Artist's paintings that caught my eye were done by Braque, Picasso, Charles Sheeler, Piet Mondrian, and Grant Wood. ... The mine leads your eye up to the sky which at first seems like clouds, but I think that it is actually smoke coming from the ship that isn't in the painting. ... There are many bright things that catch your eye in the piece, but the dark surrounds it. ... His painting, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, is very abstract. ... These are not paintings that are merely appealing to the eye or just fun to look at. ...

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His work spans many years and changes from very classical landscapes to landscapes that make the eye travel through with the use of light and color to express emotion and feeling. ... Early on Turner revealed, through his works "Fisherman at Sea" and "Moonlight: a Study of Millbank," that he had a sensitive eye for color, even in dark night scenes. ... In this painting, he leaves behind the "conventional composition of a dark foreground and a luminous distance taking the eye inward into the centre" (Chamot 9). ... "Even the earlier of these paintings, though at first sight more or less m...

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After the plaster dried the assistants would copy the composition with a red chalk like earth substance referred to as Sinopia. ... Underdrawing - a sketch, used by a method called Sinopia (red earth or the color of terra verde) 4. ... Space is organized in a way to carry the eye into the distance, creating depth within the sculpture. ...

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He dynamic composition, bold color, and brilliant light kept ones eye constantly on the move. ... Our eyes take a calm stroll through the painting, wandering from character to character in an arc like path from Velazquez, dipping down to the lowest point being the princess, and completing the arc, the eye travels back up with the girl to the right of the princess. ... For example, the blue sky and intense red of Mar's cape. ...

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He dynamic composition, bold color, and brilliant light kept ones eye constantly on the move. ... Our eyes take a calm stroll through the painting, wandering from character to character in an arc like path from Velazquez, dipping down to the lowest point being the princess, and completing the arc, the eye travels back up with the girl to the right of the princess. ... For example, the blue sky and intense red of Mar's cape. ...

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The upper half of the painting has a richer blue, but as one's eye moves lower to the skyline, the tone becomes lighter. ... From the kneeling man's brown vest, dark colored pants, and green knapsack, to the sleeping woman's red sweater, orange blouse, dark colored skirt, and white stockings. ...

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This particular artwork shows his trend towards abstraction as each of the three riders, riding past the blue mountain, the red tree and under the yellow sky, are each themselves of a different color. ... The eye is either warmed or else soothed and cooled. ... But although  the effect of the colors is forgotten when the eye is turned  away, the superficial impression of varied color may be the  starting point of a whole chain of related sensations"11. ...

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of course, the masterpieces by Rembrandt, Poussin Pierro della Francesca can be enjoyed on their own physical terms as feast for the eye conjured up by the colour and form alone-but only up to a point. ... A red parrot is perched on one basket and a gray cat sits beneath a bench. ...

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By using the soft red tones with the highlights in white and perfect shading, he made the table appear to be very smooth. ... The realism and emphasis of detail in the man's face and clothing is what first caught my eye. ...

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He eventually evoked the possibility that his quest of primordial seeing was due to an eye condition more than a flash of genius. ... The environment around them is vague: we see two portraits against a wall - except that Cézanne added a red chair in the picture (most likely the same armchair seen in some of his wife's portraits). ...

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