Part 1 It is good practice to quote the question – it helps with focus Plutarch’s view of Cleopatra and Antony’s relationship is likely to be a biased one; given his background as a Greek with Roman citizenship (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/465201/Plutarch - Accessed 6th November 2008)‚ Roman opinions will have influenced him. Also‚ Plutarch was writing over 100 years after Cleopatra’s death; his passage cannot be a primary source. It’s almost immediately clear from this passage
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century. The introduction of cubism as a major style of art dealt away with the prevailing procedure in painting. Rather than creating a scene in a linear perspective from the audience’s point of view‚ cubism attempted to show an object from all sides at once. Cubism
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unique. The first painting I studied was called Peasants Dancing in a Tavern by Adriaen van Ostade. The artwork was done in 1659 in the Netherlands as a genre scene. It shows a tavern scene in which peasants are dancing‚ drinking‚ singing and playing cards. It is a unique example of light and shadowing—there is a circle of light in the center which highlights several intoxicated people reveling over drinks and cards. It also displays slight foreshortening. At its heart‚ the painting shows simple
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her physical and emotional anguish by painting self-portraits depicting her life. With a life full of tragedy‚ heartbreak‚ and immense struggle‚ she had very strong symbolism in her paintings. In her 1939 painting‚ Los Dos Fridas‚ Kahlo creates a painting displaying her emotions at that time in her life. Shortly before she painted this piece of artwork‚ she and her husband‚ Diego Rivera‚ had divorced therefore leading one to believe the symbolism in the painting pertains to her heartbreak. She was
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MASTER ARTIST CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist; paintings based on using cameras and photographs to gather visual information and then from this‚ creating a painting that appears to be photographic. Close was born on July 5‚ 1940‚ in Monroe‚ Washington. Since a young boy he had a desire for art‚ throughout his childhood he had quite a few rough times whether it was his parents becoming very ill or his own health taking a turn for
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1510‚ Florence‚ Italy.May 17‚ 1510‚ Florence‚ Italy. I have chosen “ the discovery of the body of Holofernes” for it has a dark but comical feel when I look at the painting. Like the characters overemphasize expressions on their faces‚ but the colors are what really brought me in and had me mesmerized. The colors used in this painting are red‚ copper‚ dark green to moss green‚ a marvelous color of’ ultramarine’ which is a luminous rich blue color shade originally accomplished arising out of lapis
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first reaction was of concern‚ because the truth is that I chose this work because the paintings of Fernando Botero have always caught my attention. However‚ this time‚ I was faced with a simple little painting describable in terms of narrative. I saw a family‚ possibly wealthy‚ ordinary‚ and nothing flashy or special in it. I seriously considered changing work‚ but after a few minutes in front of the painting‚ I began to see and understand that precisely
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Gogh was also one of them . His painting ‘Starry Night ‘‚ published on 1889 ‚is nowadays one of the most known paintings in the world . This masterpiece appears to be simple at first sight : a beautiful rural landscape laying above a shiny sky full of stars. He painted this in a psychiatric asylum ‚ one year before his suicide . He was actually behind bars
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soft blues to represent the calm blue sky. Then he used a dark green for the cypress tress which draws your attention to this as the focal point. The use of the color schemes consisting of different shades of yellows‚ blues‚ and greens gives the painting a sense of harmony. These colors are analogous to one another on the color wheel. As I look at this piece I see yellow and blue separated by the color green. Add yellow and blue together and you have created green‚ which in this piece is mainly right
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Bar Edouard Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere‚ was completed in 1882 and is considered his last great painting. He displayed it at the Paris Salon just one year before his passing. This painting as vexed art historians throughout the years for its complex visual subject matter and leaves Manets true interpretation of his painting in the air for discussion. Although there are many interpretations‚ A Bar at the Folies-Bergere is an avant-garde; viewer engaging painting meant to give the viewer
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