Analysis Of Woman With A Hat By Henri Matisse

Throughout history, women have constantly been objectified and forced into submission by the male dominated society. Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophical work, The Second Sex, echoes the intense oppression of women and reflects the first wave feminist movement. Her existentialist decoding of genders resulted in the idea of the Other, which explores the phenomenon of women forced into the role of an object, while men are the subject. In the second chapter, “The Girl”, Beauvoir further studies the idea of this oppression during one’s transition from a girl into a woman. Beauvoir states that no matter how much freedom and sense of self a girl holds, she is always forced into the role of the Other in society. Beauvoir 's idea of the Other held

Impressionism is a way of painting which depicts objects using strokes and dabs of primary unmixed colours in order to simulate reflections of light. This style of painting was completely different and new at the time and both Seurat and Monet used these methods to become pivotal impressionist artists in the early 1870s.

     Lord George Gordon Byron was most notorious for his love affairs within his family and with Mediterranean boys. Since he had problems such as incest and homosexuality, he did not mind writing about his love for his cousin in “She Walks in Beauty”. Byron wrote the poem after he left his wife and England forever. Byron made his own trend of personality, the idea of the ‘Byronic Hero’. “Byron’s influence on European poetry, music, novels, operas, and paintings have been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries” (Dick, 54). Overall, the study focuses on the life of Lord George Gordon Byron, imagery, and about the lyrics of

Woman with a Hat is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse, created in 1905. The painting is considered one of the first ever Fauvist works, and was displayed at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, an exhibit which defined the movement. Matisse was a French artist who had actually worked in several mediums, but was most famous for his paintings. He was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Northern France, in 1869. He first began painting in 1889 with a small assortment of paintings supplies his mother had gifted him during a period when he was recovering from illness. He joined Gustave Moreau, who would become an inspirational leader for Matisse’s Fauvist movement, at his studio in 1891. In 1896, Matisse began working with an Australian impressionist painter John Peter Russell, who Matisse would credit as having taught him color theory. Russel introduced him to impressionism and the works of Vincent van Gogh; Matisse’s relationship with Russell would drastically evolve his painting style. Matisse’s early work took influence from neo-impressionism, post-impressionism, and divisionism, a style which Matisse took up after reading Paul Signac’s essay D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme. Exploration of these styles would influence his movement into the revolutionary style of Fauvism. Fauvism emphasized painterly qualities and strong, vibrant color choices. It emphasized these qualities over

The artwork that is my personal favorite is Ethel Long by Arthur Byron Phillips. This painting in tempera was made on hardboard in 1966 or 1967. Phillips successfully captures the beauty of the older woman through the use of light and the contrast of colors.

John Matos created Arcadia Revisited, which is an artistic two-dimensional work of art. One of the artistic media that was used to create this painting was spray paint. Spray paint used a very long time, it was first found in Paleolithic caves to generate paintings on walls (Fichner-Rathus, 2017). With spray painting a long time ago, the people would have to have the right type pigment of color needed. Then the individual will blow on into through a straw or reed to create their design (Fichner-Rathus, L, 2017).

One of the aspects I believe unifies this painting is, as I talked about above, the continuation of the blue of the woman’s clothing continuing up into her hair, which gives the piece a sense of wholeness and relativity. There is also balance in this piece, for while the woman’s head is offset, this is balanced out by the elongation of her shoulder and arm in the right side of the image. Variety is also achieved in this piece through the use of a variation of hues and a lot of tonal difference. Emphasis is placed upon the hair with the use of an unnatural hair colour, as well as the face where light colours are used to highlight and pull the attention. Space is not so much of an active principle in this piece, but is still present nonetheless. Beryl is placed in the middle of the painting, with her taking up roughly 50% of the space, and the rest taken up by background.

