Habib Antar Art History 102 30 April, 2017 Friedrich, Monk By The Sea This painting could be about solitude, peace, or the loneliness of the figure. Looking at this painting the viewer feels one with the figure and begins to wonder and feel what the figure feels. This is accomplished by his picturesque technique to draw people into the painting, this technique was popularly used and established in England. The monk is under the horizon line of the baltic coast. Because the single figure is
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Georgia O'Keeffe." BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2015. 26 August 2015.Art has been made for thousands of years. Some artwork are manufactured from one artist to share around the world. Great number of Artists sometimes get misunderstood in their paintings. Art to me represent freedom of speech. Every artist uses lines and different type of shapes. Lines can define shapes. Lines can mean so many types of emotion. For example, vertical line which represents strength and energy. Horizontal line means
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able to get a small glimpse of what is inside the Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art. It has a lot of wonderful art and I am glad our campus has a free museum. This allows for different types of artwork to be shown. Some people would consider art to be paintings, sculptures, and photos; however, art can be shown in many ways, such as audio, video, lighting, motion, setting, and other factors. Art is not always easy to understand, nor can people always put words to their artwork. It just existences and can
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Giacometti had an obsessive personality, and his work represents that. He would paint layers on layers on canvas, seeing differences each arrival to his work, each time. This process of layering would cause one to begin to distort their image. What once was a representation of a live image is now a representation of itself. Each layer onto the canvas is a new interpretation. If Giacometti was to continue his work, as he wished, his work would never truly be complete. The only reason that it bears
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Who made these photographs, and when? Name the two styles that each image exemplifies, and give some explanation of both of those styles. Q:Edward Steichen made “The round mirror” in 1902 and “The Greta Garbo” in 1928. Steichen used the style of portraits in changing the lighting that is shown in each of the photographs, also the style of product work by making good photographs which took hard work, knowing that good things will happen. Name the artist and the title, the art movement that it
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Dirk Hagner is a printmaker who often works in woodcut. He works large-scale, using sheets of wood that have a grain that is intact – he doesn’t use MDF or any other processed types of wood because he wants the grain to be a part of his artwork. He considers woodcut to be a collaboration between the artist and the materials, he lets the wood guide his gauges so that the image flows. In the specific work I chose (Portrait of Jacques Prevert) Hagner uses contrasting thicker lines and thinner lines
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New York and started his career. He traveled to and from Europe on several occasions, and for different amounts of time. In 1832 upon his return to America he was asked to paint five paintings,these are known as The Course of the Empire. The first of these painting is The Savage State. The purpose of this first painting is to show the wildness of nature and the constant struggle mankind faces to rule over it. This particular landscape takes place in a valley surrounded by nature and the colors associated
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Cheech Marin currently owns one of Almaraz's most famous paintings, "Sunset Crash." Carlos Almaraz is a popular figure for early Chicano art. He was a member of an art group, in which they called themselves "Los Four." In his piece entitled "Sunset Crash," he uses bright and bold colors to paint a tragic event. What he is creating by doing this is a metaphor. The metaphor is used to show group and individual struggle in his paintings. This artistic style was described as new and innovative
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Jeannette Di Pulvinus now possesses the most desirable artifact of all her Fluffy Kingdom. It was the downiest item with incomparable fluff, as said in legends so old that their origins were long forgotten: the Maximus Pillow or MP for short. She buries her delicate face into its overwhelming body, which could encompass her entire body. It was about a meter tall and half as wide but had less weight than a piece of parchment. Jeannette revels in her prize, practically worshiping its presence while
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Looking at a painting on the internet is not remotely the same experience as seeing the work in real life. Walter Benjamin suggested that this is partially because photography is an imperfect medium in terms of capturing the true essence of an object, and partially because the physical and historical presence of a work of art in space and time has significance to us. Although Oscar Wilde and his aesthetes would disagree, in art, beauty comes from the viewer’s perceived connection with the artist
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