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Innovator of Perspective and Illusion Considered the greatest Florentine painter of the early 1400s, Masaccio is one of the most important figures of Western Art. Tommaso di ser Giovanni Cassai di Simon Guidi was born in 1401 and nicknamed Masaccio Careless Tom because of his attitude. He was apathetic to things like personal appearance and…

Monet’s use of color along with use of intricate brush strokes and composition is outstanding. The vast variations of brush strokes and color placement techniques are what make his work so unique and individual. Grand Canal, Venice, 1908 is a prime example of Monet’s talents in these areas. The structure of the painting is very…

The theme of motherhood and breastfeeding has been a focus of art for over 2000 years, and I will examine and evaluate three very different depictions of this theme, focusing on the social mores of the time and how breastfeeding and motherhood was viewed. The first piece is by Mary Cassatt, titled Young Mother Nursing…

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb, once commented Jean Arp–a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France, where…

I chose Leonardo Da Vinci as the greatest renissance personality. I chose Da Vinci because he made many contributions to the time period. Da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, and a philosopher. A lot of the famous artists and thinkers of the time werent recognized as being great for many years after their death….

Was born in Aix-en-Provence, a small town south of France. As a young boy, Czannes passions lay in his poetry and his friends, including Emile Zola. Czanne is included in the time of the Post-Impressionists. Czanne wanted “to make Impressionism into something solid and enduring like the art of museums”. Czanne did not have a…

Cosimo de’ Medici (13891464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city’ s most important patron of art and literature. This remarkable book is the first comprehensive examination of the whole body of works of art and architecture commissioned by Cosimo and his…

The Baroque is a style of art that embraces both formal and theatrical themes. It is a style that attempts to capture strong emotions from the viewer. Whether it is the striking contrast of light and dark, the strong diagonals used, or the story being told, Baroque has a way with the viewer where every…

In his second section, called “The Pastoral State,” the area is the same, but the perspective of the painting has slightly changed. Unlike the first stage with its broken trees, this stage is tamed and ordered. There are beautiful green grass fields in the scene, which may show that men have tamed the area in…

Jackson Pollock was born in the beautiful city of Cody, Wyoming. Born into Scottish-Irish descent, Pollock was raised in a poor upbringing surrounded by his four older brothers (O’Connor). However, at the young age of eleven months old, Pollock’s family left Wyoming to pursue better living opportunities in California and Arizona. This becomes a repeated…