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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...

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...

The Concert by Pierre Auguste Renoir

regards to this Renoir is often noted as being perhaps the only artist who never painted a sad painting. Many quote him in regards...

Two Works of Tibetan Art

statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

Rembrandt's The Raising of Lazarus

white and is the focus of most of the people in the painting, also brings the line of viewing down and across the bottom. The c...

The Bridge at Argenteuil and The Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet

We see the moist and secretive environment and truly gain a feel for the garden and the water which abounds in the painting. It is...

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...

Edouard Manet's Artistry

known to be a determined individualist, and was known for the time when he asked a group of models about their ridiculous poses - ...

Comparison of Paul Gauguin's La Orana Maria and Johannes Vermeer's Allegory of the Faith

protrudes from the ceiling, perhaps signifying the heavens (Searle). Behind the woman is a tapestry which features the crucifixio...

The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Jan Vermeer

its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...

View of the Tiber with Castel SantAngelo by Bellotto

so distant from the restricted Venetian veduta" (Bellotto Bernardo: Venice 1721 - Warsaw 1780). Such a description does offer the ...

Jacques Louis David and French Revolution Art

radical of all times. These changes are particularly interesting in regard to the manner in which they changed the artistic depic...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

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...

Waterlilies and Willow Branches by Claude Monet

with the exception of Renoir and those who shared in the pairs experiments with color and technique. Monet banished black and gra...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

Comparative Analysis of Father and Daughter Painters Orazio and Artemisia Gentulischi

going to force themselves on someone (Artemisia Gentileschi, 2002). And, it should be noted, that one of the men in the picture i...

The Gleaners by Jean François Millet

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

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Reaction to the Works of Claude Debussy and Claude Monet

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

Viewing US History Differently

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

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...

Colonialism and the Literature of Africa

In seven pages two literary works are compared and contrasted in order to paint a detailed postcolonial Africa. The works are Ste...

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...

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 ...

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...

Sistine Madonna by Raphael

In five pages Raphael's life is considered in a brief biographical profile but the focus is an artistic analysis of the painting w...

Abstract Artist Philip Guston

In five pages Philip Guston's paintings Head and the Bottle and Late Afternoon are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cit...