Claire Miller
Formal Analysis Paper
11/3/17
Evan Senn
Traveling Circus (2017) by Joseph Todorovitch oil on panel
Viewed at Maxwell Alexander Gallery (October 14, 2017)
Traveling Through Paint
Joseph Todorovitch’s oil painting of Traveling Circus represents diverse characters of entertainment at the circus. He created this piece in 2017 by using oil paint on a 48 inch by 30 inch panel. It is currently located at Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles, California. This large painting is filled with an interesting composition that leads the eye from one entertainer to the next. The sun is setting in the sky and the moon is out. Even though it is a chaotic scene, it is unified, he uses subtle values, and his use of paint application is visually interesting.
Joseph Torovitch’s beautiful painting Traveling Circus is filled with dramatic movement from lively performers running around on the canvas. Off center is a women with a white afro walking on stilts. She is the main focal area our eyes see first. It looks like she is walking towards another person on stilts. Behind them are all sorts of other entertainers. There is a women with a peg leg and next to her is a man dressed alike playing the saxophone. Behind them is a jumble of people. Across from them is a man and a women each playing the violin and behind them is another person on stilts. In the front right corner of the painting there is a man playing the accordion.
Todorovitch somehow unified all of the chaos by
In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.
As I was walking across the 17th century art section at Walters Art Museum, hanging behind the big rectangular pillar in the middle of the hallway, an oil painting on panel by Trophime Bigot draws my attention. The high contrasting tones of colors and values and the artist capability to make the grotesque painting appealing interest me.
It seems as though the violin is the only important thing to him. The violin is the main thing that is keeping The Fiddler together. The Fiddler's music is calm and soothing because everyone else in the painting is happy and enjoying themselves. I think the flying man is representing how the music is making them happy. The image is revolve around the artist's imagination and memory. The artist, Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia. When he moved he experienced extreme culture shock and loneliness. He did not know anyone and he wasn't familiar with anything. The Green Violinist represents Marc Chagall when he moved to
Over the years, I have flirted with visual art. It started with pencil drawing, continued as an affair with marker illustration, then a dalliance with lettering, and I now have a relationship with photography. However, my favorite art will never be displayed in museums or galleries. It is not static and immutable. Rather, my chosen medium is fluid, living, volatile. No matter how well rehearsed, it will never be the same again. That’s the beauty of performance art.
Oil on canvas, presented by Sir Colin and Lad Anderson through the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1976
The exhibit is located at Texas State University, San Marcos and I visited on December 1st. The titles of the work I chose was The Photographer, Getting Even, Carousel Bartender, Chandelier and Alex’s Music Room. The year this work was published was in 2003. The art shown is photographs in black and white and is hand tinted with color oils. The subject of this art is to showcase events in everyday life. By expressing it emotional and creativity by capturing the things many people wouldn't think that are a realty Paint of the artwork is really has a lot of going on outside of the main attraction. In Alex’s music’s room the first thing that captures your eyes is all the red in the painting and the violins, harper and the cymbal on the floor. When you look closer into the painting you can see crazy details. Like the lions laying around in the music room and the candles in the pieced looks as if it's a person not really a candle. The decoration on the chandelier looks like there is really gems hanging in the art. In the art piece Getting Even its isn’t as detailed but it makes you wonder how did Schenck catch this moment on his camera. The painting its taking place in some field of flowers. It’s late at night and it looks like a man is about to kill another person but the other human being is just standing there. I guess the person is getting even by homicide since that’s the name of the painting. The painting doesn’t really focus on the people in it. It focusses more on the scenery because its more emphasized in the painting. The people are more a shadow and in the background I would say. My favorite painting out of the five would have to the be the Carousel Bartender you can see it in my expression. When I was looking at the art this was the first painting that caught my attention. The lights caught my attention since its almost
27. A second painting by this artist is a triptych or three-paneled work. In the first panel, Adam and Eve are being expelled from Eden. In the third panel, there are the tortures of Hell. In the middle panel, a wagon passes through a landscape with all manner of people riding, trying to catch a ride, or being run over, with others walking, standing, or resting along the way. What is this second painting called?
Dan and Chris were so excited, they were going to “Barlow’s Great North American Circus” the circus has just come to their town of Smyrna. “Chris we have to go we are going to be late the circus opens at 6:00 and its 5:30” Dan said franticly. “Calm down Dan, the circus is only 15 minutes away from here” Chris said. As Dan and Chris got on their bikes and started riding to the circus, Dan was thinking about how scared he was of elephants. “You okay Dan, you seem kind of flustered” Chris said in a concerned tone. “I’m fine let’s just get there okay” Dan said sternly.
On the paintings we see 24 human like figures organized in three rows. The artist use white paint against dark brownish background of tree bark. All figures look alike except five females in the middle register, who can be identified by protruding breasts. Women hold some kind of rope or curved stick, men are playing musical instruments and holding boomerangs.
Chattanooga’s “In Town Gallery” was founded in 1974, and it is home to the workings of local artists. Upon visiting this gallery, I was able to have the unique advantage of conversing with one of the artists themselves, Janice Kindred. I was able to grasp an understanding of the different medias and techniques used in the paintings and other artworks. In addition, I was able to develop an appreciation of the artists’ works.
One of the most visually intriguing pieces in the exhibit is the Portrait of Père Bouju by Maurice de Vlaminck. It was painted around the year 1900 by the French artist. It is not particularly beautiful by normal standards. At first glance, the texture of the paint stands out more than any other feature. It has very strongly defined brush strokes and thick paint in portions, especially the face of the man and the background. The lines in the paint are mostly straight, short, and wide with some that are thinner and wavy, like the smoke. The man is in the center of the canvas, he is the only discernable image, and he is almost devoid of detail aside from the face and the hat. The colors are almost entirely neutral aside from the red scarf. In this oil on canvas portrait the man is wearing a
The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.
“To put it in simple terms, Margaret, the Circus Maximus do not launder just money which they skim from casinos or wherever to build up their coffers as part of a slush fund. No, they also launder other things,” mentioned Walther. “I am talking about something else besides millions of dollars in hard and liquid assets such as gold and silver bullion, gems, bank notes and securities.”
The circus is a traveling company of acrobats, trained animals, and clowns that perform for an audience for their entertainment. The idea of the circus was created in England. It foundation of the circus started in 1768. By a man named Philip Astley who is a former calvary sergeant-major. Astley served in the Seven Years’ War, which showed that he possessed extreme talent as a horse-breaker and trainer. Astley is the one who truly proposed the idea of circus. He opened a riding school when he settled in England. He taught in the morning and at night he performed his acts, which were called “feats of horsemanship”. His building contained a circular arena called a circle or circus. Astley’s reputation as a teacher began to diminish as his talent for a performer showed through. Astley realized that he needed more action and talent which led him to hire rope-dancers, acrobats, jugglers, and the clown.
Animals have been a main focus in circus performances around the world for many centuries; however, in recent history, there have been far more regulations put on the use of these creatures, stemming mainly from how they are treated by both their trainers and the circus as a whole. Whether it be on the federal or local and state-level, there has been a definite increase in the questionable legality of America’s circus industry due to the neglect and abuse of the participating animals, courts’ decisions highlighting the true importance of the issue. These rulings make one ask the question: What types of regulations could be put in place in all circuses to ensure that the animals involved are not abused in the process? In the end, many