Essay about ART HISTORY 102

This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their

Two of the paintings I came across, Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in a Stormy Sea off a Coast, and Philips Wouwerman, Stag Hunt in a River were very similar in many ways. First of all, they were both European art, they are both 200 plus years old, and they both show very hectic times. The first painting, Ships in a Stormy Sea, displays several ships, (although it is hard to see the other 4), being almost entirely swallowed by an angry, wavy ocean, during an extremely stormy journey. All of the ships are at different levels and some are leaned over, and tipped more than others, allowing the viewer to realize the true horror occurring in this painting. The amount of line that this artist uses in this painting is tremendous as well, as he presents plenty of diagonal lines throughout the painting, such as on all of the ships sails. This piece of art is extremely realistic and gives me chills when I imagine what these sailors must have been dealing with that night. Not only does this painting show a hectic time, but another painting titled, Stag Hunt in a River. This painting displays a village, in the mountains, lying on a river, where hunters, horses, and dogs of the village are attacking a deer that is attempting to escape from them. This painting seems to describe a very hectic time for everyone, as the dogs are desperately trying to do their job, the deer is attempting to escape, and the hunters are relying on the deer for their food. Although there are many obvious differences in these two paintings, the roles are reversed in the two, as in Ships in a Stormy Sea, nature is doing the damage, while the people are trying to avoid danger. On the other hand, Stag Hunt in a River, displays nature being attacked and endangered by the people themselves. My favorite

Case Study: The use of assemblage and the found object in historical and contemporary art practice.

The oil on canvas landscape painting does not reveal the name of the painter, but instead it leaves the observer with several explicit and implicit clues which may lead the viewer a step closer to its creator and its reason for existing. Additionally knowing that the painting was created in France sometime around the mid 17th century narrows it down to a few possible influencing eras. Moreover, having the freedom as a spectator to make assumptions based on legitimate evidence lead me to think critically and got me to figure out the painter’s background information, intended audience, intentions, and etc.

The artwork that I would like to discuss is Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken, an oil painting done in the 1490s by Josse Lieferinxe a South Netherlands artist. ("Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken.") I went to the Walter Art Museum and this image hidden it was in the third floor in the corner. As for the comparison I decided to choose the right, Saint Sebastian and the Bishop Saint, and for the third artwork that we had discussed in class that I’d like to discuss is the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch. The main image is Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken. However what these artworks have in common is that they have a lot of movement and have the same religion. Also each artwork conveys different the messages and they have a different function.

During this semester’s course we have studied various styles of art throughout Europe, and what has intrigued me the most is Baroque art. Baroque, as we have studied it, is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, in sculpture, and painting. Baroque style began in Rome, Italy in the 1600s and quickly spread throughout Europe. The Baroque style was endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church, in their response to the Protestant Reformation. The Church encouraged artists to create works of art that would connect their audience intellectually and emotionally with religious themes. For my final visual analysis I have chosen Hero and Leander, by Peter Paul Rubens (Figure 1). Rubens created this oil on canvas painting between 1604 and 1605 in Lombardy, Italy. Ruben’s painting features Leander, a youth of Abydos, who used to swim across the waters at night to Sestos on the opposite side to meet his lover Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite. The painting measures 96 X 127 cm and is currently located in the Yale University Art Museum, in New Haven, Connecticut. (Early mythological paintings)

One artist painted a beautiful portrait of their mother which was incredibly detailed and proportioned. Another artist painted a city landscape which made the big buildings pop out by its amazing depth and shades. The final artist painted a large group of fishes; they added in warm colors to create a relaxing mood.

Some circles are shown in the eyes of the bull and many of the ligaments on the animal but a majority of the painting consists of free form shapes. Some form that is exhibited with the painting is with the shoulder blade of the animal as shadows are created to show a three dimensional figure. The value of the painting tends not be very dark but not very light and meets at the middle of two with a medium shade of light. The entire painting tends to be the same value throughout. There tends to be some balance exhibited in the painting as the photograph contains some to factor the elements in the background and on the ground.

Van Gogh`s paintings are a tremendous contribution to the development of art. Inspired by bright colors, he painted and painted which had a turning point and have been duplicated many times by many experts whereas never reaching the emotional typically intensity of Van Gogh`s.

These artists contributed to the painting created for this assignment by having their works being utilized as reference images for painting animals, natural lighting and colours, and brushwork. First ‘Tama the Japanese Dog’ by Renoir, was viewed learn how to paint fur- which is wild and unpredictable in itself. The choppy, partially- blended brush strokes give the impression of fluffy fur which stick out and overlaps more fur. The direction of the brush stokes are erratic change abruptly as the fur waves in and out. The second animal painting used was a piece created by Degas called, ‘A Dead Fox Lying in the Underbrush’. Though this scene is rather morbid in comparison to a fluffy guinea pig enthusiastically enjoying plant matter, the colours and lighting used in this scene heavily inspired those used within the guinea pig painting. Another way that the painting of the dead fox reinforces the style of impressionism is how the brush work on the fox is less detailed, more blended, and almost appearing two-dimensional in some places, which contributes to the effect of stillness, or lifelessness. Lastly, another painting by Renoir, ‘Landscape at Vetheuil was referenced to aid the creation of grass. The brushstrokes for the grass in this painting are varied in colour, randomly placed, and are broad and

Note: This statue of an Ancient Egyptian woman clearly shows the way of dressing in Ancient Egypt. This statue belongs to the New Kingdome period.

Everyone has been created unique and there is no other that is the like anyone else. People think different, dress different and like and dislike certain things. This is similar to the artists of the nineteenth century including Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau and Joseph Mallord William Turner. They are both artists during the nineteenth century and were painted at the same time; however, there is a difference between their styles, their point of view, and the scenery. However there are similarities between the two paintings. The paintings that will be compared and contrasted are “Under the Birches, Evening” and “The Campo Santo, Venice.”

-what makes him different than the rest of the other artist in his time is how he uses more emotions and human faces in his paintings

The logic and clarity coming from Nicolas Poussin paintings transformed the way people look at art now days. Poussin was born in the 16th century in Les Andelys, France. His work was inspired for Quentin Varin a painter that became his first teacher (Cordellier, 1990). He basically showed him the beauty of nature. Poussin spent most of his life living in Rome consequently starting his early work there. He devoted most of his work to mythological subjects (Simon, 1978). Starting that, sent his work in the direction of biblical and mythological The divine system of nature represented in his art makes it more likable. Poussin’s way of positioning humans in his work outstands immensely. He used simplistic methods mixed with the roughness of

“His art examined the way in which basic primary and secondary colors can be put together with black and white in order to make a canvas that could be appreciated without having to read it as a certain scene or narrative.”