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Artemisia Gentileschi: Quest for Artistic Glory

Artemisia Gentileschi: Female Quest for Artistic Glory or Personal Vengeance. The scholarly world of the art history critics projects many conflicting theories when referring to the Artemisia Gentileschi’s artwork. The omnipresent argument surfacing every time is that her art is motivated mostly by the trauma of her personal experiences as a female exposed to the Patriarchal system of her...

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The Evolution of Innovatory Approaches

The Evolution of Innovatory Approaches in Critical Statements of the Female Art through the Chosen Artworks of Artemisia Gentileschi, Judy Chicago, and Laurie Anderson. In the history of art, women have always been presented in many forms of artistic creativity, basically as models of symbolic artistic inspiration, beginning as early as the Paleolithic period with the sculpture of the Venus of Willendorf,...

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The Representation of the Female Body in Newton’s Picture

The Representation of the Female Body in Newton’s Picture. Through the history of photography the woman body always was and still is one of the leading subject of various and quiet often-questionable representations. Since the early beginning of the photographic revolution, women as models have been in the center of attention to catch the “still life.” The phallic social order created a vast...

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The Body as a Concept of Representation

The Body as a Concept of Representation in Photographic Imagery. The body as a means of representation of various aspects of human concerns was always present through the ages in different artistic creations. However, with the appearance of photographic camera and the first pictures of human body scholars began to question the psychological aspects of such actions. The evident advantages of prolonging the...

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Aspekts of Greek Pottery related to the Olympic Games

Olympic Games The Olympic games, one of the most glorious and respected events of our century, were born in Ancient Greece. The official date of the first games is estimated at 776 BC. The date is considered controversial because of the complexity of Greek calendar[1]. However it doesn’t change the fact of its great influence on many aspects of social live in Ancient Greece, as well as at the...

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The Venetian Scuole: Aspects of 15th and 16th century Art

The Venetian Scuole: Aspects of 15th and 16th century Art. Italian Renaissance emerged on the basics of the classical values of the antiquity. Intellectual resurrection of humanity in the enthusiasm of new discoveries; philosophic, literary, artistic, etc., also brought regeneration of spirituality. Venice, in the context of its specific geographical conditions, became in many ways unique in construction...

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Symbolism and composition in Bellini’s votive portraiture

Symbolism and composition in Bellini’s votive portraiture. Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna of the Red Cherubs (see fig.1) stays apart from all his other votive portraitures of Virgin and Child. The painting has a classical Bellini’s composition of his half-length Madonna’s, however what makes it particular, is the outstanding presence of Red Cherubs in the background, used only once in his entire...

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Love

The subject of Love in our Western culture is commercially visualized as cute, sweet, beautiful, and happy. Also, Love is often associated with such product of human invention as a chocolate, which is considered as a stimulating aphrodisiac. The wildly spread glorification of this particular state of our mind is presented to us mostly as an extraordinary feeling for another person ignoring its...

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Gallery of paintings about Love

Selection of paintings about Love love38 ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 68