Flemish and Romanesque Art: Painting, Architecture, Sculpture
Gothic Flemish Painting
Oil painting is a technique that allows for careful and detailed representation. Characters in the foreground are neatly represented, and the main thematic object of the work achieves extraordinary realism. The use of oil painting was key to this style.
Van Eyck
The most representative painter of this style, Van Eyck was the first to use the oil technique. He gave importance to detail and three-dimensional space. Notable works include the Arnolfini Portrait and the Ghent Altarpiece
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**Morphosyntactic Features of Journalistic Texts**
§ Propensity to longer sentences through different mechanisms: circumlocution, appositions, subsections, explanatory sentences (adverbial, prepositional, and conjunctive).
§ Abundance of the passive voice.
§ Tendency to place the subject at the end.
§ Mix of direct and indirect style.
§ Use of barbarisms, especially Anglicisms and Gallicisms: A + infinitive in the adjacent function of a noun: duties to fulfill.
§ Periphrasis be + being + participle:
Read MoreFilm Production, Formats, and Literary Analysis
Film Production: A Comprehensive Overview
In film production, there are three primary phases:
1. Planning
This phase includes the script-writing process and pre-production activities.
2. Filming (or Formation)
This involves capturing images through a series of technical procedures.
- Takes: These are repetitions filmed on set, each one signed off.
- Map: Represents a portion of reality shown on the screen and its duration.
- Scene: A fragment that develops a narrative action within a single stage. The chronological
Baroque Sculpture: Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Masterpieces
General Features of Baroque Sculpture
Baroque statues played an important role in architectural decoration, both internal and external. Unlike the axially balanced Renaissance sculptures, they seem to perch on their stone bases, ready to leave at any moment. The faces are suffering, struggling, with tight lips or mouths open in a moan. Muscles are tense, throbbing veins appear under the skin, and even hair and beards, unkempt, capture a mood.
Movement became a real obsession of the Baroque sculptor.
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Principles of Art
Harmony: The principle of design that creates unity within a work of art.
Variety: The use of differences and changes to increase the visual interest of the work.
Emphasis: The focal point of an image, or when one area stands out the most.
Balance: The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.
- Symmetrical: Mirror
- Asymmetrical: No mirror
- Radial: Circle
Movement: The creation of action.
Rhythm: A regular repetition of elements that achieves an effect.
Proportion:
Read MoreBaroque Rome: Fountains, Obelisks, and Papal Power
Baroque Rome: Religious Symbolism and Urban Planning
In Baroque Rome, focal points with religious connotations were emphasized through the strategic placement of obelisks and the two great Roman commemorative columns in the forum. Crosses were placed on the obelisks, symbolizing the triumph over ancient religions, and statues of St. Peter and St. Paul were placed atop the columns, signifying the triumph of the Church of Christ over the ancient Roman world. From the height of these focal points, a
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