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movement. Rococo painting was light, airy, frilly and bejeweled, which is fitting as it was intended for the powerful aristocracy and wealthy upper-middle class (Biography of Jean Antonio Watteau 2017). Watteau gained his love or interest in theater and ballet after studying with Claude Guillot who painted scenery for stages. He enjoyed the curved lines and decorative nature scenes, which enhanced his love for the theater and fascination with design. He developed a unique style of painting with an elegance

Jackson Pollock and His Methodical Art Jackson Pollock is a known abstract expressionism artist for many reasons. His action painting is known world wide because of the way he painted. Pollocks art might not be everyone’s cup of tea. However, there is no denying the fact that when someone looks at a Pollock piece they might see something different than the person standing next to them. This essay will be examining Pollocks distinctive unique art style. Specifically, this essay will try and explain

According to a note next to one of his paintings, Jeff Gillette saw real third world poverty when he visited India in 1983. Gillette wanted to capture that aesthetically changed imagery and make art from his experience while also integrating accessories of our first world culture. He often uses

It is pretty easy to see that Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are influenced by Cézanne’s The Large Bathers. However, both Picasso and Matisse inject their own styles into their works in a way that clearly breaks free from Cézanne’s influence. The three works in question all have similar subject matter – the human form. Seen below, The Large Bathers is a post-Impressionist piece that takes liberties with the human form. Figure 1. Cézanne’s The Large Bathers Cézanne’s

Paul Jackson Pollock was a phenomenal American painter. He was known for his unique style he called drip painting. One of Pollock’s first drip paintings is called Mural. Drip paintings become a controversial topic in the art world. Many claimed that it was not legitimate art due to how chaotic the piece looked. However, it is legitimate art due to how creative and successful it was. Creativity is a characteristic produced from one’s imagination. To be creative means to think outside the box and do

Pictorialism. Pictorialism art movement started in the late 1860s up to the 20th century. The photographers took the camera as a tool just like the artists used a chisel, paint, brush etc. to create their art work. They wanted their photographs to have an aesthetic value and wanted it to be looked at like art. The characteristics of a pictorial image would be lack of sharp focus, making the images blurry or fuzzy, sometimes more than others and is printed using one or more colours than black and

(Schenkel). The Impressionism movement had its origins from earlier movements of naturalism and plein-air, or painting in open air, methods. Impressionism also drew from the woodblock prints in Japonism. Impressionism at its core was about capturing fleeting moments in time and focusing on realistic depictions of light. Edgar Degas’s contribution to the movement came in the form of paintings and sculptures. It is interesting to note that even though he is considered one of the founders of the art

Using digital art and human references, Betrayal was made. Tone can portray a work of art in different ways. Whether it's serious or humorous. I see nothing humous of this painting. It shows itself as serious, and bleak to the audience. The gun pointing at the character portrayed as earth shows an intent to kill. The painting has a hyper realistic look to it to show how serious it is. The sadness of earth with the river is tragic when looking at it the first time.

The art style Rococo was "born in France" (Fiero 177) and as part of Baroque-era art, featured a great amount of ornementation and detail. Rococo art usually differentiated itself by its subject matter, featuring "elements of play and intimacy" as favorites among Rococo artists. Also the colors used, with the Rococo style featuring a more "pastel" (French Baroque and Rococo Art Video) pallete. Also, Rococo is considered, in general, to be less "lifelike" (French Baroque and Rococo Art). In particular

clearly. Frida Kahlo 55 works out of 143 paintings by Frida Kahlo have been devoted to her self-portraits. This has led analysts to believe that these expressions of art were important to the artist herself and not particularly created for the pleasure of others. Self-portraits are mostly associated with psychoanalysis because they reflect mental complexities and in Kahlo’s case are an indicative of the ups and downs in her life.