YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Images in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo
Essays 301 - 330
the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...
bright yellow and adorned with pictures. The viewer sees the couple as if grazing through a window while walking down the street....
the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...
that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...
rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...
View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...
the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....
picture" (Messengers of Light, 2005). There has also been recent discussion and controversy over one figure not being one of Jesus...
should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...
Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...
find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...
the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...
detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...
for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...
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...
with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...
the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...
and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...
This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...
which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...
archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...
the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...
artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...
clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...
we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...
a few easy strokes. It has been said that, His men and women seem to breathe; his horses are full of action and his dogs of life" ...
at the artist who is painting them. From these perspectives we can see that much of both paintings, in terms of presentation of...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...