Flagg also known as J. Montgomery, he was an early master of pen and ink, but he was much more. He was an American artist and illustrator who gain reputation during the first part of the twentieth century. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning but he is mostly known for his political posters. Flagg was married twice. His first wife was Nellie McCormack who survived till 24 years and ended when she died. Dorothy Wadman was his second wife and did not have
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http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEKVTaoMkCzaJyJ8u_jDeytZRcUc_23q7K1sk46Win7pfLiZnO Chuck Close’s Self-Portrait (1967). Chuck Close is known as a reinvigorator of art and painting from late 1960’s until now. Its been decades when photography challenged paintings. Chuck emerged from the 1970s painting movement of Photorealism, also known as Super-Realism. He moved to the city New York in 1967 with a group of artist of his generation and been in his class at Yale University in
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Nicholas Gibney Hernandez Hum 225 Professor Zupan April 22nd, 2015 Victorion: El Defendor de la Mision I was extremely excited to go visit the Mission Murals mostly because I have never seen them before. I didn’t know what to expect heading down there. When I arrived in Balmy alley I was not disappointed. I was immediately drawn to the very first mural I saw. I knew right then and there I was going to choose this mural. Even though I had yet to see many more murals my mind was set. The mural
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On May 2, 1808, residents of Madrid rebelled against the French military, who occupied the city. In response to this conflict Goya printed Los Desastres de la Guerra (‘The Disasters of War’), a sequence of 82 prints depicting the effects of war and starvation. One of the 82 prints that I am going to focus on is caption Unhappy Mother. The etching depicts the death of a mother who is being carried by three men. There is a little girl no younger than three with her hands wiping her tears away. If
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presentation in class, some more than others. There were many different paintings but the one that stood out to me the most was Elijah’s. Although it was from 1999, I thought it was interesting that he happened to find a painting that was actually painted by a Guilford College student. At first the painting was difficult to understand. But as he pointed out, there are key elements in the painting that bring the true meaning of the painting out. And another thing that I thought about right after class that
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Growing up my family always had abstract art and thick coffee table books around the house. It wasnt until i got older that i appreciated one artist's vision in particular with his specific way of showing beauty, femininity, and grace so effortlessly. Alphonse Mucha a Czech, the artist, was born on July 24th 1860. He was mostly known for his commercial posters. When he first formed the idea of this beautiful way of capturing women, he was working mostly in Vienna and Paris. He captivated women in
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The Heavenly Horses Exhibit: Two Thousand Years of Chinese and Japanese Equine Art which runs from June 14, 2014 to February 22, 2015 at the Bowers Museum chronicles approximately two thousand years of aesthetic representations of the horse in Chinese and Japanese culture. The prominence of the horse to Chinese and Japanese art, on the one hand, demonstrates the extent to which the horse functions as a crucial element of these societies, both on a practical level, present in the lives of these people
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Through color and various styles of painting, many artists accomplished how to artistically make charming and elegant pictures. The style basically describes the way an art work looks like. Style can also be referred to the manner that the artist uses to illustrate his work. It also reflects how the artist expresses his own perception about the artwork. Artworks that have the same specific features are examined to have a common style. The way an artist takes care of the medium, method and technique
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1498, the Da Vinci painted the oil painting on the walls of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan in Italy. The masterpiece depicts a scene from the Gospel of John, wherein Jesus is having his last supper with his 12 apostles and announces that he would be betrayed by one of them. The painting is considered to be one of the best specimens of Biblical art and the art inspired during the Italian High Renaissance. Among the few reasons that led me to choose this painting is the expressions of the characters
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a genre of painting, was originated by the First Nations people from northern Ontario and southwestern Manitoba. The woodland style was founded by a man named Norval Morrisseau, an Ojibwe artist from Northern Ontario. His paintings represented traditional oral stories and history, as well as dreams and visions. The art itself is quite distinguishable, including drawings of outlines, x-ray views of animals and humans, and many aboriginal symbols. The colours involved in these paintings are bright
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