Paintings Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

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Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet

In Waterloo Bridge, Claude Monet did not want to represent the bridge as he saw it but to underline the importance of the air, colors, and nature around that bridge that made the whole picture [...]
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Gender and Art: Female Role in Visual Art

In the beginning of the period of Renaissance a lot of restrictions were placed on the women that saw the Western society witness a decline and invisibility of female artists.
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Jeff Koons’ Contemporary Artwork

The common artwork of the artist include the inflatable balloons toys and the pink panther, beside the life-size ceramic model of the late pop star Michael Jackson holding his favourite pet, chimpanzee babbles as shown [...]
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Different Styles of Painting

Artist and designers use the term painting to refer to both the act of and the result of painting. The "Heart of the Andes," is a landscape painting and was done in 1859.
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Painting a room

Raise the roller and move it along the slope of the pan severally to a point just below the well to allow the paint to flow into the roller.
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Drawing Lessons for Beginners

In ensuring maximum learning from this lesson, individuals require a minimum of five minutes whereby, it is important for individuals to conduct a critical analysis of the quality of their scribbling, in terms of orderliness, [...]
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The Scream: Edvard Munch’s Painting Analysis

The public recognizes the 1893 version of the Scream painting, which was created on cardboard using crayon and tempera. In The Scream, Munch again emphasizes his interior condition rather than the surroundings by using a [...]
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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia Painting

The bravery with which the two women Lucretia and Gentileschi choose to deal with the aftermath of their sexual violations underpins the consensus that Lucretia depicts women's capacity to control their own destiny.
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Visual Narrative of Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”

Secondly, as mentioned above, there are two timelines in the novel, the first of which takes place in the present relative to the author of the time, and the second is the memories of one [...]
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Paintings: Summer by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The complexity and creativity of the compositional process with which the painter applies the themes in the picture-puzzles are a rather personal achievement, and the many later copies serve to show Arcimboldo's true originality in [...]
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Anger by Hans-Siebert Von Heister

The work is dedicated to speculating about the medium and style of one of his works, the peculiarities of its location in the museum, the content of the picture is analyzed in terms of prevailing [...]
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Liberal Arts. L’Absinthe Painting by Edgar Degas

The word painting will also make us wonder whether the painting was done during the Renaissance period, the Middle Ages, or another period. Edgar Degas' was influenced by the painting of famous painters.
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“Past and Present, No 1” by Augusts Leopold Egg

The artist: Augusts Leopold Egg Nationality: English Title: Past and Present, No 1 Date: 1858 Genre: Realistic Group figure Medium: Oil paint on canvas Dimensions: Support: 635 x 762 mm Frame: 801 x 925 [...]
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Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Last Judgment”

Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgment triptych uses the three panels of the painting to represent the three biblical events that predict the terrible end of humankind: the Fall, the Judgment Day, and the eternal Death [...]
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“Embrace” a Painting by Pablo Picasso

This particular painting stays true to Picasso's motif of incorporating sexuality into his works as it can be seen by the obvious representation of male and female genetalia in the work itself.
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Trodden Weed

The lighting of the painting, which appears to have been well thought-out, indicates that the walk was happening in the afternoon.
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The Art of Frida Kahlo and Chicano Art

She incorporated the use of Mexican and pre-Colombian art work, imagery and concepts in some of her works which included "My Nurse and I", a self portrait that depicts Kahlo in the hands of a [...]
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The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer

The relationships lead to termination of the development and prosperity of female painters as they take the roles of a wife and mother. The society perceives women artists and their conditions in the art industry [...]
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The Controversy of Graffiti Art

Finally, graffiti is a form of expression and inhibiting it denies young persons a voice and the right to express themselves.
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Admiration by William Adolphe Bouguereau

The center of interest in the painting, emphasized by the color contrasts, is definitely the central group of five young women, reaching out for a yet more important figure of a boy in the center [...]
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Arts as a Means of Expressing Knowledge

