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This paper describes Raphael's famous painting "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints." The paper provides a history of the painting. The author analyzes its composition and colors as well as the conservative style of the painting and its classical details.

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"Rafaello Sanzio, known as Raphael, painted the "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints" early in his career The painting was an altarpiece executed for the small Franciscan convent of Saint Antonio de Padova in Perugia and hung in the part of the church reserved for the worship of nuns. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Also known as the Colonna Madonna or Altarpiece, a reference to Raphael's patrons, the powerful Colonna family the work consists of two main sections..."

Tags:Raphael, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

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This paper presents a detailed discussion about the four representations of the Pieta. The writer of this paper uses words to describe the artistic differences in the representations. The writer works to not only uncover the obvious structural differences but to ascertain what the differences in their meanings may be as well.

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"Michelangelo has always been viewed as one of the most talented artists in history. His works have sustained the test of time and today are still accepted as some of the most telling and touching pieces of art that patrons have available to them. One of his most famous works is the Pieta. The Pieta has four renowned versions of its portrayal and each one has similarities as well as differences to the other three. As the different styles and pieces are examined it is easy to see why Michelangelo has held his place as one of the most tortured yet talented artists of all time."

Tags:art, italy, michelangelo

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"The general facts of Vincent Van Gogh's life are nearly as well known as his paintings, which are some of the most popular images in the history of art. His paintings are sold for record-breaking prices today, but he was almost unknown in his own lifetime. Van Gogh's life, maybe more than the lives of most painters, plays an important part in understanding his art. A biographical sketch of Van Gogh and an analysis of one work, his famous The Starry Night (1889), demonstrate how, for this artist, personality and circumstances affected the creation of his art.

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. His father was a clergyman, a family tradition that Vincent was to consider as a career. But two of Van Gogh's uncles had a gallery in The Hague which they sold to an international art dealer, Goupil, who had galleries in several countries. Van Gogh had shown some..."

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An examination of the affect of Salvador Dali?s characteristic of paranoia, combined with his artistic techniques, on his paintings. It explains how Dali used his paranoia to his advantage, and created a system of interpretation called his Paranoiac Critical Method, which is considered his ?liquid revealer of images?. The writer states that Dali's technique allowed him to give realistic accounts of his mental images. When Dali combined his technique and paranoiac characteristics, he created some of the most phenomenal boundary breaking art the world has ever seen.

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"The artwork of Salvador Dali has always been intriguing, but in 1929 his artwork reached a whole new level when he began to enter his paranoiac stage. A few factors brought on this change, which he would focus on until the 40's. A very important factor was Dali's interest in dreams. At that time, Dali had become fascinated with the works of Freud, and followed his teachings as an attempt to interpret his dreams for self analysis. The more Dali analyzed his dreams, the more he noticed that many images in his mind reoccurred; and eventually, he began to paint them. Many of the dreams that reoccurred to Dali were life obsessions and fears that had developed through his life and would have a great affect on his paintings. Some of these reoccurring themes included: William Tell, Lenin, Hitler, Anthropomorphic images, Millet's Angelus, Vermeer paintings, and childhood images (Fetzer, 1)."

Tags:breton, color, critical, double, drawing, image, ink, revolutionary, sketching, surrealism, surrealist, art

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This paper discusses Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel and delves into the dramatic differences between that fresco and later work done by the painter. Further, the paper explores the cultural development of Renaissance society and how Michelangelo's own changing worldview lead to a shift in the painter's style, tactics and subject matter. The author finds that while Michelangelo's earlier work in the Sistine Chapel reflects his optimistic view of humanity, his later work reflects a new found cynicism.

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"The Renaissance was one of the most creative moments in history, but was also a time of internal conflict, foreign invasion, political upheavals and instability. During this time the centre of cultural development switched from Florence to Rome as popes used their wealth to attract and pay the best artists possible in an attempt to make Rome the most beautiful city in the world."

Tags:Michelangelo, The Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel, High Renaissance

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A clear reflection of the mindset of individuals suffering from alienation would be the dystopian novels of the mid-twentieth century. This paper examines how Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are concrete examples of dystopian novel writers and how the books "Brave New World" and "1984" present fictional totalitarian societies in which modern technology and the techniques of human engineering operate to destroy human freedom. It also discusses how the visual arts of the mid-twentieth century echoed the age's preoccupation with isolation, loneliness and anxiety using as an example the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.

