Essays on Famous Artists

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Contrasting Views on The Painting Style of Claude Monet

1 page / 534 words

Introduction During both the time when Claude Monet was alive and after his death, his work has evoked a wide range of opinions from different audiences. Some have been positive, while others have been critical. This is largely due to the fact that during the...

Artwork Claude Monet Impressionism

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Ansel Adams and His Contributions to The Photography World

2 pages / 856 words

Introduction Born in San Francisco, a famous photographer of the mid to late 1900s, Ansel Adams made his mark on the world with his stunning contributions to the photography world. Due to his lonely childhood, Adams found joy through nature with his frequent exploring through...

Ansel Adams Photography

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Comparative Analysis in Art: Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore

5 pages / 2436 words

Art Comparison Essay Outline Introduction Introduction to the essay’s focus on comparing Henry Moore’s “Woman Seated in the Underground” and Pablo Picasso’s “Bullfight Scene” Picasso’s “Bullfight Scene” Description of Picasso’s artwork, including its medium, size, and subject matter Analysis of Picasso’s emphasis on motion and...

Art History Comparative Analysis Pablo Picasso

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The Art of Hidden Emotion in Salvador Dali’s Paintings

2 pages / 949 words

The artist Salvador Dali has created many paintings with visual and style similarities. He also seems to put his own emotions and feeling into his paintings. In two of his paintings, The Anthropomorphic Cabinet as well as The Burning Giraffe, cabinets are both used to...

Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali and His Unusual Creative Life

2 pages / 939 words

“I wet my bed till I was eight for the sheer fun of it. I was the absolute monarch of the house. Nothing was good enough for me. My father and mother worshiped me.” Dali’s life was a mystery that attracted controversy and the interest...

Salvador Dali

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Biography of Salvador Dali and Analysis of His Famous Persistence of Memory

5 pages / 2070 words

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres Spain. His full name is Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech. From an early age, he was encouraged to practice his art and eventually went to study at an academy in Madrid. His father, Salvador...

Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali and His Masterpiece The Persistence of Memory

1 page / 680 words

The great artist Salvador Dali once said, “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” He surely put this quote into practice when he created what some consider to be his greatest work, and what many consider...

Salvador Dali

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Analysis of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

3 pages / 1233 words

On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, anchored among eight other frescoes, sits one particularly celebrated piece of art, pictorial guide to the Gospel message. This fourth panel tells the tale of the creation of Adam, a decisive event in the book of Genesis that...

Michelangelo

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Analysis of Michelangelo’s Famous Sculpture David

3 pages / 1492 words

Twenty-six-year-old, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, or more commonly known as just, Michelangelo, was an Italian renaissance artist from Jerusalem. One of his most famous works was his sculpture, “David” which stands 17 feet tall, is made from marble and is of a biblical hero,...

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo Buonarroti and His Famous Pietà

4 pages / 1839 words

Michelangelo was an extremely famous artist for his time that created revolutionary works of art that are still influential today. Most of Michelangelo’s pieces that are discussed are his later works, such as the Risen Christ or the Campidoglio. However, one extremely influential earlier piece...

Michelangelo

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Comparative Analysis of David by Michelangelo and Four Crowned Saints by Nanni Di Banco

2 pages / 740 words

The Renaissance period in art history is marked by the revitalization of Classical approaches to rationalizing one’s surroundings and gaining an understanding of the world through observations of nature and the laws that define it. Artists during this time shifted from lifeless, symbolic pieces to...

Michelangelo

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Comparative Analysis of Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five and Jasper Johns’ Flag

2 pages / 899 words

This paper will be comparing and contrasting Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five created in 1947 and Jasper Johns’ Flag created 1954-55 (dated 1954 on the reverse). Full Fathom Five is a prime example from the Abstract Expressionist period and Flag is a work that embodies...

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock and His Role in The History of Contemporary Art

2 pages / 1023 words

WWII – the time of the omnipresent crisis- political and domestic. A crisis is a necessary period of the evolutionary process and the development of new ideas, both for the whole world and its spheres. In our case, it means art and culture. Art needed...

Jackson Pollock

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Reflection on Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera Exhibition

2 pages / 1082 words

The museum that I visited for this research study was the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition that I chose to view for this study was ‘Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera,’ which was an ongoing exhibition that opened on 17th December 2018. The exhibition was on the...

Abstract Art Jackson Pollock Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Biography of Andy Warhol – a Phenomenon in The Art of The Xx Century

1 page / 645 words

This man with an unremarkable appearance and a shock of white hair has become a real phenomenon in the art of the XX century. He surpassed all his predecessors, tried to ‘introduce art to the masses.’ We had everything we needed for everyday life, it...

Andy Warhol Pop Art

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Contrasting Views of Andy Warhol and Clement Greenberg on Art

3 pages / 1580 words

In Clement Greenberg’s discussion of avant-garde and kitsch, he explores two drastically different styles of art that demand very different things from viewers and also readers. Avant-garde is a type of art intended for members of the upper class (bourgeois) while kitsch is a style...

Andy Warhol

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Comparison of Picasso’s Guernica and Goya’s 3rd of May

2 pages / 767 words

Both Goya’s 3rd of May and Picasso’s Guernica are anti-war masterpieces and both represent tragedies in Spain resulting from attacks by foreign entities. Though born a century apart, these artists originated in Spain and chose to express outrage over the violation of their countrymen via...

Artwork Guernica Pablo Picasso

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Abstract Expressionism Art as a Weapon of Cold War

1 page / 546 words

Abstract expressionism was commended as an unusual, strongly customized and particularly apolitical form of aesthetic expression. This abstract expressionism developed into art during the post war period where the American government used this art in Cold War. When the U.S government agencies found that there...

Abstract Art Cold War Jackson Pollock

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Analysis of Frida Kahlo’s Art Work "The Two Fridas"

2 pages / 822 words

The art piece that I chose was 4.9.18b Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas. This art piece was made by Frida Kahlo herself in 1939. The dimensions are 5’8” X 5’8”, the medium is an Oil on canvas. You can find this wonderful piece at Museo...

Frida Kahlo Two Fridas