YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Renaissance Project on Paintings
Essays 541 - 570
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...
which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...
was predictable in his mental instability. But, he did possess patterns and habits that did not necessarily change despite the men...
painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...
the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...
he studied at the Louvre (Pioch). Renoir struck up many friendships with other famous painters of the time such as Monet and he...
greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...
is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...
and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...
rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...
lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...
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...
detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...
the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...
in the same direction to some extent, and thus is also the focal point of the painting. However, it is not as strong a focal point...
man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...
me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...
the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...
common people school education, which used to be privilege of ruling class...Confucius advocated a set of moral code on basis of f...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...
surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...
One was Go Xi who "was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and a follower of Li Cheng in style. He was the first to ...
As a result, the viewer is able to understand the progression of the art being influenced by different variables. For example, th...
the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...
In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...
the opinion that Cassatt possessed "infinite talent" (Whitcomb 48). In 1893, Cassatt painted a work that signified that she had ...
to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...
critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...