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religious. In terms of it being historical, one may assume, without the presence of the title, that he could be a historical figur...

babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...

images to such effect that the original image is hard to see. There are many pictures painted in the 1930s and 40s which were pain...

he was relatively ambivalent about any political aspects of his work (Internet source). Pioche writes: "Being of peasant stock, he...

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...

a passage in Polizianos La giostra Gombrich successfully adduced Ficinis interpretation of the mythical birth of Venus from the se...

you from New York City. The purpose of my visit is to find out more about John Currin, a modern artist who fascinates me and calls...

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

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

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

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

the Worlds Columbian Exposition, which was held in Chicago in 1893 (LACMA). While her depictions of mothers and children represent...

(Pollock 10). Thus, we need to see what Impressionisms characteristics are, and compare them to the painting. The Web Museum, an o...

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

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

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...

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

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

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

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

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

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...

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

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

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

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...