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Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...

Raphael's Madonna and Child Enthroned

all of the figures included, with the exception of the two children. There is a little boy sitting on the Madonnas lap and another...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

Art Critique: Reaction

himself, on a pedestal that is covered in fabric. The photo is a profile of the man and his entire body, save for a small portio...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

Cimabue's "Madonna And Child Enthroned By Angels"

opportunity to create an illusion so grand that the observer is unable to determine what is image and what is reality. Light is t...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Lee Krasner's Artistry

as the primary colors. These colors conveyed her sorrow as well as her insomnia. "The Eye Is the First Circle" is an example featu...

Auden, Braque, and Picasso

the eye through the painting. Colors are the restrained grays, whites, browns, and blacks that had dominated Analytical Cubism si...

Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky

a superior art form to painting (Dabrowski ppg). Wagners Lohengrin, which had stirred Kandinsky to devote his life to art, had con...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Its Artistic Representations

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which drawings, paintings, and pictures function within the course of the novel in...

Purple Robe and Anemones Painting by Henri Matisse

In six pages this painting is analyzed in terms of its representations of a woman's sensuous nature and her strength as these qual...

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...

Critique of Vertumnus and Pomona Painting by Francois Boucher

artist of rare proportion who effectively coupled his own singular and distinctive style with that of the refinement of the period...

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...

Inspiration of Pablo Picasso

is synonymous with sadness. One is said to be blue, or sad, and this reflected his entry to the art world as a painter....

Last Supper Painting by Tintoretto

In twelve pages this paper analyzes the Last Supper painting by Tintoretto with Leonardo's approach to the same scene among the to...

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...

Madonna Sixtina Painting of Raphael Santi

attain it." Madonna Sixtina Raphael loved the image of the Mother and Child and used it often. Each reworking of the pair showed...

20th Century Energy in the Cubism Art of Georges Braque and Poetry of Carl Sandburg

In 5 pages this paper compares Braque's Houses at L'Estaque painting with Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' poem in a consideration of how...

Artist Lee Krasner's Work

The Eye is the First Circle is among the paintings discussed in this overview of the works of artist Lee Krasner in a paper consis...

Tempestuous Paintings of Caravaggio

than painting. The jealous man heaped insults on Lena. Upon hearing of this, Caravaggio hit the young lawyer with a powerful blow ...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

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 ...

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

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 ...