vigorous brush strokes and jarring combinations of unmixed color and we can see that in most of his piece. When I saw this in the museum it really struck out to me because i love the use of non local color to create the piece. It rare to see a painting with a woman with green skin. At first when i started thinking about this project I regretted my decision to do this piece because i am not very artistice. But i decide that it wasn't
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stark value which enhances the work. It is mostly monochromatic so the value and polarizing contrast makes the pieces more memorable to me. Also when a tiny splash of color is added, it acts as a little mystery. Bleck has described her series of paintings as an exploration into the “vulnerable nature of the human spirit and its immense resilience in the face of adversity”. This continuous balance between vulnerability and resilience is incredibly apparent in her work. All her figures (animal or human)
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The portrait of Marie Peronneau Bacot on page 65 showcases her in a soft and feminine way. The soft focus highlights the subjects youth. Also there is a fine attention to details in Marie’s clothes. One can tell by the way she is dressed that she comes from a wealthy family. She is gazing off in the distance, which giving the viewers a sense of mystery to her presence. Similarly, on page 111 the portrait of Eliabeth Freake and Child, the child is looking off into the distance, whereas the mother
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“Fiercely the Red Sun Descending Burned His Way Among the Heavens” was painted by Thomas Moran in 1875, just 30 years after J.M.W. Turner, an Englishman who often painted certain aspects of America, painted “Slave Ship” in 1840. Moran knew he wanted to capture a scene from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem about a Native American warrior titled“The Song of Hiawatha.” However, he craved a certain inspiration. It was not until 1862 when he studied Turner’s work in England that he thought of using
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chose three pieces that really stuck out to me. The first piece I chose was a bronze sculpture called A Thing of Beauty, the second piece was an oil painting on wood called The Whipping and the last piece was a portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Each piece has is beautiful in different ways considering the first is a 3D sculpture, the second is an oil painting and the other is a photograph. This paper will focus on my description of each art piece. The first piece of art that I found was by Robert Ingersoll
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these are defiantly artists to look out for in the near future. The works that I feel are most representative of this show come from the landscape and portrait paintings composed by Melissa Loop and Lauren Roche. Both painters are considered traditional with their choice medium being oil on canvas. Loop has more of an affinity for painting portraits of amazon like landscapes. She acknowledges her former Hudson River school as being a source of inspiration for her works. Her reliefs inspire one to
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content, and subject matter of three different paintings. Each of the paintings represents the following: representational painting, abstract painting, and a portrait. The paintings I have chosen are: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks 1942, Wassily Kodinsky’s Colour Studies: Squares and Concentrentic Circles 1913, and Pablo Picasso’s Self-Portrait 1907. Representational paintings show clear objects or events and have a clear subject matter in the painting. The subject matter is quite evident in Edward
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opted for is taking place in the Beany Museum in Canterbury and its author is the British painter Thomas Sidney Cooper. This exhibition is composed by a collection of paintings that are very representative for the author’s artistic life. Both exhibitions are opened to the large public and offer useful information about the paintings presented in the collections and about their authors, approaching a less sophisticated atmosphere but a very welcoming one were even the people who are not so much involved
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it has a new auditorium, a preview theatre, conservation laboratory, library and academic section as well as a cafeteria and museum shop. I witnessed artwork of various painters in the gallery. But the painting “Three Girls” made in 1935 by Amrita SherGill caught my attention. This is a painting which shows three girls on the frame. It has got touches of the Bohemian art movement in Paris and Post-Impressionistic feeling. It also has an example of chiaroscuro as it plays significantly with the lights
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appreciated my paintings and encouraged me to paint. I have painted various subjects varying from nature to portraits. My paintings have always found a place in our school exhibitions. My imagination is sharp and sense of colours good. This and my vivid imagination have made me a good painter. I have been practicing painting for a long time now and I realize that the more I paint, the better I get it. I know that I can bring a lot of joy to the people who view my paintings. I wish to have my paintings exhibited
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