Unfortunately I was unable to find much information or a story on why Rembrandt painted the portrait of Philips Lucasz. So I will tell you what I found and some information of the man in the painting Philips Lucasz and tell you more about Rembrandt van Rijn. The man in the portrait is Philips Lucasz and lived in Middelburg. There he made a successful career in the Dutch East India Company and he was able to go up through most of the rankings in the company. He was appointed Councillor General Extraordinary
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After completing an excerpt from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, it intrigued me. As you read he gives description of a tiny area barely on the map. Wording the town as an “simply aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by main-line tracks”. The use of his diction and imagery shows us the simple life, and that he feels even something so insignificant could rock this little railway stop. While reading the mind automatically paints a picture. It’s crucial for the author to paint your
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Composition 8 is a painting by Kandinsky, completed in 1923. It is part of a series of compositions by the artist, yet creates a very different mood from the pieces before it; the work is less chaotic, and presents an overall calmer image to the viewer. ‘Composition 8’ shows a change in Kandinsky’s painting; it is free and more relaxed than the previous compositions, with more focus of the layout and overall presentation. It was painted while Kandinsky was teaching art in Germany, and is representative
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item placement in the painting to showcase his differences compared to other painters, as well as to convey things present in Dutch culture at the time he was painting The Milkmaid, such as social status and the sexual availability of servants. Vermeer used many techniques that helped him produce his artwork, and the way he based items in his paintings or how he would color things was in response to his culture at the time. Lighting allows onlookers to see this in the painting more clearly, and it
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because he thought the abstract painting would represent Gilot more accurately. Though the reading gives examples of specific changes to Gilot’s figure and Picasso’s reasoning behind the changes. It seems that Picasso observed features of Gilot that would be difficult to express through a regular portrait. It is possible Picasso determined that Gilot’s personality would easily be unnoticed in a normal portrait. A flower is a small, delicate, and beautiful object. By painting Gilot as a flower, it is possible
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Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig never worked together, nor spent any significant time in each other’s company, but their names were linked as early as 1913, before they had yet met or corresponded and have remained so. Appia and Craig who working independently of each other laid the foundation of modern non-illusionistic theatre practice. Adolphe Appia Swiss lighting design innovator, Adolphe Appia (1862-1928), saw the possibility of using light during scenic changes and striking (special)
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The artwork I decided to explore for this discussion post is a piece of prehistoric rock art located in Western Arnhem Land, Austrailia. Simply titled as the “Rainbow Serpent Rock”, this art was painted on a rockface around 6000 BCE by an Australian Aboriginal culture that lived there at the time. Rainbow Serpent Rock displays a subject known as the Rainbow Serpent (or Rainbow Snake) which was a deity that is often portrayed as a being that assisted with the creation of humankind, the generation
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performing a visual analysis, understanding historical context, and much more. For this essay, we were given four unknown works of art and were asked to identify one of them. The work identified was a painting of an eagle devouring Prometheus’ liver in Northern Italy in the early seventeenth century. The painting of Prometheus being tortured by an eagle was most likely done in Northern Italy between 1580 and 1600. A reason for the years chosen is because works of art of the same subject matter are not usually
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internationally renowned for his captivating and enormous paintings. They consisted of a wide variety of terrain that can be found all over the world. He was one of the most admired and recognized American artists of his time. His artwork stood at the top of the American art market, where his paintings brought record high prices. In his lifetime Bierstadt enjoyed tremendous success and recognition. He is accredited for painting as many as four thousand paintings in his lifetime, most of which have survived
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Art comes in various forms and styles. Different cultures have different styles of art. Painting is one of the most popular forms. All artists try to tell stories in their work. It makes it interesting to look at because the viewer is trying to see what was in the mind of the artist when he or she created the piece of art. The piece of artwork entitled Arcadian Landscape by Jacob de Heusch depicts what life was like in Rome during the 1600-1700s. This was done through his use of color, light/value
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