He's an artist known for his paintings, drawings of the human body, and as an inventor well ahead of his time. Some of his more famous works of art are "The Last Supper" and "The Vitruvian Man." ... Even as a young boy, he showed interest in painting, sculpture, invention, architecture, music, engineering, geology, cartography, mathematics, botany, and writing. ... But how does this portrait stand against his other female portraits? ... But why is it his most famous female portrait? ...

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Arachne was a young Lydian girl who was said to rival the goddess Minerva in the art of weaving tapestries. ... She created a flawless portrait of the gods raping and deceiving humans. ... Art in this case, had the power to transform a brilliant artist into an arrogant and boastful competitor. Art revealed the true nature of each artist, casting light to the hubris inside each of them. ... Ovid portrays Orpheus as a man who rises above his constraints through art. ...

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Who is this compelling artist? ... Seeing his work of the mid 1700 next to his later work would cause confusions of whether it was even the same artist. ... Goya became was a much esteemed at court especially as portrait painter. ... By distorting the faces of the victims and eliminating those of the executioners the painter expressed his views of the degradation of man wrought on by war. ... An example of this is in his painting of young La Condesa de Chinchon (fig 6), whom Goya portrayed graciously in 1805-06. ...

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Surrealists allowed the images of the subconscious to surface undisturbed so that their meaning could then be deciphered through analysis. ... This short film -- which also features a man poking at a severed hand and ants emerging from a hole in a man's palm, presents 17 minutes packed with absurdist humor, surreal discontinuity of time and space, dream imagery, and Freudian symbolism. ... The deceptive nature of man is evident in this film; Avenant is portrayed as self obsessed and represents narcissism. ... Alice is a journey through the imagination of a young child that is laced with...

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His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... It was during the time young Ibsen "briefly assisted an apothecary and began medical studies before beginning a lifetime association with the theatre" that he began writing satire and elegant poems according to the style prevalent during that period. ... In Peer Gynt, the rebel is against society where a young man chooses to live a life of a waste, only to find himself, ultimately, living in a world of lost opportunities. ... Ibsen became so pop...

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Through a comparative analysis of each work, it is obvious that Browning relies on strong dramatic structure and the use of poetic devices to reinforce his opinions. ... Even in a portrait that the Duke is showing a guest after her untimely death she has an erotic look in her eye but it isn't necessarily toward the duke. ... Both poems contain several images of eroticism and violence toward young sensual women. ... Robert browning was not a simple-minded man, and this is reflected in his writing style. ... In that aspect, Robert Browning is truly an artist at heart, and nothing more than ...

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Groups of artists set up more private performance groups and exhibition halls, such as the Society for Private Performances, the Secession and the Association of Creative Artists. ... Six weeks after Gerstl's death, Schoenberg painted his first dated portrait, and continued to paint two thirds of his total output in the two following years. ... Schoenberg's painting are nearly all self-portraits, "Visions" or "Gazes". ... In the Group Portrait (The Arnold Schoenberg Family), he fragments the form, thus allowing each stroke to assume an independent expressive identity. ... Ala...

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At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. ... But, on the other hand, the reader worships him as a talented artist, a creator of beauty. ... He was a man without any conception of gratitude. ... It was vain to seek the analysis of his emotion. (123) He had no tenderness either for himself or for others. (122) He was not a man with whom it was worth while wasting politeness. (126) He was a bad winner and a good loser. ... I a...

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These different ideas of art presented a great impact in the poetical development of Oscar Wilde, who agreed and disagreed with some of them, until his critical artist appears with the creation of his own theory of art. ... Under the stimulus of this movement, Wilde introduces two important features, the term 'new-hedonism' and homosexuality which were highly discussed and present a great importance in the analysis of the philosophy and ideology of Wilde in his The Picture of Dorian Gray. ... Even Sibyl's death is seen from a hedonistic perspective, a fact that shocked Basil H...

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Figure 1 -Oil on Canvas Oil on canvas was done by Robert Rauschenberg it contains JFK, as the most dominant image, Pop artists, often portrayed famous people into there paintings and show them in different ways "Icons of the new reality came to be provided by pop art" JFK was by now one of the most famous and loved people in America, two years after his death he was already becoming iconic, and paintings like oil on canvas only reinforced this. ... The JFK presidency, became known as Camelot and seen as a joyous time in American history, Along with JFK's Assassination, Man Landing on...

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According to Spender, the basic reason for hope is that art may enable the artist to have a connection with the external world by affecting the lives of other people who share the artist's modern creative visions. Modern art is also revolutionary because the artist creates for the poor and oppressed rather than the rich. ... One example is artistic portraits. When an artist creates a portrait it a self-portrait as well because they are creating it from their own eyes and are therefore seeing themselves, thereby creating a distortion of the other person. ... Some fear that feminism is tr...

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The report will also outline how the environment of word Ethics will be created, and what emotion will this work exude to the audiences viewing it. 1.3 Method It is not known much about the artist's life or where his unique style has originated from during the Renaissance Period. ... The artist can not be pinned down to a particular school of painting that existed in his time in the Netherlands. ... The innovative approach in his work manifested itself through his work becoming exemplary and widely copied by the artists that were also active around that time, as suggested by Linfe...

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A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... The term magical realism, itself, originates from the pen of German critic, Franz Roh, in 1925, and was used to describe a group of Post Expressionist artists, but later delved into describing a Latin American literary genre popularized from after World War II, to the beginnings of the 1980s, around the time when Allende's H...

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Critical Analysis of Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Précis Characters: Orsino, Duke of Illyria. ... He is a kind and gentle man. ... He is basically a con artist. ... ---Maria tells Olivia that a young man has come with a message from Orsino. ... Olivia wants to hear none of that, though, as she has fallen hard for the young man, Cesario. " I love thee, so, that maugre (despite) all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my p...

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