Art Analysis: Caillebotte

This study serves as a gender focused analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The original piece of artwork was painted with oil on a white poplar panel in Florence, Italy around 1503 during the latter part of Leonardo da Vinci’s life. The artist was an Italian Renaissance artist who had a wide variety of interests. The woman who is believed to be depicted in the painting is Lisa Gherardini, a wife and mother of five children who married to an older man named Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo at the age of only fifteen. The words “Mona Lisa” often translate to the words “Madam Lisa”. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of Mona Lisa has a strong resemblance to the description of the Virgin Mary, which during the Renaissance period was viewed as a representation of the ideal woman. The artist achieves a sense of softness around Mona Lisa’s eyes and mouth, portraying a kindness and calmness about the woman. Nevertheless, this painting was also one of the first portraits to have an imaginary background, Leonardo strategically placed this mysterious background at the woman’s eye level so that the two are related to one another. The background contains a large landscape with a very long path, cold mountains towards the distance, and a very small bridge right above her shoulder on the right side of the painting. Despite her very soft look, something about Mona Lisa and

Upon arrival at the MacLaren exhibition center in Barrie Ontario, I was very surprised to be surrounded unusual art that have been all created by Canadian artists. Their was a wooden granary on the floor resembling world war 2 and and some unique maps that were written in words. Many of their painting and sculptures resembled to the history of Canada going back towards the first nations and both world wars. The MacLaren Art Centre has been made to honour Maurice MacLaren, a famous artist who bequest Throughout looking at every piece, you could see the messages they portray to the audience and how much of impact it has within our canadian history. Approaching an interesting piece, it was Bison skulls skillfully fabricated together by exhaust parts, stacked high like a mountain.

A general definition of Eurocentric ideas of cultural capital would be described as education, style of speech, or intellect interpreting the world through European or Anglo- American experiences and values. Each of these Contemporary artists, whether Ester Hernandez and Judith Baca are both Chicana artists, and Robert Colescott who is giving us a perspective from an African American position in the art world, where each have properly responded and refuted to these Eurocentric ideas.

Caillebotte’s artwork represents the relaxation in Paris, in a garden at the family villa. He painted “his brother Martial, in a straw hat and purple slippers, and their young cousin Zoë, dressed in striped chiffon and red boots” to show a sense of fashionable leisure. (MFAH). The style of the painting is impressionism because the artwork shows the recreation of the view that the artist was trying to give an impression of. Martial, Caillebotte’s brother is sitting on a chair and appears to be larger than Zoë to emphasize that he would be closer to us in the view of the artwork. Caillebotte’s also uses curved lines to create the base of the table and chairs. The Orange Trees artwork is definitely representational because it shows that they are supposed to represent actual objects. The artwork to me appears to be asymmetrical due to everything mainly being on the left side of

Inspire the children to create! Read The Dot or Ish by Peter H. Reynolds to them. Show them pictures of relief prints that might peak their interest. Draw inspiration from the outdoor: explore the colours, flowers, bugs, birds, and bees of springtime, basks in the gloomy colours of rain or the bright whiteness of the snow. Present them with actual articles to look at, like flowers, leaves, branches, fruit, and vegetables. I suggest demonstrating the final step of the activity to get the children excited, as pulling the paper away to reveal a print seems to be the most appealing for young children.

The artwork that I did was by an artist named Sue Andrew. Sue makes paintings of beautiful Paraguayan landscapes and tropical scenes. Her artwork has won many awards and she has sold some of her artwork. Her paintings include portraits and landscapes. The painting that I remade was inspired by the trip the Sue took to Paraguay, it shows her sense of the country and how she believes that Paraguay is magical. The painting is very colorful and captures the true image of Paraguay and how beautiful the place is. I chose this painting because I thought that all of Sue’s paintings were very imaginative and creative. Sue’s paintings were very different than the other paraguayan paintings.

Artwork that depicts the environment is fascinating. Artists that create artwork about environmentalism and ecology tend to focus on nature as a whole or one specific thing from nature. They like to create artwork that shows how things shape our understanding of the natural world, show the changing of landscapes of the American West, or even artwork that addresses some of the problems with animal rights. Mark Dion is an artist who observes how ideologies and public schools tend to mold our understanding of the natural world and history. Robert Adams is a photographer who documents the issues about the changing of the American West. His photography shows how nature is being destroyed because of the fast paced growth of human living and society. Marco Evaristti is an installation artist like Mark Dion but Evaristti’s art focuses on animal rights. He uses living animals in certain situations to where the audience could potentially cause harm to the animals. This kind of artwork focused around the environment and nature really appealed to me because I like the outdoors and seeing animals in the wild. These three artists appealed to me because I liked their reasoning behind their artwork. I do believe urban cities are growing at a really

When comparing the two artworks it is clear that nursing is the main focus of each piece. They both depict a nurse in a long gown with a cap and some sort of apron or cape. Both pieces show what goes into being a nurse. The piece by Grant shows the compassion that’s needed and the piece by Perez shows the technical side, with the taking of the vitals and the helping to feed the patient. That’s as far as the comparison goes for these two pieces.

In upper Paleolithic times in Europe, there was an insurrection in the construction of art. As was suggested by stalwart science writer, Lewin Rogers (1993) since 40,000 BC., there has been archaeological record that displays that structurally present-day humans excellently interchanged Neanderthals and persisted to be the lone hominid dwellers across continental Europe. The earliest art was constructed about this same time as it was directly linked to this development.

I would say that I did not have a favorite piece of artwork this term. But I did like some of the Northern Renaissance artwork out of the other eras that we went over.

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.

In France and Spain Paleoartists rendered imagery which imitated their natural surroundings in the grottos of Chauvet and Altamira. An understanding of physical form rendered in profile view assist in the assertion of natural value of the animals characteristics. In the Chamber of the Lions, the Paleoartist’s painting technique is displayed as they dragged sticks (acting as extensions of their own limbs) across the wall of the grotto- in some places a single stroke lasts up to six feet and illustrates a spectacular display of the animal kingdom, thirty thousand years ago. An otherwise monochromatic color scheme, portions of the cave are interrupted by bold displays of red amongst varying tones of black and white. Local availability of pigment

In the early fourteenth century, half of Florence’s market hall was torn down to make room for Orsanmichele, a meeting place for all the guilds of Florence. In 1339, each guild was given its own spot to personalize and decorate. Though it took much more time than originally planned, in 1411, Donatello was chosen by the linen drapers guild to sculpt Saint Mark as their display. Donatello chose to work with the less expensive marble instead of bronze. His contract stated that the sculpture should be finished by November of 1412, but this had to be extended, of course. Finally the statue was finished in 1413, and truthfully the back of the statue was not fully completed because the back was not going to be displayed.

As I look at Leonardo da Vinci’s painting I realize that a lot when into painting this masterpiece. First, he shows that Christ is in the middle with a natural light behind his head to catch the attention, his body is in a shape of a triangle to show that he is stable, along with the vanishing point above Christ’s head. Second, the light in the background is split in have to show a dark side and a light side. This is an example of subordination and emphasis because attention is drawn to the light and not toward the darker colors. Thirdly, the composition of the painting itself is simple. The vanishing line is the line of heads and the lines that go out from the vanishing point all line up with Christ. This makes it appear that everything coming

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