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    Subject Matter And Medium-Nighthawks, By Edward Hooper

    Subject Matter and Medium- Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hooper. The painting shows people at a diner late at night. The painting shows a small diner that has three people that look like they are ordering food from the small diner on the corner of the street. Two of the customers look to have business clothes on while the other customer has on a bright red dress. Then the lone worker seems to be a bit older and a more lively look to him. Behind the diner there appears to

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    Vincent Van Gogh Research Paper

    Vincent Willem Van Gogh, born March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, made paintings that are among the most treasured objects in our world today. But during his lifetime Vincent Van Gogh was unnoticed, every one of his works were ignored. In his time Vincent was a normal peasant of the middle class, and spoke four languages, Dutch, German, English, and French, while also studying Greek and Latin, but refused to accept the use of those languages. In 1885, he drew what he considered to be his

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    Art 450 Museum Paper

    Museum Paper In this week’s class, we all made a visit to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Actually, this was my first time to take a tour to a museum in U.S. Museum is a place worth visiting, and it really was a better experience for me. I saw so many artworks in this big museum. Now, I select three of these artworks to share with you. They completely shocked me and gave a deep expression at first sight. First of all, I want to show my favorite one to you. It is called “bridge”, and it was

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    Matisse and Picaso

    MATISSE AND PICASSO The article on Matisse and Picasso’s story of contradiction that later on developed into friendship shows us that art unites everyone. Artists may have different styles, techniques and opinions but these abstractionists found what is dominantly common among their works. They may not have liked each other’s works at first but gradually, they have learned to work with each other. This agreement signaled the birth of another art movement, abstraction. Their works are highly geometric

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    Huma205

    uma205Louvre art museum Gold band with sphinxes and stylized tree ( Egyptian jewelry ) * Late bronze Age ( 1400-1230 BC ) * Tomb, Enkomi * 2- dimensional * Gold * Melt gold to thin sheet, curve symbols * Shape of a band, gold to show wealth, priceless * Every Egyptian is buried with everything they own including wealth it’s to be used in the after world * The message of this art is to show the tree of life or sacred tree as so the dead may move on into

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    Children of Heaven

    Children of Heaven BACKGROUND: Released in 1997, the Iranian film, ‘Children of Heaven’ is a story of two siblings from a lower class, who struggles with, and, for a pair of shoe. Directed by Majid Majidi. Majid Majidi His work is uncluttered and elegant: the story flows in a simple, linear manner with no flashbacks or flash-forwards; no special effects to jazz things up; And the soundtrack played a vital part in shaping the whole experience of the viewer. It’s not just the music

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    Understanding and Evaluating the Arts

    HUMA205 Unit 1 IP Understanding and Evaluating the Arts Stacy Mashburn American Intercontinental University online Abstract For this assignment, I will list two definitions for the word art. Also, I will provide one example of the eight following words: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, conceptual art, installation art, and performance art. Understanding & Evaluating the Arts The first definition that I found for the word art is a person who shows exceptional

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    Art101

    o View Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night on p. 61 and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 on p. 64 in Ch. 4 of A World of Art and describe both paintings in terms of their lines. What does each artist’s use of line communicate about the artist’s personality and view of the world? Van Gogh evidently found nature to be as compelling and formidable as God himself. “The Starry Night” emphasizes this. According to Sayre, Van Gogh was mentally tormented and this is evident by the use of the artist’s

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    Neoclassicism

    NEOCLASSICISM Mary Williams520 American Intercontinental University April 20, 2013 Abstract This paper is to contrast and compare three works of art, showing their similarities. This is in an effort to evaluate and analyze the artwork. Neoclassicism As the French revolution began in 1789, the French Court’s luxurious life ended quite suddenly. The French court society ended and was transformed quite suddenly. Taste changed

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    Insecapable Theme of Death

    The Inescapable Theme of Death Aria Turner ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Stephanie Miclot May 19, 2014 Dying is part of the cycle of life. We’re born, we live, we grow old, and we die. Where we go after that remains a mystery. Everyone has a fear of dying, since nobody know what happens, people often wonder where your go. Death is a recurring theme in life and in all forms of literature. Since this theme has become so popular, many different works of literature

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