Saturday, February 27, 2016

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

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My English class has recently begun studying Shakespeare’s Hamlet , so I thought it was an appropriate time to look into paintings depict...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Menkaure and his Queen

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I saw this sculpture when I went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before I learned in a classroom about Egyptian art. As I was visiting ...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

"The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying: Typhoon Coming On)" by John Mallord William Turner

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The painting, The Slave Ship was created by Turner late in his career as a protest against inhumanity. As a painter of the Romantic Mo...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Quilting Mondrian

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I've been very busy this summer so I have not posted for a while. Summer school captured my attention, but the coolest thing I did this...
Monday, July 20, 2015

“Unpainted Sculpture” by Charles Ray

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Recently my family and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and saw the exhibit, “Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014”. Charles...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

"Bird in Space" by Constantin Brancusi

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When I first saw this piece I thought it was a flame, then, I realized from the title that it is a bird. While "Bird in Space" d...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

"The Death of Sardanapalus" by Eugène Delacroix

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Delacroix was a Romanticist. Romanticism is essentially the opposite of Neoclassicism, which I discussed with "Automedon with the Hor...