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not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

connection between the three central figures. St. Luke, while he is painting the Virgin and child, does not appear to be looking ...

world that actually extend beyond a recognition of the genius of the painter. The symmetry, color, rhythm, and other components of...

emotional aspects and familial storylines which had not been present in any great extent in either the Egyptian or the Mesopotamia...

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

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 ...

In ten pages the major techniques that characterize Dutch and Flemish schools of art are compared as they are reflected in the pai...

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...

a passage in Polizianos La giostra Gombrich successfully adduced Ficinis interpretation of the mythical birth of Venus from the se...

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...

the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...

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

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

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

going to force themselves on someone (Artemisia Gentileschi, 2002). And, it should be noted, that one of the men in the picture i...

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

the eye through the painting. Colors are the restrained grays, whites, browns, and blacks that had dominated Analytical Cubism si...

In five pages Philip Guston's paintings Head and the Bottle and Late Afternoon are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cit...

In five pages this essay discusses the musical cadences and rhythms of this painting and compares its consonance and dissonance to...

primarily concerned with capturing the time of day because according to his theory, the time of day dictated the use of color. In...

In 5 pages this paper compares Braque's Houses at L'Estaque painting with Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' poem in a consideration of how...

In five pages J.M.W. Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' painting is contrasted and compared with Neri di Bicci's 'The Assumption of the ...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Eakins' American Realist painting with Renoir's French Impressionism work. Three...

the most defiant aspect of its symbolist tendencies; without uttering but a single word, this work of art is fully able to communi...

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

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" ...

different styles. Yet, while this may be the case, certainly there must be lines drawn and the author is not quite so critical of...

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

center for a variety of reasons -- first, the nations stock market is located there. Second, so are exchanges when it comes to tra...