The Use Of Art And The Focal Points

Art is how you express yourself, and everyone does it in their own way, in their own style. I chose to write about the two following art works because I believe they have so many similarities but are done in completely different ways. For this comparison and contrast assignment the two works of art I chose to write about are called; End “Mixed Media” by: Terry Peterson,shown in the art building at Shasta College, and Forlakeph “Mixed Media in a Glass Jar” by: Gioia Fonda, also shown in the art building at Shasta College.

In ancient times there was always a main focus or theme to art that was created. Majority of the time this focus was on religion. Religion has inspired many artists to create great paintings, sculpture, and architecture. In this paper, I will focus mainly on religious architecture, beginning with Greece, reflecting on Rome, traveling to Tunisia, and ending in India. Though the structures being covered are different in religion and time period, they all have one thing in common, they are spaces that create a spiritual experience for an individual.

1. It was hard to get the feet to look realistic. The detailing part was hard to. Like you had to get all the contrast, structure, movement, and realism. It was hard especilly because in my painting my feet were small. Another hard part was getting the right shade. Like ppaint the feet a color and then make it a little darker for the areas that neede shading and dimension to give a realistic/ contrast to distinguish the difference. It was hard to get a shade that wasnt dramatically drker that the feets color.

1. Examining a work of art in its historical, social, and political __________ enables you to better understand it.

Dura-Europos was the start of Christianity in Syria. Believers had a place to believe and be safe with what they practiced. There were many ways how the Christians displayed their love for God. In the article it states “the art in the murals and mosaics in Dura-Europos make clear that early Christians were not iconoclastic.” They believed that art was a way to honor the saints and God. The art that was displayed in the church could be seeing as honoring God and also telling a story to the people who couldn’t read. The Roman’s had the same idea, honoring God with art forms, and also telling a story to the public with the art and sculpture. Sometimes scaring people who couldn’t read by using visual sculptors to show them what would happen if they didn’t obey

Upon glancing at various beautiful paintings there is to offer at the Museum of Fine Arts, only one astonishing artwork caught my immediate attention. The artwork is named “The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam” and it was painted by Claude Monet of the impressionist period in 1879. The medium is oil which is used for the oil painting on a canvas. Besides the subject matter, the content of the overall painting represents a serene and beautiful setting in which one can take ease and enjoy. It is a breathtaking view that captures a fleeting moment of a town setting by the riverside. Furthermore, the title also signifies the importance of the central object, which is the windmill.

The Gathering is an acrylic painting of a woodpile in Peterborough, NH. The image represents the gathering of ideas and people that led the painting’s success. The first visual element that comes to mind when I look at this painting is the direction. The painting’s direction is vertical because it gives the illusion that the viewer is looking towards the top of a hill to a woodpile. The woodpile is considered the “figure” in which is detached and focused on while the surround hill is the “ground”.

The Merode Altarpiece, a piece by artist Robert Campin, is a representation of the Annunciation of Christ. The piece was originally painted in Flanders during the Early Renaissance period in 1425. It is a considerably small altarpiece, commissioned for a private residence, created with oil on wood panel. The piece is currently held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The scene depicted in this particular altarpiece is very popular among artists during the Renaissance and the detailed representation captured by Robert Campin made it one of his most famous works of art.

The exhibition Degas: Form, Movement and the Antique at the Tampa Museum of art consist of 47 pieces from the French impressionist’s Edgar Degas life. The exhibition focuses on Degas fascination with motion, and shape and his influences from Greek and Roman art. It consists of oil paintings, charcoal and pastel drawings, and bronze replicas of his works. Most of the pieces are inspired by horses, ballerinas and everyday women. He traditionally used line, color and texture in his paintings to convey the poise and grace of the figures. He also used asymmetry, imbalance and dramatic angles to give the dancers a more naturalistic feeling. In his sculptures he typically used shape and space to simulate movement, and used form to capture the

Walking into the gallery toward Untitled #9, the work looks to me just like a dirty canvas, particularly in contrast to the pristine white of the gallery wall. So my first instinct is to look at the work, dismiss it and look away. But since I have made a commitment to stay with this work, I try to ignore the surrounding paintings composed of vibrant color and movement that my eye gloms onto.. It's hard to pull my gaze back to the Martin work, but I do and then start to take notes on its components(the process of which has provided somewhat of a diversion from the daunting blankness of the canvas). It is a rather large, square work; I read that it is six feet by six feet. As I get closer I see that the square is divided into 9 squares high and 6 squares wide, each square divided into 8 narrow rectangles. It reminds me of the notebooks French students use , perfect grids to aid in Cartesian analysis - clarity as a means of finding truth. Like the notebooks, the grids on the canvas start to create a clarity and peacefulness in my mind.

Art is one of the most valued creations of the human beings. Over the years, famous paintings like the Mona Lisa, the Starry Night, etc., have attracted global attention and interest comparable to none. This special love is a result of the human creativity, skills, and unrivalled drawing techniques put together to create something that people can be fond of for centuries. Without a doubt, art is unique, and its impact was most influential in the era of the Roman Empire, Classical Greece, Etruscan civilization, Roman Republic, and Hellenistic Greece among others. Quite a number of artworks, especially sculptures, drawings, and special vessels have been preserved for the present generation, and to date, they still attract viewership from all corners of the world. Some of the famous artworks are the Coliseum, Aulus Metellus, the classical Greek Amphora (storage jar), Ganymede jewelry, and the Etruscans’ Cinerary Urn among many others. This paper will analyze the significance of the artworks listed above by discussing their relationship with the related civilization and its impact on the people of the time.

The two art media's that I chose are drawing and oil painting. Drawings are the oldest art media. Drawings are used with pencils, charcoals, and other earthly pigments. When people used drawings it was usually used as a starting point or something and artist used to use before Painting or making it a greater artwork. It was not considered finished art at the time people started drawing. Oil paintings are a type of painting that is very slow to dry, but the painter can come back and change the colors of the painting or the overall visual of the painting.

The first art work I observed was called “Black Is the Color” by Paul Stephen Benjamin. The artwork is located in the Stent Family Wing of the High Museum, it was produced in 2014 and is from the modern time period. The structure is made of old televisions of all shapes and sizes are unevenly stacked on top of each other much unorganized. The televisions come about five feet off the ground, and there are wild cords wrapped around the floor and also some of the televisions. The space where the televisions are located is very dark, the only light in the area comes from the televisions themselves. On the screen of the television is an African-American women singing into a microphone, playing the piano as well. In some televisions the picture is cropped and you can only see her face and the piano can’t be seen to the viewer. In other televisions the color of the actual picture is different from others.

In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, it displays the acceptance Bishop has for losing things. Each stanza the losses get more significant, until she finally displays the one thing she can’t accept losing. Elizabeth Bishop uses techniques such as verse form and repetition to display her feelings toward those losses.

Through artifacts from Ancient Greece and Roman culture, we view the use of idealistic body forms with a focus on anatomy with themes of heroic acts. Additionally, religion played an important role in art with patrons, both from the Church and private sector, hiring artists to create paintings depicting deities, saints, prophets, and gods all requiring specific use of representation, color, and lighting to portray divinity. As civilization advanced we enter the Renaissance period with a continued influence on art by the Church. The Renaissance was a time of renewal, a “rebirth” which marks the end of a very dark span of time with many wars and plagues. During this rebirth, paintings continued to be representational by rendering images of the natural world containing