Kehinde Wiley: Painting Analysis

The Eviction is a painting by Jacob Lawrence made in the year 1935. Jacob Lawrence was one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. He was an African-American painter who was famous for his paintings about the African-American life. Lawrence spent most of his childhood in Harlem in the years of Great Depression. This inspired him with a theme that he used mostly throughout his career. Lawrence was inspired by the artistic and cultural energy that fueled the Harlem Renaissance. He studied visual arts at a very early stage and created The Eviction when he was only seventeen years old in the year 1935. His painting, The Eviction, displays a common Harlem incident. The painting portrays a black family which consists four individuals is being forcefully evicted out of their house by a white authoritative figure who is most likely the landlord. The painting shows how all the things that was owned by the family is being thrown out on the street and the

The contour lines of the painting are drawn strong and hard, isolating each figure. The lines in the painting are mainly vertical. The majority of the people are all standing up, the soldiers weapons are pointed upward, and the pillars are painted tall. The vertical lines communicates a sense of heighten spirituality. Also, if you look closely behind John Brown, the artist manipulates the lines of the building to put a cross-shaped figure right above his head. The combination of these two factors gives us the feeling that Thomas Hovenden was trying to portray John Brown as a Christ-like Martyr heading to his crucifixion.

Death on the Pale White Horse, created in the year 1817 is painted horizontally through the application of oil on canvas.The dimensions 176 inches x 301 inches. that correspond to the scale of the figures within the painting come across disproportional and are somewhat misleading to that of the overall height and width of the piece. However, undisturbed by the edges of the canvas, the centralized pyramid shape : formed by the figures in conjunction to those figures within the foreground and the background, is not only placed harmoniously but sporadically together to begin the process of guiding the viewers eyes across the canvas.

Raymond Pettibon art work, Untitled (The bright flatness), on page 535 fig 25-35 shows a tiny surfer in an enormous wave in a California landscape. The subject matter is a large wave that a surfer is riding. The content of the artwork could be how people are a small compared to the big world we live in. I think this piece of art was painted on with watercolor and a type of paper. These lines in the artwork is very loose and free. These lines in the artwork reminds me of Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night lines in his artwork which are loose ,but the viewer can tell what the meaning of the picture is. In the artwork Untitled (The bright flatness) colors mostly used were the primary colors blue and red. The surfer is red and the waves of the ocean is blue. The wave color could be a local color that the viewers know the ocean color is blue. The blue color has different tints from dark blue to light blue. The wave in the art is three dimensional it represents the wave as if it was being seen in an ocean. In the picture, there is a highlight where the ocean has lighter white spots throughout the wave. Another highlight would be

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.

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 most cases, many will tend to view the work of Jose Bedi as any other. For instance, the painter often uses his spiritual beliefs as a motivation for his painting. In this painting, a figure quietly escapes from the boat. The mood is subtle, poetic and nostalgic. The mermaid or siren in the water is a recurring symbol that represents his home country of Cuban in his artistic work, calls him back to the native home he had left behind years ago. The background is constructed of rows of handprints and is a very personal system of making reclamation

Both those painting depict import political and moral scene. I like restrained aura of “Oath of Horatii”. I really like figures of 3 classical beautiful women seating to the right. Composition of this painting is very stable and organized. Three male figures to the left and three female figures to the right, and father figure in the middle like a breaking point. Colors are clear, bright, clothes

The first two art pieces shown for this course were very interesting, The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu and the Statue of Gudea. They are very interesting to observe at the very least, because they have such a rich history from a time period that not many artifacts survived from. Looking at the dates of the objects they are actually about 500 years in difference, but the common person probably wouldn't have guessed that just by looking at them.

Since the original piece was an engraving and was made to create multiple prints of the artists image using a type of printing press, it is rendered monochromatic black or in some images brown. Despite its singular color pallet however, we get a sense that the knight stands apart from the background, as if to distance him from the darkness around him. So fixed ahead are the knight and his horse that they may as well be a separate image overlaying a diabolical background, as if to say, everything revolves around the knight and his horse. Additionally, a byproduct of the engraving process is the fine lines that are used to render details in the image. Altogether, this lends a rougher appearance to the

The first painting is the Classic Landscape which was painted by Charles Sheeler in the year 1931. The painting has utilized calm colors such as white, light blue and cool brown color. In the painting there is a degree of symbolism which gives a clue on movement. This cloud suggests that the painting was to depict an auto plant. The movement is mainly suggested by the railroad track, even though nothing is actually moving. In addition, there is also a clue on movement which is portrayed by the clouds as well as nearby shadows. These shadows mainly act as a reflection of the landscape that has been created by the auto plant.

When I learned that my mom would be sending me to a painting class, I thought it would be my most boring summer vacation ever as I had no interest in painting. My aunt told my mom about these “Fevicryl art Classes” and recommended me to go. I started going to these classes in 7th grade to learn fabric painting, the art of painting on cloth or canvas. These classes were held in my hometown in India, and I didn’t know what to expect. However, it started to become fun. I enjoyed learning to add the right amount of water and colors to make a new color, and then learning to paint that color on the cloth was even better. Using different sizes of brushes and doing thick-thin strokes of lines with the brushes became the most exciting thing that I ever learned. The teacher at the classes, whom we used to call Didi, always motivated me and taught me different styles of fabric painting including painting on clothes, t-shirts, plastic containers, pots, and poster papers. She encouraged me to develop my hobby into something I now love.

) While studying under Jacob Kahn, Asher engages with Western Christian culture via art; this interaction alienates Asher from his family while enabling him to explore art and find his purpose. Jacob Kahn is a former Hasidic Jew who studies with the Ladover Rebbe yet maintains a largely secular lifestyle. His perspective of being a former Hasid leads Kahn to understand Asher’s tie to Judaism and not dissuade him from remaining a Jew. However, while instructing Asher, Kahn exposes him to nudes and crucifixions, both forms of art that the Ladover Hasidic community judges to be improper and from the Other Side. Kahn articulates his firm desire for Asher to be able to present an artistic rendering of the human form, stating,

Did you know that you could make art with just using dots? George Seurat did all of his paintings with just dots. He was born on December 2nd 1859 and died on March 29 1891. His death is still unknown but there’s theories that he died from pneumonia or some other type of physical illness. There’s three paintings that stood out to me there full of color and have a lot of things incorprated into them.

The name of this painting is The Gleaners. Gleaners are a group of poor lower class people who found work from landowners after the French revolution. Created by Jean-Francois Millet in 1857, the painting depicts the harsh life of the extremely poor. There is realism in this painting because it tells history as it is and doesn't try to passively project an image. In the painting there are three peasant women harvesting grains in the field, fully clothed, carrying the heavy weight of the grains across their body. Bent over for hours throughout the day with the weight of the grains on backs, there is no cart to lessen the agony of their aching backs. Jean illuminates and helps us sympathize with the hardships of the lower income lifestyle, and