by: Caravaggio “This painting represents the moment when Saul (later to be renamed Paul) is on the road to Damascus to carry out a persecution of the young Christian community. He has a vision as Christ calls out to him, "Why are you persecuting me?" In the position of the St Paul and of the Christ, and in the movement of the horse into the depth of the picture, this work is still related to the tradition of Michelangelo, but there are decidedly Caravaggesque elements in the work, such as the face of the angel supporting Christ. and in the play of light upon Paul's fallen form.” (Caravaggio:) It...
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