When first approaching the painting the most evident object seen is a tall cross in the top right corner of the canvas. Upon further study, there are many elements that draw the eye to the cross. I believe the artist has intended to make the cross the focal point of the piece. It is not by the name of the painting, which has lead to this conclusion, but all the design decisions displayed in the artwork. The painting is a narrative, representational artwork that illustrates a town or village nestled
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Linear lines are used in dance to evokes ideas or emotions that are unnatural, or in other words, artificial, because straight lines appear so rarely in nature. The objects are related to the Rand’s ideals are all given the trait of being composed of straight lines; for example, Reardon Steel’s straight railroads, the geometric pattern of light rays in Dagny’s apartment, and the tall skyscrapers in New York. I’m not sure whether Rand’s intent was to make all of her protagonist seem emotionally desensitized
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Rossetti 1, 3-4) Here, C. Rossetti compares the canvas with a mirror, which in turn juxtaposes the portrait with its physical subject. Similar to the coin in “A Sonnet,” this comparison at first contradicts the artificiality C. Rossetti attributes to art, as it suggests that the painting is so real and life-like that it is indistinguishable from a reflection in a
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For this project I decided to go to the Museum of Fine Arts here in St. Petersburg Florida, mainly because it is not too far from where I live, and I even brought my older sister and my nephew to tag along. Before hand, I went on their website to figure out admission prices and just general information that I figured I should know, but I also look up pictures of the museum because I was curious to see what it looked like on the outside and what kind of environment it was in. Not only was I curious
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A picture with a purpose either good or bad can take on many different meanings. One single still image can have ability to change the opinion and beliefs of the masses, when reality is transformed into a tangible picture. It often takes on a new meaning for the person holding it, not just a random moment in time. It’s a still shot of an entire group of people who don’t know you personally, but yet hating you for the person you love. As seen in the picture from the Washington Post following the
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The working girl was a popular subject for many painters and Isabel Bishop was one of them. Ellen Wiley Todd goes into how Bishop’s work focused on the young working girl and how the times help shaped their attitude and appearance at the workplace. In some of Bishop‘s paintings Todd goes in depth of why the subjects are the way they are. For example in Young Woman, 1937 is shows the subject walking with confidence. This confidence might stem from the possibility that she could have been a “stenographer
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Todays modern age is apprehensive only with facts, yet facts can be a double edged sword when it comes to the human person. For people seem to be only interested in the biography of an artist rather than the statement he or she has contributed to the literary world. Sherman Joseph Alexie, notes this idea in an interview with Mr.Moyers when being prompted about developing great work. For in his words, “truly great work comes from an artist who is in a manic and or depressed state of being” (Sherman
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Art history is composed of different periods, creating, then, extraordinary yet distinct artists and artwork. Peter Paul Ruben, one of the most successful artists from the Baroque period, produced several artworks that influences art until modern days. Likewise, Jacques-Louis David, “the most important French Neoclassical painter”, created paintings that yielded a movement that changed the course of history. Being both artists from different places and periods, the artworks that they produced differed
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matter in the art circles or society, present time of the 1890s or the future of the twenty century. The analysis also indicated Chéret was unique cause his art were not only the products conformed by the art trend. He not only ride on the trend of advertising poster art and his art and colour lithography process, but also created innovative breakthroughs that leads, the greater height of artistic posters or new generation of art in his time, which let him renowned very honour in the art circles of
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The representation of Place within artworks throughout our history was caused by the search to understand the world and its roles. Throughout this time, many artists devised landscapes in a much different form to the usual accurate representations. Artists in the Post-Modern era have begun to investigate the relationship of memory, psychology and imagination to place and space. These landscapes differ greatly between artists, especially throughout different time periods. Three artists that take
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