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This paper describes some famous artists including Rembrandt, Renoir and Sargent. The author gives particular emphasis to artists who painted on canvas and concentrated on portraits of women.

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"Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn was considered to be the greatest artist of the Dutch Baroque Era. Rembrandt lived from 1606 until 1669. He specialized in portraiture and was a master of light and shadows. Woman with a Pink, an oil on canvas, was painted by Rembrandt in the early 1660s. The unidentified woman in this warm but somber portrait offers a pink (or carnation), symbolic of marriage, to her husband in Man with a Magnifying Glass. This painting is dark and slightly haunting, with the woman seeming to be lost in deep meditative thought."

Tags:Artists, Canvas, Paintings, Portraits

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes three works of art: Peter Paul Rubens's "Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" from 1618; Rembrandt Van Rijn's "The Descent from the Cross" from 1634; and Caravaggio's "The Death of the Virgin" from 1605/6. Specifically, the paper contains an opinion and assessment of each of the works.

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""Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" is an oil on canvas painting, measuring about 88 x 82 7/8 inches, and the original resides in the Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany. This painting portrays the abduction of two nude women by two large and powerful men, with their stallion rearing in the background, and a cherub hovering near the edge of the painting. The colors are rich and vibrant, from the natural skin tones of the women, to the tanned and burly beards of the men. Action and upheaval are at the center of this work it is clear the women are desperately fighting the men, and it is clear the men are more powerful than the women, and will carry them off to their fate. Paradoxically, the scenery in the background of the painting portrays a pastoral and peaceful scene of a landscape at sunset, in direct contrast with the activity and violence at the center of the painting. Rubens uses light and shadow to illuminate the action, while downplaying the scenic background, and the effect of the painting is emotional and disturbing. The overall quality of the work is soft and "painterly," which creates a sensual overtone."

Tags:flemish, master, renaissance, northern, european, color, light, realism, lifelike, portraiture

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"The work is quite simple, using simple artistic devices in order to capture this couple's one timeless moment. It successfully portrays joy pulling the viewer into the painting's depths with its brilliant use of color and shape, creating another reality. It's as if you are looking at these lovers through a glass panel, distorting them and melding them together until they themselves look as smooth as the glass that protects them."

Tags:edvard, munch

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This paper contains a concise biographical background of artist and sculptor Constantin Brancusi as well as relevant information regarding his more famous works of art, including: "Endless Column" and "Gate of Kiss." The writer of this paper explores Brancusi's intense expressiveness of abstract form as well as his handling of simplistic and basic themes of nature which garnered him much respect and fame as one of the great artists of the 20th century. This paper also details Brancusi's use of stone, wood and metal, coupled with his personal background and contemporary Romanian themes that evidence his social, political and aesthetic ideas to produce works of art that led to his well-earned reputation as a revolutionary modern artist.

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"One example of a personal biographical detail that influenced Brancusi's life was his childhood in Tahiti. Although he was born in Craiova, in Southern Romania in 1876, he spent his childhood and youth in Tahiti. He was born into a large peasant family, and the family maintained its poverty throughout Brancusi's childhood. Brancusi did not go to school, but worked as a herdsman, first watching the family flock, then working for other country people in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, he learned to carve wood by fashioning tools and implements, through a popular art form making spoons, bedposts, or cheese presses, all of which were ornamented with carvings, but also for making the facades of homes."

Tags:art, history, influence, nature, biography

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This essay provides analysis for five great art works that span different historical periods and art genres. The works of arts analyzed are Buonnarti's "The Creation of Adam," Dali's "Autumn Cannibalism," Picasso's "Guernica," Pollock's "No. 5," and Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe." The essay describes techniques and defining characteristics of each artist. Further, the essay explores components of the five genres to which the artists of these great works belong and the historical significance of each genre.

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"With his "Autumn Cannibalism," (1936), which is located in the Josef Lebovic Gallery in Australia, Dali offers a symbol of both the conflict engulfing his mother country of Spain and of the philosophical movements underscoring the evolution of human intellectual discourse. In the intercession would be the penetrating internal searches that yielded surrealist subject matter, providing provide ample insight into society's alleged ills, at least as seen through the artist's self-impressed lens."

Tags:art history, surrealism, tradition-absent art, abstract expressionism, renaissance

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This paper discusses the lives of Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson by focusing on two examples of their artwork, which demonstrates feminism's entanglement with modern art in the United States. The author investigates, from an art history and cultural context, one representative large-scale work from each artist: Bourgeois' 1996-1997 sculpture "Spider" from the National Gallery of Art and Nevelson's most famous sculpture 1958 "Sky Cathedral" in the Smithsonian American Art Museum . The paper discusses how each of these two works challenges traditional notions of the "feminine" in positing new ideas of what it means to be female in the 20th century. The paper includes color photographs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Louise Bourgeois' Spider
Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral
Comparison
The Sculptures in Context
Conclusion

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""Sky Cathedral" can readily be seen to fit in with the tradition of Abstract Expressionist painting in America; indeed, it was executed in the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism as a movement was in full swing. What is unusual, of course, is the fact that it is not a painting at all, but a sculpture. Still, one sees traces of the influence of Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, and other artists who used a large-scale "all over" form of expression in their works. At the same time, one sees traces of the Cubist influence in this sculpture, as well."

