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Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

Mona Lisa and the Renaissance Humanistic School of Thought

drudgery, disease and misery of the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years War and the plague marked the end of this period, and as Europe...

Caribbeans and Harlem

creates a very interesting and intriguing mix of people who were not easily stereotyped as most whites would have assumed. Watki...

Michelangelo and Bernini/Statues of David

writing that the primary motivation behind Michelangelos sculpture was "the expression of thought in stone" (Burns 412). Furthermo...

Langston Hughes The Trumpet Player

golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...

Renaissance and Baroque

instrument and during the Renaissance period flutes and reed instruments were widely used. One author notes, "The basic reed instr...

Considering the Harlem Renaissance

was also politically active, for "the planners in the Harlem Renaissance also sought to promote racial equality with whites by val...

Precedents to the Revolution in France

European Renaissance occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was a cultural movement with revelations in intellectual lif...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Painting and the Invention of Photography

their work. Delacroix was known for aiming at capturing the "essence" of what he viewed rather then presenting his subject in trul...

Two Bathing Paintings

that of the tree trunks, gives a strong diagonal component to the work, running from the top left to the bottom right. The use of ...

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

In six pages this paper examines how Goya's concepts are expressed in his Black paintings St. Isidore and Saturn Devouring His Chi...

Irises Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

In nine pages the Irises painting by Vincent Van Gogh is analyzed in nine pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Science and Religion Clash in the Paintings of Salvador Dali

In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...

The Rock Painting by Peter Blume

be defined as realistic objects, in what appears to be an unreal setting. Or it may be realistic objects, with something that it ...

Paintings Crucifixion and The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck

In eight pages these fifteenth century paintings by Jan van Eyck are analyzed in terms of their iconographic, historical, and reli...

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...

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...

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...

Art, Women, and the Paintings of Cezanne and Picasso

even equate the color with emotional sadness. Music has a similar terminology - the blues are sad and soulful. According to John...

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...

'Letters in Words' in the First World War Paintings of Ernest, Magritte, and Malevich

might just try it." Since artists react from each others works, one may "try" something and another may also "try" - in our case t...

An Analysis of Two Paintings by Max Ernst and Thomas Cole

This paper explores Cole's Dream of Arcadia and Ernst's Time and Duration. This paper has five pages and four sources listed in t...

Images in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo

challenge to remain sexually faithful to his wife. These tremendous setbacks, including the reality of being bisexual in a patria...

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...