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Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
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The Arnolfini portrait by Jan van Eyck is one of the most popular masterpieces in London's National Gallery. Painted in 1434 in Bruges, this small oil masterpiece on an oak panel has influenced painters from Velázquez to ...
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Aesthetic Evaluation of two Arts
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Visual arts describe those skills that are visible to the human eye, including drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic art, decoration, and later photography and film. The visual arts are the expression of human creativity, visualization of the way we see life and the world around us. ...
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Art Critique
Critique #3 Thomas Hart Benton, Down by the Riverside, 1969, oil on canvas
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The art critique, which had a title “Down by the Riverside”, was produced in 1969, by the famous painter known as Thomas Hart Benton. He produced lots of paintings earlier in his life that were based ...
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PICTURE ANALYSIS
Picture Analysis
Picture Analysis
It has often been made of the chromatic unity of this portrait, in which the red flesh tones, the red cape, the red camauro, and the armchair of red velvet against the backdrop of a red door create such a dramatic effect that, if the pope were ...
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LANDSCAPE, ART AND SOCIETY IN BRITAIN
Landscape, Art and Society in Britain C.1750-1850
Landscape, Art and Society in Britain C.1750-1850
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The term landscape has two main referents. The first is a territory that the eye can comprehend in a single view, such as those celebrated in the English Lake District. The ...
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Dutch Painter Skating On Thin Ice
Dutch Painter Skating On Thin Ice
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Representations in painting, sculpture or the graphic arts of sports, games or other outdoor pastimes. This term is used to denote the depiction, from the 17th to the 19th century, of the field and blood sports that form a ...
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MADAME D'HOUSEVILLE & THE MODERN WOMAN Madame d'Houseville & The Modern Woman
Madame d'Houseville & The Modern Woman
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was the painter the modernists warned us against. Americans, in general, have never really warmed to him. He died at 86 in 1867--which means he did not live quite long ...
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THE BEACH
The painting: The beach by Malva
The painting: The beach by Malva
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The painting which is called the beach by Malva shows various things about the nature and the people. The painting shows the beautiful aspects of the nature where people are enjoying with their families, Moreover, the painter showed ...