Tags:male-dominated, abstract expressionist, motif surrealist vagina

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This paper presents a comparison and a contrast between "The Metamorphosis" of Gregor Samsa and the privation of "The Hunger Artist". The paper first summarizes the two stories and then takes a look at the themes of identity, family, and change running throughout the stories. This is followed by a comparison of the characters, the conflicts, and the language features.

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"Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis contains one of the most famous beginnings of any short story ever written, stating that the central protagonist, Gregor Samsa, woke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a large cockroach. Gregor's parents, unsurprisingly, are rather distressed by this development. Despite Gregor's alarming appearance, however, they apparently recognize him. However, Gregor becomes a prisoner of his room and a prisoner of his body. He can no longer go to work. Once, he was the financial and emotion support structure of his family. Now he is reduced to scuttling around his room. He is beaten by the home's charwoman and fed by his repulsed sister Greta."

Tags:financed, sister, transformed, physique, greta, professional, fasters, cage

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In this report the author examines the photographer as an artist and what he can contribute to natural art. From the other point of view the author also examines how art has influenced photography. He cites many opinions of famous artists and photographers. The conclusion of the paper clearly communicates that in society today art and photography cannot be considered mutually exclusive.

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"Limitations in photographic technology determined the imagery left from the Civil War. Because exposure took several seconds, Brady heavily favored images that didn't move. For example, full regiments in formation often held still for the camera. Additionally, the gruesome aftermath of battles constituted the other predominant category of Civil War photos. For a country that had been reared on the adventure and glories of war portrayed in paintings, the overall impression of this rupture in the American psyche was depressingly grim, drab and nauseating."

Tags:artists, painting, museums, light, camera, studio

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Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous artists in the history of art, was greatly concerned with social justice and the condition of man, becoming a self-avowed communist early on. This paper shows that Picasso continued to produce works of art throughout his lifetime, frequently returning to basic themes to which he continually brought new insights and methods of conveyance. The paper shows that by the time of his death at age 92, Picasso had left an indelible mark on the world of art, ensuring his place in history.

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"During his lifetime, Picasso went through a number of developmental stages including his aptly named blue, rose and Negro periods. Picasso borrowed artistic elements and gained artistic influence from varying persons and cultures, bringing them all together to create something that was uniquely his own. With Georges Braque, Picasso is credited with founding the cubist movement, in addition to being the originator of collage artwork. Picasso worked in a wide array of artistic mediums, with a seemingly boundless range and reach. While many of the themes Picasso addressed in his artwork were similar to those seen in classical painting (portraits, still lifes, landscapes, literary themes, old masters, love and death, joy and suffering, etc.) he is credited with having paved the way for art to move toward the more abstract, subliminal and subconscious. Picasso broke down convention, creating something new and revolutionary to take its place."

Tags:Georges, Braque, Old, Guitarist, abstract, classical

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This paper explains that, in contemporary American society, the use of images to learn history has been under-valued as exemplified by the relative under-appreciation for the art of John Trumbull, an American painter, architect and author, whose paintings of major episodes in the U.S. War of Independence form a unique record of that conflict's events and participants. The author points out that Trumbull's most famous work is his documentary painting, "The Declaration of Independence", finished in 1836, which is a familiar image in American popular iconography. The paper describes in detail the paintings "Declaration of Independence", "The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown" and "The Battle of Bunker's Hill"; each of these paintings realistically depicts not only the scenes but also the historically correct portraiture of the participants.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Biography Information
Early life
Painting Career
"The Declaration of Independence"
Avenues of Fame
Misnaming
Description of Painting
Portraiture
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Members of Congress
Actual Scene
"Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown"
Description of Painting
Portraitures
Cornwallis
O'Hara
General Lincoln
Actual Scene
"The Battle of Bunker's Hill"
Description of Painting
Portraiture
General Putnam
British Officers
Howe
Clinton
Small
Pitcairn
Actual Scene
Conclusion

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""The Battle of Bunker's Hill" is also among Trumbull's most famous paintings. This painting is composed of many figures in close combat, and the painting's organization lies along a sweeping diagonal. Moreover, the dramatic contrasts of light and shadow movingly culminate in the highlighted soldier dying in the arms of a comrade.This was the first of Trumbull's Revolutionary War masterpieces to be finished, and it was also painted in the studio of Benjamin West in London. It was completed in March 1786, although the origin of the portraiture in this painting is less known than that of the two aforementioned Revolutionary War paintings. For example, it is unknown where Trumbull obtained the likeness of General Warren, although it is probable that he copied a portrait by Copley."

Tags:record, documentary, scenes, portraiture, under-valued