Essay On Cheap Canvas Art

There are many visual elements that are taken away from a painting when it is made available in an online collections website. When I saw The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child I immediately went up to it and I could see the texture of the paint, the line and the blobs on the mothers dress and the long lines of the back ground. The paint was raised, which you cannot observe in the online picture. The picture online was obviously edited. The color and light are changed significantly through the editing. It makes the painting look very light and you are able to see more detail without having to look at it for long. By making the painting brighter it took away from the original colors of the paint. The father is too bright. This change seems to alter the mood and energy that the painting is projecting. The size of the painting is misrepresented in the editing of it. When comparing the two you can see that the online image was cropped. This takes away the space at the very top of the painting. This is significant because you lose

Many times people have used discarded items for their art. Patchwork quilts are created from scraps, rags, and remnants that a person finds in the trash. Quilters then combine the trash to make a new, beautiful pattern. In New York, some artists created a sculpture garden and performance space out of a gas station. They turn abandoned cars and other urban debris into a community work of art that continues to grow. (Miller 3) Famous artist Pablo Picasso collected all kinds of discarded items he found and created sculptures. One of his most famous sculptures was Bull’s Head. Bull’s Head created in 1942, is made from a bicycle seat and handlebars cast in bronze. (Miller 5) Art can be created from discarded items and possibly even nature.

Whilst observing the capturing pieces of art at the Majorie Barrick Museum, I had encountered a piece that has truly grasped my attention. When we had the art tour guides guide us around the musuem to observe 3/4 specific pieces, I noticed they all were different with similar ties. They all had something unique about them, from the "graphite splatter" to the "thinned out chair leg" and the "fill in the vowels" worksheet found in a first grade work book. I've also noticed that art varies with age. If you ask a first grader to create art, we would most likely result in a piece of paper with splatters and stick figures, (yet there are a few youngsters with different mindsets), but what we don't know is that it has a certain meaning to them. Now

Artist and their artwork can show up in the most unlikely places. We learn about artist and their styles sometime by accident. Our attitudes and appreciation for an Artist and their works are shaped by our exposure to them. Our appreciation grows as we learn more about the evolution of the artwork and their influences on our lives. As our Knowledge base grows, we see art differently.

All the colors in this piece are more dark, and no color really stand out above the rest. Even though the surface of this painting was very un-even, I could still see the shapes, colors and patterns. For the canvas of the painting, it doesn’t look like something you’d paint on. It appears that he just nailed a bunch of wooden planks on top of each other and next to each other and painted on them. Parts of this piece were probably painted with a brush, and maybe spray paint as

The one thing that makes watercolors the least expensive medium is the amount of supplies needed to get started, which consists of only the essentials: paints, paintbrushes, watercolor paper, a pallete, and water. Because of its need of just the bare necessities, this makes watercoloring an affordable pastime. (McArdle) The forms of traditional watercolors are pans and tubes. Furthermore, the difference between the two is that tubes of paint are already moist, so water isn’t required; pans on the other hand are hard cakes of paint that need water in order to be used. (McArdle) Along with traditional watercolors, there are two other derived forms of watercolor: tempera and gouache. Unlike most watercolors, tempera uses a binding agent instead of gum arabic, meaning that they are made with sizes1. Because of this ingredient, tempera paintings are long-lived. (Steel) Meanwhile, gouache contains larger

How much does a dollar cost? In the image, the artist has drawn a frail man hanging from a one-dollar bill. The man in the artwork appears to be drawn in a similar position to that of Jesus Christ as he hung from the cross. The colors in the image are average colors for man and money, the man is Caucasian with brown hair and the money is green. The thing that stands out is how dim the colors are in the image they are not vibrant and full of life. The artist also made sure to depict the man in the image as frail and malnourished; he is very noticeably thin as you can see his ribs and has a very small frame. Based on the man in the image, you could infer that the artist is trying to make an argument for world hunger and how money is not used

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

First looking at this I was blown away how detailed the piece is. My initial reaction was that it was a nice photo, then I realized it was a painting. What I found to be the most impressive part of the piece was the illusion of the velvet fabric-like texture of the horse.

Two artists in particular caught my attention, Bill McCoy and Nancy Hamlin-Vogler. Bill McCoy is a traditional oil painter that creates paintings that reflect Florida’s lifestyle and nature. His paintings are semi-realistic and capture the beauty of Florida. Bill McCoy’s medium is oil on canvas, and uses Florida as inspiration. Nancy Hamlin-Vogler is an artist of many talents and creates art in various different mediums like acrylic, charcoal, and mixed media. Her artwork is sporadic and spontaneous that ignites deep thought and emotion. The gallery is arranged by collections and artists, so an artist’s collection is all together and not all around the gallery. I walked around the whole gallery and look at all the different art, some art was truly

The first artist in the exposition is Hannah Alpha. Born in Egypt, she’s a McGill alumni who uses the minimalism style of painting, which is the art of using simplistic design to create maximum impact. The paintings grab your attention due to their abstractness. However they fail to portray the artist’s meaning. Her collection, called “La danse cosmique” (The cosmic dance), is her search to “attain a state of supreme

“Any drawn line that speaks about identity, dignity, and unity is art,” (Chaz Bojorquey) is a statement that I agree with. Art is perceived differently from all people based on their culture, religion, personal taste, and many other factors. I believe that as long as what has been created is meaningful to either the creator or even to somebody that is viewing it, it should be considered art. Art in the public is a very controversial subject that brings up the important question of, “Should public art be considered as real art,” personally I think that it should be. I believe that the difference between art that is placed in a gallery and art that is visible by a community is the fact that what is acceptable in a gallery

The idea of this piece is to show the connection between mother and daughter being painted. It shows the time and the classic style of the

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.

It is important to note - since the work is still authenticated by its audience, art still