Analyzing Van Eyck's Oil Painting

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1. The oil painting, Man in a Red Turban, painted by Van Eyck represents the medium of oil painting. Van Eyck used great detail and such rich colors for his painting. The deep and rich colors of his turban depict lifelike folds. The cracks in Van Eyck’s painting represent the lines of the man’s forehead which gives him an elderly look. In Sonsini’s Fernado, Manuel, and David, has considerably less intricate detail compared to Van Eyck’s painting. The men and the background are not defined by solid lines, but rather a blending.
While examining both oil paintings, one can see that Van Eyck’s oil painting took much more longer to create compared to Sonsini’s oil painting. Sonsini’s painting executed alla prima, which means the painting was done
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Margaret Kilgallen used her various of paintings to help empower women across the globe and help them to not think about their physical appearance. In the video, it appeared that she used painting as her medium. The theme of her artwork is history and stories because her artwork appears to have a story about each woman she paints. I also think that her artwork can fall under the political art theme. She uses her paintings as a way to communicate to both women and men in different ways.
Barry McGee has used various mediums of artwork throughout his lifetime. The medium he uses the most is painting. A theme Barry McGee uses is fantasy and invention. In many of his artworks, one has to use their imagination and grasp the main idea of that artwork. It is important to understand his care for the world, friends and family, and San Francisco.
These two artists are similar in the fact that they use the world as their way to form ideas. Both Margaret Kilagan and Berry McGee both use the fantasy and invention theme for their paintings. Margaret Kilgallen painted primarily about women as a way to help them move from insecurities and what society want them to believe. Barry McGee has many different styles of artwork that include people, bottles, and other items. He did not hone in on any specific gender, item, or specific

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