... soldier is dead. His wounded arm now lies on the floor, and his hand is opened. However, the armpit remains in the air. An eye-like shape with an electrical bulb at the center now occupies the part of the sky where the tightly clenched fist was. Jagged rays of light " ... explode" from the "eye". If this "eye" represents God, then its "lightning" appearance could be God's answer to the climactic suffering. While the small flame serves to expose the turmoil, this ... mental torturer. Another mental torturer could be a small naked child who makes gestures of shame in the right panel. The h...

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... , the roundness of it. The artist chooses her subject matters to be bright orange containers, which slowly becomes different hue of orange because of the shadow. Her use of white, red and blue, does not appeal to the eyes of the viewer as much as orange, which draws the attention of the viewers towards the painting. Another aspect of this painting ... she has painted in front of the whole piece, she made it obvious to viewers that she wanted to get their attention by using red paint. By using red to paint the words "Welcome," Oropallo's has drawn the viewer's eye to the label at the bott...

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... for nearly a century and during that time, the walls were replastered between thirty to sixty times although some buildings have up to two hundred layers of painted plaster. Red, pink and a deep brown red on a cream colored background were the most common color schemes used in the paintings in residence where abstract patterns sometimes resemble textile designs. The decoration on shrines remained ... consistent for years on end. Scenes depicting death or burial customs and fertility were the most prevalent. Males were usually represented with darker red-brown skin and women were lighter...

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... 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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... he dealt with the light. He could superbly show brilliant light and tones in his paintings, as he learnt to represent the exact light and colour change, for example, the red sky in the morning, the sunrise, the sunset and the evening hours so accurately, which had fascinated him immensely. What he would do was lie in the fields before daybreak ... surroundings and subject matter at a later date. The rearrangement followed artist rules usually taken from Greece and Rome or even biblical information and mythology, which was more pleasing to the eye (3). This meant he often painted idealis...

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... he had lost the deep feelings in his art work and he became more images which showed more nature. Munch's used to draw the impressions of the soul not the eye. And " The Scream" is the first expressionistic and the most extreme example of Munch's "Soul paintings". Munch had so much feelings in his paintings that people did not understand, passions ... his left hand from a gunshot. His first personal painful image was The Sick Child which exploring the darkness of his youth. Sometimes Munch has wanted to painted memories of sunset, red as blood. But no one else could see it as Munch used...

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