Rachel Ruyschs' Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

In Berthe Morisot’s painting, she uses colors ranging from blue to green to yellow to orange. She uses paint thinly but in big brush stroke but her color was dull. Her brush strokes are in a cross hatching manner. This method of cross hatching creates depth and shadows on the foreground. Intermixed, in her piece are signs of dry brush strokes. Morisot’s figure is enticing to the viewer by staring back at the onlooker. Morisot’s painting looks very freeing as that is what she longs for. She has a sketch like quality about her painting.

Close observations of O'Keeffe's flowers show that she never really pursued the realistic approach. She didn't paint every petal and detail. Instead she gave her flowers a life of their own, and expression that changed significantly

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most infamous and influential artists of all time. When I saw that Van Gogh’s painting “Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun” was on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I knew I had to choose it for this paper. Before doing the research for this assignment, I didn’t know much about Vincent Van Gogh, but the fact that pretty much everyone knows his name and recognizes him as a huge part of art history, it made me naturally really curious about him.

Since the first brush stroke was taken in Europe, the paintings that have been produced have played a vital role in revealing our world 's past, history, religion and daily lives of its citizens. Each time period and movement have influenced artists from its first existence to even this very day, creating an extraordinary timeline of art and history as one. Frans Hals ' Merrymakers at Shrovetide of 1615 and Francois Boucher 's Interrupted Sleep of 1750 are no exception. Despite their different time periods and movements, the two paintings each have many parallels and at the same time very distinct styles which play on how influential artists ' styles are upon each other. Even with all of the differences and similarities, both paintings are

In the painting "Irises" Van Gogh portrayed the part of the field, very often dotted with flowers. Here we see not only the iris, which gave the name of a masterpiece, but also other colors. Of course, the irises are central to the composition. There is no background, but warm soft shades of the earth depicted blurred stripes and a warming glow beds of flowers. That glow enters with a picture of the outside world and gives it visibility and tenderness. Using different shades of green, yellow and purple colors, he creates a real rhythm of lines properly attached in drawing completeness. Rich and gentle at the same time

Orchids & Art, a quaint store tucked away behind Arena Liquor off Corporate Lake Drive in Columbia, Missouri, was brimming with wooden picture frames of various sizes waiting to be picked like ripe apples hanging from an apple tree. Navigating through the back of the store was like trekking through a maze. Glazed frames lay in the walkway, while others were plastered across the wall. An ethereal garden of beautiful orchids sat in a small corner towards the front of the store. Orange and white petals blossomed from pots of assorted shapes and sizes. It added a feminine touch to the masculine wooden frames. Kelly Coalier’s cartoon-like paintings, including one of George Washington with purple guns above his head, sat for

She was able to create perplexing pieces of work; by adding color shadow and lighting. Her flower paintings had lots of details; some thought that they were erotic.

Deemed to be one his most famous compositions, Johannes Vermeer, using oil on canvas, created The Allegory of Painting in 1666. A standout piece of Seventeenth Century, this still life representation of a painter in his studio depicts some of the best naturalistic qualities of this era. His usage of light, space, color, and symbolism blends harmoniously to create the perfect illusion. In the foreground we see the painter himself, seated on a wooden stool and dressed in ravishing garments not necessarily suited for this time period. However, his outfit is still thought to be characteristic of a painter. The symbolism behind this atypical attire is unclear, however, perhaps Vermeer chose this style dress as a means to sustain a consistent theme of lavish across the piece. The elegance in the marble flooring, chandelier, and intricate drapery all contribute to this theme.

Two of the most extensively analyzed works of art are Diego Velasquez's Las Meninas and Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait. Both of these artist's talent won them recognition not only during their lifetime but after as well. Both Velasquez and Van Eyck have a justly earned title as the most talented artists of their respective times. A detailed examination of the details and intricacies of these artist's respective masterpieces, their similarities, and what sets them apart not just from each other but from other paintings from their time period and style, will lead the viewer to a better understanding of the mentalities of these gifted artists and how they transcend their respective genres and contemporaries to create their own

What would you consider today’s most desired status symbols? A mansion or a beach side home? A designer handbag or clothes? In Rachel Ruysch’s day it was a simple tulip. Looking at her floral still life paintings can reveal an entire hidden world. Rachel Ruysch was born in 1664 in the northern Netherlands. She was born into a wealthy and prominent family; her father a scientist and her mother the daughter of an architect. Her father was a professor of anatomy and botany and also an amateur painter. From a young age Ruysch would draw and paint the insects and plants in her fathers collection. At age fifteen, she was an apprentice to William van Aeist, who was a prominent flower painter in Amsterdam at the time and she studied with him until

It is hard to imagine anything more fascinating for an art historian than the symbolism in the works of Hieronymus Bosch. In fact, very little is concretely known about Bosch’s life. This muteness makes the master who was so fond of setting riddles a riddle himself . Perhaps, it is vain to surmise exactly what influenced Bosche’s kunstwollen. For this reason, a biographical approach will not suffice in coming to terms with a specific creative impulse. This essay endeavors to explain why the triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delight, epitomizes the Believing Impulse. This category evidences an interest in the divine as a dominant value. This value guides representation of the unseen world in visual media. It is an expression of the relationship between humans and the divine, and between the mundane and divine world(s).

This formal art analysis will compare and contrast the line, color, light, and composition of "Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso and “The Toilet Of Venus" by Francois Boucher. The formal qualities of these paintings provide a classically orientated approach to the individual subject, which provide similar methods of composition and line. However, Picasso tends to chose earthy color tones in contrast to the brightly colored image provided by Boucher of Madame de Pompadour. More so, Boucher provides a much more lighted environment for his subject, which is dissimilar to the muted light of Gertrude stein in an interior setting. In essence, a comparison and contrast to the line, color, composition, and lighting will be formally analyzed in

A great artist once wrote, “If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”. This artist was Vincent van Gogh, soon to be an appraised artist known all around the world for his works, such as Starry Night. He is one of the very first artists of the post-impressionist style than is now adored in every continent. However, there is much more to the man than one painting. Creating a full timeline that stretches beyond Gogh’s life, this paper will discuss the life of Vincent van Gogh and the impression he made on the world.

Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands with the increase in production driven by interest in the idea of personhood and the definition of the individual self. Portraits help document the development of a personal identity as it connects factors like marital status, class, and profession. A common portrait genre produced during the seventeenth century portrays their subjects with an impassive demeanor with little vigor. At first, these paintings may be evaluated as lacking “personality” or “characterization” due to the artist’s lack of talent. However, this is rarely the case. In trying to understand Dutch portraiture, it is important to identify what type of functions they serve. Abraham de Vries’ Double Portrait functions not only as recording of his sitters’ faces but also as a signifier of the cultural, social and philosophical ideas of the time.

One of Vincent Van Gogh’s most world renowned paintings is his landscape oil painting Starry Night. The painting displays a small town underneath an unusual yet still extremely beautiful night sky. In this night sky, Van Gogh utilizes an array of colors that blend well together in order to enhance the sky as a whole. The town is clearly a small one due to the amount of buildings that are present in the painting itself. In this small town most of the buildings have lights on which symbolize life in a community. Another visual in Starry Night is the mountain like figures that appear in the background of the illustrious painting. Several things contribute to the beauty of Van Gogh’s painting which are the painting’s function, context, style, and design. Van Gogh’s utilization of these elements help bring further emphasis to his work in Starry Night.