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    Flat/Matte Wraps Flat matte wraps are well-known to give your vehicle a unique look. Instead of doing a painting job on your vehicle, it makes your vehicle appear as if a paint job is done on it and it will stay for a very long time. When thinking on making a change on your vehicle, there’s no better way than a flat matte wraps. It will make your vehicle completely different color than what it is now, the matte wrap looks awesome and eye catchy. If you’re not into the full flat matte appearance…

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    Critical Analysis on The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh painted a painting called The Night Cafe. He used oil on canvas as his medium and used a 72,4 cm by 92.1 cm canvas. The subject matter of the piece is a narrative, and the setting takes place indoors. To be more specifically it’s in a cafe which contains many still lives such as clocks, tables, chairs, glasses, and much more.In addition to the still lifes there is also many people doing a variety of things…

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    to musical terminology in his painting titles but also borrowed basic musical terminology and categories such as, “improvisation” and “composition” for use in his title pieces (Bayer, 110). The new kind of art that Kandinsky pioneered was not only an expression of internal emotion, but rather a search for a new kind of human existence (Lots). Kandinsky's works are on the edge of suspended wonder and it tests the limit of knowledge. Kandinsky only named the paintings he considered the most…

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    still life landscape painting “The Starry Night”, created in 1889, which can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art. Vincent Van Gough was an expressionist painter, and “The Starry Night” is definitely an example of the expressionist time period, which was known for exaggerating aspects of the form in a painting to attract emotions rather than reasons. Vincant Van Gough was a dutch artist who had a huge impact on 20th century art, he was known for his dramatic still life paintings, landscapes. and…

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    Pablo Picasso Influence

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    includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings and much more. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, In Málaga, on the southern Spanish coast. Picasso’s father, José Ruiz Blasco, supported the family by teaching drawing at the local art school. At the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. His father was a traditional, academic artist and instructor. Picasso's childhood training set him up for a future in painting and…

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    Guernica Essay

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    Cubism, Dada, or Surrealism? Explain your answer by using specific visual and stylistic references. Guernica has fascinated the world since its inception in 1937, many were struck by the use of the monochromatic color scheme and the style of the painting. Herein I shall explore the four styles and attempt my interpretation of Guernica. Dada was a movement that did constitute an actual style, but instead focused on other aspects such as group collaboration, one specific group in New York that…

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    To this day, The Starry Night still remains as an elusive work of art to art critics and students since its creation. Because Van Gogh's intentions of painting this piece were not known, critics tend to break down and analyze the painting through several different lenses. Some critics view this work as a religious piece depicting a story from the Bible. Others contend that Van Gogh was driven by the historical influences and public fascination with astronomy and astrology at the time. I, however…

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    the 1930s all the way up to the early 1950s! He started doing abstract art and throwing paint around in 1947. The art that Jackson Pollock has in the Jason McCoy Gallery include his paintings, works on paper, and physical objects. The goal of Jackson Pollock’s art was to make the art an…

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    working method is quiet slow with great attention to detail and this combined with an early death accounts for the limited set of canvases. On the other hand Wheelock observes that the scarcity of paintings may contribute to why we value them so much Describing the paintings Wheelock tells us that the paintings express an admiration for women, they speak softly, they possess a restrained sensuality, which is all the more troubling as it sets up an obstacle between the seeker and the object,…

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    he Torment of Saint Anthony is the earliest known painting by Michelangelo, painted after an engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old.[1] It is currently in the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.[1][2] It shows the common medieval subject, included in the Golden Legend and other sources, of Saint Anthony being assailed in the desert by demons, whose temptations he resisted; the Temptation of St Anthony (or "Trial") is the more common…

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