Bringing street art which people frown upon into the museums of art, and making it apart of new history. I really enjoy this painting by Bruce Bailey because I like the way he used the colour and showed movement throughout the painting in an abstract way, and how the artwork has a very positive attitude towards
Rachel Bingham Art History and Appreciation II – ARTG106 Heather Walker April 9, 2014 Formal Analysis of St. Francis in Prayer and A Geographer On April 3, 2014, a friend and I went to visit the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. The first painting that caught my eye was St. Francis in Prayer by Francisco de Zurbaran. It is an approximately 5’ by 4’oil painting on canvas dating back to 1638 – 1639 during the Counter-Reformation (Norton Simon). The second piece of art was a painting by the School of Caravaggio titled A Geographer. The work is an approximate 5’ by 4’ oil painting on canvas created in the 17th century during the Baroque art movement (Norton Simon).
Cezanne also admired Romantic painter, Eugene Delacroix, who used color instead of lines to define objects; this inspired him to begin his quest for composition using color alone. Cezanne would create a 3D effect in his works by giving each object many planes he would add to this effect with his vast use of colors. "Jardin Des Lauves" (1906) (http://www.artchive.com/viewer/z.html ), was an example of this carelessness, which almost seems incomplete or rushed, it was as if he struggled to finish before death got the better of him. Pissarro convinced him to break up the color and use shorter brush strokes when painting; among Cezanne's friends, Pissarro was the only one patient enough to teach him. He did not have the same attraction towards light as did many Impressionists, he believed that the structure of objects should be portrayed through color, not light, "I seek to render
Date: 2-28-2012 Name: Hakil Hamilton Course: EG363 Teacher: Ms. Sgroi Class: Tuesday, Evening School: ITT-Tech Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 1886 This is a painting by Georges Seurat from the year 1884-1886. Georges Pierre Seurat was a French neo-impressionist painter along with fellow artist Paul Signac originated the influential theory and practice of the neoimpressionism. Georges Seurat used oil on canvas and he concentrated on the issues of color, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 meters (6 ft 10 in x 10 ft 1 in) in size. Georges Seurat was motivated by study in optical and color theory, Georges Seurat contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye.
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
In his later years he devoted himself to "serious" painting, on which he worked conscientiously until his death in Little Neck, Long Island. His conventional art work was exhibited at the New York Academy of Design and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, but it is for the whimsical charm of his distinctive humorous drawings that he is likely to be remembered. Figure 5: Newell, Peter. The Rocket Book, 1912. Sources: "Book Illustrators, XXII:
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is one of the most well-known paintings in the world. It is beautiful and complex, yet plain and boring. Like the man himself, Van Gogh’s paintings are complex and require a second look. Vincent van Gogh was a deeply troubled man throughout his life. He suffered from anxiety and mental illness, ultimately causing his suicide at the age of 37.
[Date] Watson and the Shark * Generally considered the finest painter of colonial America, John Singleton Copley painted portraits and historical subjects. His Boston portraits show a thorough knowledge of his New England models, and his talent as a draftsman and colorist produced pictures of aristocratic elegance and grace. His gripping pictorial drama entitled Watson and the Shark is a visually stimulating and compelling historical painting that evokes many diverse emotions in its audience. John Singleton Copley’s interpretation of a horrifying disaster in Brook Watson and the Shark stands out as a romanticized horror painting. Watson and the Shark, a painting executed in the medium of oil on canvas by Copley, was completed in 1778 and belongs to the ‘18th Century American political’ period.
And then, I will further my research by examining how the masterpiece has been reproduced under different contexts. Fig 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (1503) The meanings are produced through a complex social relationship that involves at least two elements besides the image itself and its producer: (1) how viewers interpret or experience the image and (2) the context in which an image is seen. (Sturken & Cartwright, 2001, p45) According to Diane Shipley DeCillis, the owner of Southfield gallery, Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art and continues to inspire reproduction, parody, scientific theory, and more. Thus, I think Mona Lisa is the most suitable artwork for me to mediate different meanings produced since the Renaissance until the postmodern world.
The first piece of art by Giotto Di Bondone called Lamentation is a piece of art that portrays feeling san give the painting a feel of realism. During this time Giotto was doing work for a man called Enrico Scrovegni who built a chapel and had Giotto decorate it with paintings t atone for what his father had one during his profession. In this painting it shows figures that look like little angles expressing their grief over the death of Jesus in a manner that is truly human like. You se each figure in a different position as they hover over the body and the other figures beside his body are looking on in disbelief as the painting shows light and halo effect upon the head of the figures. This painting represents something sacred and the power of divinity.