When looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 noticing the differences within each painting, in terms of their lines, is relatively easy. In the overall painting, the first difference noticed is the overall flow of the painting and the tone that it is set in. When it comes to The Starry Night you can see instantly that van Gogh idealized nature and its effect of the world. The lines throughout the painting are harsh and rough. The lines especially around
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Reading Art – Understanding Iconography The art work that I chose was Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The four roles that an artist take on is one to make us the public experience and see the world in new and innovative ways. I think that the second role that the artist takes is to make a visual record of places, places and events of their time. The third role that the artist takes on is to make functional things such as objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate these
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Pablo Picasso by Suzanne Blier Suzanne Preston Blier portrays Pablo Picasso’s work on African art and women as more than a simple interest, but a life goal and sort of obsession. It seems that to Picasso this scene of women and African art presented a mystery he sought to reveal. Through Picasso’s paintings of women, his interests in African masks and interaction with African art, Blier makes the point that Picasso’s engagement and interest in this field was led by the complexities it had to offer
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Golden Treasure I have visited the Metropolitan Museum many times and still seem to be amazed by the beauty that surrounds me. It is common to see paintings and sculptures, but not so ordinary to be able to view beautiful pieces of gold jewels. Gold jewelry is a symbol of power, royalty, high class and pure elegance and this room at the MET displaying different pieces is exactly that. I choose this piece because not only was I drawn to its beauty but it also reminded me of pieces my mother and
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures” - Henry Ward Beecher “I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the painting appears as in a dream” - Vincent van Gogh It is wide-spread knowledge that all ingenious people are a little strange, that their minds work in ways completely different to ours, that their perspective of reality is unlike that of common people
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found through a search engine, using a simple keyword “fauvism,” without distinguishing any particular directions or artists within the movement. “Fauvism.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2015. Web. Apr. 24, 2015. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm>. The first website is the one of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offering a great article about Fauvism as a movement in painting and phenomenon in art of the early years of the twentieth century, which was a predecessor and a great
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lived a half hour from Miami, the home to the annual Art Basel exhibit and also the popular hot spot, Wynwood. I was a few blocks over from Ft. Lauderdale, which held an Art Walk festival also every year and I also used to work at the Young at Art Museum in Davie so art surrounded me everywhere. Although, until I visited the very first First Friday held this fall, I never really experienced art so authentic and got to meet the people behind it. I went to First Friday with my roommate Kasey, not really
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on behalf of the Delhi Arts Council that is in favor of bringing Marc Quinn’s inflatable sculpture Breath to our small town of Delhi, NY. Marc Quinn is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Quinn’s work is exhibited internationally in museums and galleries in London, Milan, Rome, Dallas, Monaco, Venice and Istabul to name a few countries (Marc Quinn, 2017). The grant that the Arts Council received will afford us the opportunity to have this inflatable sculpture in the public square for
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Luis Bojorquez Mr. Essick IB Visual Arts September 19, 2014 Artist Research Report: Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1850. He was a Post-Impressionistic painter and his work will forever be remembered for rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold colors.Even though he highly influenced the 20th Century, he had a mental-illness, remained poor, and he was basically unknown the entire time he was alive. Van Gogh died at the age of 37
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Pulling into the parking lot at the Columbus Museum of Art I first got the impression that the museum itself seemed to look like a piece of artwork. There were status outside and little nutcracker men on the roofs it all came together so elegantly. Previous to this visit I had never gone to any other museums aside from those that are located on campus, so it was a whole new experience for me. After going into the museum and taking a look around I was surprised to see the variety of work that they
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