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There is a story about Claire Booth Luce complaining that she was bored with hearing about the Holocaust.

 


reflection. Personal and thoughtful consideration of an artwork, an aesthetic experience, or the creative process.
rhythm. Intentional, regular repetition of lines of shapes to achieve a specific repetitious effect or pattern.

REFLECTION a repeating tessellated shape that mirrors itself.
RENAISSANCE a period in the 15th and 16th centuries when there were lots of new discoveries in art and science.
REPETITION recurring again and again.

"Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims"
La Sale
Antoine de la Sale ...

Reflection - An image given back by a reflecting surface, such as that of a mirror or still waters. Return to top ...

Reflection with two children (self portrait)
1968
Naked girl asleep, II ...

reflection, reflected image - An image given back by a reflecting surface, such as that of a mirror or still waters. Each ray of light that hits a surface is an incident ray of light.

The sun and its reflections seem to glisten and shimmer. Why, by matching the luminances, do the sun and its reflection seem to glisten and shimmer?

Water Lilies and Reflections of a Willow (1916-19), Musée Marmottan Monet
Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, 1916-1919
Water Lilies, 1917-1919, Honolulu Museum of Art ...

glare - reflection or shine of a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light
glaze - to coat a painted surface with a thinned, semi-transparent color, which modifies the original color; gloss or mat protective coating baked onto clay in high heat ...

HIGHLIGHT: a light area that represents the reflection of light
HORIZON LINE: a level line where water or land seems to end and the sky begins. It is usually on the eye level of the observer.

The visual sensation dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a given surface. The three characteristics of color are hue, value, and intensity.
color relationships. Also called color schemes or harmonies.

Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as warrants of moral reflection and decision-making. ...

It relies on the principle that rays of light will pass through a small lens in the side of a darkened cabinet and then be projected either straight or by reflection from a mirror on to a piece of paper. The principle was first noted by Aristotle.

The newly emerging painting techniques and styles were a reflection of the transformation that was taking place in Europe, the change from the medieval period to a more enlightened, tolerant society.

He painted the reflection of light in forms and colors rather than the forms and colors themselves; his drawing, such is its perfection, appears to illuminate his figures and details from within.

Northern art was more concerned with Christianity than with Greek and Roman, in part a reflection of the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. One major difference between the Northern and Italian Renaissances was that of language.

Reflections in Neolithic Europe: Many enthusiasts of the recent "Great Goddess" movement are looking to archaeology in the hopes... Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno - Neolithic Astronomy in Britain ...

Arabesque art encapsulates two modes which act as a reflection of unity arising from diversity. The first mode recalls the values of Islam that govern the order of the world.

However, this war, conducted mostly on land, found little reflection in his work, despite the fact that from this time onwards "dryland" subjects attracted his attention more and more often.

Its flower-strewn banks and watery reflections appear in six of his paintings in the National Gallery of Art. In 1896, though, he began a more systematic study of the river near his home at Giverny, where he moved in 1883.

From the article: "City Reflections" by Louisa Callaghan
What do you think of this painting? How has it dealt with the project's challenge to paint a miniature?

The kind of "realism" sought after in Chinese painting is not an objective reflection of the existence of an object as perceived through the sense of sight, but rather is an expression of a subjective kind of recognition or insight.

The law of reflection is a principle that when light is reflected from a smooth surface, the angle of incidence — the angle at which the light hits a surface — is equal to the angle of reflection, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, ...

As specific in its selection of items and attention to details of light and reflection as the Dutch painting, Lisa Dinhofer's Americana Crazy places these 3-dimensional objects on a flattened space where they couldn't possibly rest.

In 1766 he published his best-known work, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth, to which he was to add--among other famous works--Lettres sur la liberté du commerce des grains (1770; "Letters on the Freedom of the Grain Trade").

René Magritte's painting "Not to be Reproduced" is an example of a painting with mysterious objects. There are two reflections in a mirror the person and the book.

1967 USA - artwork asking for reflection rather than to the appearence - in the tradition of dadaism and anti art - close to performance art - compare environment art and installation art
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The image is formed by 674° s°° successive total reflection at the surfaces b c and a b.

light and colour bouncing off walls creating reflections and shadows
illuminating corners of rooms as well as placing light sources at different heights and places within the room
strobing lights and enveloping spaces with colours ...

An example of added functionality is to modify light reflection or heat radiation of a surface. As a verb, painting is the application of paint.

color - the result of the reflection or absorption of light by a surface
line - a mark made by a moving point (straight, curved, zigzag, broken, etc.) ...

The earlier paintings of this series usually include the gardens or the bridge, but the later works focused on the lily pads,flowers and reflections of the sky in the water.

To review or discuss critically in order to sustain and nourish critical reflection. Unfortunately, to many the word "criticize" has a negative connotation. The word "critique", however, is invariably used more neutrally, or practically.

Estes specializes in street scenes with elaborate reflections in window-glass; Close does enormous portraits of usually expressionless faces. Other photorealists also typically specialize in one particular subject: horses, trucks, diners, etc.

color: the various visual phenomena that are the results of the reflection or absorption of light by a surface. Color has three properties: hue, value, and intensity.

Self portrait: a portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically drawn or painted from a reflection in a mirror.

Anti-Reflective Glass - (Also referred to as Non-Reflective) Reduces reflection and minimizes light transmission, giving maximum clarity.
Bespoke - Made to the customer's specific requirements.

The actual colour as distinguished from the apparent colour of objects and surfaces; True colour; Without shadows or reflections.
Logo
Short for "logotype", sign name or trademark of an institution, firm or publication.

It's the sparkle on a shiny object, like the human eye or the reflection of a window on an apple. In sculpture, in order to simulate a highlight in the eye, material is left intact while the pupil area is hewn out.

Reflected Light: The shadowed part of an object which is lightened by the reflection from an adjacent object.

Highlight: A point of intense brightness, such as the reflection in an eye.

However, the infrared reflectogram, created from using an infrared camera to capture the light reflections, shows the upper layers of a painting as transparent and also shows the underpainting and drawing.

local color The actual color as distinguished from the apparent color of objects and surfaces; true color, without shadows or reflections.

" Warhol saw this aesthetic of mass-production as a reflection of contemporary American culture: "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

in relation to the above, the piece may offer itself to many different interpretations, or, though it superficially depicts a mundane event or object, invites reflection upon elevated themes; ...

See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, School, Portrait

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