The Study Diamond (The Open University (2013), Block 1, 2.3, p.75) will be used to explore the effects, techniques, context and meaning of the painting. Exploring techniques used and how they reflect the horror that war creates. The essay will also examine how the painting is seen by the world today, and if it is continuing to fulfil the purpose first asked of it. Guernica is an oil on canvas painting which stands 3.5 metres high by 7.8 metres wide, painted in shades of black, grey and white. Guernica does not directly portray the bombings, instead, it shows the terror and chaos created by war.
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These ideals and concerns heavily influenced the subject matter of the art produced under each movement. Italian Renaissance art focused on classical Greek and Roman mythology, like Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Northern Renaissance art turned its attention to portraits and domestic scenes, the most famous of which is Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife. Along with subject matter, both the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance had distinct styles also influencing the look of its art. Italian Renaissance art was heavy on symmetry and balance and giving the subjects a sense of mass and volume by using knowledge of the underlying anatomy of the human figure.
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In conclusion, we see that there were multiple controversial events leading up to the American Revolution and the publication of the Declaration of Independence. The different perspectives help to really, truly understand the motives of doing what each character did personally to impact the events leading up to peace and independence of the colonies. Personally, I thought that this story was interesting because I’ve always wanted to have a better understanding of events in US History. Jeff Shaara helped me have a better understanding of the motives and thought of each character impacting everything from their time to even now. Without them, we wouldn’t be here today learning and getting a better understanding of our ancestors and how we came
Enlightening our minds, refreshing our souls, the transcendentalists of the 19th century preached their feelings of how society is, and what needs to be done to fix the corruptness of it. Their writings, known as American Romanticism, told how people need to be one with nature to have the fulfilling life in which we all desire, (with non-fulfilling lives the world would be a disaster). From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s piece, “Nature”: “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society“ (page ). Emerson tells of how people need to get out of the house, the place they find comfort in the dumbness of their absent thought, so they can find the individual in them, that strives to express the way they feel about everything.