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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.

From the Paper
"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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Painter, sculptor, poet, and architect, Michelangelo dominated the art scene for almost the whole of the 16th century. This paper examines the time in history, known as the High Renaissance, in which Michelangelo created his masterpieces, touching on other painters of the time, such as Leonardo da Vinci. The paper then discusses Michelangelo's biography, patronage, and commissions. Finally, it presents a detailed analysis of "The Creation of Adam", a ceiling centerpiece in the Sistine Chapel.

From the Paper
"The artist depicts the sublime act of creating Adam through a simple touch of the finger. A touch, yes, but not completely physical: God's index never touches Adam's, but let's us imagine God's whole power. Between God's index and Adam's finger, one can see the glitter of a superior will and of a superior power. Symbolically, God is surrounded by angels and by an elliptical mantle that signifies the initial "cosmic Egg" from which everything emerged. One can notice that Adam himself forms an ellipse, but only an incomplete one: he needs God's soul-giving touch for him to complete himself as a being."

Tags:medicis, florence, Ghirlandaio

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Pablo Picasso has been, without question, the single most influential artist of the early 20th century, both as a public figure and an artist. He has been credited, along with Braque, for the creation of Cubism, and his work in every other genre set the bar for his contemporaries. This paper shows that Picasso's styles, over the course of his eighty-year-long career, ranged from Neo-classicism to Cubism to Neo-expressionism. His work even influenced the great abstract painters. His work was always genius and usually controversial. The paper shows that, while his work has been accepted by the mainstream, his life remains controversial to this day.

From the Paper
"External strife was also a muse for many of his greatest political works. During his Blue era, he painted the outcasts of society. When his beloved France was plunged into war, he painted one of his greatest masterpieces, the Guernica. This giant mural commemorated the slaughter of his people and condemned the rising fascist movement. He remained artistically active when Paris was over-run by the Nazis as well. While he was regularly questioned by them, and his art decried by the Nazi Party as degenerate, he was strangely never arrested or detained."

Tags:Maria-Therese, Minotaur

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This paper presents an overview of the life of Omar Khayyam, born on 18 May 1048 at Nishapur, the provincial capital of Khurasan. The writer explores all aspects of his amazing life, as painter, mathematician, musician, writer and philosopher. The paper begins with his early life in Persia through to his death in Nishapur on 4th December 1131. The writer believes that Omar Khayyam was an outstanding astronomer and astrologer and his contributions to this field are invaluable still today. The paper includes a number of drawings of the man and examples of his writing.

From the Paper
"Omar Khayyam was well known as a poet, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and physician. His full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abul-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nishapuri al-Khayyami. A literal translation of the name al-Khayyami means "tent maker" which maybe derived from his father's trade or he may have practiced this skill at one time. Khayyam played on the meaning of his own name when he wrote; "Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science, Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned, The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life, And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!"."

Tags:algebra, astrologer, astronomer, geometry, mathematician, philosopher, physician, poet, ruba

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is widely considered to be one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists. This paper discusses him as a photographer, painter, designer, writer, sculptor printmaker, film-maker and teacher. It shows how his influence reached into many aspects of the arts, from his native Eastern Europe, to the Western part of the Continent, across the Atlantic to the United States. The paper also explains how Moholy-Nagy was an important figure in the Western European Constructivism movement.

From the Paper
"Moholy-Nagy was born in 1895 in Baac's-Borsod, Hungary. He left school in Budapest to fight in World War I in 1916. It is during the war that he began sketching and taking his work as an artist seriously. In 1917, while recovering from a wound, he founded the artist group MA and started a literary magazine called "Jelenkor". In 1919 he moved to Vienna. It was there he began to make photograms and collages."

Tags:art, paint, designer, photographer, hungary, jelenkor, collage, war, sketch

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After providing a brief overview of his life, this paper examines five works that demonstrate something of the range of his extraordinary talent and illuminate his almost preternatural ability to depict the condition of the human heart and soul whether his own in the many self-portraits he created or in other in the series of studies that made him one of the most popular portrait artists of Amsterdam in his own time.

