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.
An Analysis of Gauguin’s Painting… “WHERE DO WE COME FROM WHAT ARE WE WHERE ARE WE GOING” Painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Date: 1897-1898 Painter: Paul Gauguin Dimensions: Approximately 5’ wide by over 12’ long Medium: Oil on Canvas Painted in: Tahiti On Display: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma [Wikipedia, the notes from class as well as The MFA of Boston where used as sources for this paper] Sabrina Marie Marchand Art of the Modern World November 16th 2010 WHERE DO WE COME FROM WHAT ARE WE WHERE ARE WE GOING Paul Gauguin was a well known post-impressionist painter who lived from 1848-1903. Gauguin is best known for the unique style he used while creating his paintings but also dabbled in a variety of different artistic outputs such as sculpting, wood carving and even writing.
“Landscape of Orpheus and Eurydice” – Nicolas Poussin Artists from the Baroque period used Greek myths as sources for their art over and over again. In the following sections I am going to talk about a specific Painter named Nicolas Poussin (1549-1665) and his mythical Painting “Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice”. To make it easier and better to understand this painting, I am going to give a short summary of the story behind the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and afterwards I will take a closer look at the painting itself. Nicolas Poussin used the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as background for his painting “Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice”. The story behind this Greek myth is about Orpheus, son of the God Apollo, and his beautiful wife Eurydice.
INTRODUCTION Henri Matisse – (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
Café Terrace at Night Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch post-Impressionist painter, created Café Terrace at Night, which is a colored oil painting that was painted on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 (Toile de 25 figure) in Arles, France, middle September 1888. In this essay, I will present the paint’s compositional structure, description of the painting and the way that how artist uses color. In this painting, Van Gogh described his vision as a large yellow lantern that lights up the terrace, the façade wall, the sidewalk and even casts light on the paving of the road that takes a pinkish violet tone. Seeing back of the closest green pine tree, you can see some really dark building and few sparkling stars hang on the sky that is dark blue with violet. The line of sight extends back along the coffee shed and seating to make the picture has sense of depth.
In Picasso’s painting he uses cubism by showing all sides of the prostitutes at once on a two-dimensional surface. In myartslab it explains how Picasso’s painting uses a wide range of influences such as the Egyptian statuary, Greo-Roman sculptures of women and African sculpture in particular with the mask. This painting however was strongly influenced by Picasso’s African Period which lasted from 1907 to 1909 which is explained in the textbook reading. This painting was the pivotal point of cubism in the art movement and abstract art. In Picasso’s painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon you can see how he imposes geometrical symmetries in the women (cubism).
The artist Giuseppe Archimboldo was an Italian painter who started out working for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo. Archimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs which included the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo. He also worked on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza. In 1558, Archimboldo drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormination of the Virgin Mary, which is still hanging in the Como Cathedral today (Giuseppe Archimboldo biography, 2013). Giuseppe Archimboldo was considered a mannerist artist who worked in the sixteenth century.
This note likens Leonardo to renowned Greek painter Apelles, who is mentioned in the text, and states that Leonardo was at that time working on a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. [7] A margin note by Agostino Vespucci (visible at right) discovered in a book at Heidelberg University, dating to 1503, states that Leonardo was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. The sitter, Lisa del Giocondo,[8][9] was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del
Salvador Dali was influenced by many renaissance era artists. He painted surrealism which was a 20th century style of art and literature created in France that was made to stress the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects. His works of art were usually about dreams. His most famous piece of artwork “Persistence of Memory” reflects his theme of dream type artwork. In August 1929 Salvador Dali met his future wife Gala, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, who was a Russian immigrant and 10 years older then Dali.
As the 13th century drew to a close in the wake of the Crusades, a little known artist was creating masterpieces paying homage to the Christian faith. Historical record of Duccio Di Buoninsegna’s life are far from complete, with the earliest documentation of his life in 1278 when he received payment from the Siena Council for the decoration of twelve trunks designed to store documents (ducciodibuoninsegna.org, 2013). Di Buoninsegna was an Italian painter believed to have been born in the region of Tuscany sometime between 1255 and 1260. It was in the Tuscan town of Siena that he completed one of his most famous works, Madonna and Child. This work, thought to have been completed sometime between 1290 and 1300, is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013).