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    most are considered unpleasant and difficult to understand with a deeper meaning that is hidden within it. The selection for this assignment is a painting titled Seated Bather (La Baigneuse) by the great Pablo Picasso. The artwork in question is an abstract painting of a young woman, made out of a series of shapes that come together in form of the painting. This women that is shown is said to be of Picasso’s wife, Olga Koklova, a Russian ballerina he married in 1918. Its simplistic colors and…

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    experienced in the senses of the beholder. The same painting, movie or piece of music can evoke a wide array of emotions in many different people, or even in one person alone. The desire to express ourselves thorough our creativity is a characteristic shared by most people. Letting our imaginations run free to create, manipulate, and incorporate our vision into something that lasts caries deep meaning. The word ‘Art’ itself encompasses so many mediums; paintings, drawings, sculptures, music…

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    to 1497 he produced a mural of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria. During his time in Florence, he painted several portraits, but the only one that survives is the famous 'Mona Lisa'. The fame of Da Vinci's living paintings has meant that he has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the thousands of surviving pages…

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    influential artists known to all: Leonardo Da Vinci, a visionary of many talents that strongly revolutionized the world of art, notably in conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Da Vinci was known for many things especially his paintings. The paintings that will be discussed are “Lady with the Ermine”, “The Last Supper” and “The Mona Lisa.” The painting “The Lady and the Ermine” is believed to created from 1482-1483 in Milan. There are multiple theories about who the woman is. The first…

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    created same very famous paintings and invention. He had a very interesting early life. He lived in cool places. His child hood was a very important part of his life. His parents helped him with his life in the youth stage. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was interested in laws of science and nature, which helped him, when being a printer and inventor. People say that His painting of Mona Lisa is one of the best known paintings out there. The painting was…

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    The self-operating napkin is a famous cartoon that sums up what Rube Goldberg machines are all about: creating a machine(or contraption or invention or device or apparatus) that uses a chain reaction to accomplish a very simple task in a very complicated manner. For example, the self-operating napkin accomplishes the simple task of wiping the chin through this convoluted series of events: lifting a soup spoon (A) pulls a string (B) that jerks a ladle (C) that then throws a cracker (D) past a…

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    my first famous painting was the Bathers at Asnieres which obtained great admiration by the Parisian community due to the introduction of pointillism to the art world as my original movement and that it was possible to convert dots into forms due to the application of the…

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    this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early western art. The actual painting is domestic in scale. Nonetheless, the details are so fine it is possible to make out two figures in a tiny mirror. The way that Van Eyck accomplished this is by the technique he used to layer the painting. Because unlike artists of the time that used tempera that dried relatively quickly, Eyck’s oil paint dried much slower and allowed for small…

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    this essay over “Starry Night” because I have a great understanding of this piece of art. In many of the “Starry Night” viewer’s eyes it is a beautiful piece of work, but in Vincent van Gogh’s eyes it is his worst piece of art. Van Gogh says the painting is not realistic enough, but “Starry Night is definitely one of the most amazing pieces of art I have ever seen. As I explain the form and content of “Starry Night” it will show why this piece of work is so amazing in my eyes. This beautiful…

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    This quote, said by the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci. The painter was a very intelligent and talented man who painted the Mona Lisa and many other well known paintings. While saying this, he probably thought of imagination and creativity that every person has. He might’ve had a different meaning when he said this, but people that hear this quote take it a different way. In my own opinion, it means creativity, and how people express themselves. One this this quote means is creativity.…

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