However, I believe that art is something that, in the end, is perhaps the most subjective form of idea in our society, and as such it is not without reason for many to question it. ... This is what I feel as a good example of the idea of tension to describe a scene portrayal in art. ... "The Last Supper" and this statue of David are two adequate examples of implied tension in art. ... Another difference in this shared idea is their state of forms: One is a 2D illustration, while the other a 3D object. ... Whereas in the case of the statue David, it exists as a complete form; one would be a...

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The first piece of art I critiqued was called Sarcophagus Relief Fragment. ... The shape I see in this piece of art is bodies. ... The form of this piece sticks out to me because it is three dimensional. ... Escalator The third piece of art I am critiquing is called Escalator. ... There is absolutely some form to this oil painting. ...

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The artists aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. Many aspects of society at the time affected art such as the industrial revolution. ... His paintings however showed the same themes of exposing injustices but his approach was less simple and focused more on realistic representation of both colour and form. ... Paintings such as The Sower, The Gleaners and The Angelus are typical of Millets most ambitious work, with the peasant figures generalized into large forms, dominating the foreground of a deep landscape. ... The social c...

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Art is knowing which ones to keep." Oil has been a major medium in art realm for centuries. ... Brighter and clearer lines also made his work stand out from other art pieces. ... The Bellini family consisted of Jacopo, Giovanni, and Gentile who all contributed to giving the Bellini family a name in art. The father, Jacopo, influenced the next generation of Venetian artists with his curiosity in viewpoint and traditional form. ...

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It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. ... (The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer p. 1) The development of a bourgeois economy and a free-commercial art market resulted in a significant change in the kind of art produced. ... Art dealers sold work to middle-class citizens, who often purchased as much for investment and resale as for aesthetic pleasure. ... The emphatically doubled elements of domestic chaos, emphasized by Maes's tipped-up perspective, form a jarring com...

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But beside the actual line form by the words, the whole painting is form by implied lines. She created this art work using geometric shapes, instead of organic shapes. ... Even though Oropallo's art work does not give the viewers a sense of motion, her art work has the same unifying theme, and almost the same subject matters. ... This piece that was done is so large that it's easy for us to see weather she has used the form of repetition or not, and we can see that she hasn't. ... With these objects, she has been able to combine photography and also the art of oil on canvas to...

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Even though Vermeer painted in a patient manner for this painting, he did not define his forms with precise lines. ... By the 17th century, artists began to shift the focus of art from solely religious and educational to depicting dramatic emotion in the real world. ... Most of Vermeer's art works are portraits of people; therefore, the moods are usually very quiet and graceful. ... This concept is very prevalent in a Christian's life.Most people have busy lifestyles and hardly take time to simply stop and live in the moments that pass by, but art has a way of causing a person to be ...

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However, she always found the world of art fascinating and would often visit in the art galleries and study the pictures for hours. She found out that she had art talent quite by accident. While she was chaperoning a private art tutoring class at a boy's school, a young art professor after viewing her attempts to draw recommended she attend art school. ... The graphic element is strikingly evident in the composition, with the doll's dress forming a large portion of the picture and giving the entire illustration a posterlike quality. ... If you carefully examine this illustration,...

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To further my humility it dawned on me that I am also an art major. ... The reason for this is primarily because African craftsmanship is based on form and design rather than representation. ... The people are all different in gesture and pose, but very similar in form, thus giving the composition a great sense of rhythm that is created by the use of repetition in these forms. ... This work of art is amazing. ... Most importantly I"ve showed how Aaron Douglas combines the rules of art with emotion and heritage to create a breathtaking work of art. ...

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To further my humility it dawned on me that I am also an art major. ... The reason for this is primarily because African craftsmanship is based on form and design rather than representation. ... The people are all different in gesture and pose, but very similar in form, thus giving the composition a great sense of rhythm that is created by the use of repetition in these forms. ... This work of art is amazing. ... Most importantly I've showed how Aaron Douglas combines the rules of art with emotion and heritage to create a breathtaking work of art. ...

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It also explains the orientation of art before cameras were invented. ... The seventh and final chapter shows how publicity is used in art. ... Perspectives change in history, and art is not seen the way it was hundreds of years ago when people were unable to reproduce this art. There is some value in this book to the inexperienced art history student. ... This background history of art is quite unique and brings a new light on studying all forms of art for the inexperienced art history student. ...

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FLOETRY What is art? ... From the cologne a perfumer makes to the pastries a chef bakes, they are all forms of art. To me "POETRY" embodies all that art should be. ... Poetry is the one art form that I am most able to connect with. ... The form is sometimes quite topsy-turvy. ...

