... along with the other artists from the Group of Seven, and it is the reason why Thomson has always been considered as the key figure in the history of Canadian painting. However, there are more than just what is about "Canadian- in his paintings; Thomson leaves the viewer perplexed in a world of purple sky and red trees, overwhelming the viewer within ... medium open to him,"" and what Thomson tried to achieve were "truthfulness and beauty - beauty of colour, of feeling, and of emotion."" (MacCallum) Therefore, Thomson should be considered as an impressionist, despite of his connections ...

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... in a very surreal and modern manner. More obviously, it was an awesome sensation to go suddenly from a vanilla colored stairway to this amazing, luminous painting that looms above and captures the viewer. Dali took a very traditional scene and made it into a very modern, very clear paint, whereas Rubens's The ... Last Supper(see Appendix B) is a very traditional painting of the Baroque era. Through the organization of the paintings, the two different styles, and the content on the canvases, the two paintings exemplify the ... Dali depicts a perfectly ordered scene with a calm, wise Chri...

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... one reach any conclusions. Jean Michel Basquiat exhibits contempt for the use of religion and God to manipulate and abuse others. In his painting Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, the word POACHERS appears above the word MISSIONARIES and are separated by a line. POACHERS ... is trying to say that even today in the United States the government still exploits the "underclass."" The smaller words in this painting seem to resemble ideas and things that have been brought about by capitalism or religions and things that appear tohave been affected ... To the left of th...

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... controversial paintings that portrayed his beliefs towards the religious conflicts of his age. None of his paintings reveals his beliefs more clearly than "The Battle between Carnival and Lent." A painting filled with symbolism, "The Battle" expressed Bruegel's attitude towards the Catholic-Lutheran conflicts that were occurring in his time. Although Bruegel painted "The Battle between Carnival and Lent" ... in Bruegel's small Flemish town. Both a religious and secular festival, Carnival presented Europeans with an excuse to indulge in excesses of sex, drinking and feasting . Symbolical...

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... powerful message. A dramatic value of light is used, also focusing by illuminating Christ and the accused Adulteress, from the upper left had portion of the painting. Excluding Christ, Boulogne used everyday people as models in his painting to help idealize the message of: "He is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her." The emotion and guilt is strongly felt ... , all the while there is an ape mimicking her actions. This ape symbolizes the animal nature/ behavior in the woman (or in human kind when inebriated) by mimicking her. This painting shares similar qualities to that o...

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... Martin rejected figurative images in attempting to portray her state of mind. In 1967, just as her artistic career was peaking, Martin stopped painting and over the next seven years built herself a house in New Mexico and devoted much of her time to writing and lecturing. This ... on a schema consisting of the interplay of horizontal and vertical lines have been recognized as presaging a number of postmodern art movements, including hard-edge painting, op art, conceptualism, and especially minimalism. But as the poet and critic John Ashbery has pointed out, Agnes Martin's "minimalism" is...

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... metaphor for memory, its degradation, for the deterioration brought out by time. In Richter's completely abstract canvases, personal emotion and all traces of the painter's autobiography seem missing. The painting's many layers, strokes, and scrapes of color may thus appear as "beautiful" as anything found in nature that came into existence partly according to a predetermined structure, as well as ... creating an effect in which all subjects are both reduced to equal terms and improved by their combination with the others. He looked to photography as a way of releasing painting from the ...

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... as well. According to the museum information card on Derain's piece, "choreographed forms of villagers all sway to an integrated rhythm," giving this painting movement. This can also be seen in Benton's piece since the museum information card on Haystack states that this image is depicted through "rhythmic swirls ... urban bustle of London's waterways (CM)" as seen in Benton's work which shows the laborious rural poor of the depression era. Both of these painting exude cool and warm colors since the blues and greens can be seen, as well as the reds and yellows in both images. Vertical pol...

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... 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 ... referred to as the anti-classical movement challenging the calm and restrained feeling and clear and complete expression of the classical and neoclassical movements. A look at ...

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... images memories and stories of the past that would certainly have been lost without such ongoing representation. Paintings are iconic in nature, that is , they represent a likeness of something. By painting a portrait of someone the likeness of that person is given a "form that endures"3 the passage of time. There is a balance in paintings between realism and symbolism4 which creates the form ... of a likeness rather than a complete representation. Time does not function at all within a painting, time acts as merely a state in which the painting exists. Paintings, in particular portrait...

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... used for Saint Matthew's drapery and the background being a simple black only emphasizes that. The composition is very balanced, as Saint Matthew is mostly on the left side of the painting, and the angel is above him, on the upper right, providing a balance for the piece, as the angel's drapery frames the upper part of the ... painting. Upon first seeing The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (1599 - 1600), the most interesting thing was the placement of the figures. The composition is very crowded and the action is happening ... ...

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... in his famous sculpture of David, Michaelangelo demonstrates the nude idealism. Another of these types of artists was Raphael who also followed the same pattern as observed in his famous painting the Madonna of the Goldfinch. Another great artist that followed the same concept was Titian. In his international style, he drew religious and secular paintings that stressed several ideas about ... ...

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... but I"m sure that you have seen them before in an art class or museum. These paintings by Vincent Van Gogh set the stage for the direction of a new style of painting called Expressionism. It is characterized by a style that expresses the artist's inner feelings about their subject. Van Gogh to suffered from psychological disorders that caused him to be institutionalized and ... ...

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