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nudity in paintings Essay Examples

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A Painting Analysis of Fragonard’s Swing (476 words, 1 pages)

Fragonards Swing Painting Analysis The painting is known to show great artistic achievement and style while also mastering the perspective of lush green gardens and a mix of colors to make the painting seem as real as possible. Though while looking at the painting you must notice that as the ... Read More

A Comparison of Adam and Eve’s Nudity in Genesis and the Theme of Nudity in Praxiteles’ Venus (704 words, 2 pages)

Adam and Eve in Genesis were initially unworried about their nudity, but after they eat the fruit to gain knowledge of good and evil, they spiritually die, resulting in feeling shameful and afraid. This is represented through the image Adam and Eve, for the figures are posed with their heads ... Read More

A Comparison of Horizontal and Vertical Painting (687 words, 2 pages)

Horizontal vs Vertical PaintingWhen working on painting for the theater, there are two methods that work well in different situations. These methods are horizontal, or down, painting and vertical, or continental, painting. These methods, while being very different, both provide the same results when the painting is finished. Each method ... Read More

An Interpretation of Stream and Mountains Under Fresh Snow, a Painting by Gao Keming (1022 words, 3 pages)

I caught the faint laughter of the museum inhabitances and the shuffle of their feet, but other than that, I walked around the Metropolitan Museum in silence. The statues looked ethereal and stoic, the clay figures reminded me of a paused TV, but I was searching for something that I ... Read More

A Visual Analysis of the Painting The Battle of the Pyramids by Antoine Jean Gros (1053 words, 4 pages)

Visual Analysis Forty Centuries Look Down Upon You!Many people with a reputable status are popularized by great legends and first-hand accounts of their own deeds. Before the age of the internet and the rapid spread of information, political leaders would often rely on the commission of official paintings or photographs ... Read More

A Description of the Cyclops, a Painting by Odilon Redon (776 words, 4 pages)

Odilon Redon created the painting "The Cyclops" in 1914 just two yearsbefore he died and it is currently being exhibited at the Kroller-MullerMuseum in Otterlo, The Netherlands. Redon once said "My drawings inspire,and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguousrealm of the undetermined." ... Read More

Asian Paints and Their Wall of Messes (1262 words, 4 pages)

Asian Paints and their Wall of MessesAsian Paints Royale, a large paint company and a popular brand in Asia wanted to show how easy it is to spill and spoil your walls, and the importance of having a wall painted with a paint that is durable and easy to clean. ... Read More

A Painting Analysis The Child’s Bath by Mary Cassatt (288 words, 2 pages)

The painting The Childs Bath by Mary Cassatt is a lovely picture of mother and child that seem to be in their own home, as the mother seems to have a large bowl of water and pitcher filled with it. As the child sits on her mothers lap, watching her ... Read More

An Interpretation of the Magician, a Painting by Jeffery Batchelor (838 words, 3 pages)

Jeffery Batchelor's painting The Magician, tends to create artwork that ranges within straight realism to surrealism. This painting is one of his surrealistic pieces. Jeffery Batchelor was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1960. He went to Barton College in 1983 to gain a Bachelors of Science in painting ... Read More

A Visual Art Analysis of Slave Ship, a Painting by J.M.W. Turner (1443 words, 6 pages)

For my visual art analysis, I chose the work, Slave Ship, painted by J.M.W. Turner in 1840 (Slave ship, 1840). The painting is done with rough brushstrokes that make up the sky and water. The bright colors of the sky contrast with the dark waters, and reflect off of the ... Read More

An Observation on Premier Chagrin, an Oil Painting on Canvas by Daniel Ridgeway Knight (759 words, 3 pages)

Premier Chagrin is an oil painting on canvas by Daniel Ridgeway Knight. I viewed Premier Chagrin at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art on October 23, 2014. This piece was painted in 1892. This work was completed in France, after Knight had fought in the American Civil War for ... Read More

An Analysis of the Islamic Art in the Different Paintings (1257 words, 5 pages)

The Funerary Stele of Amenemhat from Assasif in 2000 BCE was painted on limestone measuring around 30cm by 50cm, which is now held in an Egyptian art museum in Cairo. This family in the painting, happens to be in the middle kingdom funeral stele which represents unity, since they are ... Read More

A Personal Analysis of the Painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet (710 words, 2 pages)

In Monets Water Lilies, the most abundant color is a deep blue. This forms the background of the piece. Since the painting is of lilies on a pond viewed from the side, one would expect there to be a line separating the water from the sky, but there is not. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Paintings of the Progress of Love Series (742 words, 3 pages)

The Frick Collection AssignmentThe Progress of Love series includes four large compositions The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned, and The Love Letters. All four paintings portray iconography that is sexual in nature. When walking into the Fragonard Room, I was overwhelmed by the scale of the canvases. It immediately ... Read More

A Comparison of the Neoclassical Painting Death of Socrates by David and the Romantic Painting Odalisque by Delacroix (956 words, 4 pages)

MidtermNeoclassical Romantic artists have helped pave the way for modern art in more ways then that of which could be imagined. However throughout time, many people have noted a similarity between the two works of art. Over the course of this essay, I will look at Davids neoclassical painting, Death ... Read More

