I am currently standing in the Barbara and Theodore Alfond Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The gallery is consisted of many paintings of 1800-1900s North America, and the atmosphere of the area is very calm and quiet. Mainly portraits and landscape paintings occupy the gallery, although some artifacts from the time period are here as well, like lockets and furniture. The room is covered in pale blue wallpaper, which is fitting because the painting that I am currently looking at is The Fog Warning by 19th century painter Winslow Homer. According to the description the Museum of Fine Arts provided with the painting, Homer settled in Prout’s Neck, Maine in the late 1800s, which is a fishing community and a summer
Elizabeth Gower is a Melbourne based collage artist. She uses printed packaging and other familiar household detritus as her source material to create works of intricate geometric patterns. Her small and delicate new work, Cycles and Matrix, invites closer inspection in the Sutton Gallery’s simple unpretentious space. One is mesmerized by the repetitions and multiplicity of the layering of discarded junk materials, transforming the chaotic waste material of the 21st Century into ordered beauty.
Woman From Willendorf is a sculpture of a overweight woman with rather large breasts made out of limestone in the Paleolithic period back in 24000 BCE. The figurine has a very grainy surface and it appears to have been covered in a red paint at some point which has now gone away or faded. The figurine also extremely exaggerates the size of the actual female body by having oversized belly, thighs and breasts, although we cannot see the back part of the figurine I bet it has an oversized behind as well. The person who created this figurine was aiming at the creating at expressing the health and fertility of a healthy woman. A healthy woman would mean that she could take care of the offspring and ensure strong children with could help the clan
Prior to my research on Winslow Homer, I had no knowledge of who he was as an artist. After reading about Homer and his life, I learned that he was one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century and had a big impact on the art world. I chose to do my paper on Winslow Homer because I saw a few of his paintings of boats floating in the ocean and was blown away by the strokes he produced. I expected him to be a rural European artist that mainly did landscapes, and while there is some truth behind my assumption, I learned a lot about him that I didn’t expect.
I want to start off with how much I loved the paper Holding Up the Arts by Diane Ragsdale. Ragsdale did an amazing job giving life to a problem that authors have struggled to do no matter the length of their works. As a result, the dilemma within the art’s nonprofit sector doesn’t come across off as dry and lengthy, but rather easy to understand and relatable. As an artist, she was able to bring together two worlds that both exist within the arts, but are difficult to tie together – the artistic side and the economic side.
Union University Art Gallery plays host to several different artists’ galleries throughout the year, for free and open to the public. Currently on display is “Hodgepodge”, a collection of about ten canvases by Brian Bundren. While Bundren has been painting and displaying his artwork for quite some time (his first gallery was in the mid-1990s!), “Hodgepodge” contains paintings only from 2013-2016.
Liz Larner creates art that has a presence and that shows instability. Her art is influenced by poetics. This is shown through the overlap in some sculptures as well as breakage in others. The art that she produces gives a sense of flow and completeness. Using instability as part of her work is something that brings a sense of change to her work as well as almost never using the same techniques. Her relation of her art work to real life shows her beliefs in the balance of reality and illusion.
One of the most highly regarded painters of the nineteenth century is Winslow Homer. From his birth in Boston, Massachusetts, he began learning about art. Homer’s mother was a water color artist and taught him a lot of the techniques he used in his works. The “Snap the Whip” painting is probably Homer’s most famous painting and exemplifies the ideals he tried to get across. All in all, Homer was one of the most influential painters in American history.
On November 24th, 2015, I went on quite an enjoyable adventure to the Timken Museum of Art. I wondered around the whole museum, but specifically spent a significant amount of time examining the Russian icons gallery. This was undeniably a unique style of art that was unlike anything I have ever seen before. For many reasons, the works made me feel very strange and uncomfortable as I looked at them. While the works are remarkable, the majority of them look bizarre and evoke an enormous sense of curiosity. Although the appearance of the images is unappealing to me, this trip impacted my view of world history in a dramatic way.
October 26th 1906, she opens her eyes to the world in this house. It has seen the good and the bad memories with her family. She was raised in it with her brother Franc and sister Rosa. Her parents lived in the house and farmed the land behind it. This picture was taken by her father. All was good until her father had to leave to go to the war.
I stopped at a painting titled “House and Farm on the Allegheny River” by William C. Wall from 1863. The two boys on the wooden rowboat where the first objects to strike my eye, and slowly my eyes moved towards the livestock wading in the river, and next to the mountains in the background. Above the rolling hills, there is a gorgeous sky that included colorful clouds with the sun’s rays shining through intermittently.
This paper will analyze the iconography of two medieval works from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both of them depict the appearance of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his follower Mary Magdalene (Gospel of John 20:11-17). According to the Bible, three days after Christ died by crucifixion and was buried, he was resurrected. On that day, Mary Magdalene came to his tomb early in the morning, alone, and found the tomb empty. As she was weeping in the garden outside the tomb, she recognized a man she thought was a gardener, and asked him what had become of Jesus’ body. When the man spoke her name, Mary Magdalene recognized that he was Jesus Christ, who had been resurrected. As she reached out to embrace Jesus, he motioned for her to stay back, saying “Do not touch me,” because he had not yet ascended into heaven.
Art is meant to make someone feel something. Artists can convey emotions through their art. However, what happens when the emotion that is conveyed in anger, sadness, or grief. This creates controversy in art. I believe that the painting Myra, by Marcus Harvey creates a feeling of anger and sadness within its viewers that creates controversy. This controversy comes from the events behind this painting but also the way the artist, Marcus Harvey, painted it.
In life people find that one person who makes everyone so excited to go over to her house, because she lifts people’s spirits? Tamara Abernathy fits that type of person in every category possible.
Leila Aboulela writes “The Museum” in a way that can make the reader feel like they are connected and present with the characters. Held in a prestigious university in Scotland, the University of Aberdeen, “The Museum” highlights many difficult challenges that can be faced in a lifetime, and that makes the story even more relatable. Leila Aboulela really knows how to capture her readers, which makes her story so memorable. Aboulela uses explicit adjectives to describe common things that advance the story even more. For example the reoccuring color blue on page 372 that evokes the sad feeling that Shadia develops throughout the story.
Language and symbolism within a passage adds meaning behind an otherwise two dimensional story. The short story, “Storm Clouds Over the Island of Paradise” written by P. Sukanta portrays a typical love story, that denies two lovers to be united as one. The initial reading of the story revealed the tone to be sad, mundane and lonely. This was demonstrated by the dark images presented in the first few pages. This tone does not change greatly as the story progresses to presents the serious issues in a life of family traditions ruled by status.