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    background, and he also used some unnatural colors. You can tell there is impulsive brush strokes an advance of colorist tradition of impressionists. There are strokes of solid color which was combined with curvilinear planes of flat color. In the canvas there are splotches and patches of arbitrary colors as well. You can tell he used a lot of emotion when he was doing the portrait of his…

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    History Of Sneakers Essay

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    From this point on sneakers started to develop into more of what we see sneakers as today. Modern sneakers were starting to be made in England in the year, 1830. These shoes were made from rubber and canvas. The uppers of the shoe were canvas, the sole was rubber, and the rubber was bonded to the canvas. Many people thought that line connecting the two looked like the safe-water line on ships’ hulls. Sneakers started out expensive but soon became the common leisure shoe for all; the time of…

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    pouring and dripping paints on canvas. As Chave pointed out in her essay, “there is no center in his paintings, no one area predominating over others ”(106). Spectatorship, therefore, becomes an intricate question, because of its sexually confused figures interpreted by scattered pigments on the canvas (95). In this essay, I will discuss the implications of abstract expressionist painting and the way the viewer might understand the meaning painters try to convey on their canvas as represented by…

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    Jackson Pollock Tipping

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    Drip painting is a technique “where artist, instead of traditional style of abstract painting, drip or pour the paint directly into the canvas” (khanacademy.org). With the new style of painting, Pollock created a new form of art known as Abstract Expressionism. With the use of dripping technique, the art, although in two-dimensional form, the dried paint gives the viewer a three-dimension…

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    storm has passed, leaving the land broken, the water shaky, and the sky at bay. I chose this particular canvas because the content makes you inquisitive about the changing sky. This painting makes me feel peaceful; like the calm after the storm. This composition reminds me of places I would like to travel in Germany, I love the old castles. The artist Jacob van Ruisdael oil painted this canvas, using more secondary hues to portray the landscape and the mood. The use of secondary hues makes the…

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    English 1320 Mr. Peters 4-2-2018 Word Count: Graffiti: A Misunderstood Medium Since the dawn of early civilization, people have been looking for ways to express themselves, their feelings, emotions, and experiences. It started with rock painting and basic sculptures, which then evolved and developed into the higher art of the Renaissance and ensuing periods in history. Today, in addition to art in its traditional expression, alternative variants have made their appearance, causing heated…

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    Clement Greenberg Essay

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    helped to bring a lot of international attention the US artists. He was very passionate about abstract art, believing it was important to help people view art and ‘think outside the box.’ (Rene Bouche, Portrait of Clement Greenberg. 1955, Oil on canvas, 50 x 35 inches) 2. Abstract expressionism is post-World War Two art movement that began in New York. It began when artists left Europe because of the Nazi Regime, brining surrealist art to the US. There were two main forms of abstract…

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    Bauford Delaney Essay

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    Created from 1954-56, this oil on canvas is a decently sized piece, 31.5 x 37 inches, with bright, thickly applied paint. He uses a variety of vibrant colors; blues, reds, greens, with a heavy use of yellow. Each color seems to be applied in various sized lines that are very fluid swirling and curving in small sections around the canvas. Each stroke of color leads your eye around the canvas in a circular manner leading you to the center of the piece where most…

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    Process-Analysis Of Art

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    One of the greatest feelings is picking up a paint brush, swilling it in your paint and bringing the canvas to life. The other side to that is picking up a brush and staring at the canvas not knowing how to start. I eventually learned the easiest way to start was to separate the subject form the background and then only paint one. I feel this helps because it helps when figuring out what to paint…

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    Modern Art Movement

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    He is literally talking to you as he puts each and every mark down onto the canvas. With the layers from the oil paint and the wax crayon, the viewer gets the sense of action taken. The action of deciding where to put the wax crayon and then the placement and reduction of the graphite are adamant throughout the canvas. Twombly is literally showing the viewer his mistakes, decisions, and actions he must take to create Untitled (Bolsena). Anselm…

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