1. Cassandra is an abstract painter with incredible talent but little fame. One of her paintings, entitled Blue Mistress 13, is a work of immense power and sensuality. Twelve months ago, she sold it to SingTel for display in the main public entrance of the company’s new headquarters. Several art critics attending the opening of the new building mistook the painting for a long-lost work of Pablo Picasso. They wrote about it in their newspaper columns as though they had made a great discovery. When
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Throughout history, art has been a tool for many to express themselves and the events surrounding them. The works of great artists are not only personal, but revolutionary. On occasion, paintings can influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her
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Similarities – Both Velaszquez and Freud’s works fall under the nature of female reclining nude. Using oil paint on canvas, both artists have worked to embody classical elements such as drapery and furnishing to evoking the relaxed mood, felt in both paintings. In terms of physical composition, both figures appear in the middle of the canvas as to highlight that they are the central focus of the painting. Differences – Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, depicts a far more contemporary
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1. QUESTION: Using the duties of HR CONSULTANTS and ACCOUNTS MANAGERS , make a list of the COMPETENCIES required for each job. 2. A competency is any observable and/or measurable knowledge, skill, ability, or behaviour that contributes to successful job performance. Necessary for top performance but not sufficient Characteristics that lead to longer-term success Values Traits Motives Skills Knowledge 3. Source: Tucker & Cofsky (1994) COMPETENCIES may be grouped as follows: 4. List of the
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A still life is a work of art which depicts inanimate objects such as flowers, plants, plants, food, rocks shells; this also includes man made items such as bottles, glasses, books, jewellery, pipes, vases and so on. Origins within the middle ages and ancient Greek and Roman art, still life paintings gave the artists choices in the arrangements and design within a composition then paintings of a landscape or a portrait. Still life paintings before the 17th century mostly contained religious symbolism
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The face of war, by Salvador Dali, "Femme en pleurs" by Pablo Picasso, are two 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
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Hockney was inspired by some of the most famous artists including Pablo Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg, as well experimental artists including Jacob Kramer, Alan Davie and R.B Kitaj. Even though Hockney was influenced by others, he developed the ability to take ordinary landscapes and develop them through his unique colours and photographs. This resulted in his work being extremely pleasing to view. This talent led to Hockney earning a place amongst other contemporary artists of the 20th century
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The beginning of chapter three in Puzzles About Art, examines Picasso’s questionable approach toward a portrait of Françoise Gilot. The portrait depicts Gilot as a flower, rather than a human. Picasso took such an approach to this portrait, because he thought the abstract painting would represent Gilot more accurately. Though the reading gives examples of specific changes to Gilot’s figure and Picasso’s reasoning behind the changes. It seems that Picasso observed features of Gilot that would be
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SO - Biography Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on the 25th of October, 1881 and died on the 8th of April, 1973 (91 years old). He was born in Spain, and he was known as a painter and sculptor. Picasso has created 20,000 amazing artworks. He is best known as the co-founder of Cubism. Pablo breaks up objects and re-assembles them in an abstract and geometric form. Picasso had four children with three different women. In 1972, a number of his artworks were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris.
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Throughout history we have largely recognized the two artists Pablo Picasso and Frida kahlo, they have both created amazing artworks in the own way and own style but they have many similarities and differences and they both have a great reputation in the history of art, Pablo Picasso mostly specialized in cubism in his artworks he was well renowned for painting his personal experiences for example in the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon he has painted an group of ladies from which when he went
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