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In this article, the writer describes a genre painting by 19th century American artist Thomas Anshutz titled "The Way They Live". The writer explains that this painting features an African-American mother and children tending a garden in rural West Virginia.

From the Paper
"The work of art selected for this analysis is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Thomas P. Anshutz. The title of the painting is 'The Way They Live'. It depicts a black woman with her two children tending a garden that is filled with a combination of cabbages and flowers. In the background of the painting is a fairly crude home in which the family clearly lives. Also in the background are ..."

Tags:Thomas, Anshutz, The Way They live , painting, African, Americans, genre, painting

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This paper gives an analysis of the Romantic Movement during the late 17th and early 18th century that focuses on the poetry and painting of the day. The paper further highlights how the Romantic movement represented a rebellion against the norms of the day.

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"The Romantic movement began in the late 17th Century in Western Europe and spread throughout the western world. It was a revolt against the Enlightenment period focus on reason and a reaction against the mechanization and rationalization of nature. Romantics focused on feeling and emotion as the root of all aesthetics and extolled on nature's sublimeability to create awe as the pinnacle of artistic expression. In essence the Romantics marked a rebellion against the norms of the day. They reveled in their feelings and what their senses..."

Tags:romantic, romanticism, movement, keats, painting, poetry, shelly, byron

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This research paper examines and analyzes the history of painting in the twentieth century in the British Isles. The work of English artists such as Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, Adrian Ryan, Stanley Spencer, Victor Pasmore, and Laurence Stephen Lowry are assessed.

Tags:history, british, painting

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This paper explores the various aspects of digital painting enhancement from ethical concerns to techniques. The paper looks at how digital enhancement allows the artist to go beyond the limitations of the brush, bringing a new dimension to art. The paper contends digital enhancement should be considered as just another tool for the artist to use.

From the Paper
"Every time technology moves ahead, invading the world of art, we are presented with exciting new opportunities along with difficult challenges. Such is the case with the advent of digitally enhanced painting. Digital enhancement allows us to push the envelope, invent new forms of expression, add rich dimension to old forms and step into the refreshing world of the unexplored. Although digital enhancement is resisted by some people for what are probably excellent reasons, it is embraced by others for reasons just as laudable..."

Tags:digital, computer, painting, ethics, Adobe Photoshop

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This paper describes the opulent details of Francois Boucher's painting "The Toilet of Venus", which reflect the overindulgence which was so characteristic of the decades before the French Revolution. Next, the author explains that some of the aspects of this painting are reminiscent of Renaissance paintings; however, the partial landscape and the complexities of color, shadow and texture are associated with the art of the eighteenth century. The paper contends that the most prominent facet of the painting is Boucher's use of color.

From the Paper
"The painter mainly employs linear perspective, though due to the proximity of the viewer to the piece it is hard to tell. Boucher seems to almost purposefully have avoided any use of parallel lines, which makes linear perspective difficult--if not impossible--to perceive. Atmospheric perspective tends to bend the scene together, however, ending equal focus to each constitutive element in the painting, and this does not appear to be the case here. There is the suggestion of atmosphere brought in by the bit of landscape, and in the way that the figures--and Venus especially--seem almost to be a part of the bed."

Tags:cherub color, linear perspective, vanity naturalism

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This paper explains that Raphael's painting "The School of Athens", which depicts an idealized vision of great classical Greek philosophers and scientists interacting with one another before a symbolic representation of 'Dame Philosophy, was not religious art but rather a work that mimicked classical antiquity. Next, the author relates how the meshing together of different figures from history demonstrates the symbolic nature of the work that merges together art and philosophy. The paper concludes by suggesting that Judy Chicago's feminist painting "The Dinner Party" is today's most similar creation and yet different than the representation in Raphael's painting.

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"Underlining the new broad-mindedness of the period, classical iconography representing the search of man for the truth was even embraced by the Pope, not just by artists. This type of humanistic, anatomically correct representation would have been unthinkable earlier, both in its images as well as its iconography. It is still exciting art because it creates the feeling of being alive in ancient Athens, watching the embodied philosophers at work, and helps bring their thoughts to life. They are not beautiful, yet seem vividly alive and interesting to the eye."

Tags:innovations models puzzle-like, intellectual legacy, celebrities

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This essay provides a discussion of the artist generally considered the father of 19th century painting, Paul Cezanne. The essay briefly describes his life before revealing his ideology of painting as expressed in the variety of styles that influenced his works before he ultimately created a style of painting that was distinctly his own.

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"This research presents a discussion of the artistic ideology and artworks of Paul Cezanne, considered the father of 19th century art and a pioneer of modernism. The research offers a brief discussion of the artist's life, his views of perception and the variety of styles that influenced him before he evolved a completely new form of art. His romanticist, impressionistic, still life pieces and his post-impressionistic works are discussed, and examples are rendered in the appendix. A conclusion discusses Cezanne's view of the artist and how he or..."

Tags:romanticism, impressionism, post-impressionism, modernism, light, color, perception, isolation, out-of-doors, nature

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Analysis of Tintoretto's 1548 painting, the "Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave". The paper discusses the message of the painting, the symbolism used, allegorical elements, the setting of the painting and Tintoretto's technique.

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"Jacopo Robusti ditto Tintoretto's painting "The Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave" is an oil on canvas. It is currently in the possession of the Gallerie dell' Academia, Venice, Italy. It is the first of a series of works originally executed and signed by the artist for the Scuola Grande di San Marco while Tintoretto's future father-in-law, Marco Episcopi, was Grand Guardian of the School. Largely undamaged and remarkably unfaded by time and light..."

Tags:St. Mark Freeing the Slave, Tintoretto, art

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This paper explains that the painting "The Architect's Dream" by American artist, Thomas Cole, masters historical perspective by combining structures from several epochs--Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe--within the confines of a simple painting, thus depicting the evolution of architecture. The author points out that Cole, who was the founder of the Hudson River School, a group of artists that followed the style of American romanticism and realism, filled the landscape of this painting, accurately and in detail, with human structures of each age. The paper concludes that this piece of art from the romantic times is not so much a history lesson as it is a story of human ingenuity and spirit, which praises man's triumphs throughout the ages by giving tribute to the beauty of history's great accomplishments that still inspire humankind today.

From the Paper
""The Architect's Dream" is a large painting, about 8 feet long by 6 feet tall. Just looking at the different buildings throughout the eons is very enthralling. And so, I stood in front of this painting for at least ten minutes just taking in the sheer power of it. I imagined what it would look like IF someone actually built a city like the one Thomas Cole painted. I could see the romanticism in the expression on the Architect's face as he lays relaxed and wondering about his strewn books. I put myself in his position and tried to imagine looking upon such a dream city, but in reality."

Tags:recession, romanticism, realism, power, landscape

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This paper will discuss the representation of the natural landscape in Xie Ling-yun's poem "Visiting the Southern Pavilion". It will be shown, through a comparative analysis of Chinese texts on landscape painting, that Xie Ling-yun's poem plays with, and is juxtaposed against, the generic rules of landscape painting. The poetic landscape, which appears to be a celebration of the beauty of summer, is actually a reflection upon mortality and suffering. From this perspective, Xie Ling-yun's poem may be seen to have philosophical depth lacking in most landscape painting.