Gertrude Stein By Pablo Picasso And The Toilet Of Venus

It is a cheerful, acrylic painting created using bold and bright colors made to contrast one another. Torres used unity and variety with a selection of lines, shapes, and colors. When you first view the painting, you will notice the directional forces that cause your eyes to view the painting in a particular order. Staring at the front center, the eyes will follow the path of lines that lead your eyes over the entire painting. When you take a closer look at the piece, you will begin to notice a repetition of certain colors and shapes. The painting is also asymmetrically balanced. In my opinion, the most important Principle of Design used for this piece is contrast. The figure of the woman in the front is significantly contrasted from the rest of the painting, and she is made to be the focal point. This piece is representational artwork. It depicts the appearance of a woman and includes subjects from the everyday world.

Both Velazquez and Leal dramatically alter their use of tone in order to transform their naturalistic manners of painting to represent spiritual visions. In comparison to their more naturalistic painting, it soon becomes clear that differences in tonality are used to distinguish the divine from the mundane, for example, in Velazquez’s Old

I have chosen to compare two paintings for my final paper; the first is from the Neoclassical movement while the other is from the Romanticism movement. The Neoclassical painting is The Death of Socrates (1787) by Jacques-Louis David and the Romantic painting is The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugene Delacroix. While both paintings reflect on heroic themes, they are captured on canvas in very different ways. Represented here is one movement that looked to break from classical perspectives while the other attempts to give life back the classical styles. The purpose of this paper will be to define the differences between paintings from the Neoclassic and Romantic movements and discover how the use of colors and light can change the look

Beauty in art is the essence of detail and Boucher mastered in his painting, “Lovers in a Park.” He was able to create a very colorful garden setting combined with a hint of tension by the figures that quickly goes away with the beauty of the scene. The idea of love being an innocent but beautiful game is being told here. The light textures, silky look, cheerful style contributed to Boucher’s material richness work. The Rocco style was a reactive approach to the Baroque style that embodied light colors, asymmetrical ideas, and playful themes. It was a more graceful approach to the other style. Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman, and etcher who was perhaps the most celebrated painter of the 18th century. His career was hugely successful with many honors received and membership to the Royal Academy. His inspiration from other artists, patrons, and important figures in his life contributed to this style of work. Boucher’s Lovers in a Park captures the true beauty of what a Rocco style painting should look like.

In terms of color Interior With a Screen is a somewhat brighter and more “pleasant” piece, while Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)’s colors offer a harsh contrast between light and dark. Vuillard’s piece tends to drift more towards the traditional female nude composition; the woman in the painting is has a more typical feminine form and her pose is at least vaguely natural. Vuillard does deviate through the abbreviated look of the woman; the distorted appearance eliminates some of the more voyeuristic aspects of the subject matter. Matisse’s painting goes for a far more distorted, even somewhat grotesque image. The bizarre pose, harsh angles, and unnatural proportions make the subject rather hard on one’s eyes. This piece seems to go in the opposite direction of the traditional nude. The way the figures interact with the setting is also vastly different. Vuillard’s subject almost seems to blend with the room, which seems as important to the piece as the woman, while Matisse’s subject clashes harshly with the setting and nearly overwhelms it. Overall, Vuillard seems to go for a more aesthetically pleasing yet vaguely defined composition, while Matisse attempts a twisted and hardened take on the subject.

This paper will provide a formal visual description of le-ver-de-porto. The painting describes an injunctive atmosphere created by a lovely couple around an almost rectangular table with round edges inside a dark room with a few sources of light. The painting applies the best technique of handling that portrays visible brush strokes to present a coarse kind of a portrait. The painter uses very fade lights to define the boundaries of the objects and bring the portrait in a real life picture. He also uses a strong contrast between the bright colors, which appear to mimic one another and dark ones as can be seen on the tabletop, the skin colors, the walls and ground surfaces. What appears to be a dark room receives sufficient illumination

The role of colour in paintings had a major change with the advent of Post Impressionism. Colour changed from the traditional Neo-classicists methods to artists such as Seurat the Post-impressionist artist who was obsessed with the science behind art. . The main concepts I am discussing in terms of how the role of colour has changed are: the traditional role of colour, what made artists change their focus, science discoveries about light, optics and the difference between the colour use in the two styles; Neoclassicism and Post- Impressionism. Using Wolfflins model of interpretation I will compare the two uses of colour in Jacques Lois David’s “The Coronation of the Emperor and Empress” and Georges Seurat’s “The Circus”.

The first article I examined is titled “Gertrude Stein and Picasso: The Language of Surfaces”. This article was written by L. T. Fitz and exposes similarities between Stein’s writing technique and Picasso’s art technique, making the observation that both the artist and the writer attempt to express what is really seen of a subject, and avoid recreating subjects by memory (228). Fitz discusses in his thesis the three major similarities that he noticed between the two: approaching their topic from a cubist perspective, recreating what is actually seen as opposed to relying upon memory, and finally using language in a non symbolic manner (230). Fitz examines these three major similarities individually and explains to his audience how both the

Introduction: For many years, France has been playing an important part in the culture of European life. The art of French has influenced tremendously in this area. Looking from the work of Gothic Cathedral, to the work of the middle ages, down to the modern painters. The contribution of the French art can never be over-emphasized in the universe of the Western people. The works of painting that took in dimension of flat and bright colors triggered rapid revolution in the world of painting in France in the 1900’s. This was led by inspiring painters, with the use of color for purely self-expression.

To evaluate an artist’s message, we must first examine the physical characteristics of the artwork. The specific features that should be examined will vary depending on the form of art, but let us consider paintings for this example. The angles of the lines, the colors used, the arrangement of the figures, the size of the work, the amount and direction of the lighting, and numerous other physical characteristics can provide critical clues both to the historical context of the painting and to the artist’s underlying message (Clevenger. Module 3, The Artist’s Toolbox: The Elements of Visual Art, p. 2). When combined with an understanding of the time period in which the painting was created, the physical features can help us determine whether

In conclusion, the Pollock, Benglis and Klee have produced drastically different works of art, the factors that have led to this consist of media, medium and material. A relating factor also includes the time- period or movement that the work was completed in this resembles that contemporary work of the specific time- period, for example, Expressionism. These techniques alter and produce different effects. Looking at different artworks has been useful for highlighting similarities and differences, through analysing contrasting works there are small similarities that are present in each painting or

Upon recurring that midsummer, Matisse decorated two styles of The Young Sailor (1999.363.41) in which he swapped the first style’s naturally contoured facial structures with an additional loosely abstract appearance significant of a concealment. At about the same time, Picasso finished his picture of the American immigrant writer Gertrude Stein (47.106), concluding her appearance after numerous repainting’s in the icy, masklike style of ancient sculptural statues from his intuitive Iberia (Murrell, Denise. “African Influences in Modern Art)

This exhibition at the MoMA allows viewers to rediscover how Degas manipulates his strokes to generate a romantic sense of poetry based on the contrast between black and white imagery. Some argue that these famous,

This focus socio-economic changes also ties to her reaction on the social content in arts books. From her writing in the book, it seems that she bemoaned the tendency of a number histories on art to only cover the history of the paintings themselves, and to not

White light delivers a visually stunning and sensory rich evocation of what art should emanate. The work is energetic and passionately wild. When one looks at the painting it is clear to see all the emotions Pollock holds inside and the desire to keep the pain, torment and other sentiments at bay in order to continue being productive and have some semblance of peace. White Light is a visual representation of this fact and even though the artist tries