wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ Massachusetts. The painting is over ten feet by ten feet in area and is truly spectacular. It is impossible to miss this massive work of art when walking through the hall. The painting is encased by a beautiful wooden frame and hangs in between many other outstanding paintings. This paper will cover a description of the painting‚ the meaning of the painting‚ and the background of how the painting was brought to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I
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Throughout the painting‚ we are able to see quite a lot of sharp edges and contrasting colours. The woman’s black piercing eyes are wide-opened‚ her tears running down in clear drops‚ and she is biting a handkerchief which she grips tightly in her hands. Placed on the top of her head is a black‚ yellow and red hat with a blue flower on top. Her shattered image reminds us almost of a broken mirror and her distressed face enables us to see the pure emotions this lady is feeling. The painting seems resemble
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designers‚ etc. For me‚ I think I’m good at painting. When I was 6 years old‚ my mom was always paint with me. Painting can led me relax‚ and expressing my mood on paper. After I finished my works‚ my teachers‚ friends said‚ " Your painting is so amazing! " so I love painting and that’s my specialty. My parent’s viewpoint is very free; they let us choose our majors and what we want to learn. For me‚ painting is my major. When I was a child‚ my mom was always painting with me‚ I really love this time‚ because
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oil canvas‚ is the middle ground as well as the central location. I will be analyzing his 100 x 130 cm painting by using the elements and principles of design. The black spot is the focal point of the oil painting because the first thing you see while looking at the oil painting. Kandinsky painted this whole composition with abstract views and is non-objective. This is an abstract style of painting that was based on the non-representational properties of color and form. In the Black Spot‚ Kandinsky
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that work is displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Each artist provides paintings on canvas. John Currins oil on canvas painting titled "the Hobo" is on display at the museum. Ryan McGinness displays an acrylic painting on canvas titled " The True Knowledge of Things". Both artists provide a unique perspective using canvas. John Currin is an American painter‚ known for his figurative paintings. His paintings deal with sexual and social themes. He states his influences as the Renaissance
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Art Timeline Chelsey Frear ART 101 August 14‚ 2011 Melissa Kozakiewicz Art Timeline I chose to do nature paintings by famous artist. 1829- Sunset‚ Fighting Bucks This painting was created by William Turner. He got his inspiration from the Lake in Petworth. In this painting‚ you can see some of his brush strokes and lines like in the sky. But on the trees to the side and the bucks down in the field are somewhat detailed and they are not just a stroke of a brush. He tried
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it can be interpreted and translated as a way to judge every type of art. I have chosen to judge a painting‚ and after careful consideration‚ I have picked out three criterion I find are best used when judging this type of art. The three different criteria that I am going to use are composition‚ aesthetics‚ and realism. The painting “Guernica” is one of Pablo Picasso’s most well known paintings. Picasso painted this after twenty-eight nazi German bombers unexpectedly dropped hundreds of bombs
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major areas of Renaissance art‚ painting altarpieces‚ portraits‚ mythologies‚ and pastoral landscapes with figures. In the piece titled‚ “The Sacrifice of Isaac‚” Titian demonstrates his style in the use of oil on canvas. This painting of Abraham and Isaac is (328cm × 285cm) and was painted during 1542-1544. The work is linked to scripture from the Bible and is now in the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice. It was originally painted as a ceiling painting for the
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Summer Mountains Summer Mountain is an exquisite painting of a landscape in China. It is painted on a hand scroll made of silk with ink and pale colors. The painting is from the Northern Song dynasty 960-1127 in the 11th century. The painting was attributed to Qu Ding {Chinese‚ active ca. 1023-ca. 1056}("Attributed to Qu Ding: Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western
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as Fenêtre ouverte is a painting by Henri Matisse. The work was painted in 1914 and Matisse kept the painting until his death. He died in 1954 but the Porte- fenêtre à Collioure was first exhibited in 1966. Matisse painted numerous of paintings of the theme of the window at Collioure. Without looking at the title of the painting it is hard to identify the elements in the painting. This is probably Matisse’s one of the most abstract painting. Unlike his other paintings at Collioure‚ this one does
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