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Some say he was superstitious, sarcastic, awful towards his children, and horrible to women. He could very well have been all those things, but one thing I know Pablo Picasso was a great artist. He is one of the fathers of cubism, he had an audience of at least tens of millions. No other painter…

Mark Tansey is an American painter. His parents were both art historians, so he started to learn about art at his early age. Those experiences had great influences on Tansey’s painting style. Most of his painting is monochromatic and describes daily or historical affairs. Although his painting involved many realistic objects, he is not realistic…

Portrait of an Artist: The Works of Rembrandt van Rijn             The painting shows the female sitter wearing pearls, a lace collar and gold filigree chains. Her pale face—framed by her fiery curls—shows an expression of awareness and amusement, her pink lips forming a slight smile. She is wearing black, like her framed counterparts, but…

There was a move away from a product based aesthetic in the arts (sculpture, painting etc) to event or performance based art in the fifties: cite some examples as to why this occurred. For instance: was this due to a changing political climate? Was it in reaction to what came before? Be as specific as…

Edouard Manets Bar at the Folies Bergere was completed in 1882. This was to be the last major work Manet would complete before his death. The painting was intended for the Salon, and because of his recently awarded Legion of Honor, Manet could be sure this piece would be accepted. This painting would be considered…

Frida Kahlo is considered to be one of Mexico’s greatest artists. However Kahlo is also very well known in America. She is mainly recognized for her art that speaks to viewers emotionally and physically. Frida was an artist,a communist,an accident survivor,a non-conforming woman and an educator. To this day Frida still holds all of these…

William Harnett, known for his trompe-l’oeil still lifes, realism and representational art. He paints his subjects, in this piece, a pipe, smoking tobacco, and matches on a table in a real, life like, manner. The objects are close to life size which gives the illusion that the items can be touched. Harnett uses lines of…

The Frenchman Georges Braque ( 1882-1963 ) and the Spaniard Pablo Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) are considered the most influential creative persons of the 20th century and the artistic masterminds who created and developed the cubist motion doubtless the most radical one in Western art. During a certain period of clip. both creative persons worked…

Narrative content of the story.  Every picture can narrate a story. Even pictures of an inanimate object can signify meanings and tell tales. The painting entitled “Mrs. Duffee Seating on a stripe Sofa, Reading” portrayed a lovely woman of elegance and no more engrossed in anything but reading. This painting though painted without the adornment…

You might commonly hear people jokingly say after they paint something, “I’m the next Picasso” or “I paint like Picasso”, but what does it mean to paint like Picasso? There’re legends in sports, in the music industry, in history and so forth, but Picasso was a legend of his own as a painter. He made…