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    If someone was asked to name a famous painting, they might say the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is a 16th century oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa is also known as ‘La Gioconda’, a reference to her married name, or ‘La Joconde’, meaning ‘the happy one’ (Cris 2015). Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa between 1503 and 1506, in Florence Italy. The size of the painting is 77 x 53 cm. If a person were to go see the Mona Lisa painting, they would say “it is smaller than they…

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    painted a portrait called Head of Aesop, after Velasquez that was the beginning of his professional independence. John had also developed a skill called alla prima 3 well studying under Carolus-Duran as a pupil. Sargent had a goal with this painting and the goal was to get the best visual effects from the painting, so that the stroke of the brush and the splashes of the pigment from it would mix together into a realistic image when standing somewhere across the room from the portrait. When…

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    The Theft of the Mona Lisa In 1911, while being held at a museum in Paris, one of the world’s greatest and most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa, was stolen. To this day, this particular crime is one of the most popular and famous of all, but why? What makes this crime one of the most remembered? Well, there were lots of aspects to this story that make it so interesting. Somewhere between 1504 and 1519, the masterpiece called the Mona Lisa was created.(Totally History) A world famous artist,…

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    untouchable. The arc of this growing flexibility of perception is apparent when juxtaposing the Daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglas (1847), Andy Warhol’s silkscreen Self-Portrait (1967) and Juliana Huxtable’s ink-jet photograph titled Untitled in the Rage…

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    Full paragraph In “The Smile” the conflict lies inside of Tom. I think that his conflict is internal. He is trying to assimilate to the current society but,he also wants to follow his heart. He clearly does not want to destroy this extraordinary painting but, the people that surround him have another idea. They want to tear our world apart and in the future he may try to stop them. In his world he is surrounded by people that hate civilization and and want to destroy every last fragment it. Tom…

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    Mona Lisa can be termed as the best work of art of all time in the world. It is a half-length portrait of a woman, which was created by Leonardo Da Vinci during the period 1503 to 1506. The artwork is known to be the most famous, being the most parodied, the most written about, sung about and visited in the world. It is known by not only art lovers but by the world’s population better part. It is assumed that the artwork was a representation of Lisa Gherardini, who was the wife to Francesco…

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    analysis and the museum presentation of the following two paintings. Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan by Rembrandt Van Rijn and Alphonse Promayet by Gustave Courbet. The painting of Portrait of a Young woman with a Fan is created in Dutch in 1633 and it exhibits in gallery 637. The Alphonse Promayet is created in French in 1861 and it exhibits in gallery 809. Both galleries are on the second floor of the metropolitan museum of art. Each painting has its unique form since they are created in…

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    “Manet's bar at the Folies-Bergere”, 1882. As acknowledged in the extract this artwork achieves its main meaning through male, Japanese artist Morimura impersonating the main subject of the painting, a young white woman. This combined with the detailed copying of many existing aspects of the original painting and a complex synthesis of new ideas and symbols with the old, creates a new mixed meaning that challenges the viewer to reconsider their ideas on gender, race and the history of art.…

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    At the turn of the century, a battle against painting was forged in the form of a photograph. Threatened by the new artform, painters prepared for the end of their profession. A couple decades later, both still exist side by side. In Dominique de Font-Reaulx’s chapter “Portraiture” in his Painting and Photography, he uses portraits as a measure of the effectiveness of the mediums. In 1936, two artists decided to capture two separate portraits with completely different subjects. During the…

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    not coincide with what I have learned about earlier painters such as those in the Oklahoma School. The most artwork from earlier painters are traditional portraits and pictures of recording the ceremony. Fritz Scholder combined Indian culture with American culture to show the Indian with a beer can, the Indian with a American flag, and a portrait of himself with a cat. He also drew abstract in which expressed Indian’s daily life, and he expressed more emotions though his works. I have chosen…

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