The most famous things about the painting; the smile of the woman that many have found mysterious. Why is she smiling? I think she’s smiling because she’s happy; I think she’s smiling because she thinks she’s better than everyone. Mona’s eyes and her mysterious smile indicate internal or psychological action. This has intrigued many people across the world and generations. Others may say the smile of innocence‚ while others still have a different interpretation. Maybe she is keeping a secret
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determined to use the arts to stamp his personality on the Vatican (Sistine Chapel Drawings). He hired many artists to do different works around the city. Sometimes it would be for sculptures‚ other times for drawings‚ and in this situation it was for paintings. My goal since the beginning had been to complete this task in four years (The Vatican). As of now‚ I think I will be close to finishing near that deadline.
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etching. This skill served him well for the duration of his life. His background and experience as a printer may have given him a greater appreciation for Japanese woodblock prints‚ techniques and qualities. Whistler arrived in Paris as a student of painting in 1855 and was undoubtedly exposed to Ukiyo-e since they were common and French Impressionists he associated with were attracted by the Ukiyo-e “genre themes‚ bright colors‚ flattened shapes‚ unconventional spatial effects and asymmetrical compositions
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out on his own and told him to go to Kingston‚ the capital city. This he did at the age of 16‚ where he soon began honing his craft by painting on fine china and glass. There is an amusing parallel here as‚ unbeknownst to Huie‚ the great Impressionist painter Renoir also began his career as a professional china painter. During this period‚ Huie took the paintings and sketches he had done around the streets of Kingston and showed them to K. Delves Molesworth‚ then Secretary of the Institute of Jamaica
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famous of paintings. It is an oil painting‚ painted on poplar wood. The painting is most famous for the smile of the woman‚ which people have been trying to decipher for a long time. Many believe that the portrait is that of Da Vinci himself‚ while many also place a lot mystic connections with this painting. The portrait depicts a woman’s bust‚ with a distant landscape that is visible in the backdrop. Leonardo used a pyramid design to install in simple and calm manner within the painting. The woman
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painters and Jacob narrates the same story with different style of painting and in different period. Both painters strove to make utterly convincing an emotionally charged realization of the theme. Both artists presented lamentation scene in more a natural setting and people in the image are fully modeled. They included crying Mary and other religious representation to tell their audience the story is taken from bible. Both painting share the same biblical subject yet differ in a significant ways
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focused on the effects of industrialisation. He was very strict when it came to aesthetic considerations and this is what ultimately led him to become a great futurist painter and sculptor. Examples of the beauty of his colours can be seen in his paintings‚ "the city rises" 1910-11 and "riot in the gallery" 1909. He uses 20th century subject matter and greatly influenced by Seurat’s pointillism and cubist simultaneity. Giacoma Balla He was older than the other
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matter has been people‚ particularly portraiture. Overall‚ I looked at 6 artists‚ all of whom were photographers. I think I did enough artist research‚ but it would have been best to diverge from the photographers and look at different media‚ such as paintings and drawings. I used the iconic portraits of Man Ray to inspire the later parts of my work‚ including my final piece(s)‚ all done using film photography. However the other photographers I looked at used digital‚ except Robert Bueltemen‚ who used
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in print form. Werner Hofmann suggests that the painting is a "strange devotional picture glorifying decadent love. The cult of the strong woman who reduces man to subjection gives the figure of woman monumental proportions‚ but it also makes a demon of her." The main subject of the painting is a nude woman with red hallow on her head. Her eyes are closed and her hands follow the flow of outer background lines. The female figure in the center of the painting pictorially
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Titian’s work epitomizes the transition from 15th century style painting to a less “meticulous[ly] finished” approach; Titian essentially pioneered the “colorist” movement by using “…more closely interrelated colours” that emphasize expression and dramatize the iconography (Gould). Diana and Actaeon is part of Titian’s “poesie” and contributes to a set of history paintings that portray subjects in an imaginative way. Rather than simply copy an image or provide a story‚ Titian delivers a representation
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