https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2016-11-29 16:06:28 UTC 2023-06-16 18:16:27 UTC hello@padlet.com kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140566163 In 1495, Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Last Supper on the wall of the refectory (dining hall) of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, and completed it in 1498. Leonardo was commissioned to execute the painting in the Dominican monastery of this Church by Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza.]]> 2016-11-29 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140566163 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140571800 The Old Guitarist was painted in 1903, just after the suicide death of Picasso's close friend, Casagemas. During this time, the artist was sympathetic to the plight of the downtrodden and painted many canvases depicting the miseries of the poor, the ill, and those cast out of society. ]]> 2016-11-29 16:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140571800 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140889956 The work was exhibited at a major exhibition in Barcelona and attracted the attention of the local press. It conforms to many of the expectations of academic painting at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasizing a dramatic moment in the youth of a Catholic girl as she kneels before the altar, about to take her first communion and thus make the symbolic transition from childhood to adulthood, Picasso has highlighted this sense of passage by linking the bright white of the young girl's communion dress to the white of the altar cloth and the candlelight that illuminates the whole scene. ]]> 2016-11-30 17:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140889956 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140895033  Its intricate surface is clotted with an assortment of detritus, from cigarette butts to coins and even a key. While the top-most layers were created by pouring lines of black and silver house paint from the can or dripping with a stick onto a canvas laid on the floor, the earlier layers were applied with a brush and palette knife, which created an angular counterpoint to the dripped, weaving lines. ]]> 2016-11-30 17:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140895033 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140895924 Andy Warhol completed this work (the first of many devoted to Marilyn Monroe) shortly after the actress's untimely death in August 1962. The image of Monroe, which Warhol recycled and used for all his Marilyn silkscreen paintings, was taken from a publicity shot originally used for the film Niagara.]]> 2016-11-30 17:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/140895924 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143403034 Red Canna is one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s masterpieces, which was painted in the year 1924. This painting depicts a red canna flower, which is one of the many flowers O’Keeffe painted in her brilliant artistic career. One of the things that her flower paintings have in common is the fact that they are magnified so as to make one appreciate the beauty that a tiny flower has, and which very often most people tend to overlook.]]> 2016-12-13 16:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143403034 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143405107 Raphael’s work of art, Transfiguration, was created beginning in 1516, and was thought to be finished by his student of art, Giulio Romano in 1520, after Raphael’s premature death. Cardinal Giulio de’Medici, commissioned Raphael to paint Transfiguration for the city of Narbonne, in France. The painting was kept personally by the Pope after Raphael’s untimely death, until he donated it to the church of San Pietro in Rome. The painting is now housed in the Vatican Museum.]]> 2016-12-13 16:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143405107 kentralp719 https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143407261 he famous surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí, gave us several works of art that are considered masterpieces by many. The Face of War is an oil on canvas painting which he produced in 1940, which was a difficult year due to World War II. Salvador Dali was inspired by this traumatic period and painted The Face of War, which essentially depicts a frightening, brownish face, which represents the ugliness of war.]]> 2016-12-13 16:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kentralp719/artfinal/wish/143407261