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    Three Major Eras

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    From the 13th century to the 18th century the art world has three major eras, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo. Each era has its own characteristics, the development of scientific knowledge has a big influence on them. When a scientific expression method was taken for the first time, it became a trend and the same method and expression method were adopted for many art objects. That trend also became a characteristic of that era. By using scientific knowledge development and analysis, art objects

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    getting better. Leonardo da Vinci had created many different types of artwork like The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Virgin of the Rocks, and Lady with an Emine. When doing art, he likes using pastels unless he is making a sculpture. He loved each sketch and finished project, even if he sometimes failed. Pastel was Leonardo’s favorite and only way of making art, nothing made him feel better than a job well done. Leonardo da Vinci made The Mona Lisa. It is unknown how she got her name but the

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    The painting Square at La Trinité (Le Square de La Trinité) (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is located at the RISD museum in Providence, RI. This is an oil painting on canvas, surrounded by an ornate gold frame. Square at La Trinité is a pastel colored landscape scene with nature, figures and buildings in the background. The main focus of the painting is the two people in the right-hand corner, one a female and the other a male who are strolling through a lively garden. During the 19th century impressionist

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    David Fagonard The Swing

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    The term, Rococo is a style of French design or an artistic expression that originate in the modern age of the eighteenth century. The Rococo style of art was an artistic revolution of the hopes and dream of the emerging middle class, which spread through the European region. This movement is most popular for its uses of fancy, curved asymmetrical forms and rich ornamentation. Rococo art style is shown elegantly and beautifully, with the scenes of classic love stories and fantastical dreams of romance

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    shadow of a person standing and staring at some constellations that I also photoshopped in. I first sketched out what I thought the proportions should be by just eyeing it out and using hand. I then decided that oil pastels would work perfectly for my picture, which I preferred over soft pastels. I tried to mix together different values and colors of blue in order to make to night sky look more realistic and have depth to it which, I think turned out pretty nice. To make the water look more textured I

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    of them was the artwork, Like my artist Van Gogh. Van Gogh was considered a very dark artist. Most of his work was quite depressing to look at so people didn’t like his art until a later time when he started traveling more and started making bright pastel and colorful pieces. That was the first time he was noticed.     There are some very interesting facts about Van Gogh, for example his full name is Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He was also born in Holland and he had a brother who shared the same name

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    In Edgar Degas’s life females were featured in more than 1/3 of his art works. Did Degas treat his female subjects in his works of art, including a pastel on paper and paintings differently because of their status in society? The paintings, pastel on paper; which will be mainly used to compare this, will be The Portrait of a family (The Bellelli Family), Woman Bathing (from 1884) and Portrait of Mary Cassatt Seated, Holding Cards. These works of art; and the series they belonged to have many similarities

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    Wax Crayon

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    A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing or drawing. A crayon made of pigment with a dry binder is a pastel; when made of oiled chalk it is called an oil pastel. A grease pencil or china marker is made of colored hardened grease. There are also watercolor crayons, sometimes called water-soluble crayons. Crayons, which are available at a range of price points, are easy to work with, often less messy than paints and markers, blunt, typically non-toxic

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    Darwin at the time. The noirs were also a reflection on his pessimism and melancholy, particularly as a child, and a representation of how he views the world. Contradictory to his early works, Redon transfigured into non-naturalistic colour themed pastels and oil paintings. Many of these oeuvres were abstract, generally constructed of an ethereal chromatic background with a focal subject and an overall hazy appeal. The Cyclops is a versatile example of Redon’s work as it is an oil painting with noir

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    room my cousins trailing behind me, I walk into the room and go to the bed closer to the door. I put my stuff on the bottom bunk and go to my closet and tape a sign on the front so they know this is my closet. A few seconds later Iris, Alicia, and Pastel walk into the room. Iris walks over to my bed and moves her arm across my bed swiping everything on the ground. “Did you not see my stuff there?” I ask in a angry tone. “Oh, this was your stuff?” Iris says in a snob attitude. “YES, do you ever pay

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