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Essays 391 - 420
by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...
a conceptually untapped avenue that became a large part of the artists legacy. Appreciation of nude art grew right along with the...
particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...
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...
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...
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...
starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...
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...
seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
to the gracious host to the worldwide event known as the 2000 Summer Olypmics. Art, Wartime and the land "Down Under"...
the "breakbeats" (Beau PG) and other natural vocal rhythms. It was not until within the past several years that they took on a ne...
movement, and the unofficial capital of the international avant-garde. This was as much of a shock to American artists as it was t...
and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...
"unreal city" (as T.S. Eliot put it) indicates the crucial importance of a metropolitan social life for the emergence of modernist...
Painting established in October 1937 by William Coldstream, Claude Rogers (b 1907) and Victor Pasmore, in a review of the exhibiti...
fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...
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...
of art which transcend the existing categories of art, whether they come from music or language, from the fine arts or from dance"...
his growth toward a greater measure of understanding of the world around him. For example, his school experiences in Clongowes pre...
the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...
seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...
Gallery, 2002). The human conditions, his paintings seem to say, tend to be in chains and bound, no matter what country these huma...
the depiction of characters. In this case, the artists were employed to tell an accurate account of the daily rituals the leaders ...
them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. They are the sy...
better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...
and during the 1960s "serious health problems sidelined him for good" (Sellman, 2002; tt_154.htm). As mentioned, Robeson was th...
the nude for an artist, or a class of artists, they become very modest when the session is over. Indeed, artist models are often q...