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Cassatt and “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child

the Worlds Columbian Exposition, which was held in Chicago in 1893 (LACMA). While her depictions of mothers and children represent...

Mary Cassatt: “A Cup of Tea”

(Pollock 10). Thus, we need to see what Impressionisms characteristics are, and compare them to the painting. The Web Museum, an o...

The Influence of Medieval Christianity on Art of the Time

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

Two Bathing Paintings

that of the tree trunks, gives a strong diagonal component to the work, running from the top left to the bottom right. The use of ...

Wolfflin and Friedlander and Anti-Mannerism

painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Don Quixote and Velasquez’ Las Meninas

There is also another element which one could utilize to connect the two. This comes with the setting of the painting. It appears,...

Renaissance Humanism and “The School of Athens”

being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...

Who Is Mona Lisa?

comprehend it with ease" since Leonardo had captured "all the minutenesses that with subtlety are able to be painted" (Halsall). T...

Mark Bradford and Claude Monet Compared and Contrasted

that Im trying to really figure out" (Bradford, 2006). One cannot help relate the artists words to the painting itself. Similarly,...

Ruysch: Floral Still Life

to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with v...

Cimabue's "Madonna And Child Enthroned By Angels"

opportunity to create an illusion so grand that the observer is unable to determine what is image and what is reality. Light is t...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles

religious. In terms of it being historical, one may assume, without the presence of the title, that he could be a historical figur...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Room in New York by Edward Hopper

bright yellow and adorned with pictures. The viewer sees the couple as if grazing through a window while walking down the street....

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

Overview of Impressionism

that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Impressionism Crisis Impact Upon the Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...

8 Styles of Painting from Baroque to Surrealism

the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...

Overview of the Paintings of Weyden, Raphael, and Vermeer

detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...

3 Artworks from the High Renaissance Period

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...

Art Critique: Reaction

himself, on a pedestal that is covered in fabric. The photo is a profile of the man and his entire body, save for a small portio...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...