YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :US Artist Winslow Homer
Essays 361 - 390
United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...
those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...
joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious in the creative process. To th...
have an otherwise broad range and potentiality; however, these aspects were often squelched by a need for systematic control. ...
the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...
the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...
Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...
young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...
sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...
since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...
With something of his biography in mind we move on to examine his works, his style, his influences, and those whom he influenced. ...
and wrapped them in cellophane and then photographed them. He said that some looked very sweet, others quite disturbing. He then i...
the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...
and then moved to New York city (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). It was at this time in art history that debates existed as they surroun...
because it is not well understood and is usually treated simplistically. African art in the modern vein is all too often subject t...
him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...
can be found in Zhan Ziqians Spring Excursion. Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were the represen...
him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...
see these influences in his depiction of the legend of Sardanapalus. Delacroix, like any good author, was immediately drawn to t...
religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...
through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...
and the work only shows the back of his head and his body down to just below the waist. Drawn in stark, bold lines, the body is r...
Chinas "Exports to the U.S. rose 9.9 percent in the first seven months of 2008 from a year earlier after gaining 8.9 percent in th...
starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...
artifacts cannot be successfully manipulated by "clumsy, inward-curling monkey fingers" (1), although this view does not seem to t...
photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...
and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...
Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...