is just enough room for Arnolfini and his wife to stand close together holding hands. I think van Eyck did this so that viewers looking in this painting could focus solely on the important things, like Arnolfini, his wife, the mirror between them, etc. One can only see the edge of the bed and chair behind the couple, which allows the attention to be set on what is going on in the middle of the room. It also makes the setting seem that much more intimate and close, considering it’s been speculated
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Like a lot of of people in the world, I used to ridicule and make fun of artists - all kinds of artists. Anyone in the arts and fine arts stream, though I just kept that to myself. But i recently hit another way of thinking. Something which made me respect them over most other jobs in the world. If you think about it, God made us all using a variety of combinations of things (which we identify as elements today). Humans are made out of carbon, just like diamonds. So technically, isn't that what
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The Art of Music Katrina Dudley-Proby MUS-101 Music Appreciation Michael Rader 01/11/16 Introduction Music has so many components and elements to it, from pitch, sounds, dynamics even durations. It could be someone singing a solo a cappella or with musical instruments. Music is something that is utilized in most of our daily lives rather it be contemporary, rhythm and blues or classical. The mechanisms that are used to produce sounds has a broad range ad categories such as, string, percussion
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certain aspect. However, relying on emotions too much could also cloud our judgment, for it is a very subjective way of knowing. This essay will discuss how reliable our emotion is in the pursuit of knowledge in two areas of knowledge; history and the arts. To start with, emotion plays a big part in judging historical figures and events that were immortalized through history books. The question is, would it be accurate enough to judge them solely based on our emotions? Take Richard III for example
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mind. Information about the painter, the painting itself, the techniques, the story behind it, etc.… “Yet when an image is presented as a work of art, the way people look at it is affected by a whole series of learned assumptions about art” (144). These days it is hard to be presented with anything and not have some form of opinion on it already. What ends up getting in the way when we view works of art are our preconceptions about what we are seeing, our knowledge of the past, and mass production
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The purpose and Power of Art Art is a tool that has been used for many centuries, in different cultures over the world. Art can come in many different forms such as paintings, music, theatre etc. Art is a powerful tool that can be used to depict, to denounce or even simply to entertain. It has the ability to bring a weary soul to peace, to smooth a troubled spirit because of its beauty or to stir up a man’s heart because of its strong graphic visualization of the real world. In Allison Dorothy’s
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Creativity, education, and play all have similar aspects when it comes to the world of the arts. Creativity is another another word for being different. Without taking a chance at something you cannot be creative. Playing and education both coincide with one another in great ways, but a lot of educators neglect this great act in trying to get children to learn. A few passages in the articles particularly resonated with me. One concept that interested me was an idea McCaslin suggested in his article
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Searching for a specific work of art through all of the marvelous pieces was a difficult task, but one seemed to stand out from the rest. The artwork that I chose to visually analyze is Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin painted by Jean-Marc Nattier in 1759. It is a wonderful oil on canvas piece with the main focus of the painting being a beautiful woman draped in a white gown with golden hues and a vivid blue shawl. Jean-Marc Nattier was a well-known portraitist while in the French court under
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I decided to attend the ASU (Arizona State University) Art Museum. It is located on Mill Avenue and 10th Street. I had actually expected the museum to be much larger. It consisted of three main levels made up of five different exhibits. Also, on top of the museum was a roof gallery which held the sculpture part of the museum. When I walked into the museum, the first gallery I visited was called the Lower Level South Gallery. This gallery was very unique and contained many beautiful Japanese paintings
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museums and private exhibitions. The subjects of his pieces are very attractive to the eyes and many tastes, because they depict the images of a lighthearted daily life of society. The piece that I am analyzing is currently on exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum in, Phoenix, Arizona. Who was Julius LeBlanc Stewart? He was an American painter born in 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. When he was ten, his family settled in Paris, France where he spent most of his life as a “figure” and “genre” painter.
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