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Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

Overview of Impressionism

that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Impressionism Crisis Impact Upon the Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...

3 Artworks from the High Renaissance Period

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

8 Styles of Painting from Baroque to Surrealism

the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...

Overview of the Paintings of Weyden, Raphael, and Vermeer

detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Execution of the Third of May by Francisco Goya

to be next in line for killing and then the men with the guns and uniforms. The painting is incredibly dark save for one bright, a...

China's Secular Figure Painting

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

Max Pechstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and German Expressionist Art

find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Enthroned Virgin and Child by Pietro Lorenzetti

Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...

The Cosby Show

of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Paintings Seated Woman and Woman I by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning

art. The "master style" that is featured in both paintings is invariably Cubism, despite de Koonings protestations, "I never made...

Life and Times of Pablo Picasso Represented in His Paintings

it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...

Social and Political Views of Pablo Picasso

it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...

Notre Dame from the Quai de la Tournelle Painting by Dutch Painter Johan-Barthold Jongkind

visionary. The social and political history of mid-nineteenth century France had an enormous impact upon the art that was produce...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Armenia, Genocide & Meaning

applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

Art Critique: Reaction

himself, on a pedestal that is covered in fabric. The photo is a profile of the man and his entire body, save for a small portio...

Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...