The Renaissance period began during the 14th-17th centuries and was known as a time of reform and growth highly influenced by the gifted artists of this era. Prior to the Renaissance, the artwork was 2-dimensional and was centered around the current struggles of society. Artists in the early Renaissance created a shift in the art world by focusing on creating...
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Understanding different developments and the timeframes in which they existed can empower an individual to more promptly recognize the more unpretentious subtleties of workmanship and the importance behind them. Workmanship thankfulness ought to be unique and interesting. One ought not to depend on the investigation or assessment of others while shaping their own viewpoint on a given piece. Thus, one...
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To be human is to be both heroic and deeply flawed, self-sacrificing and selfish, competitive and giving. For the Greeks, the human body laid bare the divinity of beauty. The ancient Greek view of humanity is emphasized by the human body. Greek artists highlighted physical beauty and athleticism in their works. The Greeks see physical beauty as godly and divine....
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Mary Shelley uses Victor Frankenstein’s creation as a warning towards classicism and rational thinking; something past the boundaries of societal and cultural norm. Firstly, Shelley shows this through each victim, namely Elizabeth Lavenza and Henry Clerval who both appreciate nature and its sublimity when Victor fails to do so as the novel progresses. Victor narrates this thought, as he states,...
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Frida Kahlo (1907-54, Mexican) and Joy Hester (1920-60, Australian) are both significant female artists, exploring human emotions and the complexities of life in their work. Kahlo was a surrealist artist often illustrating her Mexican heritage and depicting the female experience through her self-portraiture. Hester was a modernist artist, and was involved in an innovative circle of artists who made great...
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John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter, and poet.1 He is best known for his novel G. and his book and BBC series Ways of Seeing. His books’ ideas and arguments (Ways of Seeings which we have chosen for the presentation) are still relevant today. Berger takes us beyond the...
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In this essay I will address how Andy Warhol’s religious beliefs shaped and directed his art and why religion matters in the history of American Modernism. Andy Warhol was very much engaged in the material culture of his art and religion, particularly his Catholic faith. Andy Warhol, the modern artist, made hundreds of pictures of religious subjects throughout his busy...
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Architecture is constantly associated with its functional purpose, physical appearance and its amenity. However, maintains a much more inadvertent role which surpasses far beyond the physical and material world in which we live and enters the intangible realm of our existential memory. ’A mental meditation between the world and our consciousness’ . Successful architecture is displayed in the completeness, credibility...
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Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. His family was from Slovakia, a country in central Europe. As immigrants, his family struggled to support themselves in America’s time of economic distress. According to Biography, Warhol grew up immersed in his Slovakian culture (“Andy Warhol”). When he was eight, he was diagnosed with a disease called Chorea....
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Mathematics is the science of pattern and structure, order and relation; evolved from the elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shape of objects. It is fundamental to physical and biological sciences; essentially anything to do with equations and calculations is categorized under mathematics. The Renaissance saw the advancement of symbolic algebra. In his “Artem Analyticem Isagoge” of 1591,...
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Frida Khalo, A Mexican Icon Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon best known as Frida Khalo was born on July 6, 1907, in the house of her parents, well known as The Blue House. Coyoacan at the time was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo was a German immigrant. Her mother, Matilde Calderon...
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“We can only approach it obliquely, from different angles that get closer to a central understanding but never quite touch it. We can only comprehend asymptotically.” Angelica Chong mentioned in her article on Hiroshima, Redux (Chong, 2016). She questions if we can ever understand atrocity and if we can never truly understand it, should we still be responsible for comprehending...
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Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. Claude Monet’s Garden at Sainte-Adresse initially appears to be a painting of leisure. The painting’s charming subject and brilliant colours disguise the more complex issues of pictorial depiction that Monet introduces (The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000). Such that his piece does not...
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Andy Warhol is one of the most influential artists of all time, spearheading the pop art movement, one of his most famous works is “Campbell’s soup cans” from 1962. “Campbell’s soup cans” is an artwork that is comprised of thirty-two 20 by 16-inch canvases, each canvas was hand painted, and they were all identical, save from the flavor of soup....
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Being born with a death mask is a weird concept. The artist Frida Kahlo made Niña con máscara de Calavera (girl with a death mask) in 1938. The painting was gifted to her friend Dolores del Rio, but right now it's on display at the Nagoya city art museum in Japan. The girl is wearing a day of the dead...
