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).
The Madonna and Child is a piece that uses many techniques used during the Renaissance period such as one point perspective, balance, use of geometric design, and religious themes. While the Madonna and Child is very different from the first piece of art that I chose to analyze Buddha Seated in Meditation as both works of art use different mediums, come from different historical periods, and have different religious influences the artists both used symmetry and balance and religious themes while completing their works. The colors used by Raphael in this painting are very bright colors. In this particular painting Raphael used primary colors ,this painting is polychromatic in that it uses many different colors. The used of red and green and yellow adds contracts as red and green are on the opposite side of the color wheel.
I guess the artist was not trying to specify what he wanted to show or portray but what the west was about. I think that just the simple fact of herding cattle, and doing it by horseback has a meaning all in its own. It too also portrays the open range and both paintings seem to have blue skies. In New Mexico and North Texas, that is usually the type of weather we have. It is mostly blue skies and is really hot.
Paper one: Visual Arts Review American painter Paul Patton’s Late October (View of Rix Mills, Ohio) 1992, acrylic on canvas depicts the story of farm life in rural America in the eastern Ohio village of Rix Mills, the fields behind the farm houses are filled with cows and horses. The painting is in its original molded wood frame. Paul Patton grew up in Rix Mills, and at the age of sixty-four, began painting a series of village scenes entitled Rix Mills Remembered in his boyhood. The author depicts the painting over his boyhood, where he grew up. It is the painting of Rix Mills, a Central Ohio village on Route 313, six miles south of New Concord in Muskingum County.
His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics. In 1892 he illustrated the book Le reve by the 1900s he essentially had two distinct styles which mainly consisted of the idealism of the symbolic use to conduct in his work. Carlos Schwabe mainly focused on the creativity of women which often was represented as death and suffering or in other areas of his work they represent inspiration and guidance. An example of this was in the death of The Gravediggers Death was produced in 1895 this was the symbolic meaning of a death angel being peacefully transcending it to another world. His inspiration and interests for symbolism increased when one of his good friends died in 1894 when Carlos Schwabe was 28 and also one year later his wife was a role model symbolic use “The Death of the Grave Digger”.
Maria Santos Professor Ucci English 101-College Writing October 17, 2012 Christina’s World Andrew Wyeth’s picture “Christina’s World” is a beautiful landscape of tall grass among a gray gloomy sky. The painting reveals a cloudy day and the author’s use of gray colors and shadows is extraordinary. The picture depicts a house in the distance, in the middle of an open field with its front facing the viewer, it is gray in color and it seems to be an older rural style home with a wire fence surrounding the front it. I would describe it as an older colonial style house. In the picture Wyeth painted every blade of grass, the grass closer to the home seems to be mowed and more yellow in color, while the grass further away from the home is taller and greener.
Alfonso Galindo The Renaissance is a time period of about 300 years that spans from the mid 1300s to the 1600s. It is a time of revival, or rebirth, of art and literature that took place in Western Europe. Art, especially, used ideas such as humanism, which lead to realistic masterpieces being created. Many artists would soon express the new western style, and a suitable example of one is Verrocchio. Andrea del Verrocchio's art embodied the style of the Renaissance because he portrayed realism and humanism, made three-dimensional paintings and sculptures using perspective and other skills.
Painting Styles Ashley Means Art 101 3/31/13 University of Phoenix Painting Styles Neoclassicism, Impressionism, and Abstract expressionism art vastly contrast each other and signify three very important art eras. In my essay I will describe, compare, and contrast these three important art eras. I will also discuss the painting techniques used. First off Neoclassicism is a painting of the early 1800’s. It classifies a different approach to painting.
World Trade: A Thing of the Past By: Jordan Kerr Global markets and world trade are thought to be a more recent phenomenon. But Timothy Brooke the author of Vermeer’s Hat explores the seventeenth century as the first global age through seven of Johannes Vermeer’s famous paintings. Brooke a historian professor discovers and explores society in the seventeenth century referencing Vermeer’s paintings, and specific objects and details in them. Brooke’s main thesis is that by looking at the paintings closely uncovers specific details which tell a story of the time and place which the paintings were created. One such detail coming in the first chapter, which discusses the painting “The view from Delft”, in that painting a building contains
Art Appreciation | April 14 2012 | This paper is a summary and showing of art during the Baroque era that show it’s art in a form of expression and realism of the figures within there paintings. | Baroque works of art | When we take a look at Baroque Art we have to look at the times of the seventeenth century and the rebirth of modern philosophy which represents continuation and transformation of ideas. The art during these times had an essence of tension, emotion and expression that was portrayed through the many paintings by several artist that used detail and light to create there personal mastererpieces of art during this era. Baroque Art is art that deals with line, color, tone and texture where light seem to bring painting alive. 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.