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Fine Art
Though paintings and sculptures are most often the first things that come to mind when fine art is mentioned, architecture, music, dance, photography, printmaking, and theater created for their beauty, rather than utility, are also fine art. Stroll on in to our Fine Art category to ask and answer questions about fine art in all its forms.
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What colors do you mix to get red?
Red is one of the three primary colors, the other two being blue and yellow. This means that colors cannot be mixed to create red, red is mixed with the other primary colors to create other colors, secondary and tertiary colors.
art is important. it symbolyzes unity and make our life colorful. everything sorrounds us is art. we can show the world that we are the best by making or drawing an art by your own talent.
Alfred Soord (1868-1915) was a painter whose most famous work is a painting of the parable of the lost sheep, depicting a sheep stranded halfway down a steep cliff and the shepherd hanging perilously over the edge, risking his own life to save it. He also has a portrait of Herbert Maxwell hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in Londond
What are the arguments for keeping the elgin marbles in the british museum?
Here is an excerpt, and the site that explains it all with pictures:
The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that originally belonged to the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.[1][2][3][4] Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803, obtained an ambiguous permission from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, as well as architectural members and sculpture from the Propylaea and Erechtheum.[5] The Marbles were transported by sea to England. In Britain, Elgin was criticised for his actions, labelled by some as vandalism.[6] However, following a public debate in Parliament and subsequent exoneration of Elgin's actions, the marbles were purchased by the British Government in 1816 and placed on display in the British Museum, where they stand now on view in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery. However, the legality of the removal has been questioned and the debate continues as to whether the Marbles should remain in the British Museum or be returned to Athens.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
What is the meaning of kick you wow?
The meaning of kick you wow is ambiguous to most people. Kick you wow means to impact you in a significant way to most people.
Paula Bastiaansen is a Dutch ceramic artist who specialises in working with very thin porcelain.
What is the opposite of brown?
Brown isn't on the traditional color wheel, but given its composition the complementary color would be a blue or violet hue. Mixing those types of colors with brown brings it closer to a true black.
"Reality," the concept, is contrasted with a wide variety of other concepts, largely depending upon the intellectual discipline. It can help us to understand what we mean by "reality" to note that what we say is not real because we see it through different perspectives, therefore there is no basis for reality. But usually if there is no original and related proofs, it isn't reality. In philosophy, reality is contrasted with nonexistence (penguins do exist; so they are real) and mere possibility (a mountain made of gold is merely possible, but is not known to be real-that is, actual rather than possible-unless one is discovered). Sometimes philosophers speak as though reality is contrasted with existence itself, though ordinary language and many other philosophers would treat these as synonyms. They have in mind the notion that there is a kind of reality - a mental or intentional reality, perhaps - that imaginary objects, such as the aforementioned golden mountain, have. Alexius Meinong is famous, or infamous, for holding that such things have so-called subsistence, and thus a kind of reality, even while they do not actually exist. Most philosophers find the very notion of "subsistence" mysterious and unnecessary, and one of the shibboleths and starting points of 20th century analytic philosophy has been the forceful rejection of the notion of subsistence - of "real" but nonexistent objects.
So, basically, "reality" is just the electrical signals sent to your brain to describe your surroundings based on already known knowledge.
But there is a difference between reality and fact and truth.
• Size: Remember to take a look at the actual size of the painting and try to visualize it that big rather than the size of the photo on your computer screen.
• Shape: Does the shape of the canvas (landscape or portrait) suit the subject matter? For example, a very long and thin canvas can add to the drama of a landscape.
• Artist's Statement: Has the artist achieve their stated aim? Do you agree with their statement or interpretation of their painting, remembering that what the artist intends and what the viewer sees aren't always the same thing.
• Title of the Painting: What is the title of the painting? What does it tell you about the painting and how does it guide your interpretation? Think about how you might have interpreted the painting if it had been called something else.
• Subject Matter: What is the painting of? Is it unusual, unexpected, controversial or intriguing? Does it lend itself to comparison to work by a famous painter? Do you understand the symbolism in the painting?
• Emotional Response: Does the painting generate an emotional reaction in you? What is the overall mood of the painting, and is this suitable for the subject?
• Composition: How have the elements of the painting been placed? Does your eye flow across the whole painting or does one element selfishly dominate? Is the main focus of the painting slap-bang in the center of the painting (both vertically and horizontally), or off to one side? Is there anything that draws your eye into or across the painting? Also consider whether it's been slavishly copied from reality or from a photograph rather than thought put into which elements were included?
• Skill: What level of technical skill does the artist display, making allowance for someone who's just starting out and someone who's an experienced artist? A beginner may not have been technically skillful in every element of their painting, but there's usually some aspect that's worth highlighting for the way it was dealt with and the potential it demonstrates.
• Medium: What was used to create the painting? What has the artist done with the possibilities presented by their choice of medium?
• Color: Has color been used realistically or used to convey emotion? Are the colors warm or cool and do they suit the subject? Has a restricted or monochrome palette been used (see the Monochrome Painting Project)? Have complementary colors been used in the shadows and are there reflected colors (colors 'bouncing' from one object onto another)?
• Texture: It's extremely hard to see texture of a painting on a web page, but it's something that should be considered when looking at a painting in "real life".
What are the sources of diseconomies of scale?
Example of what is on this site:
Diseconomies of Scale The services world is one built upon economies of scale. For example, networking costs for small and medium sized services can run nearly an order of magnitude more than large bandwidth consumers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo pay. These economies of scale make it possible for services such as Amazon S3 to pass on some of the economies of scale they get on networking, for example, to those writing against their service platform while at the same profiting (S3 is currently pricing storage under their cost but that's a business decision rather than a business model problem). These economies of scale enjoyed by large service providers extend beyond networking to server purchases, power costs, networking equipment, etc. * http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/06/DiseconomiesOfScale.aspx
What are some movie titles containing the word hope?
The Hope (2002)
Hopeville (2007)
Hope Floats (1998)
Hope Springs (2003)
Hope and Glory (1987)
High Hopes (1988)
High Hopes (2005)
City of Hope (1991)
The Great White Hope (1970)
East of Hope Street (1988)
Cape of Good Hope (2005)
Hope and Redemption: the Lena Baker Story (2008)
The Trail to Hope Rose (2004)
Big Dreams in Little Hope (2006)
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (2009)
Silk Hope (1999)
Hope Ranch (2002)
Camp Hope (2009)
Rebuilding Hope (2009)
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (1997)
It's one of the few, if not the ONLY city with water where there would be roads. Also there is the famous Venetian art.
What are 2 significant events that occurred between 1600-1750?
This time period is the Baroque era during which England gained control of Jamaica in 1655, Bombay in 1661, New Amsterdam in 1664 and Gilbraltar in 1704.
-The English and Dutch also raced to colonize the Americas, establishing settlements from Virginia to New York.
-This is also the end of the Ming dynasty in China.
-Turks declared war on Crete, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire.
-Russia and Poland ended a thirteen-year war
-Peter the Great instituted a movement toward modernization in Russia.
What are the earliest known Last Judgment depictions in monumental art?
Some of the earliest known Last Judgment depictions in monumental art can be seen in ancient Greek art and architecture, paintings, sculpture, buildings, and decorative arts produced from about 1050 BC to 31 BC. Greek civilization encompassed not only mainland Greece but also nearby islands in the Aegean Sea, the western coast of Turkey (known as Ionia), southern Italy and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia, or Great Greece), and by the late 300s BC, Egypt, Syria, and other Near Eastern lands. Among its best-known monuments are stone temples, statues of human figures, and painted vases.
