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Magdalen with the Smoking Flame by Georges de la Tour

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

Buddhist Paintings in the Mogao Caves

surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...

The Eternal City by Peter Blume and Echo of a Scream by David Alfaro Siqueiros

those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....

Life and Art of Impressionist Painter Mary Cassatt

Fine Arts. In 1866 she went back to Paris" where "She copied the old masters in the Louvre and other museums. The young woman arti...

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Artists Courbet, Monet, and Manet

clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...

Botero Painting 'Mona Lisa' and China

common people school education, which used to be privilege of ruling class...Confucius advocated a set of moral code on basis of f...

17th Century Dutch Painter Vermeer

View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...

'The Starry Night' Poem by Anne Sexton and the Starry Night Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...

International Gothic Painting Style

As a result, the viewer is able to understand the progression of the art being influenced by different variables. For example, th...

Song Dynasty Chinese Painters and Paintings

One was Go Xi who "was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and a follower of Li Cheng in style. He was the first to ...

Art, the Human Experience and the Mona Lisa Painting

we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...

Impressionist Paintings and the Proto Impressionism of Velazquez

a few easy strokes. It has been said that, His men and women seem to breathe; his horses are full of action and his dogs of life" ...

Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso

artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer

at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...

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...

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...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

African Mask Controversy and Gertrude Stein

(Danto 19). Danto supports his argument with the fact that this is the natural progression out of Picassos Blue Period, which embo...

Hans Memling's Virgin and Child and Catherine of Alexandria and St. Barbara and Raphael's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

It is clearly a picture of the Madonna and Baby Jesus. It is also a painting that has several saints surrounding the figures of Ma...

Artist Eugene Delacroix

see these influences in his depiction of the legend of Sardanapalus. Delacroix, like any good author, was immediately drawn to t...

Crucifixion and Last Judgment Painting by Jan Van Eyck

is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...

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...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Influences

In four pages this paper examines what influenced Whistler's life and art and also considers how society was influenced by Whistle...

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...