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Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

China's Secular Figure Painting

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer

at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...

Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso

artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...

Art, the Human Experience and the Mona Lisa Painting

we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...

Impressionist Paintings and the Proto Impressionism of Velazquez

a few easy strokes. It has been said that, His men and women seem to breathe; his horses are full of action and his dogs of life" ...

Paintings of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Diego Velazquez

at the artist who is painting them. From these perspectives we can see that much of both paintings, in terms of presentation of...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

Still Life with a Plate of Onions Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

was predictable in his mental instability. But, he did possess patterns and habits that did not necessarily change despite the men...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Bach and Handel, Their Musical Languages

his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...

How is "Good" Art Determined?

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kob Antelope, Leopards And Buffalo: Meaning In African Art

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

"Vertumnus And Pomona" By Boucher

a conceptually untapped avenue that became a large part of the artists legacy. Appreciation of nude art grew right along with the...

Comparing the Rococo and Sensibilte Genres of Art

The author discusses how works of arts from these different eras are indeed different genres. Greuz's "Broken Eggs" can ...

The Ohio Canals A Pictorial Survey Of The Ohio Canals Using The Drawings And Paintings Of The Late Frank Wilcox

effectively opening up a trading industry that otherwise could not flourish without its passable waters. The Ohio Canals: A Pictor...