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Clarity and Edges
There's a lot of rules in painting, and sometimes we even follow those rules. I think a lot of the…
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Seven Trees for Seven Paintings
What do you think of when you think of a painting?There's so many different ways to approach this topic that…
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The Top Line of Hiroshige
Let's take a look at these prints by Hiroshige and see if we notice something unusual. If you look at…
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Clarity and Atmospheric Perspective. How to use it, manipulate it and change it.
What makes for clarity in a painting and how do we use it? Normally things that are closer to us…
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Colors in Mary Cassatt’s The Boating Party
The way that Cassatt uses color is wonderful, and she uses color to also add a sense of harmony and…
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Where did Bruegel learn to shift space?
Bruegel did not invent the idea of shifting our perspective or changing the point of view from which we see…
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Whistler’s Mother, in color!
Whistler's Mother is a very monochromatic painting. What happens if we add colors to it?
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Pictorial Movement in The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt
By putting a baby right in the middle of her painting, The Boating Party, Mary Cassatt goes against a conventional…
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Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow, and Complementary Colors
Previously, we talked about Bruegel's painting, The Harvesters, and we talked about how he's shifting where we stand in that…
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Dear Whistler’s Mother, what are planal maps?
How do we go about studying pictorial space? There's space in an artwork. There's space left to right, up and…
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