YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Artist William Gropper
Essays 391 - 420
world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...
of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
were voracious readers not only while they were children but even today. Each states that she was captivated with such things as ...
in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...
visionary. The social and political history of mid-nineteenth century France had an enormous impact upon the art that was produce...
killed the Gorgon Medusa, rescued Andromeda, slaying the monster. As indicated above, Chasseriaus work has been viewed as a brid...
will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...
errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...
Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...
In five pages this report examines the article that appeared in a January 2000 issue of The New Yorker in which American artist Da...
custom, which decrees that women cannot be held to the same standards as men. First, Nochlin dismisses the idea that there are gre...
the formed of "learned communication" (Kuspit). As it is, Scully tries to recreate his lived experience for the viewer by offering...
work Dying Words seems innocent enough with South Carolina parakeets gathered around, beautifully colored and detailed in the styl...
on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...
Following WWI he began teaching and his work was soon seen as "degenerate" by the Nazis and he soon moved to Switzerland (Artists ...
in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...
that he was born to a noble family and that he obtained his early art education from Greeks who had settled in Florence, but that ...
secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...
actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...
1992; 143). He stopped what he was doing and just stared at it in amazement. He then suddenly realized it was one of his paintings...
face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...
artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...
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...
detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...
28). While there were introspective song that examined love experienced within the various phases of life, No Jacket Required nev...
Sherman Cindy Shermans work has often been noted as focusing on issues and questions of identity through a sort of self-por...
commitment to studying the guitar, which he relentlessly pursued at the Liverpool Institute (Friedlander, 1996). With a new elect...
of realism as though it were a sketch. There is not the boldness of lines and the use of color that would represent the work of Ma...
clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...