source is that the painting was made by John Trumbull because the source shows his name underneath the paining. Another message conveyed by the source is that the point of view the painting was made was made as a bystander because the source shows the image is shown at a point of angle showing no favor to one side. Another message conveyed by the source is that the intended audience for this painting is for the English. This is because the English won the war and this painting would be used as a
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The front cover that I illustrated on the book Fever 1793, is a silhouette of the main character, Matilda, walking in a marsh-like, swampy area, in front of a fading sunset. The cover has minor details such as mosquitoes, the yellow balloon, and cattail plants. I designed the cover in the silhouette style because I like the simplicity of silhouettes and I think it complements the cover. I included the yellow balloon in this scene because, in my opinion, it symbolizes Mattie walking into the yellow
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Maaseik, Belgium and died on July 9, 1441 in Bruges, Netherlands. He introduced the idea of oil painting. Most of his paintings consisted of undercover religious signs within portraits and religious subjects. Jan Van Eyck has a high social standing due to working in court. He worked for two courts, one was for John of Bavaria and the other was for the duke of Burgundy. Jan Van Eyck had numerous famous paintings such as the Ghent Altarpiece, Arnolfini Portrait and much more. Another one of his famous
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In this painting by Masaccio, it demonstrates Alberti’s idea ‘La più grassa Minerva’. Masaccio clearly has demonstrated linear perspective with chiaroscuro techniques, we can also see this through his colour choice and depiction of three dimensional characters in three different settings. “The outline and surface, then, give their names to the plane but there are two qualities by which the plane is not altered (although it appears to be). These take their variations from the changing of place and
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Themed and thoughtful landscaping can transform your yard into a work of art that can draw incredible amounts of positive recognition and adoration from your neighbors, guests and those that pass by your home. Landscape design can be an expression of your personality or lifestyle, as well as show your appreciation for the land that surrounds you. but also is a show of respect for the land. Experienced landscaping professionals can offer a unique assortment of expressive landscape design concepts
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I am standing front of one of the most expensive paintings in the world, Irises by the extraordinary artist Vincent van Gogh. According to the New York Time, this painting was sold in 1987 with $53.9 million, and it is now owned by the Getty Museum. I ask the Getty’s guide, “how much is it worth now?” She refuses to reply, and say it is "priceless". That is one of the wisest ways to answer this kind of question by Getty’s staffs. Ever since, Getty has always kept secret the price of the collection
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Duranty discussed that in impressionism paintings, there is no central object that dictates a single vantage point for the viewers, and the lines of sight and angles of cornices do not join with mathematical regularity; this gives a sense of momentariness to the painting as if the frame is a snapshot of the real world, which can be seen in this Pissarro’s painting. Duranty describes in his essay that for impressionism arts, viewers’ eyes “relegate to perspectival diminution others in a street crowd”
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A picture , all things are dark except a naked old man , came into my view . The strong comparison of color catch me a lot, I could not keep myself from going in front of the painting and observing it: “Saint Onuphrius” by Jusepe De Ribera who was born in 1591 in Spain loving painting with realistic and brutal scenes in different circumstances and delighted in subjects of horror. In the picture, a old man who has long white curly hair and white mustache looks up sky and opens his mouth
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beautiful painting by Rosella Namok who started panting on canvas in 1984 in her community of Lockhart River. All of her paintings are personal in nature they tell a story in her life, culture and country. Namok is widely known for her technique of layering thick paint onto the canvas and slowly stripping away the paint with her fingers and other implements to reveal what lies beneath. The painting of Namok is interesting in whatever way you start looking at it. Every detail makes this painting unique
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Albers, Kate Palmer. "Joel Sternfeld's Empty Places | Environmental History | Oxford Academic." OUP Academic. Oxford University Press, 13 Jan. 2015. Web. (-- removed HTML --) . In this article, Kate Palmer Albers describes the types of photographs that Joel Sternfeld takes, and how he began taking these types of photos. Alders specifically describes the following photos: “Heart Mountain Relocation Center,” “Morton Thiokol Rocket Testing Facility,” and “518 101st Love Canal Neighborhood”. For
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