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Rembrandt

was one of the greatest artists of Dutch ancestry. He was a master of light and shadow whose paintings, drawings, and etchings made him a legendary figure in art history. Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, the Netherlands. His father was a miller but unlike his father, ...

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Does Michelangelo'S Talent Still Reflect After The Restorations In The Sistine Chapel?

? I asked myself this question after I watched the video and I don't believe that it does. Michelangelo is known for his talent in figure drawing and shadowing, after the restorations, his shadowing the character of his art was gone. I asked myself another question, "should he still get credited ...

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Abstract Expressionism

Order and chaos finally have meaning together. The movement of abstract painting emerged in New York during the nineteen-forty’s. It is also called action painting and the New York school. “The New York school was significant in American paintings because it declared independence from European ...

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent was born on March 30, 1853, in the village of Groot Zunbert in the Dutch province of North Brabant. His father, Theodorus, was pastor of a small Dutch Reformed Church. Vincent's mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was a similarly mild and uninspired soul. It is common for biographers to ...

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The Renaissance

Within only a few decades, between the years 1450 and 1550, the history of the world was changed drastically. During that century, in which the modern world was born, Gutenberg perfected printing, Christopher Columbous discovered continents unknown to Europe, it was found that the Earth revolved ...

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A Contemplative Look At Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, leader of the Fauve group, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th-century art, and a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression. Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis in northern France on December 31, 1869. ...

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Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech was the son of Salvador Dalí Cusí and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. He was born on the lackadaisical day of May 11, 1904. Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was dubbed ...

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Jacques Louis David

David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting, his influence determined the course of fashion, furniture design, and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition, and ...

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Jacques Louis David

David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting, his influence determined the course of fashion, furniture design, and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition, and ...

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent was born on March 30, 1853, in the village of Groot Zunbert in the Dutch province of North Brabant. His father, Theodorus, was pastor of a small Dutch Reformed Church. Vincent's mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was a similarly mild and uninspired soul. It is common for biographers to ...

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15,1452, in a small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary named Vincier Piero and a peasant woman named Caterina Piero. Leonardo had seventeen half brothers and sisters. In the mid-1460s the family settled in ...

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Armory Show

Armory Show Art has often been used to impact an audience on felt strong feelings. Why is art so hard to understand? Controversies have grown more prominent over the years and remain closely linked today. The objective of this study is to analyze why society has trouble understanding different ...

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Visual Analysis of Warhol Andy, Details of Renaissance Paintings: Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus (1482) 1984

Visual analysis of: Warhol Andy, Details of Renaissance Paintings: Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus (1482) 1984 Student's name Date Description ARTIST: Andy Warhol TITLE:Details of Renaissance Paintings: Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli REFERENCE: FS II316 MEDIUM OF ...

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Salvador Dali

was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia Lorca, and Luis Bundel. ...

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Artist: Turner: Outline

Outline: Chose an artist such as Turner, David or Hunt and explain how that artists work fulfilled that eras definition of the moral purpose of art. The purpose of Turners work was to establish a link between sublimity and understanding. Art reflects on the expanding nature of our society and ...

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Giorgione

was one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance. However, much of his life remains a mystery. His given name, Zorzi da Castelfranco, makes his birthplace quite obvious. He was also known as Giorgio da Castlefranco, and Giorgio Barbarelli. Historians are even unsure of his ...

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Vincent Van Gogh

In present time, is probably the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism. During his brief lifetime, Vincent’s work went almost unknown to this world. His work now hangs in countless museums throughout the world and is considered priceless. His work became an ...

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Leonardo Da Vinci

is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited ...

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Monet

Oscar Claude ou Claude était l'inspiration de la movement Impressionism. Il est né le 14 novembre 1840 à Paris. Beaucoup des autre artistes célèbre de le movement Impressionism étaient nés pendant cette décade aussi. Son père, Claude Adolf , était un épicier. Quand a cinq ans, sa famille a ...

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Claude Monet

was born in Paris on the 14th November 1840. When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. Most of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, ...

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