My Art Awareness theme was for November was "landscapes". It was the first Art Awareness program that I did and the first that I did using the computer in this way. I was only able to obtain a few pictures which qualified as "landscapes".
Using the mouse, click on the underlined word "Picture" to see the picture. Using the mouse, click on the scroll arrows to see the rest of the text.
The information and pictures are at a web site which shows images of paintings that are at the Louvre in Paris, France.
by the artist Rembrandt.
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Rembrandt (actually, HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN) (1606 -1669) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century, a giant in the history of art.Rembrandt.
The first painting is misnamed because of a very dark varnish that covered it until the 1940's. It is a group portrait of a company of civil guards under the command of Cocq and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (in light garb).
This painting was successful. In this painting Rembrandt solved the problem of the group portrait in such a dynamic way that few after him could ever again sit or stand their subjects in a static line or static grouping. Rembrandt shows Cocq and his men in motion: their lances are askew, their muskets are out of order, and they all project a sense of the vitality of their mission. The canvas is gigantic and was originally even larger. In this group portrait Rembrandt captures the personality of the entire company.
by Claude Lorrain.
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Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682) was a French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of ideal-landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself.
by John Singleton Copley.
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John Singleton Copley (1738 -1815) was an American painter of portraits and historical subjects, generally acclaimed as the finest artist of colonial America. (emigrated to London in 1775)
by Paul Cezanne.
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Paul Cezanne (1839 -1906), a French painter, was one of the greatest of the Post-impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
by Joan Miro.
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Joan Miro (1893 - l983), Catalan artist, was one of the foremost exponents of abstract art and Surrealist fantasy.
Go back to the beginning of the Ellsworth Art Awareness Computer Resource
Note to Teacher: the "Louvre" web site I used in the original offering is not the same as the "Louvre" web site today. Many of the pictures at the site previously referenced do not appear to be available for linking at the Louvre web site of today.