The study of this painting can be communicated by a human face‚ it has the features of a specific person‚ Dora Maar‚ whom Picasso described as ’always weeping’. Your eyes wander over the sharp surface and you are led by the jagged black lines to the pictures centre‚ her mouth
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William Bouguereau’s The Elder Sister is a painting of two siblings. The elder sister is the young girl holding her baby brother while sitting on a large‚ brown rock. The way the girl gazes at the audience shows that she is challenging and brave. As if she dares someone to mess with her younger sibling. The young girl’s facial expression is hard to tell. Similar to the smile of Mono Lisa‚ it’s not certain if the young girl is smiling or making a straight face. The bare foot hanging down‚ painted
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While researching the Pompeian styles of wall painting‚ I discovered how incredible the Second Pompeian style truly is. There are four Pompeian styles of wall paintings‚ which have been divided based upon the fundamental differences in the way the artist treated the wall and created space. The first two styles began during the Republican period‚ and were derived from Greek wall paintings. The First Pompeian style in the second century B.C. was common in many homes. This style was a simple way of
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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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(1718–1725) and the Palazzo de Carolis (1720). As a painter‚ Pannini is best known for his vistas of Rome‚ in which he took a particular interest in the city’s antiquities. Among his most famous works are the interior of the Pantheon‚ and his vedute — paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works‚ specially those
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exhibition at the Rising Art Gallery‚ which was also his first solo art exhibition. Chua was later best remembered for his painting of the National Day celebration at the Padang in 1984 where two thousand reprints of it were sold out in just two weeks. Many years later Chua is still one of Singapore’s most famous and skilled realistic artists. His approach to painting has remained the same as to him‚ “There is no development away from realism. I want to improve on what I’ve got‚ to improve
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2012 The Last Supper A Critique of the painting‚ “The Last Supper” The Last Supper was a painting by Leonardo da Vinci produced in late 15th century. Leonardo painted the painting on Santa Maria della Grazie convent wall in Milan. The work stayed around 1495 and commissioned as part of a renovation plan to the church and convent buildings by Ludovico Sforza. The painting depicts the scene of the Last Supper Jesus had with his disciples according to
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powerful country‚ as well as from an economic and political point of view‚ or from a cultural point a view. Dutch artists come up with new styles of paintings and new techniques‚ and it seems that Dutch patrons give more freedom to artists‚ compared to Italian patrons. Painters like Vermeer opt for classic scenes of daily life‚ i.e. “genre paintings”‚ as we can see it when observing his Het Schilderkunst. The work of art depicts a simple studio‚ in which a man –maybe Vermeer himself?- paints a
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well-known Mexican artist named Frida Kahlo. The painting is called The Two Fridas‚ which was created in 1939. In this painting by Frida Kahlo it represents her dual heritage of her father and mother by having two of her‚ one wearing a European-style dress while the other is wearing more of a Mexican-style. Besides the history and meaning of the painting there are features that are displayed in this painting like the type of medium it is. The medium of this painting is oil on a canvas that allows us to see
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Velazquez’ Las Meninas is a masterpiece of Spanish Baroque painting‚ meaning irregular. It makes the statement of illusion versus reality. You would have to wonder though‚ if this painting revolves of the life of Velazquez‚ the artist who was an individualist painter of the Baroque‚ in the seventeenth century Counter-Reformation Spain‚ or is this a true family portrait of King Philip IV and Queen Mariana with their child. The portrait Las Meninas has always had questions that surrounded its meaning
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