choose a painting called Twelfth-Night Feast by Jan Havickzzz Steen. A combination of lights, cloth’s color, decoration of the room, and facial expression are used by Steen in order to express the happiness and joy that people shared and celebrated during Twelfth-Night Feast. In Twelfth-Night Feast, Steen is focused more on the people in his painting instead of the food. His painting is about feast. People have smile in their face and enjoying the time with each other. This painting is made by
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Goya’s Ghost Goya’s Ghost is a beautiful, melodrama movie, directed by Milos Forman, that took place in the 18th century of Spain. The movie shows us how Spain was during that time, which I think was intriguing. The plot with the church against Napoleon was also interesting because It made me learn something new. It showed me that there are some people that do not agree with the Church and does not see it as healthy for the system during the Renaissance Era. The movie starts off with priests reviewing
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Maurits Cornelius Escher was a Dutch artist born in 1898. He attended Haarlem's School for Architectural and Decorative Arts where he took up graphic art. During the early 1920’s, Escher traveled throughout the Mediterranean where he met and later married Jetta Umiker. Over the course of his life, he made 448 lithographs, woodcuts, and wood engravings, as well as over 2,000 drawings and sketches. M.C. Escher died on March 27th, 1972 in the Netherlands. After his death, his work continued to
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In a Gallery 801 which is full of paintings in color, Odalisque in Grisaille cannot be overlooked. It is quite a remarkable and unusual experience to see a painting of such smooth and fine detail completely in greyscale, especially so if you already have the color image of Ingres’ celebrated Grande Odalisque of 1814 in your head. Odalisque in Grisaille of 1824 serves as an unfinished repetition of Grande Odalisque, which for unknown reasons is reduced in size and simplified. The lack of color is
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depressing paintings. When most people view these two paintings in the first sight, they would think that they would be very different but they actually have a lot of things in common. The first painting would be seen as a disturbing, disgusting visual. The second painting would be seen as a cubical, interesting and a colourful painting. In these two paintings, there are many intentions and secret messages such as fear, ugly truth, and the lonely horror. The date of these two paintings only show
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When taking about painting, the works during Renaissance cannot be ignored. At that period, humanism was advocated, variety of painting whose themes were generally concerned with religion, especially Christianity had been created. The first painting I want to critique is Lamentation with Saint and a Donor. The composer did not use much contour which made the edge of the figures and objects clearly. Compared with the background plants, the colors using of figures are more brightly, which draws the
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“Beating” is a piece of art created in 2012 by Corrine Cushman, a student who graduated from Western Illinois University later that year. The artwork is an etching, which is an intaglio type of printmaking. Intaglio processes involve using acids to etch away depressions in the material. The piece is an average size; it is not overwhelming large, but it is big enough to clearly understand the image. This etching has been loaned to Olson Hall by the WIU Printmaking Department. It hangs in the hallway
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Define the work of Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is an Australian visual storyteller. He writes and illustrates children’s picture books, such as The Lost Thing, and The Rabbits. These books, however, are not just your simple picture book. They cover social issues in our world today, including conformity, alienation, loneliness and loss. These books are based either directly or indirectly upon Tan’s observations of life. (59) How does he use the work of other artists? Shaun Tan uses appropriation in his illustrations
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as unimportant and expendable, but in this situation, Siddal is labeled as “a saint” which relates to a church, suggesting that she is pure and innocent. Adding on, Siddal is also labeled as “a[n] angel” signifying that she is peace and beauty, a painting that symbolizes innocence. Although it may seem positive, being labeled as “an angel” or “a saint” means that the women do not have the power to voice her own opinion and is perfect- therefore suggests that women are weaker than men. In the first
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The project that I feel was the most effective tribute was the one dedicated to Leopoldo Flores. I feel that this piece of artwork represent Leopoldo Flores better than all of the others because when I look at the piece I see several things that remind me of Flores original works. The first thing that popped to me was the textural elements of their art work, the fact that Leopoldo Flores used was glass in his artwork is tremendous and to give a similar feeling as the glass the group chose to use
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