Artist Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (808) essays
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Norman Rockwell, The Storyteller With A Brush
... Norman Perceval Rockwell, born in New York City 1894, has always been fascinated with art although it was disliked by his mother. His family included his mother, father, brother named Jarvis, and of course himself. Growing up, Rockwell was a pale skinny child with thick glasses. He envied Jarvis ...
Grandma Moses
... naive style (labeled American Primitive) was acclaimed for its purity of color, its attention to detail, and its vigor. Bright color, action and humor enlivened her portrayals of such simple farm activities. Her tiny figures, disproportionately small, cast no shadows. They seem sharply arrested in ...
Jean Michel Basquiat - a summery of his life
... Jean Michel Basquiat Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. At an early age his mother, Matilde, introduced him to art by taking him to museums and theatres, and he learned to draw ...
Salvador Dali: His Life and Paintings
... in the small room drawing. Dali took lessons from professor Zhoana Nunjesa . Already in 14 years it was evident that Dali has extraordinary talent to drawing. When he was 15 years old Dali was expelled from monastic school ...
A Seperate Peace
... years, or even decades. If you flip through a ten year old photo album I bet you would find out you are a whole different person now than you were ten years ago. In ...
Biography of Raphael
... figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. He was born (in Urbino, Italy) in 1483, son of Giovanni Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla. Unfortunately his mother died in 1491 when Raphael was only 8 years old. His father gave his son his first instruction in painting, but sadly died in ...
Art In Relation to its Audiences
... in his piece "Nude Descending a Staircase" (1912), which caused an outrage on its release in the Armory Show of 1913 in New York City ... No longer is Duchamp's work considered to be "an explosion in a shingle factory," but rather "a revelation in art history". This is due to the developments in ...
Botticelli and his portrayal of women
... in his paintings were never diminished or disrespected. Rizzo 5BibliographyDeimling, Barbara. Botticelli. Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1994. Dempsey, Charles. The Portrayal of Love. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1992. The Great Masters: Botticelli. Genoa: Park ...
Pablo Picasso
... years old he completed the one month qualifying examination to the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona in one day. He decided to go to the Academy of San Fe4rnado in ...
El Greco
... no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting. El Greco was born in ...