Tom Roberts: A Portrait Style Of Art

Romare Bearden’s art exhibition “Vision and Activism” portrayed his perception of society and the need to put in motion social change. The Black History Museum is where I observed his art collection. The set up of the pieces were by category and was not congested because there was a moderate amount of space between each piece. For first impressions the two art pieces titled “Noah and the Seventh Day (Prevalence of ritual series)” and “The Family” is highly detailed and the use of tone exhibits dramatic traits in the first piece while the second piece has tranquility. The subject matter for “Noah and the Seventh Day” is culture and for “The Family” is a focus on African American lifestyle. Intently scrutinizing “Noah and The Seventh Day” the setting is outside among the sea and animals are on a boat. The color is subtle, slightly vibrant, and uses cool tertiary colors. The texture has a grainy and hard effect as if he stippled using a paint brush. The shapes are organic but the water had strong emphasis where the lines gradually got deeper and broader away from the horizon. On the contrary, “The Family” setting took place inside of a house with women gathered at the table preparing food. The colors are subtle, earthy, and include warm tertiary colors. The background texture has a fine and smooth appearance. He included recognizable shapes such as cylinders, rectangles, and squares. By Bearden applying cross contour, pointillism, and cross

John Mix Stanley was born in Canandaigua, New York in 1814 and was later orphaned at the age of 12. Stanley began painting at a young age meanwhile being an apprentice to a carriage maker. He moved to Detroit in 1832, where he made a living as a sign painter and studied portrait painting with the artist James Bowman, with whom he traveled and worked for several years.

Distinctively visual is not just about images but also the power of language that enables composers to transport us to their world, specifically to the place indicative of the time during which the text was written. Henry Lawson’s collection of short stories in particular ‘In a dry season’ and ‘The drover’s wife’ and my related text, Art Spigelman’s graphic novel ‘Maus’ bring their unique ideas to life shaping and challenging our perspective and understanding of various human experiences of pain, suffering ,courage, resilience and perseverance ultimately bringing personal and social issues to life.

His preferred style of painting was Romanticism. The first studio of his was set up in Boston, Massachusetts. He went to England during the War of 1812 to study art with Washington Allston, and preserved in museums both in America and in England when he became a trained painter. He became associated with Marquis de Lafayette and James Fennimore Cooper. Some of his famous paintings were Dying Hercules, Jonas Platt, The Gallery of the Louvre, and The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco.

So, he went to Paris, France in the 50s to learn more art techniques, that later helped him advance in his art work. He was always surrounded by creativity, even his brother Joseph Delaney was an aspiring painter. His family of 12 were hardworking people who faced much hardship. His mother was even a slave, and the Delaneys often faced intense racism. Causing only four of the children

The death of her mother in 1931 impacted her artwork therefore contributing to the paintings: Poinsettias and Hippeastrums growing which were painted in the same year as her mother’s death. The death of her sister Charlotte (Diddy) greatly impacted Cossington smith. As Cossington Smith was left alone in the Cossington household her paintings depicted the memories, affections and possessions that were the subject matter of many paintings. Cossington Smith had submitted many paintings to the annual exhibitions of the royal Art Society of new south wales from 1915, the society of artists from 1919 and the contemporary group from 1927. In 1932 she had her first solo exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries, which would then continue every three or

Art is something you can observe no matter where you are from, each piece of art withholds the thoughts of the painter and viewer that portrays a message. Thomas Cole a revolutionary painter started a new evolution of art that still inspires people to this day. Thomas Cole was born in the year 1801 in Lancashire, England, however when he turned seventeen Thomas’s family emigrated to the United States where he started his art legacy. Thomas first worked in Philadelphia as a wood engraver before moving to Steubenville, Ohio where his father kick started his wallpaper manufacturing business. Unhappy working in the wallpaper business Thomas seeked something more suitable, on the side he was learning the basics of a few paintings genres ranging

Augusta Savage was born Augusta Christine Fells on Feb 29, 1892 in Green Cove Springs, Florida. She is one out of fourteen children. Her father, Edward Fells strongly opposed of her early interest in art. He whipped her four to five times a week. Augusta married John T. Moore in 1907 and the following year she gave birth to her daughter, Irene. By the age of 16 Augusta was married for the first time and had a baby. A couple of years after their child was born Moore died and Augusta remarried to James Savage. In the early 1920s she divorced and remarried for the final time to Rober L. Poston.

