Works of Art Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (483) essays
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Anzac Square - The Nurse and Soldier
... to pay homage to the thousands of Australian soldiers who fought for our nation and the free world in war. Amongst the many plaques, trees and sandstone structures stands the distinctive sculpture of an Australian nurse tending to an injured soldier. The questions posed to the discussion leaders of ...
Hieroglyphics: A Permanent Mark In History
... earliest known writing system appears to have been invented by the inhabitants of Uruk, one of the first great Mesopotamian cities. A series of pictographic symbols were carved into soft clay tablets and allowed to harden in the sun or fire kiln. The symbols represented rudimentary concrete objects ...
William Holman Hunt's "The Awakening Conscience" & "Félicien Rops" Pornokrates.
... to a human soul in the turmoil of life' was the inspiration for Hunt's The Awakening Conscience , which was conceived as the material counterpart of The Light of the World. [ ]The mirror is often symbolic of a woman's vagina or virginity ...
Altarpiece with Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
... of the Shepherds," "The Resurrection of Christ," and "The Pentecost" finish 2/3 of the painting. The bottom of the artwork consists of 9 small paintings that depict the entombment of Christ. In this, Perez shows the 8 saints: Anthony Abbot, Margaret, Peter, the Virgin Mary ...
"The Lady of Shalott" by William Holman Hunt: Fallen Woman to Feminist
... of Green Gables (Friedlander, Notes). The unique form of the poem was not the only element of The Lady of Shalott that was discussed in Punch. Looking more specifically to Hunt's painting, the pose of the subject is very rigid and common to Pre-Raphaelite art. In relation to ...
Compare and Contrast Essay about "Sunrise" by Claude Monet and other impressionists
... families. The painting that I chose to compare Monet's "Sunrise" with is Edgar Degas', "The Ballet Class". Edgar Degas is also categorized as an impressionist. Degas painted this work of art between the years of 1879-1880. At looking at this piece compared to "Sunrise", I immediately see ...
Guernica
... civil war. The body of the bull is very dark in comparison to its head, representing two distinct partitions and a clear division. Picasso procrastinated in starting his mural scheduled to debut at the Paris World Fair until he received news of the bombing of Guernica . When he learned of ...
A Closer Look at the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife: A look into what people of this time peroid inserted in pictures and their double meanings.
... of Christ that is meant to bless the couple and the other two people in the room. One of the people reflected in the mirror is thought to be the artist van Eyke himself because of ...
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
... painted the images of the faces in such a way that they seem to reach out and scream for help, they know that they are about to die. His work on Guernica challenges our idea and notion that war is an act of ...
Sailboat Painting Reflection, by Sven Harvey
... of a carefree summer afternoon. It feels like you are on a wonderful vacation relaxing in a warm place of the world, kicking back in a lounge chair having a drink in one's hand with a good friend next to ...