... , in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis' works of the late 1930's celebrate the urban and technological environment and are quite complex and frequently recall Legers's brightly coloured geometric forms. Early works depict saloons and ragtime musicians. Titles and images of his works in the 30's reflect syncopation and unusual rhythm of jazz, particularly swing . Jean-Michel Basquiat was ... give a feeling of jazz with the use of blues and cool colors. The use of the warm colors shows the unpredictability of jazz. There are many forms of geometric shapes used in this p...

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... used steel and other metal types. The "Untitled", (1969-91) series of Donald Judd is mostly made of aluminum and plexiglass. These installations usually consist of straight lines and simple geometric shapes forming boxlike sculptures which has volume. Richard Serra's installations usally consist of rusted steel sheets. He usually bends them and places them upright. His most known sculpture is the "Tilted ... collapse. In his other work "Torqued Ellipses", he has several steel sheets transformed into ellipses. These ellipses, as seen in the picture to the right, are not closed to full ge...

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... express the spirituality of the Christian religion. They worshipped icons and mosaics. While in Islamic Art, the traditions of calligraphy, vegetal ornament, and geometric patterning are strongly expressed in most pieces on view. Human figures in Islam were not encouraged because of the association with idols and statues. Even ... It has measures of 11 x 7 in. It has ink, colors and gold on paper. The two pieces of art have differences in the use of shapes and colors. The Byzantine picture has darker colors like dark red, a lot of brown, brownish green and red, dark blue, black, gray, et...

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... the entire picture's space in a whole new way. Basically, he painted in a way that made the canvas surface seem raised, which produced a different effect. He did this by using geometrical shapes- the cone, cylinder, cube, and others- as building blocks for the objects he painted. It is easier to synthesize the three hundred and fifty years separating Impressionism from the High ... I like. He has been called a master thief'. But what he takes he conforms into his own pure ingeniousity (Lamplight 4). The ideas of Cézanne amazed Picasso in that the different shapes gave so many possibili...

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... alone. He eventually learned the cliché-verre process and made over seventy prints. Corot was so captivated by photography that around 1848, his style significantly changed from focusing on geometric shapes and linearity, to light and its effects. Millet also has an interest in photography and expresses it in stating, " Photographs are like casts from nature, which never can be as ... ...

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... low. Contrast can be achieved through use of elements such as value (light against dark), shape (large against small, geometric against organic) (ames.k12.ia.us). It can be seen in areas where the brush strokes can be distinguish or with shapes. Does the scale of the forms seems appropriate to the setting? Scale is the relation of one thing to another ... ...

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... analyzing the painting Still Life with a Beer Mug, he pointed out the contrast of the curtains, objects on the table, and the interior view of the mug against the flat geometric shapes and patterns of the rest of the painting. According to Janvszczak, Leger did not want to copy manufactured objects, instead he wished to paint in a way as to make their ... ...

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