At 16 he was confirmed by Bishop Wiseman when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. This was during 1848. After arriving in Tasmania due to deteriorating health in 1855, he worked as a chaplain for the convicts. He worked alongside Bishop R. W. Willson but after a disagreement 3 months later, he moved to Adelaide. Here he was ordained a priest on the 4th of January 1857. This helped begin his journey through Catholicism and developing the Australian Catholic Church.

While he was in Arizona he became fascinated by the Native American culture. He wrote about what he called the “True Colors” of the West. He stated that horses shadows were blue or a shade of Carmine. After a few months out West engulfing his life with Native and horse culture Harper's Weekly sent him out too South Carolina to focus on the Earthquake in 1886. 4 years later in 1890 he had acquired and made enough art to make his own show. It featured 21 of his own art pieces. By this time he had also created a reputation for himself that helped make his art pieces sell. His popularity got to him so much, he became extremely gluttonous and obesity became a major problem. He battled many health problems which in turn led to his early death on December 26, 1909 at the age of 48. Before his death though he was constantly on the move throughout the Wild West getting to know the natives and becoming engulfed into their culture. After he married his wife Eva they moved immediately to Kansas City where Frederic tried to make his way with a hardware business but it eventually failed. Eva moved back out East because she couldn’t handle the the rough and wild lifestyle the West had to offer. In 1890 after the one man art show Frederic out on his missed his beloved more than anything. So the couple decided to move to New Rochelle, New York in order to have nicer galleries and more living space for

As skeptical moderns, we often have trouble accepting drawings or paintings as historical records, but we tend to believe in photographs the way that we believe in mirrors; we simply accept them as the truth. Alexander Gardner's photograph Trossel's House, Battle-Field of Gettysburg, July, 1863 might therefore be viewed as evidence rather than commentary. Unlike some of Gardner's other "sketches," this picture includes no perfectly positioned rifles, no artistically angled river, no well-posed men in uniform—indeed, no people at all. The photograph's composition could barely be more prosaic; the horizon slashes the picture in half, and the subject, a white colonial-style house, sits smack in the center. Yet this straightforward, almost innocent

The turning point of Robert Capa’s photography career and his influences on photography begins at the Spanish Civil War. Robert Capa did not went to the assignment alone, but he was going along with Gerda Taro. The assignment started horribly because there was a malfunction on the plane that they were riding. The plane has to perform an emergency landing which did not harm Robert and Gerda. However, they are left to walk their way to Spain to finish their assignment. The city was already torn apart by the war between the republicans and the nationalists. The despair war did not discourages Robert Capa’s hope to captures the important part of the war, but it encourages him to take more risk. As he stopped at Cerro Muriano, where he capture the

Portraits to me are art in a different sense. Some of my favorite portraits are by Martin Waugh. It is what he calls Liquid Sculpture. He uses high speed photography to capture drops of liquid as the splash into lakes and other bodies of water. To me there is just something so soothing about his work. It is amazing how a tiny drop of liquid can create such a beautiful work of art. His work impresses me, because I never really thought of liquid as art before I saw one of his photos.

When Van Gogh was sixteen, his first job was working for his uncle at Goupil et Cie, an art gallery in The Hague. When he was nineteen he went to work at the Groupil Gallery in London and then to the gallery in Paris. He was finally fired from the gallery because he was not happy with his job and discoursed customers from buying the artwork. After that he decided that he wanted to be a preacher and studied to get into a theological school but failed. In 1879 he went to Borinage, a coal mining town, as a missionary to the poor coal miners. He lasted there a couple of years and then was dismissed.

Vincent Van Gogh was born near Brabant, Belgium, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at