... 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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... distorted bodies and mask-like faces. Picasso also creates a flat appearance by "fusing the figures together without much indication of deep space in the scene or of weight in the forms" (Picasso's Art p.54). Some of the features present in Picasso's work are also shown in Leger's The City. Here Leger depicts a "strong geometric composition of flat tracts of brilliant color and ... looked at and was inspired by Cezanne's paintings, which "look forward to Cubism both in free deformation of natural forms and flickering angular planes which tend to spread throughout the whole canvas thereb...

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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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... impossible to paint the normal still lifes and nudes of the times. The artists of this movement were opposed to all forms of social realism and wanted to explore their intellectual thought through their art. There were two main types of art produced during this time. Although the artists of this movement were a diverse group, they shared similarities in their technique. ... and new means of making their statements. It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each...

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... then portraying himself. These two men are both great painters, one for painting perhaps one if not the best painting in western art and the other know for setting the standards for European art, have some similarities but also differ greatly in terms of mood, use of colors, and dynamics. "Las Meninas" was painted ... As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the greatest painting in western art. It is now found in the Prado in Madrid Peter Paul Rubens painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" i...

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... then portraying himself. These two men are both great painters, one for painting perhaps one if not the best painting in western art and the other know for setting the standards for European art, have some similarities but also differ greatly in terms of mood, use of colors, and dynamics. "Las Meninas" was painted ... As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the greatest painting in western art. It is now found in the Prado in Madrid Peter Paul Rubens painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" i...

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... Daddy Longlegs of The Evening, The Hallucinogenic Toreador, and The Lobster Telephone. These works stood out to me because art should function as a means of expression between life's realities and what ones dreams or imagines. Daddy Longlegs of The ... , the daddy longlegs is on the blouse of the melting woman, and a boy is sitting with his back toward the viewer of the art. The painting grabbed my attention with all the different characters in it that caused me to think about why there is a horse being shot ... apparent connection. The universal theme of this painting to me was the use...

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... the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that evokes a special feeling inside a person. An artist, one who produces such creations, has a wide variety of materials to choose. One of the numerous art supplies that can be used is paint. Paints are tools an artist can use to create an expression of his or her ... contain pigment. Watercolors, themselves, are actually dried up pigments of color that can be activated with water. Watercolors are sold in a wide variety of styles. Two of the most popular forms of watercolors are ...

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... whereas Bearden does more work with collages and photomontages. Although similar each artist reflects his or her own mood through their works of art. Romare Bearden constructs memorable images of humanity by observation then he reconstructs those images of life through photos and collages. His mood of ... Tidings" represents a melancholy of longing to flee to a better life. He paid tribute to the intensity of his African-American experience through his art. Georgia O"Keefe painted amplified flowers and landscapes as well as geometrically structured views of New York City. She wanted her ...

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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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... movement emerged with the artists Picasso and Braque after the creation of the painting Les demoiselles d'Avignon'. This style was a radical break in western art, challenging the academic painting of the preceding years. Between 1908 and 1912, a style, which is refered to as analytical cubism, occurred. Cubist ... painters such as Braque and Picasso, the true inventors of this style, started to question perceptual art, and began to focus more on concept. They asked questions about what they saw, what it was and how it was to be interoperated. ... They broke it down in to pure form-line...

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... Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was a story that intrigued me and Mary definitely piqued my interest. So, while walking around the LA County Museum of Art, when I first saw a Baroque painting of Mary, it made me stop in my tracks. My first reaction was awe, at the use of candlelight in ... classes and in 1639, he was appointed to the position of "Peintre du Roi," or the painter of the king. The most striking art element in this painting is the chiaroscuro, with brilliant use of light and shadow to create a realistic image for us. The shadows add volume to the ... in a diagonal over the li...

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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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... and Miss Kelly employed painters to leave their ideal image in portraiture. Painters - almost from the same time period in the 19th century- treat time as the catalyst for their art, rather than the chronic torture of beauty. Women such as Emily Graves Williston and Miss Kelly, who were at different ages, project a distinct and particular charm that exclusively belongs to ... familiarity from the woman. Her head and slightly tilted shoulders compose an equilateral triangle, extending along her arms on both sides to bottom corners. Her inner blouse near the neck forms another downward tr...

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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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... with the Dreaming is that it shows beliefs of the Kunwinjku people. This is because she appears to be a fish and water spirit, and the Kunwinjku people believe that landscape forms were made from ancestors who weren't human. These ancestors are believed by the Kunwinjku people to still exist today in the same form. The girl's long, flowing hair represents the ... its showing all of its teeth. The face is shown as frightening to show power. It's shown a powerful spirit. The Yawkyawk painting by Jimmy Njiminjuma is a great example of Indigenous art and shows a connection to the Dreamtime....

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... during this period that he painted one of his most famous paintings, the Assumption of the Madonna. While creating this masterpiece, Titan used strong simple colors. His silhouetting of dark forms against a light background reappeared throughout his work of this period. Paintings that were finished during this time period were completed with great detail. They could be viewed from near and ... . Titian's style and beautiful paintings have survived for nearly five hundred years. I hope that they are around for at least that many more years. These paintings are truly works of art that shou...

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