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Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Room in New York by Edward Hopper

bright yellow and adorned with pictures. The viewer sees the couple as if grazing through a window while walking down the street....

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

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...

Overview of Impressionism

that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...

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...

Impressionism Crisis Impact Upon the Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...

Scientific Attitudes During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment Periods

is granted to him to seek after the truth. Science is the legitimate and beloved daughter of the Church. She must have confidence ...

Art Works, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist

This essay presents a proposal to purchase reproductions of 3 impressionist paintings and 3 Post-Impressionist. The art works are ...

The Gardeners by John Currin

you from New York City. The purpose of my visit is to find out more about John Currin, a modern artist who fascinates me and calls...

Rembrandt The Humanistic Theme

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

An Art Work Representing Ideology

derive from your religion could be grouped around this central influence. For example, people holding hands in love and fellowship...

The Renaissance Through Impressionism

The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Viaduct at L'Estague by Georges Braque

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Execution of the Third of May by Francisco Goya

to be next in line for killing and then the men with the guns and uniforms. The painting is incredibly dark save for one bright, a...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Influences

In four pages this paper examines what influenced Whistler's life and art and also considers how society was influenced by Whistle...

African Mask Controversy and Gertrude Stein

(Danto 19). Danto supports his argument with the fact that this is the natural progression out of Picassos Blue Period, which embo...

Hans Memling's Virgin and Child and Catherine of Alexandria and St. Barbara and Raphael's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

It is clearly a picture of the Madonna and Baby Jesus. It is also a painting that has several saints surrounding the figures of Ma...

Artist Eugene Delacroix

see these influences in his depiction of the legend of Sardanapalus. Delacroix, like any good author, was immediately drawn to t...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Renaissance Period Embodiment of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

of interests, which included mathematics, music, science, and artistic design (Craven 85). When his lawyer father showed his sons...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

picture" (Messengers of Light, 2005). There has also been recent discussion and controversy over one figure not being one of Jesus...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Enthroned Virgin and Child by Pietro Lorenzetti

Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...

"Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

Gauguin and Ingres

object of desire, but here she seems shy and even a bit hostile. In his book on Ingres, Robert Rosenblum describes one of Ingres o...