A Critique of The Adoration of the Shepherds, a Painting by Paolo de Matteis (957 words, 5 pages)

BackgroundThe Baroque era was a very unique and interesting time for arts of all kinds. Riding on the back of the Renaissance, the era lasted from around 1600 to 1750 C.E. At this time, Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling for the Pope, Bach was composing some of the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Oil Paintings on Wood by Joos van Cleve and Giovanni Bellini (1430 words, 5 pages)

(Joos van Cleve, The Last Judgment,152025) and (Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child, 1480) both oils on wood.Oil on Wood The Joos Van Cleve piece titled The Last Judgment represents the coming of Christ. It shows the hovering angels, blowing of the trumpet, and thundering of colors. This beautiful scene is ... Read More

Nudity, Nakedness and Sexuality in Ways of Seeing by Berger (839 words, 3 pages)

Nudity, etc.Berger in chapter 3 of Ways of Seeing discusses the difference between nudity and nakedness, choosing these words to symbolize a separation between the concept of being oneself and being an object. I rather like the way he makes this distinction, and his insightful view of the concept of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Painting Techniques in the Annunciation, a Painting by Fra Angelico (615 words, 5 pages)

Oil on panel, transferred to canvas43 x 39 When depicting a work of art from the renaissance era, a simple way of determining the meaning behind the art is the title. The artists were not concerned with implying greater meaning behind a title. The Annunciation is just that The Annunciation. ... Read More

The Depiction of the Water Lily in the Poem To Paint a Water Lily by Ted Hughes (519 words, 2 pages)

To Paint a Water Lily RewriteIn To Paint a Water Lily, the speaker sympathizes with the artists difficult task to depict the water lily by highlighting the disparity between the lilys gentle, lady-like beauty and the menacing, war-like characteristics of its surroundings. Figurative language, imagery, and contrast are the main ... Read More

The Unique Composition of the Painting Girl With a Green Face by Alexei Jawlensky (1675 words, 2 pages)

Girl with a Green Face By Alexei JawlenskyGirlwith a Green Face, by Alexei Jawlensky is a painting with a very unique composition.The painting is one which is very big almost life size, and has many aspects that draw your attention immediately. From the moment you see the picture you are ... Read More

A History of Painting During the Impressionist Era in France (708 words, 2 pages)

At the end of the Renaissance in Italy, and other parts of Europe, painting was changed forever. New appreciations for art had been formed, and at the same time, new standards for what is considered high art were created. What sculpture was to the Greek and Roman eras, painting was ... Read More

A Painting Analysis: Plague in an Ancient City by Michael Sweerts (921 words, 3 pages)

I visited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and chose to visually analyze an oil painting titled Plague in an Ancient City, which was painted by Michael Sweerts in Holland circa 1652-1654. The approximate size of the painting was four feet by 5 feet, and was of a rectangular ... Read More

An Interpretation of Both Members of This Club, a Painting by George Bellows (790 words, 3 pages)

Both Members of This Club, an oil on canvas painting, was painted by George Bellows in 1909. The painting is now is located at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Bellows, an American realist painter, portrays a Caucasian and African American figure engaged in a boxing match as ... Read More

An Examination of the the Painting Perseus and Andromeda by Peter Paul Rubens (864 words, 4 pages)

The painting Perseus and Andromeda or better known as Perseus rescues Andromeda was created by Peter Paul Rubens in 1622. This work of art remained in Rubenss house until his death, and was then obtained by and housed in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. This oil painting tells ... Read More

An Interpretation of Nightlife, a Painting by John Motley Jr (2242 words, 6 pages)

The painting by John Motley Jr., Nightlife captures a view into Nightlife. When the viewers first look at their painting, their first reaction could be very curious and even peaceful because it gives you a view of people enjoying their life. John Motley Jr. Nightlife scene, is heavily influenced by ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scene in the Assassination, a Painting by James Ensor (522 words, 2 pages)

The Assassination by James Ensor depicts the scene of a man being killed. This person, of which little is known, is surrounded by four people directly over him, musicians, and what is assumed to be onlookers at the top of the scene. The musicians and onlookers inhabit the peripherals of ... Read More

The Painting of Lily in the Novel, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1061 words, 3 pages)

Throughout Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse, Lilys painting remains ultimately as a reference point for both time and everything that is going on around her. It becomes something that she struggles with, trying to interpret her feelings through the process of making art, where she is always unsure about what ... Read More

The Life and Paintings of Thomas Cole (2089 words, 8 pages)

When Thomas Cole painted the View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains, he wrote this in his diaryThe mists were resting on the vale of the Hudson like drifted snow tops of distant mountains in the east the Berkshires were visible- things of another world. The sun rose from ... Read More

An Analysis of Autumn by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an Oil on Canvas Painting (563 words, 3 pages)

On Saturday January 20th I visited the Denver Art Museum. There were plenty of pieces that were amazing and caught my eye, but one in particular stood out to me as a piece that I could really identify the elements and principles that we have been learning about in. Autumn ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013