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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...

Form Simplicity and Mark Rothko's Paintings

this we are given a painting that evokes soft and sensuous feelings that are easy to pinpoint due to the fact that this painting h...

Pakistan's Miniature Painting

world of art was also introduced to a unique paradigm of a painting technique and skill known today as miniatures. The emperors of...

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...

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...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Iris Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

that "the Impressionism is a lot more a state of the mind than a technique; thus artists other than painters have also been qualif...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Three Women at the Spring by Picasso and Three Women by Leger Compared

In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...

Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt

his most moving works of art (Skira and Benesch 8). Many of Rembrandts paintings would depict his beloved mother either reading t...

The Life and Art of Armando Morales

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

The Boating Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

the opinion that Cassatt possessed "infinite talent" (Whitcomb 48). In 1893, Cassatt painted a work that signified that she had ...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

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...

Pablo Picasso and Francisco Goya

of Madrid). Another author notes that, "Goyas sensitivity to these events resulted in his best print series and furthermore in a m...

Nude Paintings of Peter Paul Rubens

so intricately painted with many hues, becomes iridescent, as if vibrating at so high a frequency it is crossing the bounds into s...

Peter Paul Rubens' Nudes Paintings

(Hombros Que se inclinan, 2003). Otro autor indica de que los?Rubens hacen a su var?n y las figuras encarnaciones virtuales de ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

'Dance' and the Painting by Matisse and Poem by Natalie Safir

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari Film and Expressionist Painting

some style to the films. "One group of filmmakers who were experimenting with cinematic technique were those who emerged from B...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Paintings by Paul Gauguin and Guido Reni

nurturers. So, while the characters, and the environment, of both pictures differ greatly there is also a sense of femininity that...

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...