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This painting is called ‘still life with a basket of apples’. It was made between 1890 and 1894, this means it took Cezanne 4 years to produce; it is 23 3/8 by 31 inches. The artwork is of some apples in a basket and a bottle of wine. This is a scene that is not…

            During the 6th and 4th centuries B.C., pottery was the commonly used method to create functional and decorative pieces. One of the famous products of pottery that were produced during this era was the painted vase which was ornamented using “black and red figure techniques.” More so, in Athens, Greece, artisans used this to…

The combination of stop-motion animation and clay figures is known as clay animation. It was developed in the early 20th century, but became popular as a form of children’s entertainment due to shows like “Gumby” and “Wallace and Gromit. ” The term “Claymation” is copyrighted by Will Vinton Studios, but is informally used in reference…

Starry Night is a beautiful painting, representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ? in. , and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting, there is a group…

Formal Analysis I. Description (What do you see?) I see a medium sized oil painting that is bigger than I am. I see a man who looks like he is in pain with his hands on his head. This is the man with a muscular and structural frame with layers of curved and diagonal figures…

Introduction: The paper presents a comparison between two books: Ways of Seeing” and “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body.” Both books cover a common feature – the human body. Ways of Seeing, written by John Berger, is a book that explores the ways in which we perceive and interpret visual images. Berger argues that our understanding…

From where do we get our notion of art? The assumption is that art is something that takes talent, patience, and hard work, and thus should be appreciated for the considerable skills of its maker. Another assumption is that art is supposed to look “like something”. But who is to say that rendering objects from…

Critical Analysis of Guernica – By Bryce Craig Spanish artist Pablo Picasso can often be collectively seen as the greatest and most influential artist of the twentieth century. In a historical sense he encompassed all that is to be a practicing modernist artist and prevailed as one of the most significant artists overall in human…

Kokoschka was born in P’chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and…

Born in Monroe, Washington, in 1940, Close studied picture at Yale University before traveling to New York in 1967. Although he greatly admired Abstract Expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and, particularly, Willem de Kooning, he wrote, “ They nailed it down so wellthat I couldn’t do anything but weak caricatures of their…