While visiting the Upstate Gallery on Main, a beautiful piece of art caught my eye. Andy Warhol printed a stunning piece of art called Queen Beatrix, Reigning Queens. Warhol printed this Screen Print in 1985. He printed this on ... cm. This piece is a print taken from a Polaroid camera and then blown us to size. The process Warhol used is called Screen Printing. Warhol then took a red pencil to outline the portrait while bringing life to the print. This print depicts Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Queen Beatrix, the Dutch monarch is pictured face forward, ... traditional Andy Warhol styl...

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... other holding onto a rope in between her hands. The color of the Portrait seem cold and without feeling. They include the main colors like red, pink, orange, and green. The red carpet along with the green wallpaper decorated with green flowers is far from appealing to the eyes, everything in this painting scream to me as ... to make this painting. It is very large in size about 7ft high and 6ft wide and has very bright colors with bold lines. There are 5 main colors red, blue, yellow, black and white. The painting itself is very flat and there is no depth or texture. There are dots that a...

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... on canvas composition illustrates a young lady of the 18th century. The artist draws the ones eye to the lady by making the background dark and plain and making the foreground bright with lots of colors. The artist put a red drape behind the head of the lady; this helps bring out the color of her face and ... realism in her outfit. It seems as though one could reach out and touch the dress. While the background creates a certain mood of darkness, the bright red drape helps break things up so one can focus on the lady's beauty. The jewels help define the type of person the artist is pain...

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... meant nothing to him. He worked on a canvas with all the force of his violent personality, oblivious of everything in his effort to get what he saw with the mind's eye; and then, having finished, not the picture perhaps, for I had an idea that he seldom brought anything to completion, but the passion that fired him, he lost all care for ... appearance as he was a fat little man, with short legs, he was no more that thirty, but prematurely bold. His face was perfectly round, and he had a white skin, red cheeks, and red lips. His eyes were blue and round and be wore large gold-rimmed spec...

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... the more it grows on me. The modern art wing has many paintings, architecture, sculpture, and drawings dating back to 1900. Artist's paintings that caught my eye were done by Braque, Picasso, Charles Sheeler, Piet Mondrian, and Grant Wood. There was one artist whose painting I enjoyed the most, and which I spent ... me speculate why they are in the same painting. The left side of the painting has a train moving through a coal mine. 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...

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... , the roundness of it. The artist chooses her subject matters to be bright orange containers, which slowly becomes different hue of orange because of the shadow. Her use of white, red and blue, does not appeal to the eyes of the viewer as much as orange, which draws the attention of the viewers towards the painting. Another aspect of this painting ... she has painted in front of the whole piece, she made it obvious to viewers that she wanted to get their attention by using red paint. By using red to paint the words "Welcome," Oropallo's has drawn the viewer's eye to the label at the bott...

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... for the artist's depression. Garner's depression now becomes the theme of her work. The viewer notices one color right away. The rare color red is used very few times in the paint. The color seems unharmonious. When something is not harmonious, it's because it has emphasis. The ... red color is located on the lips and finger nails of the mannequins. This conveys an emphasis on the physical elements of the artist. ... of your responses to the colors, lines, shapes, textures, and space of an image. Again, In visual experiences, harmony is something that is pleasing to the eye. It engage...

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... Garden - Brian Robertson Description 'Beside the Garden' is a collage which includes a picture of a little Asian girl in a pink dress beside a large pink and red hibiscus. The background is light green, palm pattern with Chinese writing and other faded flowers worked into the picture. In the top left hand corner there is a ... Not Hesitate" and a pair of scissors seem to be cutting down her garment of clothing. Behind the thick steel bars of the window is a red patch against faded, old documents. The background is a green or aqua striped wallpaper. The composition of this picture is very...

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... more holding the harp/lyre than playing it. Minoan Palace at Knossos (Crete, Greece) 99 84-85 Open-air chambers flood the interior with light. The columns were painted mostly red or white and are made of wood. It is unusual because the columns taper smaller at the bottom than at the top. The capitals were painted black and sit like ... people about the Trojan horse, and snakes were sent down by gods to prevent him from speaking. The work is highly dramatic and emotional. The forms twist and curve; the eye wanders around the composition, which is meant to be viewed from many angles. Ther...

