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Successful Painting: Arcrylics Essay, Research Paper Successful Painting: Acrylic fibers Ching Hao one time said, “ There are six necessities in picture. The first is called spirit ; the 2nd, beat ; the 3rd, thought ; the 4th, scenery ; the fifth, the coppice ; and the last is the ink. ” This brings us…

Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”, Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting, particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that, the same way…

The world of the “exotic” and strangeness is an inherently interesting subject matter among people. Fascinations with the “other” world are depicted in poems, novels, literary descriptions and art as an attempt to understand, romanticise or exploit another culture. The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1799 brought forth a heightened interest among artists…

Art Paintings Art is everywhere (Guillermo, 1976). We can find it through our daily activities. We can find it in every thing we saw without knowing that what we see and what we touch is already the works of art. Art add up to the beauty of life. It gives color, and light to every…

In the essays “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen and “Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger, the authors try to convey a similar point, but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to…

Forensic Paint Analysis             Paint analysis, in the context of forensic science, is the process of examining paint samples in an attempt to discover their unique physical and chemical properties. Usually this is done on known and questioned samples to check for any differences between them, and thus to determine if they are from the…

* Tinikling in Oil – Oil on canvas. Farmers dancing the traditional bamboo dance. named after the field birds that jump about with their long legs. This oil painting on canvas depicts a rural scene where a group of people are shown observing a fete in Antipolo. The chief focal point is on a brace…

Biography of Artist Georges Seurat was the inventor and acknowledged leader of Neo-Impressionism. He considered his large-figure, programmatic Neo-Impressionist compositions such as “Bathers at Asnières,” “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” “Models,” “Circus Sideshow,” “Le Chahut” and “Circus” his masterworks and the fullest expressions of the new aesthetic. Born into a…

Rothko frequently painted abandoned metropolis environments following an expressionistic manner. Subway Scene ( 1938 ) is one such picture. It is the word picture of a subway station and characteristics: a police officer and another figure following to a figure in a ticket booth and some turnstiles ; two figures go throughing each other on…

            Art is an institution so broad that it has no exact definition. Since time immemorial, philosophers had debated what art is and what the components thereof are. However, the constraints they encountered hindered them to tender a definition that will best describe ‘art’. Nevertheless, they agree on one of its aspect: that every colour…