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    Still Life Art Analysis

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    For centuries, artists have made still-life artworks as a response to the world around them, preserving both material possessions and concepts in their works. Two display examples of this are Dutch Golden Age still life painter, Pieter Claesz (executed works include ‘Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball’ and ‘Nature morte au crabe’), and British, eccentric, contemporary artist, Damien Hirst (creator of iconic works ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ and ‘Chicken’).…

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    horses, deer, and buffalo, carved into or painted on the walls of caves. Since then, the means by which art is created has evolved, but it is still abundantly inspired by nature. Some extremely famous artist have invoked this theme, including Vincent Van Gogh, known for Starry Night and Irises, Albert Bierstadt, who was part of the Hudson River School, and Katherine Lee Bate who wrote “America the Beautiful”. Without the beauty of nature, these famous works would not exist, nor remain as…

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    The four painters I am choosing to discuss are: Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. Claude Monet was a famous French painter born on November 14, 1840(“Claude Monet”). His painting style centered more on light and form than realism, and was called impressionism. Monet showed an interest in drawing at an early age. He drew caricatures of his teachers. Eugene Boudin introduced him to painting outdoors which contributed greatly in Monet’s work. He was known…

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    Slow Looking The painting I choose is called “Raja Bikram Collecting the Clothes of the Bathing Fairies” by Mulla Nusrati .Mulla Nusrati drawn a great contrast to reflect the identities of the men and the fairies in one painting. I was attracted by the colorful and detailness of the painting as I scroll through the list of artifact we can choose to analysis. The great contrast in the color, background, and character created a narrative that reveal the diversity of the seven fairies and the…

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    The Impressionist Movement: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt Throughout history, art has acted as a medium of expression for many of the political and social issues that surrounded the artists. Artworks inspired new art movements, and other times it was the political and social circumstances that brought on a new range of artists and styles. The 19th century moved through many art movements, but one that dominated most of the late 19th century was Impressionism. Impressionism was an art style that…

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    The term “Modern Art” covers a wide variety of art styles and perceptions that emerged during the 1800’s through the 1940s. Some of the many styles that are encompassed by this movement include romanticism, realism, impressionism, cubism, futurism, and surrealism. Romanticism “was not so much a style as a set of attitudes and characteristics” (Getlein 473), favoring emotion, induvial experiences, intuition, and imagination. Realism was romanticism’s polar opposite, instead favoring the day to…

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    hanging against the wall that quickly caught my attention. This is an landscape painting. As you see the painting, you see varieties of different animals and a guy sitting in the middle of the painting. This painting was lent by the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo collection. The material used for this painting is the oil on canvas. In this painting, the artist painted animals. This painting consists of 54 animals from different parts of the world. Color palette is rich and warm and the light,…

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    Kaitlynn Lowrey English 1010 Professor Hubert de Givenchy As a child I was mesmerized by the classic look of the women in the 1940's-1950's. Some would say I wanted to be like them. I dreamed of being like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy. Even now I strive to dress like them, but who created these wonderful outfits and dresses I've always admired? His name is Huber de Givenchy. He designed many of the classic designs and style of these women and has inspired me to bring them back to the world…

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    An unassuming and genial man with a strong affinity for the land, Macqueen was drawn to the undulating landscape of the Darling Downs and to the coastal region adjoining Moreton Bay which provided the principal subjects for his work. His watercolours are noted for their simplicity, and for their lyrical and decorative qualities. Shape, structure and colour played a dominant role in his art, engendering a bold and dynamic expression which infused vitality into the prevailing academicism of…

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    "There is beauty to be found in everything, you only have to search for it: a gasometer can make as beautiful a picture as a palace on the Grand Canal, Venice, it simply depends on the artist's vision." Compared with the lives of many artists, Algernon Newton's appears at first sight comparatively straightforward and uneventful. A long, successful and steadily productive career spanning the best part of fifty years, a second marriage of great stability and of equal duration would seem to find…

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