The Starry Night By Salvador Dali

As well as in both seamless brush strokes and pixilated, quasi-Pointillist grids. Up close his paintings are more abstract, but as you back away from the painting it becomes a big, almost up to 9 feet tall, realistic portrait. In his colorful portraits he would mix up to 6 colors in a square so when you step away, you can see all the value and shading in the painting. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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

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 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.

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

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.

     Let us see how the Hallucinogenic Toreador came about. Dali had doubtless talent, which was drawn apoun systematic confusion. For many, trying to make sense of this painting was distinctly unhelpful. Dali made the dates and titles of his work as he had the tales he told about his life. Studies of this painting never came complete. The tones of light in the painting are perfectly placed on each object to show form and three dimensions of light, and contour. Females are lined up facing different directions. Three of the statue like females show only light which makes the chest and belly look like the bottom of a males face. Everything on the painting is made to show Salvador’s family and some depict the face of

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Starry Night portrait was created by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh during the period of the 20th-century renaissance. This masterpiece was one of Vincent van Gogh well-known painting in the history of art which brought him fame. The Starry Night was so popular because of this painting represents star that makes you dream. This masterpiece was painted on June 1889 during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. During the time he created this masterpiece, Vincent van Gogh live in a hospital while he continues to make this art when he was ill.

The Starry Night is one of the most famous paintings in the history of western culture. It was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889 and is recognized as his finest work. This artwork is oil on canvas and is currently in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. An interesting fact about the artwork is that it is painted from Van Gogh’s memory, unlike his other works which are painted outdoor. This painting is the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Reme-de-Provence. The view includes the starry sky, cypress tree, village, and hills. “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big. “wrote Van Gogh.