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Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Execution of the Third of May by Francisco Goya

to be next in line for killing and then the men with the guns and uniforms. The painting is incredibly dark save for one bright, a...

Renaissance Period Embodiment of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

of interests, which included mathematics, music, science, and artistic design (Craven 85). When his lawyer father showed his sons...

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...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

picture" (Messengers of Light, 2005). There has also been recent discussion and controversy over one figure not being one of Jesus...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Enthroned Virgin and Child by Pietro Lorenzetti

Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

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...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

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 ...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

The Eternal City by Peter Blume and Echo of a Scream by David Alfaro Siqueiros

those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

Comparison of Pablo Picasso's Massacre in Korea and Guernica and Francisco Goya's The Shootings of May 3, 1808

the most defiant aspect of its symbolist tendencies; without uttering but a single word, this work of art is fully able to communi...

Life and Art of Impressionist Painter Mary Cassatt

Fine Arts. In 1866 she went back to Paris" where "She copied the old masters in the Louvre and other museums. The young woman arti...

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

Artists Courbet, Monet, and Manet

clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...

17th Century Dutch Painter Vermeer

View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...

Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

French Sculptor and Painter Edgar Degas

In five pages Degas is discussed in a consideration of two of his most famous paintings 'Women with Chrysanthemums' and 'Dancer on...

Card Sharks by Caravaggio

In seven pages this research paper analyzes this painting as representative of the artist's work and also includes the controversi...

The Impressionism of Claude Debussy

Impressionism is a term usually reserved for painting, but Claude Debussy's work has often been termed impressionistic. This essay...

Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...