Three Artists of the 20th Century; The Man Behind the Artist The striking paintings of the three featured artists have made them some the most beloved American artists of the twentieth century. ... I investigated several artists and found my 3 favorites to be the most interesting perhaps because of their backgrounds and what type of artist they are. ... He is truly an artist in every sense of the word. ... As a technician or artist? ... For inspiration, clips of four small self-portraits were pinned to the upper right corner of his canvas: Durer, Michelangelo, Picasso and Van Gogh. ...

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Peter Paul Rubens" painting, "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" on the other hand, portrayed muscular figures that were influenced by Michelangelo. ... Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern influence. ... Perhaps what makes it so impressive is the artist's drive for optical realism. ... Instead of wearing an artists smock, he is wearing his royal court garbs with a knights cross over his chest. ... Both of these paintings are great examples of how artists can work their personal feelings otherwise known...

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Peter Paul Rubens" painting, "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" on the other hand, portrayed muscular figures that were influenced by Michelangelo. ... Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern influence. ... Perhaps what makes it so impressive is the artist's drive for optical realism. ... Instead of wearing an artists smock, he is wearing his royal court garbs with a knights cross over his chest. ... Both of these paintings are great examples of how artists can work their personal feelings otherwise known...

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His mother encouraged all her sons to be artists when they were young. Three of Jackson's older brothers became artists too. ... Rubens, Michelangelo and El Greco had influenced Benton's sense of illustrative rhythms. ... Surrealist artists had also hoped to tap into the unconscious through automatism, a technique in which the artist's hand wanders across the painting's surface with as little conscious control as possible. ... Direct and intuitive expressions of the artists psyche. ...

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INTRODUCTION My essay shall be based upon two magnificent artists who used the human form in most of their art pieces; these artists have become quite exquisite in their painting styles and life. ... Leonardo Da Vinci The second artist is more from a modern timeframe, before he died he had created a stunning 22,000 pieces of artworks in many different types of mediums. ... After some time of painting in verrochio's workshop, it was clear that Leonardo had developed into an exceptionally gifted artist. In 1478, Leonardo finally graduated from verrochio's workshop and beca...

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Andrea Mantegna an artist that had lived from 1430 to 1506. ... Each artist showed their own styles, so I can see the different styles of the paintings. ... It is really interesting to compare different artist's paintings with the same subjects. ... The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Roman sculpture influenced him greatly. ... These pieces of art are all we have left to remember the artists of these pre-existing times in history and will hopefully always be remembered. ...

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Seriously, though, they must have had a gym somewhere to have models such as those used as reference for famous sculptures like "David," by Michelangelo. ... Not only is one able to perceive a tangible and recognizable form, they are able to spend years unearthing that figure, carefully and minutely scraping and chiseling away at pounds and pounds of solid stone until the life within the white is entirely realized by the artist, seen by the masses, and left as a standing marker of its time. ... Peter Paul Rubens of the Netherlands (1577-1640) was a monumental painter whose work still...

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