Essays on Famous Artists

John Berger's Views On Contemporary Photography

First of all, before discussing the above statement in relation to any contemporary photography practice, I would like to analyze John Berger’s perspective upon photography. While writing his book Understanding a photograph, Berger comments on the fact that a photograph is a result of a photographer’s decision that a particular event/object or person are worth...
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Minimalism In Typography And Graphic Design

In the 1960s, New York in the United States emerged as the centre of the international art scene, overtaking the devastated European market after World War II. It began to present works with the characteristics of simple, geometric form but without artistic content. Minimalist such as Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, and Frank Stella...

My Perception Of Caravaggio’s Painting Medusa

Michelangelo Caravaggio’s painting Medusa caught my attention when I was researching for this assignment. The exact date of when the Medusa was painted is unclear but it is presumably 1597 or 1598 (The Art History). It was so different from Caravaggio’s other paintings but it still had that Caravaggio effect to it. The thing that...
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Caravaggio: Seeing Through A Different Lens

For centuries, artists have taken advantage of the audiences’ perspective in order to communicate, and show, what they believe is important. Perspective is essentially how an individual views the world. A specific point of view is shaped by their personalities, their life experiences, and even their values. So how does art relate to this? Playing...
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Caravaggio’s Influence On Artists

Caravaggio’s influence in paintings is seen in the artworks of Gerrit van Honthorst, George de la Tour, and le Nain Brothers. He is a northern Italian painter who showed his observation of nature as well as the use of contrast in colors. This is due to the use of tenebrism, which is the use of...
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