Moritsugu Log Art Analysis

I had the pleasure of visiting San Jose Museum Of Art and was very Impresses .

The towering stack of chopped wood sat sturdily. The hard work that the person spent on stacking the pile paid off for a gorgeous work of art. The two trees express unity; without the two inosculated trees the pile would have no

Have you ever drawn a picture to express something, or just drawn it for fun? Well Melinda uses her drawings to express her feelings and get away from the world. I think the in the story “SPEAK,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, She uses Melinda's artwork and the tree to express the fact that Melinda got raped and afterwards, when she looked up... and saw... a tree.

Melinda is assigned tree as her year-long project for her art class, but the way she draws the tree is “So dark you could barely see the tree at all” (Anderson 31). Melinda is showing herself as a dead burnt old oak tree. She is hiding herself from the world. Even though she feels terrible, she steps up and tries to draw tree. But every time she tries to draw a tree, she only draws a dull plain tree that everyone knows how to draw. [She has] “no idea to make it come alive”(55). Melinda is not only hurt, but she is dead inside. No one is helping her heal herself, and she is left all alone. Even though Melinda feels horrible, she realizes that there are some ways to recover herself from the bad

French impressionists such as Gaugin, Manet and Monet are some of the many who were overcome by this bombardment of Asian art. Morimura has introduced wit into this work by substituting rose leaves in the place of fig leaves to hide his genitals. This can be seen as a form of revenge on Manet for he was a ‘pupil’ of Japanese art. This mystery of sexual identity also leads to a sense of intertextuality that stems from Morimura’s role as an androgynous critic.

I took an interest in this specific piece as it reminded me of the Venus’ which are explained in the textbook. The Venus’ are thought to be made in order to appreciate a woman’s sexual being which I believe is what this piece attempts to achieve. The actual woman, who is made of metal seems to be elderly as the lines on her face and angry demeanor suggest, holds out her arms who are dripping water. What makes this piece all the more interesting is that there are screws which seem to form a necklace on her. I believe the artist depicts her in such a way that she resembles mother nature. Standing atop of a large tree whose prominent roots take place in the pool of water which drips from her hands, explain to me how she is meant to give life to that around her. But mother nature is no longer youthful, being completely nude explains not only her sexuality but also how she has aged and the distraught on her face hint at her anger with all the destruction around her. To make that point even clearer the screws in her neck explain how man made structures are now tearing into what she once was. Both art pieces left a profound effect on me, even though they were not both explicit in that

Zhao Mengfu, a main calligrapher of his time, set the course of researcher painting by solidly building up its two essential precepts: restoration through the investigation of antiquated models and the use of calligraphic standards to painting. In Twin Pines, Level Distance the scene figure of speech of the Northern Song experts Li Cheng and Guo Xi has turned into a calligraphic style. Instead of essentially portray nature as it gives off an impression of being, Zhao tried to catch its quintessential rhythms. The attributes of rocks and trees, felt by the craftsman and carried on through his calligraphic brushwork, are saturated with an increased feeling of life vitality that goes past insignificant representation.

The texture of the canvas works very well with the subject matter portrayed in the painting. The grassy hill side and the leaves of the trees are especially complimented by the canvas. It makes the leaves feel like they are slightly moving, this combined with the lack of detail itself the leaves. This is contrasted nicely with the very detailed renderings of the trunks and branches of the trees, the

Acclaimed artist Helen Frankenthaler created a work of art that was influenced by abstract expressionism. His, Snow Pines (2004), predominately utilizes woodblock printing technique . This artwork is considered a Woodblock prints--a block of wood on whose surface a design for printing is engraved along the grain. Frankenthaler doesn't utilizes any form of shapes in her artwork however, she does uses pigments mixed with water that are then lightly brushed onto a piece of wood. While observing this up close (seen in the smaller picture), you notice scratches of wood lines in the background of the artwork. This was achieved by the technique of woodcutting-- make a woodcut without a press by placing the inked block against a sheet of paper and applying pressure by hand.These lines help illustrates the wood texture of the artwork. From glimpsing for the first time, I noticed the translucence of the color illustrating the light, vibrant tone .The colors used in Frankenthaler’s art are mostly comprised of warm colors--yellow, red, orange and pink-- and cool colors: green and blue.The artwork flows from warm colors to cool colors.The color scheme is analogous as the piece include variations in color between hues adjacent to one another on the color wheel, such as yellow-green, green, and blue-green. Due to the bright

This painting shows how close and codependent humans and nature were. How well humans worked together with one another and their world. How peaceful those that are close to nature are, which is why it (nature) must be celebrated and appreciated.

Morisot began painting in 1857 at the age of sixteen and was studying informally with the famed artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot by the 1860s. Through his guidance, she created landscapes with “luminous effects” using the en plein air method, aptly communicating her love of nature. She made significant progress in a very short time and her art

This shows her early use of symbolisms in her paintings. Another work would be If Adelita... or The Peaked Caps which is a painting of the several members from the Cachuchas around a table and their different personalities. These early paintings were not only her first attempts of painting but symbolized her beginning as an artist (Kettenmann 11 and 12).

Though not much is known about Van Eyck during his earlier life. It is said that he either decided after a while to go to art school after being influenced by his brother Herbert van Eyck. Another thought is while growing up with his brother Herbert, he decided to learn art but it is thought that he did not have enough money for art school so he spent many years studying under his brother. The main reason that Van Eyck became an artist way that he grew up with around 5 brothers and 5 sisters and all of them were artists so that's the most likely reason he became an artist.

Kali, when I first seen the piece of artwork you chose I was confused as to what was being portrayed. As I read your discussion, I better understood Pollock’s meaning behind Enchanted Forest. Pollock’s use of line and his color choice are what makes the painting so unique. He used a dark color, black and mixed it with a warm color, red to compose a meaningful piece of art. Since the piece was composed during the Nuclear War, is it safe to infer that the red could represent blood and the black could depict fear from the soldiers? I like how you mentioned Pollock’s personal struggles because it leads your audience to understand the reasoning for his technique. You had mentioned Pollock suffered from anxiety and alcoholism. Individuals diagnosed

The painting shows a two-dimensional image of the destruction of the Serbian forest. The artist Roger Brown uses oil paint to create texture and depth of image in the painting. Brown uses different art styles such as surrealism to depict the intensity of the Siberian explosion in 1908.