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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…

The title of my book is, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry. This book highlights how Jonas, the main character, lives in a sameness, but soon realizes that’s there is another world outside of The Community and wants to leave. The Giver is a fictional book and is also an award-winning book for children’s literature….

            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…

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…

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…

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…

Never has the there been a story that plays more with its readers’ psych than the story of Frankenstein. Hailed as a renowned classic, Frankenstein is one of the first great horror stories to have ever been written, Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelly and published anonymously on January 1, 1818. The story has lived…