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Ruysch: Floral Still Life

to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with v...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Still Life with a Plate of Onions Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

was predictable in his mental instability. But, he did possess patterns and habits that did not necessarily change despite the men...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

Musical Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Three Women at the Spring by Picasso and Three Women by Leger Compared

In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...

Cubism and Pablo Picasso

to retreat from Cubism into a period of traditional painting and sculpture. According to Krause, Picassos foray into traditiona...

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

In six pages this paper examines how Goya's concepts are expressed in his Black paintings St. Isidore and Saturn Devouring His Chi...

An Irish Art Interpretation

In eight pages Patrick Hennessy's postwar surreal painting is examined in terms of meaning and in an exhibition setting with a dis...

Western Paintings

was a time of the "rebirth" of the individual in thought and life style, this unique need to express the individual can also be se...

Purchase Contract

In a paper consisting of seven pages a case study involving the purchase of an antique shop painting that contains a draft of the ...

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

Irises Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

In nine pages the Irises painting by Vincent Van Gogh is analyzed in nine pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Photography and Its Aesthetics

even if it is disturbing. This is because it catches our attention. The primarily components and focus of the work is unique or st...

The Rock Painting by Peter Blume

be defined as realistic objects, in what appears to be an unreal setting. Or it may be realistic objects, with something that it ...

Rosenberg, Abstract, and Action Painters

art and life. Modern art is educational, not with regard to art but with regard to life." Abstract expressionism According to Car...

Madonna Sixtina Painting of Raphael Santi

attain it." Madonna Sixtina Raphael loved the image of the Mother and Child and used it often. Each reworking of the pair showed...

Science and Religion Clash in the Paintings of Salvador Dali

In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...

Inspiration of Pablo Picasso

is synonymous with sadness. One is said to be blue, or sad, and this reflected his entry to the art world as a painter....

The Brooding Woman of Paul Gaugin

In five pages this paper analyzes the famous painting by Paul Gauguin with style, gender, social implications, and the artist's re...

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

In five pages Hopper's 1942 painting is examined in terms of meaning and techniques such as shading and color. Four sources are c...

Paintings Crucifixion and The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck

In eight pages these fifteenth century paintings by Jan van Eyck are analyzed in terms of their iconographic, historical, and reli...

Zen Garden's 3 Types

In five pages this paper discusses the tea or roji, the abstract dry or austere, and landscape paintings of Zen gardens in this co...

Critique of Vertumnus and Pomona Painting by Francois Boucher

artist of rare proportion who effectively coupled his own singular and distinctive style with that of the refinement of the period...

Last Supper Painting by Tintoretto

In twelve pages this paper analyzes the Last Supper painting by Tintoretto with Leonardo's approach to the same scene among the to...

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Sienese Artwork

In six pages this paper examines the Sienese panel painting of this time period with the example of Simone Martini's Annunciation ...