YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough
Essays 451 - 480
artist of rare proportion who effectively coupled his own singular and distinctive style with that of the refinement of the period...
images to such effect that the original image is hard to see. There are many pictures painted in the 1930s and 40s which were pain...
observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...
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...
world of art was also introduced to a unique paradigm of a painting technique and skill known today as miniatures. The emperors of...
should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...
and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...
the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....
Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...
that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...
won Mr. Chabas the Medal of Honor, it caused no flurry of attention" in terms of producing a buyer (Bull, 1998; sptmrn.html). Beca...
going to force themselves on someone (Artemisia Gentileschi, 2002). And, it should be noted, that one of the men in the picture i...
of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...
from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...
he was relatively ambivalent about any political aspects of his work (Internet source). Pioche writes: "Being of peasant stock, he...
on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...
However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...
life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....
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...
that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...
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...
applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...
for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...
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...
the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...
detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...
find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...
with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...
rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...