... aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. Many aspects of society at the time affected art such as the industrial revolution. The revolution meant that more peasants left the country to go to the big cities, which in turn became ... over crowded. There was vast poverty, pollution and inequality and these conditions were shown through the art of the Realists. Honoré Daumier was politically and artistically active at a time when France was going through great social and political upheaval. ... to his personal and artistic dev...

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... of women in painting. It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. Maes discusses the relationship between mistress/housewife and maid: As mistress is to maid, so wife is to mistress. He investigates this doubled or split persona of a woman in a series ... of distinctive paintings featuring divided domestic interiors with the housewife situated between the flirtatious maid down (S. Alpers Dutch Art Ways of seeing first page of the photocopied) The economy's impact on the heavil...

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... Romanticism in the paintings of Francesco Goya, Francois Millet, Honore Daumier, William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. Why is the evocation of the "sublime" important? Romanticism art had its place in history between 1800 and 1850. This style of painting cannot be identified by one particular style, technique or attitude but the style is generally characterized ... by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, evoking emotional intensity, having a dreamlike or visionary quality. Romantic art strives characteristically to express by suggestive states intense, mystical, or elusive...

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... ? In his Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640), Nicholas Poussin used linear perspective to demonstrate his knowledge of geometry. He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. In the ruins in the foreground/background, a cube, a three dimensional rectangle, and a cylinder are represented in perfect perspectival form, each illustrating a different aspect of foreshortening ... illustrates the three-dimensional quality of the landscape he sought to create by using color applied in geometric shapes. He wrote that he "wanted to...

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... portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him. Although in his early years, he painted landscapes that were visibly Impressionist in technique and approach. In the Venetian Water Carriers, portrayed ... be dead when the stock market plummeted to the bottom. During Sargent's lifetime the art world would be left reeling as impressionism, surrealism, Fauvism, modernism explod...

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... for common elements and ideas. The Renaissance was a time which saw an enormous cultural awakening take place in the fields of literature art and philosophy. The art of the Renaissance heavily featured female figures. Women have been worshipped and adored since the beginning of humanity, represented on cave walls and ... unconventional ways. Leonardo da Vinci was arguably one of the greatest artists of the high Renaissance, his innovative painting style continues to influence the art world even today, centuries after his death. He portrayed both men and women in his paintings however, it...

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... his work as an extension of that tradition in the context of twentieth-century art in general' . While Williams was developing his Australian landscape imagery, other artists were exploring aspects of Australian identity. Williams employed a more documentary approach to the Australian landscape, which allowed the landscape's own distinct forms and shapes to shine through his works. This is perhaps most evident in ... to the hostility, or at least alienation that is exposed in Drysdale's and Nolan's works. The Pilbara series fulfilled Williams' long search to give colour its full place i...

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The history of Australian photography is most interesting has paved the way for the ever growing form of art, that is photography. The dream of fixing an image onto a surface to be then carried away was one of William Henry Fox Talbot who was the first to invent photography, ... bright dramatic light, aerial, asymmetrical and unnatural angles to capture the image. His main focus was to capture the surrounding world e.g. the beach, landscape and city and portray the basic forms of the everyday Australians. Appendix 2, Appendix 3 The world of photography was now looking at how to make photogra...

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... is beautiful as if nothing is happening. "The Oxbow" is representing a new opportunity yet there is a large storm from the left, which some art critics view as the storm of civilization arriving. Both paintings stay true to the time periods, "The Burial of Phocion" definitely appeals to the French ... Also the linear diagonals used for perspective were typical of the time period. Chiaroscuro was another common characteristic that was used to draw balance to all forms in the painting creating a more dramatic appeal through light and shadow. "The Oxbow" reflects one of the main aspects of...

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ART MEDIA: SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS "THE TRANSITION FROM TEMPERA TO OIL PAINTS" INVESTIGATE AND EXPLAIN HOW A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIA HAS HAD AN IMPACT ON THE VISUAL ARTS. The transition from tempera ... Hubert (died 1426) and Jan van Eyck (died 1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), tempera painting gradually lost its prominence as the medium for making major works of art and was superseded by oil painting, which remains the prevalent material to the present day. Oil paints had so much overing power the artists could hide any corrections, they give ... visually effective. Ma...

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... . They bring together Locke's observations and life story of his past in Ghana. His paintings are layered with certain images and forms that utilize black as the dominant color. The medium used is a blend of black washes to form gestured forms combined with clay and straw mixed with paint to add texture. An array of photocopied photographs "of Locke's own figurative ... beautifully displayed in his exhibition. Like the rest of the Americas, Donald Locke's native land is a mixture of European, African, and native cultures. Now at the age of 72, the art that Locke creates is a melting pot ...

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