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Art is everywhere around us. ... Art has the ability to inspire us and lead us. ... As Benton was once known to say, "Art should be a living thing, which has meaning for the public in general. " He believed that art was meant to communicate a message or reality, and not become another picture on the wall. ... When moving from these to return to a more intimate form of easel painting, Benton was know to use both egg tempera as well as oils. ... Another form of paint used by Benton is Distemper . ...

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Two examples of art from this period are Jasper Cropsey's The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley from 1865 (Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, inv. ... The mountains to the left are shown as dark forms compared to the mountains on the right where topographical differences can be seen. ...

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Between 1929 and 1931 he studied at the Art Students League in New York City. ... Jackson's time was spent working on government art projects in the late 1930s. From 1935 to 1942 he worked on WPA Federal Art Project. ... Incorporating and translating philosophy, art history, and existentialism into visual form, these artists incorporated both chance and control while painting with a physical immediacy and gesture. ... Its art results from the fusion of various influences, notably surrealism, synthetic cubism, and neoplasticisim. ...

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Painting is a form of self-expression, elegance, and intelligence. ... He grew up surrounded by art and scholarly texts, which he was educated in. ... All three were admitted into art academies to hone their skills. ... Picasso was more like a traveling bard of art. ... He refined art in his field itself. ...

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The results are highly imaginative works of art unique to his creative genius. ... A true Renaissance man, DuBois has merged his love of art, poetry, and music into an interesting and diverse career. ... I eagerly await the new Figure 1: The Celebration releases from his Biblical art series. ... Though the family did not have wealth, Kinkade often says they were "rich in the greatest form of wealth: a nurturing and loving environment. ... Thomas Kinkade has won numerous awards for his art work. ...

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Degas" interest for the new techniques and the foreign art. ... I feel that at that time the meaning of art was changing. Art was becoming a way to please everybody. ... In the "Nude Wiping Her Foot", diagonal lines form the floor pattern. ... In the "The Tub", the edge of the table forms a line that is parallel to the woman's arm. ...

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It was absolutely incredible to recognize and be able to physically and emotionally experience the power that this particular piece of art exudes. ... After being discharged for failing a Chemistry class at West Point, Whistler learned the art of etching while working for a U.S. cartographer between the years 1854 and 1855. ... He studied the primary forms of a scene and then transposed them to the canvas without every returning to the actual source of inspiration (Centaur Gallery). ... He is quoted as saying, "Art should be independent of all claptrap- should stand alone, and appeal to the...

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Richter is one of the few painters in the history of art who "paint it black.... The paintings have the visually mesmerizing effect of Op Art, while the blur conveys something more mysterious like. ... Since 1972, Richter has exhibited, under the title Atlas, the vast, ever-expanding collection of source-images from which his work is drawn (he's also published it in book form with the same title). ... There's a tendency to discuss the art of the past hundred years in terms of binary oppositions: abstract versus figurative; conceptual versus craft-based; painting versus photograp...

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From the colonial period in North America to the peculiar American painting, the visual arts in the United States experienced several phases, inspired by the European sense of art. In search of fulfillment of need for a history, many artists managed to create their own sense of art although inspired by Europe. ... So his form and content are mostly affected on terms of the day. ... No one before him had approached the dexterity and range of Smibert as evidenced in the careful detail of the rug covering the table and the scenic landscape forming the background behind the eight sitters; the she...

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Linked to this large group there is another formed by Doña Marcela de Ulloa, guardamujer de las damas de la Reina - attendant to the ladies-in-waiting-and an unidentified guardadamas, or escort to the same ladies. ... It has been argued that, since these pictures, Pallas and Arachne and Apollo and Marsyas, symbolize the victory of divine art over human craftsmanship, or the victory of true art over unskillfulness', they ought to be taken as commentaries which explain the inspired attitude' in which Vela zquez depicted himself, in a moment of suspense', concentrating ...

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So towards the end of 1928, Francis returned to London with one goal set to mind: to disrupt all notices of what art was and what it could express. ... This is what he did with painting known as the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion which put Francis Bacon on the art scene after having painted for fifteen years. After having painted for fifteen years it was the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion that brought Francis Bacon into the art scene. ... Its one of the greatest paintings of the Crucifixion, with the body studded with thorns like nails, but ...

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The fact that the artist chose to create a representational-almost photographic-piece of art, and also create it true to life-like size, really provided a sense that the figure was, in truth, really there. ... The pillar also has form, both by the shaded values on its edges and in the implied space between the flowers and their shadows upon it. ... Although the painting is not perfectly centered, the child's presence is slightly to the right of the middle, and the pillar (another vertical form) is slightly to the left balancing both figures. ...

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