Analysis of Manet and Courbet
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A 6 page paper which first analyzes the painting “Young Girl on the Threshold of the Garden at Bellevue” by Manet and then compares it to “The Sea” by Courbet. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAmanet1.rtf

Analysis of Sandro Botticelli’s Shift From Beautiful Idealism to Somber Reality
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A 12 page paper which examines how Botticelli’s life influenced his canvases by transforming the idealism of his earlier paintings into somber later works. Also considered is how this transformation is reflected in aesthetic changes and considers the impact of radical Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Analysis of the Nude
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This 5 page paper addresses theoretical implications for the meaning of the nude in art. Three paintings by three different artists (Velázquez, Renoir and Rubens) are used as a basis for analysis. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA10Nude.wps

Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was a bastion of improbability, an actor with the world as his stage and an artist who implemented the common into the guise of the extraordinary. The images that the world associates with Warhol include soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung. This 10 page paper explores the life, work and significance of Andy Warhol to the pop art movement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KTwarhol.rtf

Architect Dom Hans Van Der Laan and His Theories About Architectonic Space:
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This 9 page paper discusses the style of architect Dom Hans Van Der Laan and his ideas about architectonic space. More specifically, this book references his book entitled "Architectonic Space", which addresses this issue. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: GSVanDer.rtf

Architectural and Spatial Comparisons Found in Rietveld’s “Schroder House”, Katsura Palace, and the Work of Mondrian
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This is a 10 page paper discussing spatial design used by Rietveld, Mondrian and Kobori Enshu. Architect, artist and designer Gerrit Rietveld was part of an art movement in the Netherlands in the 1920s called “De Stijl” (The Style). One of the movement’s co-founders was artist Piet Mondrian, also from the Netherlands, whose work such as “Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue” emphasized the use of universalism, geometric forms and primary colors in addition to black and white in the creation of space. While Mondrian was primarily concerned with how his two-dimensional paintings could expand to include the interior environment which surrounded them within a room, Rietveld took the ideas proposed by the De Stijl movement into the architectural designs of homes. One of the best examples of Rietveld’s designs is found in Schroder House (1924) in Utrecht in which the use of creating space using geometric shapes, planes, primary colors and movement of walls is applied. Rietveld allows for the light from the outside to come into the house adding to the creation of space through the play of light on the walls and floors which have minimal decoration and are sparsely furnished to allow for an expansive creative space. The idea of universalism and geometric space to allow for the creation of space is not unique in architectural design and can be found as far back as the 1600s in Kobori Enshu’s design of the Katsura Palace in Kyoto which applied the creation of space with the tatami module design also using moveable walls and walls which opened to the environment for flexibility in space. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Armando Morales
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This 5 page report discusses the life and work of Nicaraguan-born painter Armando Morales (1927 - ). His paintings have a duplicitous nature to them to the point that one wonders if they are paintings of statues or if they are subjects portrayed as still and stationary as sculpture. Three of his paintings -- Nature morte: Pommes, poires, olives (1984), Oracle sur Managua: Hommage a Ernesto Cardenal (1989), and Trois Baigneuses en se Deshabillant (1994) -- are considered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Art & Its Depiction of the Human
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5 pages discussing how art intricately depicts the human figure as evidenced by the following works : "David" (Michelangelo), Portrait of Giovanni Anolfini" (John Van Eyck), "David" (Bernini), and "Merode Alterpiece" (Robert Campin). Theme, form, detail, and more are discussed. No Bibliography.
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Art / 1300-1700
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An 8 page research paper on the development of artistic techniques between 1300 and 1700 in The Netherlands, Flanders, Rome, Spain, Italy and France. Various artists' works are discussed in terms of evolving techniques, including Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, La Tour, Velazquez, and the Boucicaut Master. Other influences are also presented. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Art and computer technology
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An overview of the nature of art and artists in relation to cultural substructures, with particular reference to the use of computer technology in art within a postmodernist context.
Filename: JLartc.rtf

ART APPRECIATION AND ANALYSIS
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This 3 page paper discusses, examines and analyzes a Greek Grave relief from 400bc found in the J.P.Getty Museum. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBgrart.rtf

Art Comparison / "Trajan in Armor" vs. "Alexander with the Lance"
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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of comparisons that can be made between these two statues. Bibliography lists only a web site used to view these statues.
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