Thomas Cole, a painter who founded of the Hudson River School, traveled to the Catskills in search of scenic views. One of Cole’s paintings caught John Trumbull, the president of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, eye and bought the painting. Trumbull quickly spread the word about the new young painter. More upper-class people of the art world started buying Cole’s paintings and within a few years Cole became the leader of an accomplished circle of landscape painters. Over the next 80 years, the Hudson River School grew to include about 100 painters!
“My mentor and greatest influence was Eugène Boudin, who was a genius landscape painter. I met Eugène in 1858 and worked with him in his studio for a few months. Did you know he was with me at the first Impressionist exhibit in 1874 (Biography.com)?” [Monet] “I have been influenced by many different people and cultures. Édouard Manet was most influential to me regarding Impressionism. I have had the pleasure of studying under great painters such as Louis Lamothe, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro.
Although he briefly trained as a Naval Surgeon, Ferguson soon realised that his ambition was painting and he spent some time travelling in Spain, Morocco and France to develop his artistic knowledge and experience. The first painting I am going to discuss is 'The Pink Parasol' which is a portrait painted in 1908 of a fellow artist and friend Bertha Case, when they were both in Paris. In this painting Ferguson adopted much stronger colours than in his other paintings and like Matisse used green paint to represent shadows in the face. He emphasised pattern by merging the pink parasol with the background of his picture by blending it with the cold colours. The painting is of a woman peering over her shoulder, she is wearing a hat with a pink bow and is also wearing a scarf, in the background there is a pink parasol around strong blocks of cold colours.
Today there are many different scene designers, but to me Ming Cho Lee was one of the most important and interesting. Lee was born in China, and said to be one of the most influential American scene designers during the last four decades of the 20th century. In Lee’s early life, his mother provided him with the opportunity to study ink drawing and landscape painting with the watercolorist Change Kwo-Nyen. Lee like his father, was a member of Yale's class of 1919, and his uncle was a graduate in 1918. This young designer grew up in an environment where English was the predominant language.
Adams was born near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. “His earliest goal was to become a concert pianist, but he turned to photography in the late teens of the century; a trip to Yosemite National Park in 1916, where he made his first unprofessional photos, is said to have determined his direction in life.” Ansel Adams loved wildlife, and decided to make the scenery of Yosemite National Park some of his main subject matter for his infamous landscape photos. “Ansel Adams' work is an broad documentation of what is still left of the wilderness, the dwindling untouched piece of the natural environment (“Ansel Adams”).” In about 1927, Ansel Adams decided to become a professional photographer. He made this decision about the same time multiple copies of his work were being published in magazines and museums. “Photographs, he believed, are not taken from the environment but are made into something greater than themselves (“Ansel Adams”).” Also adding publicity to photography during the early 1900’s was photographer, artist, painter, and sculptor, Emanuel Rabinovitch, or more commonly known as Man Ray.
When the Crimean war began in 1854, Fenton was commissioned by Thomas Agnew and Sons to document it; this is when he made the photograph that I have chosen to analyse. Fenton was set the task by Thomas Agnew and Sons to photograph the war in way that would create the perspective that the conditions in the Crimean were fine, which is why I chose this photograph; because I feel it really does create the altered perception of the war. To compare with this photograph by Fenton, I chose and image by Robert Capa, who was then working for Life magazine, taken during WWII on the Omaha beach, almost one hundred years later. I chose this photograph because the photographs are the same in that they are
Self-portraits have been a method of self exploration used by many artists since before the invention of the mirror. An artist uses self-portraits to transcend the barrier of time and be immortalized in history. Norman Rockwell, one of the greatest American painter and illustrator, created a famous piece called Triple Self-Portrait, which can be interpreted as timeless; an attempt of the creator to be eternal. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career.
Leonardo used everything he learned from nature and science to paint. He used shadowing effects to make these painting look solid and life like Leonardo was primarily as a painter. Leonardo Da Vinci is renowned for his artistic talent, having completed two of the most well know pieces of art recognized today. Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait. The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman who is wearing a dress and a heavy cloak made out of a velvety material.
Zhang Xiaogang A Dialogue Between Past and Contemporary, Public and Private Zhang Xiaogang, one of the most renowned contemporary artists in China, whose painting was sold for US$2.11 million at Sotheby’s New York spring auction in 2007 (Chiang) and is considered the most expensive artist in China. This essay is going to discuss on his emergence and development, analysis his art works in different periods of his development in terms of style, content and historical context with a view to exploring his success. Early Period of Zhang Xiaogang Zhang Xiaogang was educated in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts from 1977 to 1982 (Peng, Zhu and Kao 430). During the 1980s, which is the period of Zhang’s early artist life, the Chinese government promoted industrialization of China so as to enable China to compete among global economies. The isolationism policies of the past lifted.
He enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated in June 1949. Right after college, Warhol moved to New York. He created most of his famous works in the 1960’s and throughout the 1970s and 1980s exhibited his work around the world. He is considered as one of the most important artists of pop art. Though he is best remembered for his paintings of Campbell's soup cans, portraits of Marilyn, and his Death and Disasters series, Warhol's artwork ranged in several forms of media including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.