where people wore what my kindergartener self would call “painter hats” and ate stinky cheese with long‚ stiff bread. However‚ my myopic and narrow-minded view of other cultures and started to mellow when I took a life-changing trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. When I entered that monument to color‚ I was instantly captivated by the sheer beauty of all the art that surrounded me. Nonetheless‚ I was drawn toward one painting‚ Paul Cezanne’s “The Card Players.” I was transfixed
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Rucellai Madonna‚ Duccio Duccio di Buoninsigna was an Italian artist from the city of Siena. He lived during the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th. Throughout his life he was hired to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. During the 1300’s Duccio became one of the most favored and progressive painters in Siena. He is now considered one of the founders of Western art. Not much is known about Duccio’s life. But there are records saying
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Sob stories are often the kryptonites of heart that leave us feeling pity and empathy for said person of the sob story‚ regardless of the fact if we know them personally or not. It’s a common human reaction to show sympathy for those who have experienced tragedy in their lives‚ but most often‚ it blurs our judgement while making objective criticisms of works of art. A singer will appear on a show‚ tell an angst ridden story‚ sing Adele‚ and leave with the grand prize. An artist will choke up a story
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European art. This was a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. Head‚ arms and legs from knees down‚ and tree trunk are ancient. Remainder of a figure is a cast taken from a marble copy found at Delos and now in the National Museum‚ Athens. This statue is in the round and also nude‚ just as most of the other Roman statues are and shows us respect and dignity from that time. His movements especially that of his arms‚ are easy and unrestrained. A tree trunk is also portrayed
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worth in the neighborhood of $140‚000‚ the price that the No. 5‚ 1948 was previously sold for. It is important to understand all evidence‚ whether negative or positive‚ and as such I would inform the company that Thomas Hoving‚ a past curator at the Museum of Art‚ New York‚ has also investigated the artwork. His opinion is that the artwork is
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Art 1A Jiajun Lin Wan Jen Chou The Russian Bride’s Attire We went to the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco last weekend. We found an oil painting that was named “The Russian Bride’s Attire (1887)”. We were very interested about this oil painting. The author’s name is Konstantin Makovsky‚ he was a Russian. He was born in Moscow‚ 1839 and died in St. Petersburg‚ 1915. In 1863‚ a group of 14 students thought to leave The Imperial Academy of Art‚ and Makovsky was one of them. He thought the rules
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Art Analysis What makes a piece of art art? Is it the creation itself or is it a combination of elements that make a piece a good piece of art. Artist use elements to add depth and meaning to the pieces they create. Artist such as Vincent Van Gogh‚ Sol LeWitt‚ Diego Velazquez‚ and Edward Hopper all had pieces that they used different forms to help capture the attention of the viewer and express their true meaning with the techniques they used in their portraits. Van Gogh and LeWitt both used
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Art History Study Guide for Final Review for final exam‚ Art 2‚ Renaissance to Modern The questions on the test will be taken from the categories below. I have left out some artists entirely and in some cases limited the objects being considered for questions. You will choose ten or twelve questions from 16 or more possibilities. Art of Venice (two questions) Titian Giorgione Palladio (Villa Rotonda only) El Greco (Laocoon [National Gallery‚ DC] and View of Toledo [Met]‚ see Met
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Metropolitan paper Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater‚ FL In this paper‚ we are going to look at Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)‚ which is defined by the United States Census Bureau. This MSA is also be called as Tampa Bay Area. It is a region close to Tampa Bay and west of central Florida. Throughout this paper‚ I will collect data from different categories of the Tampa MSA and going to mainly focus on
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Five Clawed Dragon Essay My artwork piece isn’t a painting but rather an woven piece created sometime during the Ming dynasty. The Ming dynasty ruled from 1368 to 1644. The Ming dynasty was one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history. The focus of this piece is the dragon and your attention should be drawn to it right away. Pieces like this were very important during the Ming dynasty because of the history behind it. The first Ming Emperor decreed that
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