Art: The Renaissance, the Baroque, the modern worldPrentice-Hall, 1985 - Art |
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... beauty , " according to the Oxford Dictionary , and beauty is defined as the quality of giving pleasure to the senses . Yet there are paintings , sculptures , plays , novels intended to produce terror or revulsion by the vivid ...
... beauty , " according to the Oxford Dictionary , and beauty is defined as the quality of giving pleasure to the senses . Yet there are paintings , sculptures , plays , novels intended to produce terror or revulsion by the vivid ...
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... beauty Michelangelo was never to surpass , despite the grandeur of his mature and late work . THE DAVID The heroic style for which Michelangelo is generally known is seen in the David ( fig . 793 ) , more than fourteen feet in height ...
... beauty Michelangelo was never to surpass , despite the grandeur of his mature and late work . THE DAVID The heroic style for which Michelangelo is generally known is seen in the David ( fig . 793 ) , more than fourteen feet in height ...
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... beauty . Although in old age Matisse was confined to his bed , the scope and freedom of his art miraculously widened . Unable to paint at an easel , he imagined lyric compositions often unexpectedly large . These were done entirely in ...
... beauty . Although in old age Matisse was confined to his bed , the scope and freedom of his art miraculously widened . Unable to paint at an easel , he imagined lyric compositions often unexpectedly large . These were done entirely in ...
Contents
CHAPTER NINE | 924 |
The Pioneers The Mexicans Abstract Expressionism The Reaction Against | 956 |
Richardson Sullivan and the Chicago School Art Nouveau and Expressionist | 965 |
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