Joseph Pannizzo Prof Kumar English 101 April 10 2011 McCloud and Berger Comparison Art is a field that is often perceived differently depending on the person that observes it. Scott McCloud, author of Setting the Record Straight, is a cartoonist that tries to show people the art and storytelling behind comics while John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, explain how art is perceived by the public eye. They both explain how art is not always black and white and has many layers of gray in between. There is not just one way to look at a piece of art. However, Berger and McCloud have two completely different reasons to why art is this way.
However, creating petty decorative metalwork did not satisfy the boy. He traveled to Florence, and in 1797 he struggled through the battlegrounds of the French Revolution to get to Paris (Censer and Hunt, 1). His struggle was not in vain, for he managed to enter the most famous atelier of his day (Menaker, 75, 77). The studio of Jacques-Louis David fostered Bertolini’s talent, bathing him in the neoclassism he would soon enough become famous for perfecting (Menaker, 77). It was also at the studio where he became engrossed with John Flaxman’s Homeric illustrations.
While he does occasionally make drawings and small watercolours out of doors, his best work is usually completed in the studio. Although the photographs serve as useful reminders, memory is the liberating force which allows him to reach a more conceptual level in his paintings.' ‘A skin of burden is depicted in The histrionic wayfarer, clothed in the tools to sustain the intrigue of a abstract survey. Provisions, art materials, books, papers, bedding, compass and maps, all for the journey through the landscape of the artist’s mind, accompanied by Smudge, the critic and guide of the whole
When compared to Van Gogh’s chaos of lines and swirls, Sol LeWitt’s perfectly formed horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines show disorder that can be controlled and explained. Another difference is that Van Gogh painted all his pieces yet LeWitt designed his pieces but others painted them. * * * * * * * * * After viewing Las Meninas”The Maids of Honor” it is a very complex painting for there is several focal points within it. What actually is the major focal point of this painting? There
Moreau was though of by many as the saviour of the grand at a time when realism had taken over the paintings at the Salon. Moreau fought for preservation of the grand part style of painting. He was seen as a painter with the potential of countering both the deteriorating art of the Salon painting and the new deluge of realism. The austere in Moreau’s painting of Oedipus and the Sphinx is resembles the epic austerity of the grand art. The painting can be said to be conceived from the one of the best compositions of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
This style was originally controversial and opposing artists thought of impressionists as not skilled with incomplete works. However, the pursuance of being in the exact moment, light was skillfully placed to give radiance from the sun and reflections were realistic enough to give you the time of day the scenery took place. This can explain why it was more effective for artists to capture their subjects in the great outdoors. The incompleteness was rather helpful in achieving an instant vision and was done by using primary colors without blending. In order for this style to be clarified artists used short brush strokes, dotting and smearing techniques.
It is clear that Dix was not accurately depicting Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann as he would appear in life. This raises the question whether Stadelmann would have approved of the finished artwork, and what it was Dix was trying to say. As with any artwork, it is impossible to know where Dix’s interpretation ends and the viewer’s subjective inventiveness begins. Therein lies the effectiveness of art as a combined experience that transcends the intent of the artist. Dix may lay the groundwork through his strategic use of artistic elements, but it is ultimately the observer that builds the
The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has also been debated.” (Beardsley, 2007). Seeking originality or seeking to not be unique as a way to standout. It really doesn’t matter, as with beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. The ever expanding ways to express one’s self is bewildering. A form of art that has always drawn in people has been works of satire, earlier forms to now have the purpose to have given
Some shapes are solid while others are sketchy, making the viewer feel indecisive about their mood. Could this have been what Kandinsky was trying to get across to the audience? Did he want everyone to feel the same emotion? Could these shapes of lines and color create a deeper mood or revelation? Black Lines is Kandinsky’s first true non-objective painting.
The essay looks to compare fractured shapes and distorted perspectives of Pablo Piccasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon with T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land and looks to show how the modernist writing at the time had similarities with the visual arts of the time while also examining the themes in both these works. Also, looking to show how distorted perspectives have relevance in the workings of society. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a truly amazing work of art the colour and the shapes used are eye catching to say the least. The contortion of the bodies I find is especially intriguing and also the paintings’ many themes.