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"In the mid-twentieth century, humankind was confronted with the destructive applications of modern technology. The realities of trench warfare, the concentration camps, and Hiroshima made it difficult to maintain that human beings were rational by nature, that technology would work to advance human happiness, and that the universe was governed by a benevolent God. (Fiero 70) As the modern individual became estranged from "God and reason" (Fiero 70), he became the victim of a condition of "anxious withdrawal" (Fiero 70) which is termed alienation. This alienation or state of perpetual anxiety and loneliness in the face of the dehumanizing aspects of technology resonates in the literature and art of the aforementioned period."

Tags:aldous, dystopian, george, huxley, jackson, orwell, pollock, 1984

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"The work is quite simple, using simple artistic devices in order to capture this couple's one timeless moment. It successfully portrays joy pulling the viewer into the painting's depths with its brilliant use of color and shape, creating another reality. It's as if you are looking at these lovers through a glass panel, distorting them and melding them together until they themselves look as smooth as the glass that protects them."

Tags:edvard, munch

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The works of the renowned Dutch master Vermeer (1632-1675) are comparable to Japanese art due to their dual appreciation and representation of unfilled space. He depicts subtle shades of luminous highlights, all incorporated within a meticulously ordered arrangement. The paper discusses the paintings 'The Geographer,' 'The Woman Holding the Balance' and 'The Music Lesson' - all of which echo ideas established by Japanese art. It shows that these paintings reveal an era where the general interest lay in exquisite furniture, beautiful women and extravagant attires. These carefully observed and accurately drawn paintings of the 17th-century were branded by a geometrical sense of balance, order and refinement; their suggestiveness analogous to the Japanese design.

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"The Japanese aesthetic, Wabi-Sabi, is the ability to discover the beauty of imperfection. Similar to Zen Buddhism, Wabi-Sabi cherishes qualities that are earthy, modest, rustic and unassuming. Ordinary items are appreciated for their seeming beauty, such as budding flowers. Many Japanese landscape paintings portray nature when it's growing instead of when it's full-blossomed; it allows for our imagination to finish what it began. It stirs up the internal quintessence of an object but only provides a subtle presence; rationale is secondary to perception; mood means more than an accurate depiction. This deliberately suggestive style allows for the beauty incompleteness and omission to be valued."

Tags:camera, obscura, tranquility, The, Milkmaid

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This paper explains that, after returning from Africa in the early Thirties, Cartier-Bresson was influenced by the vivacity of primitivism and tried to find its counterpart in some of the poor neighborhoods of Europe. The author points out that the artist's choice of camera, the small-format Leica, allowed Cartier-Bresson the freedom to shoot quickly and with minimal camera resetting time (i.e. advancing film, changing film). The paper relates that the rising presence of magazines and photojournalism in the 1930s generously supported Cartier-Bresson financially and allowed him the economic freedom required for him to travel the world taking pictures.

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"The tired, desperate look on the man's face coupled with the look of shock on the face of the drawing, paint a profound picture of desperation. What seems like merely a "snapshot" photograph can be deeply analyzed to reveal an insightful comment on the poverty and hopelessness so prevalent during the depression. In an era when most cameras were large, and bulky, it doesn't seem possible for a photo such as this one to be taken off the cuff and un-posed. But the fact is that Cartier-Bresson's photos were not posed and the next paragraph will discuss how new camera technology allowed him the freedom to take pictures like this one taken in Spain in 1933."

Tags:primitivism, neighborhoods, leica, snapshot, photojournalism

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This paper provides an examination and analysis of Dali's famous painting, with prime concentration upon the elements and historical aspects of the particular piece of art. It discusses how his inspiration for "Metamorphosis of Narcissus" came from a conversation overheard between two fishermen discussing a local man who would stare at himself in a mirror for hours.

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"Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who is considered to be one of the most impressive artists of the 20th century. His inspiration for Metamorphosis of Narcissus came from a conversation overheard between two fishermen discussing a local man who would stare at himself in a mirror for hours. One of the men described the man as having a "bulb in his head"; a common conversation meaning that he was mentally ill. Dali combined this image with the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus."

Tags:analyze, art, aspects, elements, historical