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work. When people have only a short time to see a piece of art they are drawn to it and will remember it, especially when that ...

religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...

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

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

Recent solo exhibitions have included: Marina Abramovic: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Marking ...

to merge as one giving no definite beginning or end. We see the impressionistic images of the boats which offer the real only geom...

go to composition or content. Just as some artists today are embraced while others struggle, this has always been the case. Not al...

for his life influenced his work and perhaps created in him the need to express what he experienced and saw. With that in mind we ...

(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

were voracious readers not only while they were children but even today. Each states that she was captivated with such things as ...

Carracci at their workshop in Bologna," and Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain came from France; in addition, Caravaggio came to ...

that he was born to a noble family and that he obtained his early art education from Greeks who had settled in Florence, but that ...

work Dying Words seems innocent enough with South Carolina parakeets gathered around, beautifully colored and detailed in the styl...

With something of his biography in mind we move on to examine his works, his style, his influences, and those whom he influenced. ...

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

of realism as though it were a sketch. There is not the boldness of lines and the use of color that would represent the work of Ma...

since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

and the plaintiff took it to Rea for production along with a final estimate of $785. Rea then told the defendant that, in this f...

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...

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

display at the Dallas Museum of Art (Giacometti). It is what the name implies: three of Giacomettis elongated figures, walking tog...

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

to a "fever" and Orazio also perished due to the plague ("Art...Titian"). Due to the circumstances, the emotion conveyed by the ...

particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...