Street Story Quilt tells such a story, literally. You can not only look at it, you can read it. There’s so much to this art that it will keep you busy. When I look at this painting, I see so much. I start on the outside and see the tie dye work, to the inside of the boxes with different things inside.
Linda Cheung Professor Bender Intro to World Art Paper Assignment 13 October 2011 Portrait of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk by Oskar Kokoschka I suppose you could say that what captivated me at first glance was the color used and the vitality thus brought out of the “Portrait of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk” by Oskar Kokoschka. Due to the pigmentation of this particular piece of art, I was initially drawn to it from across the room. However, as I approached it and gave closer inspection towards this artwork, I discovered that there were various other elements to take in as well. Easily depicted in this painting is an important figure, which can obviously be deduced to being Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, in the middle. Behind him to his right sits a man who has his hand placed on Masaryk’s arm, and behind Masaryk’s left are images of a civilization.
For surrealist artists, automatism was a more noble and higher level behaviour, an approach like how devotees, who see education as a type of creativity. Aside from surrealism, automatism has involved in another movement including dada, which is the gestural style of Action Painting. Gestural painting, in another word known as gesturalism. It is a method of fine art painting symbolized by energetic, expressive brushstrokes emphasizing the brush of the painter’s arm movement. The gesture when the artist is painting shows the artist’s everyday gesture and emotions.
Rothko compares the shapes in his pictures to actors and his pictures to dramas. He says, “I think of my pictures as dramas; the shapes in the pictures are the performers. They have been created from the need for a group of actors who are able to move dramatically without embarrassment and execute gestures without shame.” That is to say, shapes are the expressive actors who illustrate the tragic feeling that Rothko intended to show. However, the way they illustrate this feeling needs to be interpreted by the viewer. The unique texture used by Rothko helps the painting look dynamic and expressive.
Picasso’s severely intellectual style known as analytical cubism is a style of painting Picasso developed together with Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colours. This style involved taking apart objects and analysing them in terms of their shapes as seen in Picasso’s artwork Three Musicians. This work marked the first use of collage in fine art. Later on in his life, he associated himself with other intellectuals who impacted on his thought and art making. His quotes and paintings (Particularly analytical cubism) clearly demonstrate that Picasso was an intelligent man, enough to be considered a genius.
Angelo Doulas Caravaggio: Paintings 1. Calling of Saint Matthew . Caravaggio In this painting, Caravaggio uses a lot of shading with the light that enters the room from the right, very typical of the baroque style. The characters reflection of shading is also very evident against the light on their bodily functions. There is a lot of twist within the characters, hips twisted, and faces also either turning to one another and also turning towards the people standing up.
Turner use of vivid colors through watercolor techniques with oil paint brought both mystery and emotion to his work as he was able to show nature as a beautiful and awesome force to be dealt with in his paintings Slave Ship (1840) and Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801). Biblical,
Pretty soon he became famous and his name was all over the city. So a lot of young people were encouraged to imitate. That is how Graffiti was originated. The king of graffiti art that I like is graffiti. It is really amazing how those artists paint those huge pictures on the walls using a lot of different colors and techniques.
All this information and observation plays an important part so that the photographer can make a sensitive image. I always read a great deal about the person I'm going to photograph. I imbue myself with their contribution to the world” (Bishop, Karsh, “Paris Voice”). Everyone was impressed with his amazing choice in lighting. “Karsh would set up one or two lamps behind the subject to build up rim lighting, though in his case he brought the lamps further round to the sides than most people did”, (said by a history photo observer; Yousuf Karsh, Photo.net).
There are many different forms of art, whether it be painting or sculpting, drawing or building. Learning the differences between each of them is an important part of learning about art itself. There are great artists that have provided us with wonderful pieces of art that we still love today. Many people come from all over the world to see the art that was put together in the renaissance, the hard work and dedication that those artists put into their work has definitely paid off. The art of the high renaissance was important in many differing ways due to the meaning behind the pieces, dealing with realistic issues and religion in a beautiful way.