Each artist and philosopher tries to give their interpretation of art, and while some think that art is nothing more but a system of knowledge, others consider it to be a means of expressing themselves [...]
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Expressionism: “Blind Vaysha” by Theodore Ushev

The animation "Blind Vaysha" by Theodore Ushev is an example of the German expressionist style that allows the audience to feel the tragedy and the pain the protagonist of the animation experiences.
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Art Restorations and Conservation of Artwork

Conservation of artwork is the essential first stage of restoration of a painting, which includes a complex of works to restore the strength of all layers of a picture, its stabilization and prevention of destruction.
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso

The present essay explores the different aspects of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, including Picasso's desire to deny the then-existing norms, his role in the development of cubism, and the colors used in the painting.
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Review of “Christina’s World” Paintings

Asymmetrical balance applies to the painting as Christina is placed slightly to the left; however, her silhouette is balanced to the top right by the farmhouse in the distance, which creates harmony.
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Da Vinci’s Last Supper: Artwork Analysis

Of all famous paintings in the history of humankind, Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper takes a very special spot, representing the pinnacle of both Da Vinci's artistic development and the progress of the Renaissance era.
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Bruegel’s “Children’s Games”

Bruegel's paintings portrayed the life of peasants during that time.'The Children's Games' and 'Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap' are some of the most famous paintings of the artist.
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Sturman’s Findings Regarding “Auspicious Cranes”

In this article, the author wishes to discover, whether the artist aimed to describe a real event in "Auspicious Cranes" or whether he tried to depict a concealed phenomenon in the political life of China [...]
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“The Last Judgement” by Michael Angelo

The painting conveys the act of the second come of Christ, and the apocalypse. It is explicitly seen the way Christ is depicted in the light, in the middle of the painting; just the way [...]
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The Agony in the Garden by El Greco

His important works include: The Disrobing of Christ; The Burial of Count Orgaz; The Agony in the Garden; View of Toledo and Laocoon.
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Picasso: Surrealistic Master of the Monsters

Picasso is one of the most enigmatic artists of all time, not so much for what he produced but for the quantity and hard work he has churned out of his ripe old age, estimated [...]
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Paintings: Andrew Wyeth Exhibition

The validity of this idea can be illustrated in regards to both: the spatial/representational aspects of the exhibition in question, and the discursive appropriateness of the actual selection of Wyeth's paintings.
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Cimabue’s “Madonna Enthroned”

In the first place, Cimabue puts the figure of Madonna in the center of the painting. Thus, the angels behind the throne bring the image of Madonna to the fore.
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Femme Fatale and Primitivism Styles in Paintings

The essay focuses on the three paintings by Matisse, Gauguin, and Kirchner in order to demonstrate how these pieces of artworks have captured femme fatale as savage and Primitivism styles in the paintings.
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”Girl With a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer

Following is a depiction of the painting: This painting was chosen because the innocence on the face of the girl can be related to one's self and moreover, the choice of colours that Vermeer has [...]
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Descriptive Painting «The Creation of Adam»

The Creation of Adam painting is the most notable as can be seen in the frescoes of the Sistine chapel. Michelangelo uses the enlarged figure of Adam and God in this painting so as to [...]
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Jackson Pollock: Portrait and a Dream

The underlying concept of the painting appears to have been borrowed from the literal depiction of "self-portrait" and "the dream" where the "self-portrait" is assigned to the right hand side while "the dream" appears to [...]
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The Adoration of the Shepherds by Andrea Mantegna

The picture reveals images of Christ, Maria, Joseph, two shepherds in the foreground and two figures of poor people in the background. Maria is depicted in the center of the painting which hints that the [...]
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Nineteenth Century Art and Architecture

The painting also reflects the degree of enigma that the artist attached to the historical episode that he endeavored to reproduce in the form of art.
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Analyzing Graffiti as a Subculture

Contemporary theoreticians dispute the origin and meaning of subculture as a social phenomenon, analyzing the sociological parameters of the groups of population and their primary motivation for deciding on self-expression in the form of subculture.
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