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Overview of the Paintings of Weyden, Raphael, and Vermeer

detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...

Impressionism Crisis Impact Upon the Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Artist Eugene Delacroix

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

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

China's Secular Figure Painting

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

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...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

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

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...

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...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

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

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...

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...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

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

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

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...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

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

Paintings Seated Woman and Woman I by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning

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

Social and Political Views of Pablo Picasso

it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...

Life and Times of Pablo Picasso Represented in His Paintings

it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...

The Cosby Show

of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Notre Dame from the Quai de la Tournelle Painting by Dutch Painter Johan-Barthold Jongkind

visionary. The social and political history of mid-nineteenth century France had an enormous impact upon the art that was produce...