While looking at the flag, I immediately had an idea of what the project would be involving. While online, you sometimes see these types of “tricks” with famous paintings. For example, people have found a way to make the Van Gogh painting Starry Night come to life. They use a black and white picture with many circles moving, and you must stare at it for thirty seconds then look at the painting. The painting will then start to appear to swirl around. Though the concept is different, it is all similar
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Michelangelo was one of the most inspiring artists history has ever seen. He possessed many extraordinary characteristics that made him into the imagine he is today. He was a perfectionist and hard-working. He communicated in his art and created things that no one else had created before. Most of all, he put his heart in everything he did. The Sistine Chapel, probably rated the most beautiful chapel, not only in Europe but also in the whole world, was painted by Michelangelo at the beginning of
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According to popular belief, impressionism is considered the start of the modern artistic movement, but I would have to disagree with that statement. The reason that this is an accepted belief is because impressionist painters did things a bit differently than the neoclassical painters. For years artists would layer their canvases starting with a layer of white. The second layer would be a transparent wash, and then the artist would use opaque paint for the figures in the painting. Finally, a layer
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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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For something to be considered “special” it has to be striking, uncommon, and appeal to our positive emotional mental functions. As stated in “The Core of Art: Making Special” by Ellen Dissanayake, “...not all aesthetic making special is art” (Dissanayake 56). A police interrogation room may be uncommon because of the way the room is designed, but this does not make it art. Art is a way of expressing something special. Striking is defined as: “attracting attention by reason of being unusual
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Journal: Self-Portrait 1 The primary Reason for Painting a Self-Portrait Assessing Internal Characteristics One of our main struggles in life is to gain self-understanding. We continuously explore our desires, goals, fears, plans, needs…etc. The ability to effectively assess our internal characteristics is one of the main obstacles we face when thinking about a self-portrait. Due to this reason, I decided that I need to evaluate my traits, and try and think about who I am, before presenting myself
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back and forth with some I landed on Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889. This one seems asymmetrical to me because it has the big broken tree on one side which represents the heavy single object and the town with the big moon on the other balancing it out. Even if you cut this in half you obviously can tell that they are different but together the way the moon draws your eyes and the dark shading on the castle brings them back makes it seemed balanced. Mr. Gogh might have done this to represent how
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I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night, because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it, blended with his own stigmatic emotion, is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France in 1889; Starry Night is aesthetically, artistically, and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the
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Impressionism, the Benchmark of Post Impressionism Marvin Johnson WGU November 09, 2014 I Impressionism and Post Impressionism In France, by the conclusion of the nineteenth century many changes were arising. The social and political arenas were in an uprise. This environment made way for diversities among the artistic styles of the day. It encouraged artist to display their abilities and uniqueness in masterpieces of art, music, and theater. Visual arts, such as photography
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Formal Analysis of Art Vincent van Gogh’s art has a lot of expression that he puts into is paintings to give the viewer a feeling of awe when they look at the picture. His lines are loose and free to make you feel like they are out of control. But they really aren’t he does this to give the picture some expression and individuality. By making the lines loose and free it makes the world that we may see so much more different. With this picture this is how he saw this village while he was alive
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