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Title: Renaissance

Assigner: Andrea LaBarge Mills

Description: Your image(s) can be directly inspired by Renaissance period art, or it can be a modern take on the characteristics of Renaissance art. Here is some info to get you started:

noun: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

characteristics of Renaissance-period art: One of the distinguishing features of Renaissance art was its development of highly realistic linear perspective… The development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards realism in the arts.[37] To that end, painters also developed other techniques, studying light, shadow, and, famously in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, human anatomy. Underlying these changes in artistic method, was a renewed desire to depict the beauty of nature, and to unravel the axioms of aesthetics… [additionally] the work of Pieter Brueghel the Elder would inspire artists to depict themes of everyday life.[39]
from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance#Art)

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b&w august in los angeles

sunset junction I (for la weekly)

m.i.a. secret show downtown l.a. (for la weekly)
sunset junction II