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dancers”, 1925. This piece is filled with Picasso's personal feelings which expressed the heart-broken suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. In this painting Picasso captures the essence of love, sex and death in the form of three women dancing. Picasso found refuge in Surrealism from 1926 till the end of his life. This dream world of subconscious paintings formed from biomorphic shapes found deep in Picasso’s subconscious. In Surrealism Picasso would create recognizable form but would distort…

photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. At first painting was used to make a picture, especially portraits that were made by painters for first or middle class families. Painting offered a wide selection of transferable subjects from nudes, portraits, still life, and landscapes that even photography could mimic and adapt. Photography is an art form…

In Rose period paintings expressed the submission and lead him to live in artistic spirit of his life. Therefore, he changed his personality to experimental style that made his subjects obscure, outcoming in an artistic shape of a person, rather than a person (“Pablo Picasso’s Rose Period”). As an example, Seated Female Nude is the type of person is cognizable, not a person itself (“Pablo Picasso’s Rose Period”). The subject is not portrayed, but reconstitution. His color periods also inspired…

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five siblings, his mother, Carolyn, and father N.C. Wyeth. He was a dominant force in the household and guided his son’s artistic abilities. Andrew Wyeth was a 20th Century painter. He is known for his realism in portraiture and pastorals, as seen in Christina’s World. In 1939 Andrew Wyeth had his first showing at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia. The following year he had his debut one-man show at New…

Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh’s Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, provides an in-depth study of the plantation established by Robert Cole, his family as well as his servants in seventeenth century Maryland. Cole and his family were English Catholics that had relocated from England to the New World because of the system of agriculture the Chesapeake was capable of producing. The Cole plantation account provides readers with an understanding…

Vik Muniz, in Sysyphus, After Titan, uses the visual element of shape, line, and space in a variety of ways to create an intriguing piece of work. This artist’s use of shape, allows him to define the boundaries of the image of Sisyphus through the use of debris and wire. Muniz also communicates implied shape as seen specifically in the weight that Sisyphus carries on his back where many industrial items are scattered to create the shape of the bag. The edges of Sysyphus’ body, when met with…

VU21473 Task 1 1. Which Artist did you choose to write about? - Albert Namatjira 1902 – 1959 2. What type of art does the artist make? What style of art is this? - Water colour painting, Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art. 3. What medium does the artist use to create this art? - Mediums used by artists very widely, and rang from tools including paints brushes, pencils and pastels used by traditional artists to instatements, voice and electronics used in the auditory arts. 4. What period in…

The piece I chose, titled Smiley, is by Michael Lucero, and is a part of the Gorelick Collection. Michael Lucero is an American sculptor and was born in 1953. His work has been exhibited in the Mint Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. He attended Humboldt State University and University of Washington. This specific piece is a yarn wrapped ceramic and is a fairly large size. The sculpture itself is of a cartoonish dog, and the yarn wrapped around the ceramic base is of many different colors…

The painting is about six-foot-tall and five-foot-wide, and it almost spans the entire height of the wall. Roughly two inches thick, the clean, white edge adds a tremendous amount of weight and sincerity to the object. The painting is so enormous that the human in the picture is portrayed like a powerful god figure, larger than the average being and staring right down at the viewer. Marshall’s eyes glaze right into the viewer’s eyes from above, as if the painting is trying to communicate…

Goya is well known for his thought provoking and perhaps disturbing paintings, especially “Los Caprichios”. While the primary purpose of these 80 something etchings was to depict the abuses of the Catholic Church, societal ills, and superstition, however they also demonstrate a very interesting perspective on the psychology of sleep and dreams, particularly in relation to monsters. This collection presented the condemnation of follies and foolishness is a rather informal, almost free form way, a…