YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough
Essays 481 - 510
surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...
Fine Arts. In 1866 she went back to Paris" where "She copied the old masters in the Louvre and other museums. The young woman arti...
those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....
"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...
its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...
statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...
We see the moist and secretive environment and truly gain a feel for the garden and the water which abounds in the painting. It is...
white and is the focus of most of the people in the painting, also brings the line of viewing down and across the bottom. The c...
second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...
the opinion that Cassatt possessed "infinite talent" (Whitcomb 48). In 1893, Cassatt painted a work that signified that she had ...
of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
art. The "master style" that is featured in both paintings is invariably Cubism, despite de Koonings protestations, "I never made...
it is wise to be wary of people who are quick to dump on a passionate temperament, particularly during conservative social and pol...
visionary. The social and political history of mid-nineteenth century France had an enormous impact upon the art that was produce...
workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...
we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...
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" ...
at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...
artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...
This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...
painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
was predictable in his mental instability. But, he did possess patterns and habits that did not necessarily change despite the men...
One was Go Xi who "was a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and a follower of Li Cheng in style. He was the first to ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...
common people school education, which used to be privilege of ruling class...Confucius advocated a set of moral code on basis of f...
View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...