L Jennings

For this project, I chose the Tampa Museum of Art. My daughter Annabelle, who is eleven, accompanied me. She is an aspiring young artist who loves to paint and assemble collages. This paper will describe our trip, the museum’s activities, and what was on exhibit. After which, I will choose two works of art and preform an analysis on them. I will employ the formal elements and the principles of design to engage the first piece, “The Great Journey”. With my second choice “A Group of Cubans who left Manzanillo are Rescued at Sea”, I will discuss how applying an alternative contextual analysis would help in understanding the meaning behind the painting more.

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

started attending art school. Edvard finally found a release for the pain he felt from his sister’s death. In 1886 he painted “The Sick Child”. The painting was so emotionally charged that it received a lot of criticism from the press and the public. However some of his artist colleagues began to recognize his talent. The same year another tragedy struck. His father died in Expressionism is not an art that is based on reality of something but more on the emotion of the thing. E.g. there is a painting of a man

J.M.W Turner’s painting, Seascape with Storm Coming on (1840) utilizes warm and cool color tones along with a mysterious focal point to create a fascinating work of art. Similarly, Bjork’s “Atom Dance” uses contrasting vocal tones and oceanic imagery to express her frustration in her marriage.

The exhibit I observed was the Michael Brown and Lesley McSpadden art piece. This particular piece stood out to me once I took a glance into her eyes and saw pain. The artist of the exhibit was Aaron Fowlers he was born in 1988 in St. Louis where the tragic event took place, but currently lives and works in Harlem, NY. Aaron Fowlers installation describes the eulogy that Michael Brown mother delivered for her son which whom was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. This piece was made from using mix media and a variety of cool colors.

The first piece that struck my eye was Vincent, a painting by Janice Kindred herself. Vincent is a painting done in acrylic. It is a colorful and vivid arrangement of a nature scene featuring trees standing upon a cliff that foray one’s attention. Upon looking at this painting, the sky fascinated me the most. It was portrayed in bright blues, pinks, and purples. When talking to Kindred, she informed me that in her paintings, she likes to do a layering

Artists often paint as a way to make money on the side or as an enjoyable activity on a rainy day. However, artists like Kendra Baird use it for a much more powerful purpose. Baird states, ¨Each painting has a personal meaning to me. Sometimes it's obvious; sometimes it's buried within what simple elements represent to me. My subjects can be as simple as a few birds perched on a tree branch, or as complex as a woman losing her identity in the struggles of life.¨ Many of us, throughout our lives, blindly follow those in front of us--never stopping to think about those around or behind us, or experiences that have led us to the point in our lives where we stand now. This painting entitled, “Offering Truth”, by Kendra Baird illustrates the feeling

The Appleton Museum of Art holds many exhibits showing how art changes between time eras and places. The artworks in these exhibits have a variety of perspectives, and art styles. Each piece holds their own story within the composition, style, and craftsmanship. I picked two different artworks the painting Tricoteuse (The Knitter) by the French painter William Adolphe Bouguereau, and the painting Daphnis and Chole by the American painter Elizabeth Jane Gardner.

In the first exhibit which was the Heated Exchange exhibit of contemporary encaustics I learned alot about two works of art. The first work of art that I chose was Jane Allen Nodine, Viscid 7, 2012, Encaustic, oil pigment, and resin on panel. What I learned I about this artists work of art was that it was a very well structured piece and of very good quality. The texture on

When you look at art, you wouldn’t think that the artist actually put so much thought and emotion into their paintings. Last week, as I viewed some of the paintings in the Appleton Museum I just really wondered what some of the painters were trying to get across with their paintings or at least what they were thinking of as they painted onto the canvas. Some of the painting on the wall were quite interesting and intricate while other were pretty simple and straight forward. Each of painting have something that make them different and unique. Two paintings that caught my attention were: Wanted Poster #5 by Charles White (1969) and The Judgement of Solomon by Joseph Van Severdonck. Both these painting seemed to have something quite interesting.

Dripping Vases and the Art of Storytelling On Tuesday, after the viewing of Katherine Liontas-Warren’s art collection, I received a phone call from my father, my great-aunt Lucille had passed away. It was in this frame of reference that I reflected on the exhibit of her work. Besides providing me with

The exhibit that I visited was located at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts in Florence, Alabama. The exhibit was created by Marian Baker. She created and set up her work as a solo show. The title of her exhibit is called Storytelling Time with Marian Baker. The show can be seen from November 27 through December 28. Her art is very whimsical and portrays her life. The art I viewed was unique, but had similar characteristics to each other.

Looking at landscape art, especially when painted by one of the masters, many have undoubtedly pondered: what would it be like to live there? Shapes and attention to detail are, of course, important in a painting. However, it is color that draws the eye and inspires the heart. Oscar Wilde,

I went to Detroit Institute of Arts on the date of March 16, 2016, unfortunately I was not able to go to DIA again during the class. I’ll be using the pictures that I took on that date and explain the experiences as well since it was my first time and it was actually to write a paper too for the class last semester, Art History by Deborah Kawsky, it was to pick three pictures and do the research on them and their history. Luckily I took a picture of more than three paintings at the museum, so I’ll be using two of four paintings that I didn’t use last semester.

The piece that spoke out to me most was Pablo Picasso’s painting Family of Saltimbanques, it is a oil painting on A 7x8 canvas. When they examined the painting they found that the painting had many layers that showed different ideas and sketchings. It was painted during Picasso’s Rose or Pink period it was called so due to his paintings having a orange and pink colors. Also it was marked by the use of circus people, harlequins, and acrobats. Picasso was influenced by the expressionism art style, using color to express atmosphere or mood, even though the painting still holds undertones of sadness and melancholy mainly in the people's faces and body language. The circus people were meant to be representing the lower class people and their will