Jan van Eyck’s work‚ The Arnolfini Portrait‚ is a famous piece of Flemish portraiture with a lively history of interpretation (Hall xviii). Most interpretations of the work hinge upon the symbolism found in the iconography of the work‚ while others rely upon the presumption that the work is nothing but masterfully rendered naturalism‚ while still others apply various modern art history methodologies. In this paper I will provide a brief survey of the leading interpretations and methods that have
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“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner 1 The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests —army officers‚ and government attache´s with their wives‚ and a visiting American naturalist —in their spacious dining room. It has a bare marble floor‚ open rafters‚ and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. 2 A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse
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DESCRIBING A HANDSOME MAN BLOND HAIR LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 OTHERS Viking-gold hair Nordic-gold hair Aryan-gold hair lions mane-gold hair Achilles-gold hair Hercules-gold hair Scandinavian-gold hair Teutonic-gold hair mother lode-gold hair Apollo-gold hair 1. He had wavy‚ Hercules-gold hair. 2. He had mussed‚ Nordic-gold hair. 3. He had twirling‚ Aryan-gold hair. 4. He had a swirling‚ lion’s mane of gold hair. 5. He had whisked‚ Apollo-gold
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Francis Bacon - The Portraits Francis Bacon was born in Dublin‚ Ireland to English parents. When F. Bacon grow up and was more independent he then travelled to Berlin were he spent most of his time there. He then moved onto Paris‚ before returning to London and starting out as an interior designer. Bacon never attended art school; he only began his work in watercolours about 1926 – 27. An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso inspired him to make his first drawings and paintings. The influence
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Christian Gutierrez Dr. Wendy Slatkin ART 213 19 November 2012 The Portrait of Marten Looten There have been many great artists throughout the history of mankind. World famous and household names such as Leonardo da Vinci‚ Michelangelo‚ and Picasso may be the first to come to mind. However there is one artist who perhaps surpasses the aforementioned names in terms of technical skill; a man who is incredibly proficient in the fields of painting and especially etching; a man who’s work symbolizes
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(Quiz 1 will post Wednesday‚ January 23rd and is Due to be taken no later than Monday‚ January 28th) READ: PGS. 1 - 3 :"Femininities" PG. 4 : "Chapter 1: Women As Art" PGS. 5 - 8 : "The Oval Portrait" : Edgar Allan Poe PGS. 15 - 19 : "Their Last Visitor" : Young-ha Kim "In an Artist’s Studio" : Christina
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Ryan Foley Humanities 101 Self Portrait Paper September 28‚ 2013 Born April 15‚ 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci‚ was born with no surname his full name being "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci." Little is known of Leonardo’s early up bringing besides him spending his first five years of life in the household of his father‚ grandparents and uncle‚ Francesco‚ in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl
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Formal Analysis of Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait‚ Aged 23 Self-Portrait‚ Aged 23 was painted by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in 1629. The oil on wood work is on display in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It was purchased in 1896 from Lt. Col. Sawyer through Bernard Berenson and has dimensions of 89.7 x 73.5 centimeters1. As the title implies‚ Rembrandt as a young man is the only figure in the portrait. He is set slightly off-center to the viewer’s left and his body is angled so
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Portrait of Augustus as General Roman portraiture was one of the most significant periods in the development of portrait art. The characteristics of Roman portraitures are more modest‚ realistic‚ idealized‚ and natural. Also‚ the body compositions‚ muscles and facial expressions of portraits and sculptures are more advanced. Many roman portraits are directly linked to specific individuals‚ such as gods and emperors. They were often used for propaganda purposes and included ideological messages
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realism movement‚ his Portrait of Marevna c. 1915 is vulnerable to the assumption of being an outlier to Rivera’s more well-known style and to the reduction of being merely evidence of experimentation. Though Portrait of Marevna cannot be linked at first glance to the politically charged‚ indigenismo-influenced work he created during the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s‚ inklings of this era are present within the portrait’s construction. This paper explores how Portrait of Marevna
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