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☆☆☆☆☆An art connoisseur
It directs the viewer to look first at the illuminated part of the painting.
mathematics and science
Look at the work of art and describe what you see
Western criticism focuses on theory and the philosophy of art.
They both endorsed artists who were being overlooked or mocked at the time and helped make them famous later on.
How should art be judged
To turn the camera into a painter's tool
To make people believe a painting is a photograph
The duller objects will seem farther away.
The plight of working people
The question is "What is art?"
And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.
The development of the first mathematical system of perspective (apex)
What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer
The communist Russian Government used propaganda paintings showing workers in dramatic poses to install their view on the population. As did the Nazis in their pursuit of what they considered the Aryan Ideal. Both are historical examples of the subject used in propaganda paintings. A large painting of a dictator's face put on public view is another example.
the renaissance.
The Altamira cave paintings
the use of size to establish the importance of the main subject
the Andes
