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Cecilia - 516830
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Research for Assignment five
After deciding on the subject for Assignment five I started researching artists whose work included portraits with multiple faces, and...
Research on Artists' self-portraits
Rembrandt van Rijn, Netherlands, 1606-1669 Self-portrait at the Age of 63 (1669) This is one of the last works by Rembrandt, a...
Research Contemporary and historic artist who work on the face
Giovanni Boldini, Italian, 1842-1931 The portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, 1886 This is a very realistic pastel portrait of an elderly...
Research: Historic and contemporary artist whose work involves the underlying the structure of the b
Leonardo Da Vinci. In the middle ages and the renaissance the main subject was the human figure, which appeared in almost all paintings....
Research: Foreshortening
Foreshortening refers to the illusion in a painting that an object, or part of an object, is closer to the viewer than other elements of...
Research: Male and female nude over the centuries
The oldest known figurative works of art discovered in Europe are stone sculptures portraying human bodies - mostly nude women - and...
Research for Assignment Three
Ian Murphy, Great Britain, 1963 For the assignment I looked at the work of several artists who depict derelict structures and the work of...
Research: John Virtue - the urban environment
John Virtue’s Landscapes of London at the National Gallery are almost abstract but also figurative, with a lot of expression and drama,...
Research on historic and contemporary artist who work in series of landscapes
Comparison of Tacita Dean’s blackboard drawing with George Seurat’s Landscape with Houses There are obvious similarities in the two...
Research on drawing of natural elements - sea, night sky
Vija Celmins Celmins’ work appears to be almost photo-realistic, her palette is limited to grey tones and she explains her approach - I...
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