The Starry Night By Salvador Dali

The eighteenth century had two painters, Albert Bierstadt and who drew landscapes. The main gallery at Bowdoin Museum of Art was of the night, and the paintings were of the night with a moon in the sky. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, there were numerous amount of different of paintings. It was hard finding a painting of a night sky and moon in the museum. The comparison of two paintings at two different galleries in two different states will be the Cloudy Study, Moonlight of 1860 and the Eruption of Vesuvius with destruction of the roman city of 1824.

Since the color is a big thing in paintings, the color gray that Diego Rivera paint on Frozen Assets, probably represent the people facing in the Great Depression. The first two panels have the color gray because people were suffering and not enough money and the last panel, it has more light and have these bright colors. First, the first panel, the skyscrapers were there when Diego Rivera arrived to New York, perhaps symbolizing that the unfinished city is frozen in time. The machines below the skyscrapers are still there because probably, they are still building more, but stop since there was great numbers of unemployment, the machines perhaps have stop working at that time. The grayish color on the buildings probably represent that money ran out and people are facing the consequences of the Great Depression. Then there is the train below the buildings, it is believed that that train was running at that time Diego Rivera visited New York. The functional train

In 1930 (Editors) Dali switched to a more academic style and one year later Dali drew his most known piece of work “The persistence of memory” which is also known as the melting clocks, this painting was hardly to explain or get the meaning out of it. In the painting there are four clocks which appears to be melting in a widely open desert.

Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He had an elder brother who died prior to his birth by nine months. This incident affected him throughout his life. His parents looked at him as reincarnation of his dead brother. He was taken to his brother’s grave and was given free reign of the Dali household which stayed with him throughout his life. Since he was treated differently and in a special way, in strongly influenced his personality. Hence, Dali had a unique and clear character. Living both himself and his brother caused him an obsession concerning decay and putrefaction. This appeared in his paintings in the image of dead corpses or insects. Dali was not a brilliant student, but he was somehow aware of his genius at a young

He is an artist who focuses mostly on portrait art. Most of his paintings are created from oil painting on canvas, and some of his other works are paintings that are on stained glass. Many of his paintings focus on the recreation of old historical paintings in between seventeenth through the nineteenth century art. However, instead of including the historical people in the paintings, he replaces people from history with people in the black community. He wants to break the stereotype of the identity of black people and show that he is not just a black American living in America, but something more than that. In many of his paintings, he decides to use many different types of textiles and patterns from different times to bring out his artistic technique. New York Times explains that his “subjects wear hip-hop fashion or designer gowns, and in addition to posing as kings and saints, they mimic aristocratic ladies in well-known paintings from the Louvre or masterworks of African sculpture.” (New York Times 1). He also uses the bold and colorful colors to bring the painting to life. In many of his paintings, he also brings out some of the hip-hop cultures in each of his paintings, using the different looks from the hip-hop era. One of his most famous paintings was the Napoléon Leading the Army Over the Alps, which he replaces Napoléon Bonaparte with a black

The Starry Night are one of Vincent Van Gogh's most famous paintings. The Starry Night was painted from a memory that he had. And wasn't painted from a landscape. The landscape was formed using curves and forms of short lines he also used a form of swirling lines and texture. He used blue, white, and yellow lines to paint the piece. And it became one of his most famous pieces of art. He finished the art piece in 1889.

Physical properties, in other words, are describing what you see. When I look at this painting I see many shapes displayed. According to Fichner-Rathus, Lois.in the book

Art is art, what is a true art? Graffiti is an art, art of the free-minded. It is basic and easy for passing by people to understand the art. Bomb it: A global Graffiti Documentary by Jon Reiss is a documentary of the street artists who share their point of view through wall painting. The film is majority focusing on the poor neighborhood of the famous cities, so-called ghetto.

When and Why? As we already known, this painting was created in 1943. During that period, the human being was suffered by the most horrible disaster, the Second World War. About 75 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilians. Many of the civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, disease, and starvation. At that time, Dali and his wife Gala were forced to leave homeland to America. As an artist, he did not have that power to stop this horrible massacre. Therefore, to relieve his feeling, he produced this famous painting, the

As we look towards to the back of the painting we see the mountains getting smaller and becomes blurry. Next, there is movement. We know waves crash and in the front

There are many street artists in Paris and many of them are famous. Enjolras doesn’t understand art, it isn’t his field, even more it isn’t his field the contemporary custom of staining the streets that most of the people call art. But actually he didn’t know that Grantaire made graffiti.

The contrast of dark cloudy sky to a bright and shining moon helps elaborate on it's motif as a 'beacon of hope'. The darkness of the figure paints him as weary and in need of the presented beacon. The contrast between the dreary figure and the bright inviting sun further illustrates the promise of relief that the moon is symbolic of. Furthermore the actual medium of art helps to strengthen the portraits storyline. If this was portrayed in the form of a sculpture there would be less chance for optical illusion. The deception shading and placement create, is vital to making this scene seem more spacious. Furthermore, this space is important to displaying a strenuous journey that looks endless from a spectators point of view. Oil on canvas is also merited in that it allows for mystery. The spectator can imagine the moon to be enormous due to how far away it seems to

As you walk in the museum the first thing you notice to your left is the unique painting. Large in size, the painting is isolated on the east wall where the sun from the window shine on it causing the painting to shimmer due to the glitter. When you first glance at the painting it makes you question why would someone paint a panda sitting on the toilet or could this even be art. In that particular painting the artist used different elements known in the art world to create something so simple but contains a big meaning. Starting with the primary colors, the artist is consistent with black and white giving it a optical effect. Throught the painting, the colors is well balanced allowing the painting to

While his identity remains unknown, it is believed that he was born in Bristol, England in the mid-1970s. In the beginning of his career, he started doing graffiti in the early 90s and collaborated with other street artists. His artwork at the time consisted mostly of freehand, but starting in the late 90s, he predominantly used stencils as it was deemed more efficient. With this technique, his work became more well known around Bristol and London. In the late 2000’s, his work surfaced all over, even being on buildings in different parts of America, predominantly New York City. While some of his work seems to be humorous and satirical, they mostly relate to war and capitalism. His work often times are parodies of historical images, such as the piece being focused on in this analysis (“Banksy

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last