YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Artist James Rosenquist
Essays 211 - 240
or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...
by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...
starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...
and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...
artifacts cannot be successfully manipulated by "clumsy, inward-curling monkey fingers" (1), although this view does not seem to t...
better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...
and during the 1960s "serious health problems sidelined him for good" (Sellman, 2002; tt_154.htm). As mentioned, Robeson was th...
the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...
seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...
that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...
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...
it can be said, changed to reflect this. Edouard Manet painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and rever...
(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...
them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. They are the sy...
the depiction of characters. In this case, the artists were employed to tell an accurate account of the daily rituals the leaders ...
the nude for an artist, or a class of artists, they become very modest when the session is over. Indeed, artist models are often q...
Gallery, 2002). The human conditions, his paintings seem to say, tend to be in chains and bound, no matter what country these huma...
Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...
the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...
sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...
since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...
Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...
young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...
the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...
a conceptually untapped avenue that became a large part of the artists legacy. Appreciation of nude art grew right along with the...
led him to exile in England (Bentley); Capote found himself ostracized by society (Smith). Marley had been a musician all his li...
is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...
A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...
particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...
Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...