The work of art chosen to be analyzed is a portrait by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun entitled The Countess Von Schönfeld And Her Daughter. The artwork is oil on canvas art painted in 1973. It is a painting of a woman and her daughter. Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun’s main focus of the portrait is visibly the mother and her daughter displayed in the portrait. The subjects are placed in the center to emphasize the figures and the pair is set in the foreground.
The common colour in Margaret’s hat and top act almost as guide lines and our focus is drawn to the space in between. The point that the model is of a Margaret and not of him shows that Quilty doesn’t think that just painting himself isn’t his idea of a self-portrait because it isn’t expressing himself. So he painted a portrait of Margaret Olley whom is someone he admires and has probably influenced him in some way otherwise, why would he paint her specifically? When he had asked Margaret to model for him she declined saying she didn’t like her face and bewildered by her answer he persevered saying that wasn’t true and continued to ask her. Eventually Margaret accepted the request, I think that because of the reason she gave when she declined the first time inspired Quilty to prove her wrong, to show her that she is beautiful and is an important person to
Sarah Bratton Bryan Wheeler ARTS1301 – Art Appreciation 23 September 2012 A Females Beauty in “Grande Odalisque” The artwork of French Artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres titled “Grande Odalisque” was painted on an oil canvas in 1814. On close examination it is easy to see many elements and principles of art and feminist mode of analysis, which helps present the beauty of a female body. Ingres’ portrays several elements and principles of art in his painting of a nude female to display his desire towards a female’s beauty. When examining his artwork, the viewer is directly drawn to the woman’s long back. This is the focal point of the artwork, since it is a lighter shade than the rest of the image, and it is the biggest proportion to the piece.
Girl Before a Mirror is an amazing painting by Pablo Picasso, of his young mistress Marie Therese Walter. The painting is very involved as it tries to portray a woman facing her image as a pure innocent young lady to a woman that she has become or is becoming. The contrast that Pablo Picasso is trying to depict is not just relevant in the image in the mirror, but also through the color pallet he chose. On the young girls innocent side, the colors seem to be more pure and subtle with one half of her face a pale pink, her hair soft and blonde, and what looks like a white silhouette or halo around her head, and as her image gets closer to her reflection in the mirror, the colors start to become more intense not so simple or innocent. The transformation of the colors from her standing there, to her reflection in the mirror, shows a darker, older, more voluptuous woman.
Lucas’ vision of this painting defined his interests in the human body. The painting displayed humanism, realism, and complimented the artwork by flattering Venus in a beautiful necklace completed with stones or a heavy velvet hat. Also, accentuating her figure with her almond-shaped eyes. Lucas proposed the lighting in the frame of artwork to draw the eye to the painting instead of keeping away attraction of nudity. He displayed winged Cupid holding a bee hive he stole as a source of pain with the dark, blackened background behind him, along with the tree he took the hive
The Art of seeing Essay Georgia O'Keeffe Oriental Poppies Pg 54 Oil on Canvas Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Oriental Poppies” is an oil painting on canvas which was completed in 1927. This abstract representational work was declared a groundbreaking, art masterpiece. Georgia O'Keeffe’s painting is what she perceived in her mind and felt in her heart. In "Oriental Poppies," she depicts two giant poppy flowers, Measuring 30" x 40. "Oriental Poppies" almost looks like a close up photograph.
“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous artworks; it is credited as the beginning of cubism. This oil on canvas painting is almost square at 243.9cm x 233.7cm, and depicts five nude women in still form. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is semi-abstract, for the women are unrealistic but still recognisable. The women in this paining are (as many women who pose for art are) prostitutes. This explains the artworks title, which translates to "The Young Women of Avignon”.
The painting was painted in oil on Masonite. The portrait is 48x48 and it currently hangs in the Norton Simon Museum. The Flower Vender (Girl with Lilies) portrait consist of a young looking indigenous girl knelling
English 1102 Bound by Beauty British poet, Ruth Fainlight, visited the Whitworth Museum in Manchester, England. An artifact there inspired her to write the poem “Flower Feet” in 1989. What she saw were silk shoes that had been worn by Chinese women. Although the shoes are beautiful and intricately detailed, the emphasis of Flower Feet is not actually the shoes, but was the women attached to the feet they housed. She wrote that “Real women’s feet wore these objects that look like toys or spectacle cases stitched from bands of coral, jade, and apricot silk embroidered with twined sprays of flowers” (636).
This piece of art work is of a woman dressed in black cape and dress. The women's arms are folded in a way that makes her look pregnant. This portrait is composed of light and dark colors. The top proportion of the painting is light but as you go lower the painting gets darker. The emphasis is at the face of the woman.