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What is the relationship between genre and painting and how should I analyse it?

Scale can play a hugely important role in the purpose of a painting, and often should not be overestimated when formally analysing a painting. Scale often denominates genre, and how that genre was respect...

MJ
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Select two works of art, each by a different artist, and comment on how each artist has responded to the time in which they lived.

Both Cecil Collins (1908-1989) and Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) and their respective works The Quest (1938) and Rubbish May be Shot Here (1937) respond directly to the period in which th...

GS
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Discuss how the use of different materials, techniques and processes has affected the appearance of two works of art.

I will be looking at two works of art addressing the same subject matter, enabling me to concentrate on the characteristics of the materials and how they have been manipulated. I will be assessing Michela...

FC
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Analyse the compositional strategy and style of Joshua Reynolds' "Admiral Lord Hood" (1783).

Standing proudly as he rests his hand on a rock next to him is naval officer Lord Samuel Hood, depicted in the foreground of a sea-battle scene from the Battle of All Saints, one of the key military succe...

FC
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Discuss the depiction of nature in two paintings by British artists.

The way in which British artists depicted nature changed considerably as different artists of different periods adapted it to their contemporary. Before the eighteenth-century paintings of nature was seen...

JS
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