From the Paper
"Rembrandt himself would no doubt have been very pleased to have found out how dominant his own reputation has remained, for he was not an overly shy or modest artist. His life was in fact (especially when he was younger) defined in large measure by his ambition. He wished to be an artist whose work would in time come to rival that of other great Dutch artists such as Peter Paul Rubens. He wished not only to be a fine artist but also a famous one, and while he of course succeeded in achieving the first during his lifetime he in many ways failed to achieve the second. For while he was in demand for many years as a portrait-painter, by the end of his life he had lost many of his former patrons."

Tags:paintings, painter, artist, dutch, holland, portrait

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This paper examines the work and style of two famous painters, Pablo Picasso, best known for his high abstractions of the Cubist painting style and Salvador Dali, one of the most important leaders of the Surrealist movement. It discusses how they have influenced a wide range of artists and are today considered as the quintessential examples of twentieth century art. It illustrates, through examples of their work, how Picasso as an artist was highly imaginative and original and borrowed heavily from many historical examples which aided him in developing new painting styles. Salvador Dali, like many of his surrealist contemporaries, sought inspiration from a love for fantasy and studied the writings of Sigmund Freud regarding the human subconscious mind which inspired him to "systematize confusion" through his paintings.

From the Paper
"The Cubism style of painting as practiced by Pablo Picasso is best represented by his Accordionist (1911, oil on canvas), a construction of large intersecting planes that suggest the forms of a man with his instrument. Host of smaller shapes, each a simplification of some aspects of the original subject, hover in and interpenetrate the larger planes. The total effect is that of a new kind of pictorial reality. The viewer is no longer obligated to contemplate merely a man playing an accordion, but is allowed to explore the canvas and probe its myriad of objects that have been disintegrated and then reintegrated which offers a great variety of views from many different angles and tangents."

Tags:cubism, surrealism, freud

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The paper provides a brief biography of the life of Vincent Van Gogh, famous Dutch painter. Thereafter, it reviews four of his most famous paintings, "Self Portrait, 1886", "The Potato Eaters", "Starry Night" and "Wheat Field with Crows".

From the Paper
"This final painting is arguably one of van Gogh's most disturbing. He shows three roads moving into a wheat field. It isn't clear where any of them go. The roads may represent the different directions in which his mind was torn: sanity, insanity, and religion. The sky is active and stormy, and black crows swoop along close to the ground. Many would interpret the crows as symbols of death. There seems no sense of hope in the three opportunities the roads give, and no indication that traveling one would be more satisfying than another. This seems to be true of van Gogh's life: during his periods of sanity he was not successful at most things he attempted, including multiple attempts to develop a satisfying religious career. His religious beliefs seem to have brought him no lasting peace because of the bouts of insanity when his behavior became irrational and even bizarre."

Tags:Dutch, Reformed, Church, Sien, Gauguin, pointillistic

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An overview of the life and work of painter and artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti. The paper begins with a description of his early life growing up in Florence, Italy. The paper then looks at the incredible art he produced, including the most famous statue of David, which stands today in Florence. The writer notes the strong influence of religion on all of Michelangelo's work.

From the Paper
"Michelangelo is described by many as a genius. Before Michelangelo, there had been nothing like his work. Michelangelo brought a "realism to art, freeing it from the stiff formality of the preceding centuries" (Lace 7). Michelangelo was different because he not only wanted to carve something that was natural looking, but he desired to express emotions in his subjects. His unique style has influenced many artists. In fact, it is noted that artists from all over Europe traveled to Italy just to study his work. In fact, his innovations in architecture are imitated today. His technique is sketching the human body are also imitated by artists. (7) Michelangelo is important because he caused the public to "reevaluate its view of artists"."

Tags:david, sketch, statue, rome, vatican, church, adam, renaissance

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This paper begins by providing a detailed description of Picasso's childhood. It examines his early education and how his life became directed towards the painting and art scene. The paper discusses various periods in Picasso's life including the "Blue Period" (1900-1904) and his "Rose Period". Various paintings from these, and other periods, are mentioned and analyzed.

From the Paper
"Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga Spain, Pablo Picasso was destined to become one of the world's greatest artists. He was highly skilled in drawing and painting by the time he was in his mid-teens. His artistic career lasted more than 75 years, and he produced thousands of paintings during that time. Specifically, Picasso produced over 20,000 works of art during his long and prolific career."

Tags:Spanish art, nazi, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Guernica, painting, work, cubist, intellectual