... Paleolithic era, before agriculture and domesticated animals. In this era, there were other types of art other than cave paintings; sculptures of corpulent women, called venuses, were also made of red ocher, a type of clay mixed with iron oxide (rust). Next came the Neolithic era. This is when agriculture and civilization began. The original settlements were in Jericho, known for its ... their architecture: the ionic, and the doric orders. The ionic order was very plain and geometric while the doric was made up of spirals, making it very appealing to the eye. There was also much sculptu...

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... to abstract color experimentation" (Lindsay front page). His work spans many years and changes from very classical landscapes to landscapes that make the eye travel through with the use of light and color to express emotion and feeling. Turner was born in London on April 23, 1775. ... Cozens (Chamot 5). Early on Turner revealed, through his works "Fisherman at Sea" and "Moonlight: a Study of Millbank," that he had a sensitive eye for color, even in dark night scenes. His development was a slow but steady progress towards more light and purer color (Chamot 5). His early years ... 's mos...

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... , when he painted many colorful landscapes, including "The Blue Mountain"8. This particular artwork shows his trend towards abstraction as each of the three riders, riding past the blue mountain, the red tree and under the yellow sky, are each themselves of a different color. There is no clear detail present in the riders and the painting, in sections, blends into patches of ... understand and see the deeper meaning within "Composition IV" - "In the first place one receives a purely physical impression, one of pleasure and contentment at  the varied and beautiful colors. The eye is eith...

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... more slowly at the end of his life. He doubted his ability to make progress. He eventually evoked the possibility that his quest of primordial seeing was due to an eye condition more than a flash of genius. In this last self-portrait we can see the early signs of a self-tortured man. He looks sad, and his blank and translucent eyes ... to give us more context (where are they? did they had a good situation?). The environment around them is vague: we see two portraits against a wall - except that Cézanne added a red chair in the picture (most likely the same armchair seen in some of his ...

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