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    They had gotten the rest of his team, but Cranor manage to get away. For a while at least. Now thanks to the brilliant minds of his good friend and the rest of the CSI team and science they were able to track possible places he might be. He sat outside one of those places in an unmarked car waiting for a sign of someone in the second story apartment. While he waited he checked his phone. He had two messages one from Olivia and the other from his older brother Grayson. Liv want to confirmed their plans of beer and terrible b-horror movies the…

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    Waiting to Start Blood was dripping from his crooked nose. He stumbled through the crowd of detainees towards the guards. His body swayed from side to side like a grandfather clock. As his knees buckled and began falling to the ground, he cried out for help. His body collapsed to the dirt like a rag doll thrown across a room. The riots raged on in the centre of the yard. “Hello Adil, I'm Dr Williams. How are you feeling today?” I looked around the sterile, white room. The television’s signal was…

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    The oil painting Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market created in 1614 by Frans Snyder depicts a large size, naturalistic scene of a shopkeeper and his game in a Flemish marketplace. The painting is 83 ½ by 121 ¼ inches, which gives it an imposing scale. Snyder’s depiction of a scene from the everyday life of a Belgium in the 1600s is made realistic through a close attention to small details that would typically go unnoticed, as if to bring the viewer into the painting. …

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    Essay On Vanitas

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    work of art. vanitas it is linked with still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre linked with symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, As applied to vanitas art, the word is drawn from the biblical book. The vanitas has a lot of symbols there are two different types the first one is still life object and the second one is still life nature. object such as skulls, rotten fruit, bubbles, smoke, watches, hourglasses, and musical instruments. Natures such as Fruit,…

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    Vanitas Still Life

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    and differences when it comes to producing still life artworks. Still life is defined as a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruits and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware. For example, in the Dutch Golden Age period, the Dutch artist Pieter Claesz painted a vanitas still life, oil on canvas artwork called “Vanitas Still-Life” in 1630 which sizes 39.5 x 56 cm. Furthermore a while later in the contemporary period-…

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    attract and keep the attention of the audience in a genre as stale and traditional as still life painting can be a difficult task, but many painters have risen to the challenge in the hundreds of years since its invention. These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and…

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    Kathleen Stewart

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    Stewart said that “from the perspective of ordinary affects, things like narrative and identity become tentative though forceful compositions of disparate and moving elements” (8). Ordinary affects transfigures the most banal practices and objects by juxtaposing and combining them together. For example, still life that Stewart mentioned in her article. Still life is captures the liveness of inanimate objects such as cup and fruit. Because still life drawing always use similar objects and it not…

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    While at The Legion of Honor, I found many paintings extremely beautiful and fascinating. Being able to tour with a docent was extremely helpful and interesting. I chose to analyze Willem van Aelst’s Flowers in a Silver Vase. Since I was a child, I remember being captivated by still life paintings. I am not quite sure why, but I was always drawn to them. When the docent showed us van Aelst’s still life, I immediately decided to write about it. Art historians agreed that Art, whether it is…

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    For instance, Flower Still Life, a painting that she had done was the first picture that had made me decide to do a still life with some flowers (Robinson). Though when looking only at this piece, I knew that it would be difficult, especially due to me never painting flowers. Then when doing some more research, I had come across a few other paintings of hers that made me feel more comfortable about my decision. For instance, I had come across her paintings, A Spray of Flowers, and A 'Forest…

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    Art Vanitas Meaning

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    still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…

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