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Warhol’s choice of mechanical repetition of this explicit scene continues to dull the alarming content of the image. Silkscreening the newspaper clipping onto the canvas gives it a mechanical tone. Warhol’s choice to silkscreen and repeat may have been to highlight the concept of tragedy that is encountered everyday by people, making it nothing more than just another tragic scene seen in the newspaper. This deprives the disastrous and morbid scene of it’s significance, desensitizing the…

Salvador Dali Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory Metamorphosis of Narcissus The Ecumenical Council Surrealism was a time period that started in 1924 and ended in 1966. It scorned the idea of rationalism or writings of realism, and heavily used psychoanalysis. They had elements of primitivism and mythism as well as they went to treat the unconcious mind. They thought that rationality was a…

tea, at lunch I have whatever I feel but usually something small. At dinner time I have a stew made from Veggies from the Chinese or some Damper and salted Mutton. My tent is a nice one (my opinion), I got some canvas and wood from the store and I made a wooden frame and stretched the canvas over it and secured it with some string, it was hard work! I have met a couple friends, come Chinese, some Irish and some from home! But my best friend is Albert Bates who is from Britain. The other day I…

because London thinks graffiti is a positive force in its own right For Recognition for its urban art”. “Historically, graffiti artists were kids from poor neighborhoods, working class families, who didn’t have resources, and the city became their canvas.” “some teenagers aren't good at their studies so they don't really have a good future, but graffiti is another way to earn money and capture younger viewers,” correspondingly…

and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar snakes on the woman's head I rushed to get a detailed look at this painting. I have actually seen a lot of paintings in my time as this is my third Art History class, but seeing a painting of Medusa was different. She’s rarely put on canvas as others in…

Jackson Pollock was a psycho-alcoholic. According to the movie Pollock, Jackson Pollock’s work was first exhibited at a show with future wife, Artist Lee Krasner. In the beginning of his career, Pollock’s style of painting was close to the style of Picasso’s art, Cubism. Pollock seemed to have a love/hate feeling for Picasso. He seemed to admire him and maybe had been studying him for so long, like he was trying to crack some sort of code of Picasso’s paintings, but became frustrated that…

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Vincent Van Gogh were artist that painted work some 200 years apart. Each contributed many wonderful painting to society. Both were extremely talented and struggled to be discovered. To narrow one down as the bigger contributor to society, I would have to proclaim Caravaggio. The variety and stories depicted in his works are biblically and historically valuable images. Van Gogh’s seemed to paint at a fast rate turning out several paintings that were…

emphasized by a specific circle of French artists. However, during the period of 1884-1887, Renoir went through what has been labeled as the “anti-impressionist” phase marked by the creation of The Bathers. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas. Renoir worked on this painting in France between the years 1884-1887 and it can currently be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. This paper will assess why the style of this painting was…

The comparison of lining and interlining materials are given in Table 13.2 Table 13.2 Comparison of lining and interlining materials Sl. No Lining Interlining 1 It is used inside of garments or garment components. It is used between two layers of fabric. 2 It is attached by sewing. It is attached by sewing or applying heat and pressure. 3 Finishing is not necessary. Sometimes finishing is necessary to improve its properties. E.g. shrink resist finish. Crease resists finish. 4 No coating is used…

Everyone has at least a pair of jeans in the wardrobe, no matter you are aged or young, plump or slim, dressily or plain. This type of garment made from denim can be easily seen, whenever and wherever you walk on streets. Nevertheless, in the 1800s, no one could have predicted that a denim storm blown up from Levi-Strauss would rip through the global fashion industry and have kept the standing room for more than a century ahead. In 1850, a news fanaticized the public and brought the infinity…