Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer’s‚ “Girl with a Pearl Earring” was painted in 1665-66. It is oil on canvas painting of an ordinary girl that is turned sideways and appears that she is glancing over her left shoulder. Not too much is known about the girl‚ but there are speculations that it could be one of three people. Some think it is his daughter Maria; while others are torn between the daughter of Vermeer’s benefactor‚ Magdalena and a maiden he hired to help with his
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“Art is not what you see‚ but what you make others see” - Edgar Degas The Persistence of Memory By: Salvadore Dali The Persistence of Memory By: Salvadore Dali This article may be about learning from art history but it also deals with the intangibles creating art. I think it’s important to recognise that first and foremost art should evoke emotion in the viewer. As artists‚ we can create the perfectly composed image but without emotion‚ the work is nothing more than pretty. You will never evoke
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the key. Include reference to each of the IB Markband Descriptors for Investigation. Instead of PROJECT #14 write instead “How the Aboriginal artwork influenced the creation of my art. Using techniques of the Aborigines and analyzing the study of pointillism and how they are related.” MAKE CONNECTIONS. 12. Always handwrite citations of artist’s artwork samples. Write the height‚ width‚ and depth. Include where it is located. Include the title‚ media‚ and date that it was created. Do not cut and paste
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studied the work of the modern artists‚ exploring their techniques and styles to see how they suited his own ideas. He liked the style of post-impressionist Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He had began painting in the style of impressionism an pointillism at the academy. He then started to paint in his own style of art. Matisse’s painting‚ "The Green Stripe"‚ a portrait of his wife he painted in 1905‚ was given very bad critiques. An art critic called his work‚ "The nastiest smear of paint I have
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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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The 4 styles of paint that I wanted to use for my painting were Surrealism‚ Cubism‚ Pop art and Pointillism. Surrealism is generally based on dreams. Cubism is modern art and it is based on geometric shapes. Pop art is short for popular art; it is inspired by comic strips‚ advertising and popular entertainment. Pointillism is based on small dots of paint to make up a picture. I did this research to have a better idea on art and know what style I am going to
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(Folkes‚ 1999) Gigantism was predominant in Dali’s late work. The paintings that he created during this part of his life were a combination of all of the styles‚ which he had worked on. They include: Surrealism‚ “quintessential pompierism”‚ pointillism‚ action painting‚ Tachisme‚ geometric abstraction‚ Pop art‚ Op art‚ and psychedelic art. (Neret‚ 1997) Some of these pictures include‚ The
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Henri Matisse [pic] Woman Reading‚ 1894‚ the Cone collection of the Museum of Modern Art‚ Paris Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist‚ known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman‚ printmaker‚ and sculptor‚ but is known primarily as a painter.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded‚ along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp‚ as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the
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CH 20 – The 18th & 19th Centuries: Six main movements: Rococo‚ Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ (The Academy)‚ Realism‚ Impressionism (Macchiaioli) & Postimpressionism Rococo is a unique style occurring toward the end of the Baroque period. It is a much more ornate style that shows sweetness‚ gaiety‚ and light; painterly and pastel features. It is chiefly characterized by the representation of the leisurely activities of upper class society by a frivolous choice of themes. Rococo is derived
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Vincent van Gogh Born on March 30‚ 1853 in Groot-Zundert‚ Holland‚ Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch-post impressionist painter whose work influenced art a lot in the twentieth century. His father was a pastor‚ so van Gogh was brought up in a religious matter. As a child‚ van Gogh was silent‚ serious and thoughtful; he was also emotional and lacked self-confidence. By the time‚ van Gogh decided to become an artist‚ he’d already had two unhappy romances‚ had worked as a clerk at a bookstore‚ was an art
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