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... ; a variety of beautiful, autumn tones laid out in perfect contrast to the silhouettes of what seem to be Union soldiers on horses, waiting still in a forest glen. The usage of red and yellows for the leaves on the floor gave me the vision that the artist was trying to portray the season of fall. The figures in the painting seem to ... in the painting the word "Fake" in the title made me question what this painting was about. The fire was quite visible because of the yellow, orange, and red colors used. The addition of the lines and shapes helped create the formation of the fire as well....

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... next to each other in the art gallery. However, both paintings have differences in their design. Both pieces of artwork are examples of representational art. Jeffery's Poppies was a painting of a red vase with different color flowers in it. It was an attempt to make the painting look like and actual vase with flowers in it, so it was a recognizable object making ... . The yellow is supposed to be the stars in the title Wish Upon a Shooting Star. In the painting Jeffery's Poppies the colors are lighter and pastel. The vase is a light red sitting on a green base. The flowers are green and ...

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... ,500 BCE. It was also widely produced from about 5,000 BCE by a number of ancient Mediterranean civilizations, before reaching its apogee in the Geometric Style, Oriental Style, Black-Figure and Red-Figure style of Ancient Greek pottery. This type of art includes the creation of furniture and accessory furnishings, rugs and carpets, tapestry, embroidery, book illustration, floral decorations, ceramic pottery, basketry ... necessary to its "speaking" role. The theme of a fine art-based exhibition usually focus on an artist, one certain skill or fixed period. It is relatively clear and eye...

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... by the realism of the visual content. In others, such as "Atomic Bomb," the red-orange color serves a supporting role. The images Warhol selected for these paintings were gruesome, though he showed again his brilliant eye for such images so effective in shocking the viewer. "With an eye for the eccentricity of an individual event, Warhol's paintings capture the unpredictable choreography of death ... ...

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... , Joe Yorty and John Brady. Despite the calamitous mass of the table, the warm contemporary colors including a contrast of bright colors on the table cloth is what truly catches the eye. This table cloth is silky, with a portrait of leafy vegetables and bright peppers, it is covering the olive green legs of the table. As you surround it, looking at each ... of the broccoli, cabbage, and bel peppers present on the cloth bring warmth regarding the fact that it is a cool color. These vegetables are contrasted by bright vibrant colors of red, yellow and orange peppers as they are placed on a...

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... in the painting. Bronzino did very well with the table in this piece of art making it look like silk cloth stretched tight rather than stone. By using the soft red tones with the highlights in white and perfect shading, he made the table appear to be very smooth. Along with that Bronzino used the color to do a lot more. With ... use of the medium, is what gave this painting such a well detailed appearance. The realism and emphasis of detail in the man's face and clothing is what first caught my eye. As I looked closer the visual texture of the painting made me want to touch the painting...

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... without a doubt been one of the most popular designs incorporated into today's commercial art. On almost every bottled hair care product from Loreal is a composed set of lines complete with red, yellow and blue squares, expressing striking similarities to "De Stijl." Tommy Hilfiger uses clean lines and the three primary colors in all of his advertisements as well as on his ... 30's. The models sit in front of their homes, in everyday clothes, next to their families. The photo is rather high in contrast and looks the subject straight in the eye. The ads evoke the feeling from the consume...

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... when we look at it, something that will leave us speechless when we think about it, something like a piece of art. A picture or a sculpture. And even though it might be a red dot on the white background, that is called masterpiece and costs way more than a fur coat, or an ameba looking woman, or a man, sometime it is hard to tell who ... the lines are very straight if compared to the other one. Geometry is present in the feel of it. It is an abstract perfection. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Kouros boy's movement is restricted to a slight move of the left leg to the f...

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... . In the 1950's United States, Robert Rauschenberg created collages constructed from household objects such as quilts and pillows, and Jasper Johns had a series of paintings depicting American flags and bull's-eye targets. The first full-fledged pop work was "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?" in 1956 by the British artist Richard Hamilton. It was ... of pop art with his oil paintings that appropriated enlarged frames of comic strips. The appearance of simplicity in this painting was painstakingly done - thousands of dots of simple colours (red, blue yel...

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