difference between Eastern and Western painting Sogang University in Korea 20030219 Seok‚ Seung-il At the beginning One day‚ I read an article in Internet. The guy insists that eastern pictures have more complicated subject and sharp expression than western pictures; however‚ people evaluate the eastern picture with the western standard so that eastern pictures are low-evaluated. At the moment‚ I find myself to know nothing about eastern painting‚ even though I am one of the eastern
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ADDITIONAL CASES I CASE 11.2 ASSIGNING ART It had been a dream come true for Ash Briggs‚ a struggling artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He had made a trip to the corner grocery store late one Friday afternoon to buy some milk‚ and on impulse‚ he had also purchased a California lottery ticket. One week later‚ he was a millionaire. Ash did not want to squander his winnings on materialistic‚ trivial items. Instead he wanted to use his money to support his true passion: art
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crucis (Stations of the Cross)‚ engravings on estampas and estampitas‚ and through paintings on church walls. Though the ethnic art forms such as pottery‚ weaving and metalwork were retained‚ the Spanish friars and the Chinese‚ the colony’s primary trading partner‚ were slowly introducing newer art forms. Icons brought by the friars were used as models for sculpture. Filipino artisans were taught the Chinese brushwork technique in painting. Engraving was also introduced. The concept of patronage emerged. Artisans
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The artwork entitled Mater Dolorosa that is painted using oil by Simon Dela Rosa Flores on a canvas (104 x 73.5 cm). Simon Flores is known for his religious paintings that were commissioned by wealthy families and parish churches. The date of the painting when it was created was not known. I. INTERPRETATION When I first saw the painting‚ I thought of a mother thinking about her son/daughter. The children behind the mother and staring at her were her guardian angels that help‚ comfort and guide
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Analysis of the archetype in O. Wilde’s novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray" The scale of the realization of ideas through the archetype of an animated portrait allows one to compare "Portrait of Dorian Gray" and Gogol’s "Portrait" as manifestoes of related epochs. In the first chapter‚ an analysis of the archetype in Gogol’s story was conducted‚ we will try to discover the archetype in Wilde’s novel by the same characteristics: • the inclusion of the archetype in ontological issues; • reflection of
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of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’‚ ’Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ’Preludes’‚ I’ll be relating my explanation to those poems. The human conditions that Eliot represents are trivial‚ struggle‚ pessimism‚ depersonalisation‚ despair and desolation. His views of women are misogynistic and being involved in sordid activities. Eliot’s poems deal with the psychological impasse of the sensitive person from whom life has been withheld. Both ’Prufrock’ and ’Portrait of a Lady’ depict self-conscious
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thoughtful‚ understated performances make ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’ an aesthetic masterpiece – but dear God is it dull. It’s based on the best-selling novel by Tracy Chevalier but‚ more significantly than that‚ the book itself tells the story behind a painting by brush-brandishing Dutchman Johannes Vermeer. And not a very interesting story either‚ it has to be said. Rent-a-thesp Colin Firth plays Vermeer‚ who takes a break from the clogs‚ windmills and whore-patrolled waterways of 17th Century Holland
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cupid is presented in the left foreground‚ holding a mirror with the reflection of Venus’ face on its surface‚ while a dark-skinned‚ exotic handmaid fills the upper right of the painting fondling the golden hair of the Venus. The three figures form a lunette that emphasizes the mirror that frames Venus face like a portrait. The viewer follows this lunette once his attention has been caught by the nude female body and then the eyes move from the handmaid to the female body again and the adolescent
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mental illness‚ and was poor.One of the Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting is called‚ The Starry Night thats known all over the world. Between November of 1881 and July of 1890‚ He had 2‚100 artworks‚ including 860 oil paintings and more than 1‚300 watercolor paintings‚ drawings‚ prints‚ and sketches. He mostly focused on drawing portraits‚ including himself and delicately beautiful things like flowers. Van Gogh used portrait painting as a method of introspection‚ a method to make money and a method
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Hawthorne. Also prevalent in many masterpieces created by Rembrandt during the 17 century‚ Rembrandt uses chiaroscuro to create a focal point in his paintings and evoke personal thought. Hawthorne uses chiaroscuro to focus on the element of overall sin and to illustrate conflicts between characters. A comparison of chiaroscuro in Rembrandts paintings and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ provides a deeper understand of how light and dark play a key role in the development of characters and theme. Sin
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