YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough
Essays 331 - 360
me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...
rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...
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...
that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...
the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...
with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...
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 ...
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...
the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...
detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...
the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...
(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...
seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...
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...
and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...
find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...
should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...
the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....
Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...
of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
art. The "master style" that is featured in both paintings is invariably Cubism, despite de Koonings protestations, "I never made...
it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...
visionary. The social and political history of mid-nineteenth century France had an enormous impact upon the art that was produce...
workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...
applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...
people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...
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...
characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...