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Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

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...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

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

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

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...

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....

China's Secular Figure Painting

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

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...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

Ruysch: Floral Still Life

to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with v...

Cimabue's "Madonna And Child Enthroned By Angels"

opportunity to create an illusion so grand that the observer is unable to determine what is image and what is reality. Light is t...

Art Critique: Reaction

himself, on a pedestal that is covered in fabric. The photo is a profile of the man and his entire body, save for a small portio...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

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...

Musical Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom and Pierre Auguste Renoir's Lady at the Piano Paintings

he studied at the Louvre (Pioch). Renoir struck up many friendships with other famous painters of the time such as Monet and he...

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...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...

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...

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...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

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...

Crucifixion and Last Judgment Painting by Jan Van Eyck

is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...

Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso

artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...

Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer

at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...