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Jan 1, 1250
Archangel Gabriel
Icon with the Archangel Gabriel, tempera and gold on wood panel with raised borders His graceful posture and harmonious gestures, along with the calmness of his face, are evocative of classical art. The figure wears a light green tunic and a himation covered with golden highlights. The walking staff he holds in his left hand, while he makes a gesture of adoration and supplication with his right hand indicates Gabriel’s function as a messenger. -
Jan 1, 1304
The Mourning of Christ
The Mourning of Christ, in the 1304s, the medium is fresco. Renaissance artists wanted the viewer to feel something while looking at their work, to have an emotional experience from it. It was a form of visual rhetoric, where the viewer felt inspired in their faith or encouraged to be a better citizen. -
Head of Medusa - Peter Rubens
Head of Medusa, by Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Baroque painter.Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring. Baroque painting often dramatizes scenes using chiaroscuro light effects. -
Turner - Joseph Mallord William
The medium of this painting is oil on canvas. Artists painted new subjects with an emotional load, such as the illustrious past or the grandeur of nature in which man’s insignificance is underscored. They favoured dramatic moments, such as a threatening thunderstorm, but idyllic landscapes with a picturesque or religious atmosphere were also popular. -
A summer romance - Starr Abbot
The medium of this painting is Oil on canvas. The two people under the tree represent Starr and her fantasy lover. The warm crimson dress represents romantic conceptions. The ground is covered with yellow daisies, which exemplifies romance. The blanket is painted in warm red colors that are adorned with flowers adding to the titillating moment. The black on the dress represents her deep secrets desires. The white shirt on her dream lover represents purity with purpose -
Henri Rousseau -
Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations. They continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter. But they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour. -
The False Mirror - Rene Magritte
The medium in this painting is Oil on canvas, by painter Rene Magritte, Belgian Surrealist painter. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality. Artists painted illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express it. Surrea -
Kuku Kacho the Eggman
The medium is Oil in canvas. Metarealism seeks to depict the reality, which exist beyond that psychological subjective perspective. Metarealism proposes not only to communicate further than the pictorial aspect of the perception of other dimension of reality, but also the essence of those dimensions and their relation to us as human beings. Metarealism then becomes a tool for consciousness; depict their vision of the reality they perceived, through the spiritual interpretation of other dimension
