Internet / library assignment: Mark Tansey Mark Tansey is an American painter. His parents were both art historians‚ so he started to learn about art at his early age. Those experiences had great influences on Tansey’s painting style. Most of his painting is monochromatic and describes daily or historical affairs. Although his painting involved many realistic objects‚ he is not realistic painter at all. There is always something behind what you have seen in his work. The first Mark Tansey’s artwork
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RACHELLE DARDEN Rachelle Darden Art History 11 Short writing Assignment 2 The marble female figure is a sculpture selected from the Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. It’s also known as the final Neolithical Cycladic marble. The figure‚ now missing its head is an example of an uncommon type
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representation of a person‚ animal or mythical being produced by sculpturing‚ modeling‚ or casting. (Webster Dictionary Online‚ n.d.).’’ The statue of Memi and Sabu as well as the seated statue of Gudea has a great historical and cultural value in art history. Back in the Middle Ages‚ statues were used in telling stories of culture and societies and a form of enlightenments to the people as opposed to the modern day writing and digital designs which is readily available for use. It helps to inform
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painted between the years 1929 and 1972‚ when she lived in New Mexico. Many of her pieces featured desert landscapes‚ animal bones‚ and flowers. She was her own person and her talent and ambition helped create a new place for women in the world of art. Georgia’s parents‚ Francis and Ida O’Keeffe‚ were dairy farmers in Sun Prairie‚ Wisconsin‚ where Georgia was born and raised to the age of sixteen. Georgia was born on November 15‚ 1887. She was the second of seven children. Her sisters were Anita
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Uriah Funk Leila Armstrong Art 110 7 February‚ 2013 Formal Analysis of Durer’s Knight‚ Death and the Devil My first impression upon looking at Durer’s “Knight‚ Death and the Devil” is one of impending doom met with courage and a feeling of resigning to one’s fate. The figure of the Knight is surrounded by the figures of Death on his sickly horse and the beast faced Devil‚ along with a treacherous landscape that seems to fold in upon itself and hold other unseen dangers. The knight marches
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Sculpture art during the Baroque period brought us many beautiful pieces as artists began to give their work more ornate and fancier detail. French Sculptor Clodion (Claude Michael) embraced his era’s taste for antiquity and received a number of commissions throughout his career‚ which spanned the last decades of the ancient régime through the French Revolution and Napoleon ’s reign (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). While his theme was most often Neoclassical‚ a name given to pieces of art that were
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visual analysis of the difference and similarities between two Western art paintings and how the artists’ use of composition‚ outline‚ mimetic‚ intrinsic and other elements of design bring about its visual effects. The paintings are a colorful representation what seem to be high ranking soldiers in uniform. The first painting named Bashi-Bazouk of a soldier in a turning manner is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art is by the artist‚ Jean-Leon Gerome of France. Gerome created an oil
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Laughing Wild Author: Christopher Durang (January 2‚ 1949-Present) Genre: Comedy Language: English Time and Place Written: United States‚ 1987 Date of Publication: 1988 Tone: Satire Setting: Midsummer afternoon‚ my therapist’s room Opening: October 23‚ 1987 Christopher Durang Born in Montclair‚ New Jersey‚ the only child of Patricia Elizabeth and Francis Durang‚ Jr. He grew up in Berkeley Heights. His was raised in Catholics and attended Catholic schools as a child
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feeling I received from the exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion‚ displayed by the Costume Institution of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Throughout the exhibition‚ I was asked this question over and over again: If fashion is not what the exhibition about‚ then what? Started from May8 and lasting until August 10‚ the special exhibition of Costume Institute of Metropolitan Museum presents the audience signature pieces of Charles James‚ an Anglo fashion designer who was active during the post-WW2
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Cited: Glackens‚ William. Family Group. 1910. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art‚ Washington D. C. Gérard‚ Marguerite. The First Steps. 1788. Oil on canvas. Yuspuov Palace Museum‚ Leningrad. van Gogh‚ Vincent. First Steps. 1890. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York. Caillebotte‚ Gustave. Paris‚ A Rainy Day. 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago‚ Chicago.
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