Ross Curiel Integrated Fine Arts 101 June 16‚ 2012 The Last Supper Introduction Ludovico Sforza commissioned The Last Supper painting‚ Duke of Milan sometime in the area of 1495 most believe‚ which was in the remaining years of Leonardo da Vinci ’s eighteen year employment under the Duke. It is believed and accepted that this painting approximately took four years for completion as Leonardo da Vinci was a well-known procrastinator and that it was believed he was trying to stretch
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Einstein is known for his great inventions and Picasso is known for his famous paintings‚ but Leonardo Da Vinci is famous for both. Da Vinci was one of the world’s greatest and most versatile geniuses in history. He lived quite an unusual life and was noticed for his artistic abilities at a young age. He used his abilities as he got older and created some of the most valuable art‚ and even 564 years later he is still a very famous man due to his art. Da Vinci had a hard life but it soon became better
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to an incredible understanding of the internal workings of things‚ and of the body in particular. His paintings of the human body show a superiority to human forms represented by artists like Pollaiuolo. The difference between their depictions can be seen in comparing Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Ten Naked Men c.1475 and da Vinci’s drawing The Vitruvian Man c. 1490. Da Vinci’s drawings and paintings of the human body are much more convincing than artists before him because he understood the internal
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Abstract Thoughts The mentality behind the Cubist painter was to reject the work of artists who made what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the basics of conventional art‚ Cubist painters used shapes and formed movement from placing objects in different angles to create a completely new artistic perspective. Gertrude Stein‚ a modernist writer of the 20th century‚ rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to represent the speech of language. Just as the cubist
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Progress” John Gast’s painting‚ “American Progress”‚ illustrates many depictions of the early movement and development of the United States. This particular painting defines uniqueness and character throughout. Looking at it geographically the angel portrayed in the middle is floating westward as though she is exemplifying the Westward Expansion. She has the “Star of Empire” imprinted on her forehead‚ which better portrays the idea of her trying to move westward. This painting is a great description
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shape. Realism was very popular for hundreds of years and people became used to having paintings look really realistic so that why when a new form of art came along it wasn’t accepted right away. Since the church controlled a lot of what was happening during this period the paintings had to be about historical biblical or mythological references. Some of the other standards that each painting had to meet was that it needed to be really tall most came around to 6 feet tall and the
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In his painting The Lacemaker‚ Louis Valtat presents us with an image of a young woman working on a lace. The style of the painting reminds me of the impressionist paintings that were painted at a slightly earlier date. The painting has a lot of white in it from the dress‚ the wall‚ and the fireplace on the left side‚ but Valtat likes to mix in a bright yellow and red into this painting‚ mostly in the lace but also just scattered throughout the picture. The lacemaker is sitting down with the lace
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Edward Hopper grew up and lived in the inter-war period. He grew up in a well-off middle class family and decided he was going to be an artist as early as 16 years old (Smith‚ 1986). His parents supported him however pushed him towards commercial art because it had more promise and structure. He first attended the New York School of Illustrating but later transferred to the New York School of Art in 1900. At this school he worked under artists who influenced him to
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uses colour and patterns that are well known and recognisable to recreate what he thinks and sees in our world. This use of specific patterns and colours that reference to his world are evident in his portraits Helm of the Rambut Pura‚ Hex‚ and The last bastion. Helm of the Rambut Pura is a portrait of a man‚ his face‚ beard and feet are the only visible body parts. The artwork depicts a man wearing a baseball hat with indonesian artistic practice style and colours as well as a demon. The particular
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which he passed. A detail from the mummy case‚ Portrait of Artemidorus (Fig. 15-17) shows us how young Artemidorus was when he died. The portrait depicts a handsome young man with huge brown eyes and smooth skin. He wears a wreath on top of his hair which is stylized in a manner that was popular during the rule of Trajan. Another example from Hawara of painting on woods for a mummy case can be seen on Mummy portrait of young woman (Fig. 15-18). This painting is of a young woman that dates around ca. 110-120
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