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The theme of Identity incorporates several aspects in multiple disciplines. According to the Cambridge Dictionary Identity means who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others: IDENTITY In-text: (Identity, 2021) Your Bibliography: In Cambridge Dictionary. 2021. Identity. [online] Available at: [Accessed 2 May 2021].Research highlights that in most cases, identity refers...
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The work of the 'Two Fridas' is inordinately symbolic of her life, and the times of hardships and struggles she experienced. The surrealist work was painted in 1939 and is the largest scale work Kahlo had created. This work is an oil painting on canvas, 173 by 173cm. It is a symbolic piece; and Kahlo has clearly used the technique...
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Description In Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait there can be seen the artist standing on a stone/grave like pedestal with writing engraved on it, Kahlo is wearing a pink frilly dress that almost covers her feet, she is wearing cream white gloves that end just past her elbow, around her neck she is wearing a necklace that has red beads with three...
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Art allows artists to express their cultural identity and heritage specifically with the use of cultural symbolism. Artists use cultural symbolism to draw on insights from past and existing experiences to express a greater meaning within their artwork. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo uses cultural markers from both Mexico and the United States to show her internal battle when displaced from...
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Frida Kahlo was a revolutionary artist, who encountered many battles during her life. She is an empowering role model, breaking the barriers of the stereotypes of women during her period. As an artist, she illustrated the dark and fretful times she encountered in her life onto canvas. All her works are extremely dynamic, which illuminate juxtaposed images creating conflicting concepts....
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Frida Kahlo, born in 1907, was a Mexican artist famous for her self portraits. She explored themes of post-colonialism, race, identity and class in the twentieth century Mexican society. Although often described as a surrealist, she rejected this title, declaring, ‘I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.’ Her paintings not only reflected the hardships she endured throughout her...
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Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon or known as Frida Kahlo is one of the greatest artists and influenced the Mexican Hispanic Culture. Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico City. This radiant beauty was known for her self-portraits that capture bright eye-catching colors. Her artwork is showcased through a very raw, realistic, and pure vision capturing...
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Over the years there have been more and more instances of fashion designer and artist collaborations, where fashion designers have been either charmed by or been influenced by patterns, contour or form. For many decades now, designers have been drawn towards not only artists but writers, filmmakers, musicians to be inspired by and thus fashion has also become an ideal...
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Through this paper, it was proven that Andy Warhol has influenced the ways that Ed Paschke manifests the creations of his artwork. With Andy Warhol's use of color and style, Ed Paschke used visually similar aspects to portray his style of Pop art. Andy Warhol's artworks of 'The Scream After Munch 1984' and 'Muhammad Ali 1978' influenced the ways that...
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Pablo Picasso, a name synonymous with revolutionary artistry, stands as a towering figure in the world of modern art. Born in Spain in 1881, Picasso's journey in art began under the tutelage of his father, an art teacher. His prodigious talent soon catapulted him into the annals of artistic legends. This essay delves into the multifaceted life and works of...
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Artist Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was known as one of the most remarkable, influential and innovative artists in the 20th century. He was known for diverging between styles so incredibly different that it seems like his works are a combination of many different artists, he was a sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, etching artist and...
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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream,” Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who shaped the way of art in the late 1800’s. He used his art to give things with little meaning a story. Even if one is unfamiliar with art and artists, Van Gogh...
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An image is but a “window through which we look out into a section of the visible world” (Richter, Wells & Kemp, 2008, p102). But what of this visible world and that of the viewer? To begin questioning “what we see and what we know” (Berger, 2008, p.7), is to watch 70s revolutionary broadcast Ways of Seeing by John Berger....
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Title of Work: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park Artist: Diego Rivera Medium: fresco mural Date Created/Art Period/Art Movement: Surrealism, 1946-1947 Where Created/Culture: Mexico City, Mexico Funky (Form, Focus of work, Use of Elements and Principles, Artist’s specific style used): This work ‘Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central Park’ ( known in Spanish as...
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Emersonian Essay Imagine if no one followed the rules. Everyone would not care and people would speak up to what they truly believe in. This world would be completely different. We wouldn't have to walk around with a fake mask just to fit in. Although that would be great, I think it would be awhile until that happens. With not...
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