Renaissance

An art connoisseur

mathematics and science

Look at the work of art and describe what you see

The contrast between light and dark- APEX

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

Western art criticism focuses on theory and philosophy.

Establish a horizon line and a vanishing point

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.

It outline's object's realistically by creating a gentle transformation from one object to another.(:

Artists are products of their environments.

What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer

The purpose of painting is to reduce nature as closely as possible

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 use of size to establish the importance of the main subject

A strong knowledge of art history