Then, between the 60s and 70s the advent of Photorealism, a form of meticulous photo-like realism came into play” (History of Art Timeline). Obviously if we look at the painting of Lichtenstein, Pop Art was the theme. The first painting is painted on an oil canvas. When looking at an original picture of George Washington you can see that Stuart imitates the fleshy bridge of Washington’s nose with a creamy swirl of paint. There are red shadows in the upper area of his eyelids.
The Later Middle Ages saw the advances of art from the Middle Ages and emerged Gothic Art. Artists used this period to break away from the inspirations of the Romanesque and Byzantium art style. Visual art of the Middle Ages developed into Gothic art. The Renaissance art style was founded by the painters and artists of the movement toward greater realism. The bassedanse was a majestic and sacred ritual that consisted of five steps only.
One of the most important elements of the Romanesque movement were illuminated manuscripts. There were few major innovations during this movement because it was a continuance of former Eastern European movements but, illuminated manuscripts were pretty specific to the period. Also there was the Gothic Art which was a Medieval art movement. One of the main Gothic art mediums was Illuminated Manuscripts. But During the 1400s Printing press was invented, During the Renaissance, hand illuminated manuscripts were still being made even though the printing press was invented
When looking at the history of art and painting, many revolutions and movements are focused around Europe and its artists. Although the majority of the art history is traced back to European art, the artistic movements that were happening in Europe were not limited to European soil. Many painters in America were influenced by Romanticism, and Thomas Cole was one of those painters. Although Thomas Cole was anything but a simple American painter; he conveyed European culture to America and was a large contributor to the development of American heritage. A leading light and a bridge between generations of artists, Thomas Cole and his art were a strong foundation from which the future of American landscape painting would be built.
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist's imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century. Figures in Middle Eastern dress appear in Renaissance and Baroque works by such artists as Bellini, Veronese, and Rembrandt, and the opulent eroticism of harem scenes appealed to the French Rococo aesthetic. Until this point, however, Europeans had minimal contact with the East, usually through trade and intermittent military campaigns. In 1798, a French army led by General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt and occupied the country until 1801. The European presence in Egypt attracted Western travelers to the Near and Middle East, many of whom captured their impressions in paint or print.
In the painting by Jacques Louis David, The Emperor Napoleon in his study at the Tuileries, 1812 is a formal looking painting with dark colors and the painting is in focus unlike the Impressionism painting technique. The Neoclassicism painting technique is an easier painting to understand and has a classier technique than the other art styles. Impressionism art was established in the late 1800’s. Claude Monet was using the new Impressionism painting technique which included the combination of two or more pigments on a single wide paint brush, he also used what is called the ‘wet on wet’ method of painting that consisted of wet paint being painting over paint that was not yet dried. According to the artist Sayre, Impressionists painted mostly pictures of the Parisian lifestyle.
The Reformation brought about change and redirection that led northern Europe and Spain down a while new artistic path. The birth of Protestantism allowed for a growth of a “spiritual model that differed from Catholicism in its emphasis on absolute faith and reliance on the Bible.” Because of the military woes that hung overhead, countries began to verbalize and speak to each other about art. Word spread from tongue to tongue and ideas were easily spread throughout Europe. Art began to change and expand from its roots, altering a common ground that hadn’t been touched in decades. Northern art continued to rally through its predecessors of the late medieval period and traditions that followed in the means of great attention to detail.
PZ ARHI 51C.1 FA12 Professor Bill Anthes Jackie Yongqing Fei 26.Oct.2012 Realism in “The Milkmaid” by Johannes Vermeer “The Milkmaid” is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer painted in the 17th century. It is mostly considered as a Baroque styled painting of the Dutch golden age, an era comes/comes at the same time with the general European period of Baroque painting but also inherited the highly realism character from Early Netherlandish paintings. Like a lot of other paintings by Vermeer that show his favor in depicting real-life scenes, “The Milkmaid” is a portrait of a milkmaid pouring milk from a milk pot into a Dutch oven. In this piece of artwork, the woman's head scarf (or cap), blue apron and pushed up sleeves suggested her identity as a milkmaid. The basket with bread in it, the broken pieces of bread scattered on the table and the basket hanging on the wall next to the window all tell the viewer where the scene is taking place is a kitchen.
During the late 1950s to 1960s, the paintings of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin reflected a relationship of inspiration and generation-descending artistic dialogue. Where Martin’s career was just beginning to flourish, Rothko’s late period was already well established by 1960, with his Seagram murals commissioned and in progress. Both artists are of special interest when looking at abstract expressionism’s engagement with spiritual and material concerns. The following essay will compare and contrast each artist’s engagement with spirituality and materiality in two works: Rothko’s Red on Maroon Mural Section 4 of 1959 (Illustration I) and Martin’s Night Sea of 1963 (Illustration II). I will argue that although the personal lives and backgrounds of Rothko and Martin were quite different, both artists sought out ways to depict similar spiritual concepts through similar manipulation of materiality.
The Classical Civilization: India generated impulses that are still felt in India today and that continue to differentiate India from other major civilizations in the world. China and India produced important cities and engendered significant trade, which added to social and economics complexity and also created the basis for most formal intellectual life, including schools an academies. When Alexander the Great invaded India in 327 B.C.E., he allowed important Indian contacts with Hellenistic culture. Aryan; also called the Vedic and Epic ages; migrants came in terms with agriculture. Hinduism was sponsored shrines for its worshipers.