called the Gold Rush Gallery. The Gold Rush Gallery has a lot of painting that was based during and after the California gold rush. While observing the art works, many painting amaze me by its large size of canvas and how the artists capture its subjects. For example, the Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite, 1871 by Thomas Hill, if I have not seen it in real life I wouldn’t have know how big it was. Nevertheless, the one painting that had caught my attention was the
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understanding of painting he settled in Leiden. There he started attracting followers and establishing a name for himself. Later he began doing business with Hendrick Uylenburgh, an Amsterdam entrepreneur who had a workshop that created portraits and restored paintings. Later Rembrandt would move to Amsterdam where he worked in Uylenburgh’s shop. He created many commissioned portraits there.
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Name: Chung Ka Lai Student No: GEC0000CP Task 1 1. Donald Friend. 2. He draw about young male nude. About homoeroticism. 3. Male nude. 4. 1940 to 1988. 5. Donald Friend was born in Sydney, he grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother and showed early talent both as an artist and a writer. 6. His critical reputation in the 1940s equaled those of William Dobell. He made “no attempt to disguise the homoeroticism which underlay much of his work” despite winning the Blake Prize for Religious
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unrestrained imagination, the inventor of places and fantastic beings, a pioneer of comics and a source of inspiration for brilliant filmmakers. Doré's tremendous skill is also involved in various genres, from satire to history. He gave, in turn, enormous paintings and more intimate canvasses,
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The painting displays a pregnant woman wearing a blue fur jacket with white accented fur trims on her jacket sleeve. She was staring like, what I would call “unbothered” at a table in the corner of a room. In her right hand she is comfortably holding a scale
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Georgia O’Keeffe Research Task - Mikayla Khoury 7VA3 SECTION 1: Section 1 - Artwork 1 (Cow’s Skull: Red White and Blue) - Question 1: I personally believe that the artist’s intention was to possibly represent something in particular about her Religion as the shape of the Cow’s Skull is almost like she shape of a crucifix. I think that this artwork without a doubt has at least some sort of reflection on her culture as an American, due to the fact that Georgia O’Keeffe has used blue, red and white
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entry and essay on The Bright Side, describes Homer as a depicter of the “real” that further conceives that his art was communicative. For him his preoccupation with light and the naturalistic appearance was meant to imitate nature. His choice to painting black figures was boldly primitive in that his subjects were drawn from real
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interesting to me. As I told some of the patrons of the gallery, I very much enjoy a lot of color in paintings. There were several there that did have a large amount of color, but this one’s style and what it is trying to convey was very interesting. I feel in the realm of dreams, trying to reimagine what you dreamt is a very hard thing to do. Especially if it is “half remembered”. The use of colors in this painting is also very catching. The cooler colors resting at the bottom, and a sun-like mixture of colors
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stories, Velazquez loved to paint people he portrayed with purity, playing with the forms and light in the painting itself, like with the ''Chiaroscuro'' technique. Velasquez was able to draw a dark picture, without the slightest sign of light, and use this effect in order to highlight the main character in this case Bacchus. Moreover, this work is well known for being the first scene painting by Velazquez. This artist with his powerful realism and a deep understanding of how the human being face
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According to Fodness 1994, basic motivation theory suggests a dynamic process of internal psychological factors (needs, wants and goals), causing an uncomfortable level of tension within individuals’ minds and bodies, resulting in actions aimed at releasing that tension and satisfying these needs. Based on this theory, lets take a look about two destination that have been choose for the range of market segments that might be motivated to visit this type of attraction and potential future motivations
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