There has been a vast development of new technologies in the recent years and particularly the rise of popularity of the internet and social media. I will be focusing on the impact social media has on our tastes and values and the way in which emergence of social media has had an influence on the way we perceive art in the present day. My investigation will be discussing the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo DaVinci and will be addressing the...
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Two well-known artworks will be discussed: Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Both paintings come from two well-known artists. One in the Early Renaissance period, Leonardo Da Vinci the Italian Painter, and the other was Johannes Vermeer the Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Leonardo Da Vinci painted Mona Lisa and Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring. The two pieces depict several rich colors, but both paintings have two very different styles of artwork from different...
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Today we will be discussing “The changing roles and responsibilities of Women: What can modern women learn from film?” In particular, we will be discussing the historical drama Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell and released in 2003. So, let’s get into it… For the listeners who are yet to see the film, Mona Lisa Smile follows its protagonist Kathrine Watson, a 30-year-old UCLA graduate student who pursues her desire to make a difference by teaching art history at...
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Mona Lisa portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci has been described. Visual description: Creation: The subject is seen from a frontal position and is situated on a balcony. Her face emerges against two particular regions out of sight: a civilized landscape and a fanciful one. Also, the fact that the eyewitness has a birds-ey perspective of this view, there is harmony between the figure and scene. Mona Lisa is wearing plain apparel which is particularly not...
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Pablo Picasso and his work on emotions? Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso is credited, along with Georges Braque, with the creation of Cubism. “Picasso believed Art to the son of Sadness and Suffering… that sadness lent itself to meditation and that suffering was fundamental to life… If we demand sincerity of an artist, we must remember that sincerity is...
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Write a political analysis of a popular cultural artefact (TV series, film, book, play, sculpture, meme). In contemporary society, popular culture can be an object of collective social, economic and political expression. Street (1997, p. 7) acknowledges popular culture as a mass-produced artefact and 'made available to a large number of individuals' such as music, art, films and clothing. Popular culture practices are essential as communicative applicators to how meaning is challenged and circulated. In which, their social and cultural...
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Themes in Art Essay There are many different themes in art, but one that I’ve always been drawn to is mosaic/photo mosaic artworks. Mosaic works are where there are many different shapes coming together to make the final image, and photo mosaic is where other pictures come together to form the final image. I’ve always been fascinated with these types of artworks, and it all stems from the time I spent at Children’s Hospital. I’ve been there my fair share...
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In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government authorized the wall painting for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a huge painting, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was put at the passageway to Spain's structure. Picasso didn't do any work subsequent to accepting the commission until perusing of the shelling of the Basque town of Guernica, in Spain. It was that assault, executed by the German Luftwaffe, that roused him....
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The two art pieces are historically rich in the reasons behind the painting, the reasons within the paintings, and how the paintings affect the societies where they were painted and across the world. Francisco Goya Francisco Goya Francisco de Goya was born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, Spain. He began painting as a teenager, he went to Rome and Italy to further his artistic studies throughout his lifetime. He spent some years of childhood in Saragossa, that is where...
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Clearly one of the most recognizable historical figures of the Renaissance, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian painter, polymath, architect, and inventor. Being a talented artist, he painted two legendary masterpieces that are still admired by the general public today; the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He also made other countless contributions to the development of the arts, science, and literature of the Renaissance; such as concepts of surreal inventions that inspired today’s technology. Probably one...
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Mona Lisa, also called Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, Italian La Gioconda, or French La Joconde, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it remained an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have...
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Artists create new ways of seeing and representing the world through visual perception by defying key features of conventionalism. Artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) and Wifredo Lam (1902 – 1982) were central contributors to the unconventional art world throughout the 1900s. Pablo Picasso’s oil painting, ‘Guernica’ (1937), is a politically oriented cubist painting highlighting the artist’s immediate response to the Spanish Nationalist, Fascist Italian, and Nazi German Luftwaffe bombings on Guernica (Northern Spain). Wifredo Lam’s gouache painting,...
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Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper' are two of the most iconic paintings in history, both painted during the Renaissance. It was originally such a portrait, but over time, its meaning has evolved, becoming a symbol of the Renaissance and becoming the most famous painting in the world. 'Mona Lisa' is probably a portrait of the wife of a Florentine businessman, her eyes are on her husband. It is a portrait of the wife of the wealthy Florentine citizen Francesco...
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Among Leonardo da Vinci's works, 'Mona Lisa' is the only portrait whose authenticity has never been seriously questioned, and it is also one of four works: 'Saint Jerome in the desert ',' The Adoration of the Magi '. and 'The Last Supper - his ownership avoids controversy. In October 1503, he had begun to create a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, a model of the 'Mona Lisa.' Some people think that the 'Mona Lisa' was created in Florence in 1503...
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In the history of art, we can always see that the artists get inspiration from the artwork by other artists to re-create their artworks. It shows that different people got different perspective when looking at the same thing and artist would like to express their perspective by creation of artwork. In this essay, we are going to discuss two artwork 'Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)' by Matisse and 'Les Demoiselles d’Avignon' by Picasso are inspired by 'The Large Bathers'...
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In this essay I will describe how the works of art -‘Bonheur de Vivre’ by Henry Matisse and' Les Demoiselles d’Avignon' by Pablo Picasso, both were influenced by and how they moved away from the painting ‘The Large Bathers’ by Paul Cezanne. Both Picasso and Matisse were prominent artists. Pablo Picasso primarily delved into the cubism and surrealism (“Art Periods”, 2019). Henry Matisse generally created artworks in the vein of fauvism and modernism (“Henry Matisse”, 2019). ‘The Large Bathers’ by...
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Pablo Picasso, born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain wanted to develop a new way of discerning that reflected the modern age, and cubism is how he achieved this goal. Throughout his life he painted a numerous amount of cubism paintings and one of the main ones was called as ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’. This painting we are going to discuss to explain cubism and what it is all about. Picasso wanted to focus on the difference between a painting and reality....
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