These two women were painted to have their best clothes on. Isabelle D’Este was painted with the finest clothing and a white ermine stole to show how she is part of the upper class. In the painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer she is wearing her nice clothes and her hat she wears outside. These women are highly

This painting was known as Cassatt’s “strongest and wittiest feminist scene during the latter part of 1880” (. Even though in this point of history, woman has more freedom and were allowed to go the Opera, they had to be escorted. One of the main parts of the opera was women being put on display, they would dress up and wear lots of jewelry and show off the appropriate amount of skin. While on the other hand men wore black suits to do the opposite, they wanted to blend in within the loge so they wouldn’t be seen. Cassatt’s painting took a different take of the stereotypical representation of women in the loge. The painting shows a woman in the foreground of the picture watching the opera intently, which is out of sight with her binoculars, unaccompanied. She is shown holding a fan in her left hand, the fan is a symbol of her femininity, the fan is a female instrument and it was used as feminine language which was shown to be more refined than actually speaking, but we can see that she holds sternly rather than graceful and feminine. She is holding the fan almost like a weapon, thus letting people know that she wants to be left alone. In the background we can see a male figure watching her instead of the opera. “She is not receptive to, or perhaps even conscious of, this male gaze. She thus conveys the sense of herself as an actively engaged woman who exists independently of men and their objectifying gaze; she is

On page 87 in Artforms is the painting Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat. This oil painting was produced by Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun in the year 1782. The work of art depicts a young woman, presumably the artist, posing in front of a clouded blue sky. The figure is clothed in a rose colored dress with white ruffle along the neckline, a navy blue colored shawl which is wrapped around the crooks of her arms, and a straw hat adorned with bright red, blue, and white flowers. A large white feather with black trim is protruding from the hat. The lady in the portrait is facing forward and holding paint brushes and a palette topped with paints in her left hand. Her hair frames her face and fall on top of her

Henri Matisse’s “The Red Studio” was created in 1911. The painting depicts an art studio with works everywhere hanging on the walls, and on the floor. There are potted plants and sculptures on the tables and the room is mostly red. This 5′ 4″ x 4′ 3″ painting was obviously well named. Red is not the only color, there are hints of blue, yellow, orange, black, green, and pink worked into the painting. Everything in the painting is still. There is no action and no movement, just the still shot of the studio filled with art supplies, paintings, sculptures, furniture, and plants.

Toulouse’s art inspires me to paint in a similar fashion, how he can get so much across with such a simple painting. The reason for choosing him was that La Toilette captured me, it is such a beautiful painting but it so simple. It doesn’t show the face of the model and only use blue as its main colour but it still gets something across the viewer. That is what inspires me, that even though he painted in such a simple way, he still communicated his messages and meanings easily.

From the beginning of time people have created art. While the reasons and methods have changed over the years, people still observe and try to understand even the oldest pieces of work. After being assigned to go to the St. Louis Art Museum, I found five different paintings that all involve some form of oil on either canvas or copper and many different styles.

The portrait is displayed horizontally with a gold trimmed frame. The subject is a female that looks to be in her early 20’s sitting upright on a large brown chair. If the viewer travels up the painting the first indication of the woman’s class is her satin, blue dress. The saturated blue shines and falls in the light like water. Paired with the dress are her exceptionally detailed endings to her sleeves. The lace is even painted as though it is translucent, allowing a little of the blue dress to show through the sleeve. Flowers throughout history have symbolized innocence of a woman and her virginity. The repeating theme of flowers, in the sleeve cuffs and ribbon) in the woman’s attired suggests her purity or innocent nature. Another very details section of the painting includes the corset/torso details. The sewing suggests texture in the torso with small beading in between. Towards the top of the chest in the center, the female seems to bear an extravagant, ribbon piece with a tear drop bead in the center. The light pink

To begin, the proportion of the woman’s gaze accentuates perfection. The eyes introduces a sense of nobility to the piece acquiring a softness at the gaze. Painted with a spherical shape, it allows the appearance to emerge mysteriously throughout the portrait and I quote “Through their roundness, therefore, the mind, knowing itself, is sometimes forced to reveal the secrets thoughts of their