Paintings Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

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Van Gogh’s Use of Color

The use of complementary colors, which became the signature of Van Gogh's style, helped to intensify the mutual effect of the color scheme in the paintings.
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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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Henry Matisse’s Portraiture

In the painting Reclining Odalisque, in particular, he captures the essence of a feminine structure, the softness, and the graceful beauty of the abstract body form in these portraits.
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Silk Screen Painting in Art

I also noticed that most of Fazzino's creations have glitter on the edges, a technique that I liked and decided to use in my creation as well.
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Edvard Munch “The Scream”

Diffused description of the main details on the picture emphasizes the strong motives of Munch to develop a realistic picture of how one can imagine the horror and in which perspective can one look at [...]
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The Importance of Art for People

It is the link between the conscious and subconscious, permitting an exploration of the inner being to satisfy the craving to see beyond the ordinary in an effort to comprehend the ever-changing human body/mind as [...]
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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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Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait and Journal

It seems to me that this portrait will be of great interest to people who will study my works in the future. This is one of the main goals that I will always try to [...]
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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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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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The “Self-Portrait” Painting by Tamara de Lempicka

It is stated that Tamara's self-portrait appeared in the next edition of a prestigious German fashion magazine after the editor was moved by the sight of her exiting her automobile in front of a five-star [...]
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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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Analysis of Picasso’s “Guernica”

Ultimately, Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most significant art pieces in Cubism that takes inspiration from historical and stylistic influences.
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Julie Mehretu’s Painting Mural

The painting's subject is different from representational ones, as it is not feasible to define painted objects as ones derived from sources observed in the natural world, with the exception that is the architectural drawing [...]
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Gustave Moreau’s Painting Jupiter and Semele

Moreau's work depicts this tragic plot and indicates the theme of the difference between humans and the divine by portraying Jupiter and Semele on the border of heaven and the underworld.
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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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Syncretism in The Mosaic of Christ As the Sun

In the mosaic of Christ as the sun god, the beliefs of both early Christians and pagans are combined. In early Christian art, the image depicts Christ as the sun god pulled by a chariot [...]
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Pollock’s Painting Blue Poles

According to Wolfe, the formation of such a drip-style of the artist was influenced by World War II events. I believe that having evaluated the context in which the picture was created and its significance, [...]
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Giorgio de Chirico and Kara Walker Works

The Fine Arts appreciation deals with the feeling of the beauty of the work of art. The works of art of both Giorgio de Chirico and Kara Walker create foreboding feelings, and that is the [...]
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Art Native American: Sand Painting

This paper aims at giving a brief analysis of the sand painting done by the Native Americans as well as the purpose of the painting.
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St. Francis in Ecstasy Painting by G. Bellini

Francis in Ecstasy is one of the brightest examples of Early Renaissance and, without any doubt, one of the best of Bellini's creations. Thus, the painting in question can be named a perfect imitation and [...]
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“Venus and Adonis” by Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was the greatest exponent of the baroque paintings and the most renowned painter of the Northern Europe. Both of these paintings deserve to hold their exclusive place in the history of art [...]
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Jungle Fun by Sophie Harding

If the print seems like it is out of a colorful children's book, it is because the unique artist creates imagery that is commonly used in illustrations and decorations for that age group.
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“Bird’s Hell” by Max Beckmann

The picture Bird's Hell was painted in 1938 by Max Beckmann, an outstanding German portraitist and printmaker, one of the greatest masters of the interwar period of the 20th century.
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Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera

As it has already been mentioned, Mexican muralism was a form of expression, and at the same time a provider of cultural traditions, political views and social moods in the country that influenced greatly on [...]
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Art History – Mona Lisa

The woman's smile, often described as enigmatic, is the most intriguing aspect of the painting and it is also the subject of much speculation. The smile of the seated woman is the hallmark of this [...]
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The Son of Man by Rene Magritte

The interpretation of some signs which are not seen at the first glance, such as the backward bend of the left elbow of the man and his eyes which can be only partially seen over [...]
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Comparison of Renaissance Works of Art

The technique that Leonardo da Vinci used in this painting, therefore, became a trendsetter in the art revolution of the time. The application of a lion in renaissance art is largely associated with Saint Jerome.
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Form and Content: Leonardo Da Vinci & Claude Monet

What accounts for the earlier mentioned qualitative subtlety of this particular painting is that, while working on it, Da Vinci took a practical advantage of the artistic technique of a linear perspective, which in turn [...]
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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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“On the Threshold of Eternity”: A Critic

Overall, the painting Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh is an excellent portrayal of the frustration, grief, and loneliness experienced by the artist at the end of his life.
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“Pieta” Painting by Rogier van der Weyden

To the left of the Virgin Mary, we see John the Evangelist supporting Christ's upper body and consoling the mother. The man in the painting is read as expressive and uninhibited in experiencing "joie de [...]
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Abstract Expressionism: “Convergence” by Pollock

It is known that Jackson Pollock inspired great criticism due to his lifestyle since he was treated for alcoholism and some people considered his art to be the creation of an alcoholized brain and they [...]
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Ferdinand Hodler’s “The Chosen One” Painting

The boy is confronting the remnants of the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden, as is shown through the presence of the small snake and the walled 'garden' while the landscape behind him [...]
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

There was also a distinction in age of the painters whereby, impressionism painters were generally older as compared to post impressionism painters.
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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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The Malecon Painting by Frances de la Rosa

Color, space, and pattern are the elements of design that evoke the subject communicated by the designer. Moreover, color is used to give interpretation to the art and distinguish and symbolize elements.
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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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Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe Painting by Eduard Manet

Although the painting depicts naked females against the background of nature, a fairly common characteristic of realism, the artist uses techniques that make the picture unrealistic. In a realistic depiction, the people in the image [...]
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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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