He extensively simplified the matter into a geometric composition, with a very limited palette of colors - "a single color stands for water, sky, and shadow, as well as for oil and canvas"4, hence the only clue to the subject is, the title of the artwork. ... There is no clear detail present in the riders and the painting, in sections, blends into patches of color. ... Kandinsky's broad use of color also illustrated his move towards an art form, where color is presented independently of form. ... He wanted to give birth to an abstract "language of color" which is universally accessible. ....

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Marcia Hall states that while the plaster was still wet, an artist would paint on the plaster using a pigment, color, which was dissolved in water (1). ... The oils in each color would allow the pigment to stay moist longer and allow the artist to move the paint around before it dried out. ... The first organic color was called mauvine. Women used Mauvine as a fashionable dress color due to the fact that it was the new popular color on the market. ... Texture and color became the focus of paintings rather than the realistic appearance of a portrait. ...

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The subtle use of color and the immediacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced. ... His use of light, color, proportion and scale truly enhanced the moods of his figures. ... (Examples: Young Women With a Water Jar, Women With A Pearl Necklace, etc.) ... The use of color on the girl's eyes, lips and nose are modeled with gently modulated tones of colors. ... But Vermeer used his hands to create this harmony of light, color and beauty. ...

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If looked at closely, one will notice that the waves are quite flat and appear as if they were fish scales, but this technique of impressionism, "sketchy recordings of immediate visual sensations with flecks of color" (Stokstad, 1999, 27), combined with the realism in the figures brings the painting together (Beckett, 1994, 36). ... The variations of color in the water and the sky give some spatial perception, but again there is a distinct flatness as though the figures were standing in front of a painted panel (Canto, 1994, 43). ...

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HISPANIC ARTIST Art is something that people of all ages over the world can appreciate. Art doesn't expect you to speak the same language; it's just there for you to admire it. Today I would like to introduce six Hispanic Artists who have touched the lives of Americans. Some were visitor...

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On October 28, 1909 an abstract expressionist by the name of Francis Bacon was brought into the world in Georgian Dublin. Francis Bacon already having three older siblings, and one younger than him was considered the weakling of the family. As a young boy Francis suffered from severe asthma and wa...

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