There are many different works of art that have different stylistic periods. ... Both Rembrandt and Snyders worked in the Baroque stylistic period, which took place in Europe. ... Therefore, the details of this image all give a symbolic meaning, which draws the observer to the scene and to what the meaning of this image really is. ... The figures are arranged parallel to the picture plane, and the vertical and horizontal elements stabilize the composition in the classicizing manner that was to dominate in Rembrandt's work, which was in Dutch painting in general, in the middle o...

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Realism is concerned directly with what is absorbed by the senses. ... Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had defined, the impressionists tried to depict what they saw at a given moment, capturing a fresh, original vision that was hard for some to accept as beautiful. ... It achieves an atmosphere of monumental dignity through the balanced arrangement of its" elements and the contours of its" figures. ... Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. ... The merging of th...

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In 1947 Pollock abruptly started working in what he was famous for, his "drip and splash" method. ... I"m not aware of what I"m doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. ... His drawings also were different in the way he approached them stylistically; some were very accurately drawn showing crisp edges, finished delicately. ... There was something else, a strong bond with the elements. ...

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