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Francesco Francia and Gerhard ter Borch
This 5 page paper considers the specific elements of the artistry of Francesco Franci and Gerhard ter Borch. This paper assesses Franci's Madonna and Child with Sts. Francis and Germone and Gerhard ter Borch's A young woman at her toilet with a...
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Alvar Aalto's "Summer House"
10 pages in length. The legacy of Alvar Aalto brings to mind the necessity to soften the inherent hardness of man's machines. Clearly, the prestigious architect knew what he was talking about when he often said that there must be a happy medium...
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Thomas Cole and Max Ernst
A 5 page paper which analyzes "Dream of Arcadia" by
Thomas Cole and "Time and Duration" by Max Ernst. The paper compares and contrasts
the two paintings. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Dominant Ideology of Art Verses the Reception Theory
A 5 page exploration of the validity of the theory of dominant ideology, the theory that art is used as a tool to reinforce existing power structures. Uses examples of the church control of art during the middle ages to substantiate that the theory...
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Catherine Burgess: Steel worker.
(5 pp) What does the name "steelworker" make you
think of? Sparks against an early morning sky
because it is cooler to work then. The steel
skeleton, of a building, waiting for the rest of
its body to join it? The arrogance of the man as...
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Typography
This 5 page paper looks at typography and the influence of the computer on this art. The paper considers the changing environment and ease with which it is conducted to the development of new fonts. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Raphael's Christ's Charge to Peter
This 7 page paper looks at this well known drawing by Raphael and considers it in the context of its origin. The paper looks at the background of Raphael, the social and religious situation as well as the influence of other artists on his work and...
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MEDIEVAL ART: Early Christian, Early Islamic,
Romanesque and Gothic
(6 pp) This discussion will look as transition
periods of Medieval Art from early Christian,
early Islamic, and Romanesque and Gothic
architecture. An art transition period has
"flexible" boundaries, as forms and images flow
back and...
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The Turn of Gothic Revival from 1841-1902
17 pages. Gothic
Revival in the era of 1841-1902 heralded a return to the building
styles of the Middle Ages. This was a style that was most at
home in the Europeans countries, although it finally came to its
climax in England as well as the...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Work by George Stubbs
5 pages
in length. An excellent and detailed description of a painting
by George Stubbs, using artistic terms in order to describe the
composition and workmanship in his paintings, as well as the use
of lines, etc.
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Early Architecture
A 4 page paper that very briefly describes seven specific sites: Skara Brae, Stonehenge, Nanna Ziggurat, the Temple of Amun, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pantheon, and Old St. Peter's Basilica. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Comparing The Artistic Modernism Of Pre-World War I Europe To European Modernism In The 1920s
6 pages in length. The surrealist DaDa movement of
post-World War I was the rebellious answer to the social and political nature of battle, successfully crushing the avant-garde period of pre-World War I, a conflict that effectively halted the...
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Toulouse-Lautrec
A fifteen page paper which looks at the life and works of Toulouse-Lautrec, describing his involvement with the fin-de-siecle society of Montmartre in Paris, the innovatory style and technique of his impressionism and his poster art, and the way...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A 14 page paper which discusses the works and influence
of the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec during the period of modernity in Paris.
Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Orientalism - then and now.
(10 pp) In the nineteenth century artists
explored the Orient packing brushes and canvases
with them. They delivered an exotic view of the
Eastern world, often more based on the imagined
than what was real. This discussion will look at
...
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