Analysis Of Rafael Soriano And Francis Bacon

The art of Fernando Botero is widely known, revered, paraphrased, imitated and copied, For many, his characteristic rounded, sensuous forms of the human figure, animals, still lifes and landscapes represent the most easily identifiable examples of the modern art of Latin America. For others, he is a cultural hero.To travel with Botero in his native Colombia is to come to realize that he is often seen less as an artist and more as a popular cult figure. In his native Medellín he is mobbed by people wanting to see him, touch him or have him sign his name to whatever substance they happen to be carrying. On the other hand, Botero's work has been discredited by those theorists of modern art whose tastes are dictated more

This painting is a portrait of an old woman who is sitting on a chair while facing to the left. She is wearing a yellow flower dress with a beige jacket while sitting in an empty room. Her beauty is illustrated by her curly, gray hair and also her wrinkled face, neck, and hands. These details is what makes her look real and pure. I like how detailed it is because it reminds me of my grandmothers.

As a child, he was shy and enjoyed dressing up even though this really upset his father. In 1926, Bacon was found admiring himself dressed in women’s undergarments and was thrown out of the home where his family lived (Wiki). Inside his mind, there was a battle that would never cease and this type of inner torment can be seen in his work. One such piece of work was Bacons rendition of the Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650 Velazquez). The resemblances of the versions included the Pope sitting in a chair looking directly at the viewer. However, that is where the similarities end. In the 1953 painting, Bacon tore away the flesh from the Pope leaving a screaming skeleton in the place of the stern-faced pope in the original painting. Being up to interpretation, I view this painting in as if Bacons goal was to capture the anger that he had received his whole life from his father and religious leaders of the

It is a famous example of Renaissance art showing portraiture, realism, and some perspective. In this painting there are four distinct characters. Each has a different expression that shows how they are feeling. There is also more detail in the faces then in any other parts of the painting. Another technique it demonstrates is heightened realism. Whereas before the Renaissance the figures may have been painted simply and in only enough detail to get the general idea across, these figures are shown more realistically. Lastly there is the technique of perspective as shown in the background of the painting. The sea stretches out into the sky and the land in the background is shown how it would look if the viewer was actually

For this painting Brett Whiteley used a large canvas which he was inspired by Henri Matisse. Brett Whiteley received a first archibald prize, for this artwork in 1976. I think that Brett whiteley explores his own environment and in the way he interprets the world. The painting included a snippet of real hair as well as a self portrait of brett whiteley in the mirror.

Fernando Botero is an internationally acclaimed figurative artist and sculptor. He is one of the most traded and recognized artists from Latin America. His art is exhibited in international museums worldwide and follows an art-style he spent years to perfect. Fernando Botero’s success began in Columbia; he then moved Barcelona, Madrid and finally Paris where he now spends most of his time. Botero’s beginner art was frequently criticized for “lacking its own identity” as it was influenced by the works of various renowned artists such as Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya and Diego Velasquez. As a result, Botero developed his own, unique style known as “Boterismo” (Bertamini). However, Fernando Botero’s newly founded style was often

In 1676, the English colony of Virginia experienced a revolt. This revolt, led by Nathaniel Bacon, was backed largely by lower class, white farmers, and was directed towards both the rich landowning Virginian farmers and the nearby Native Americans. This revolt, now known as Bacon’s Rebellion, reflected both the racial and class tensions held by the majority of settlers in seventeenth century Virginia, and would greatly affect the dynamics of colonial society.

This painting is much more sensual than Giorgione’s painting due to Titian’s because he engages the woman with the audience by making her look straightforwardly at the audience and his use of chiaroscuro (Grabski, Józef).

Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist who greatly changed the art world. He didn’t care what other people thought about his art and he painted what he saw, not what others wanted him to see. It was his’s creative manner and approach that set him apart from other artists; it was what made him one of the most renowned artists that existed during his time period. This paper will present the

The elderly Berkeley had some secret scheme in mind, having governing Virginia since 1641, he wanted to maintain an alliances relationship with friendly neighboring Natives tribes and uses them as the buffers while fighting the Susquehannocks war, and in fact maintaining his fur trade monopoly. On the other side, Bacon and his followers, the discontented Virginians blamed the Natives, friendly or not, for all their problems. Theirs viewed of the Susquehannocks war as an opportunity to solve all their problems at once, for good.

Giorgio De Chirico’s art can be viewed one that evolved tremendously over time. However, his artwork portrayed a number of characteristics and traits that differentiated them from the works of other artists in his time. This is probably why his art remains a puzzling factor to many from the 20th Century to date. A wide use themes and concepts can be seen in a number of his works. He has played a huge role in shaping the surrealist works of art.

Painted on a panel, this painting was done in tempera, a pigment dissolved in egg. The chief medium till the late 1400s, tempera dries very quickly and when it does it gives a flat and dry appearance. This painting has sharp brushstrokes that do not fuse together and the forms have very sharp edges. All this is attributed partly to his style, and partly to the limitations of his medium. Artists at this time did not know much about the study of perspective, and Barna di Siena’s image reflects this flatness and lack of dimension. Not only are there different people on different scales supposedly in the same plane, even individual

The first appropriation, ‘Head VI’, was part of Bacon’s ‘1949 Head’ series where he based the figure in the painting on Velazquez’ ‘Innocent X’. Up until around the mid-1960s, Bacon created approximately 45 appropriations of Velazquez’ painting. While not completely known why Bacon was obsessed with the ‘Innocent X’ portrait, it is speculated that it may have been a psychological connection Bacon made in regards to his sexuality or the ‘Holy Father’ image reminding him of his traumatic feelings towards his father, of whom his was rejected and abused.

I see this very much in Zurbaran’s paintings of Saint Francis, where the use of chiaroscuro gives it a dramatic effect but not an idealized or unrealistic feel. However, in keeping with the focus of this essay which is the influence new scientific knowledge had in the arts we

This painting is divided into three equal parts by the arches in the background and the characters correspond to each of these arches (TV12). The father is in the middle portion of the painting. The lines of perspective created by the tiled floor, draws our attention to the swords that the father is holding and the vanishing point lies just behind the handles of the sword. Our angle of vision is such that we are looking directly at the main figures groups, particularly the father. A single light source from the left of the picture illuminates the characters and also focuses our attention to the father holding the sword. This creates a ‘theatrical’ effect. The background is simple and stark so our attention is focussed on the figure groups in the painting. The painting has a wide tonal range that makes the composition logical and balanced. The colours used in this