Yosemite Valley Painting By Pablo Munoz

Thomas Hill, the artist of Yosemite valley ( El Capitan and Bridal Viel [sic] falls), was born in Birmingham England, where he lived for many years before migrating to the United States with his family and settling in Taunton, Massachusetts. At that time, Hill earned a living by painting carriers and soon after that he became an apprentice at an interior decorating firm. Hill attended art school at the Pennsylvania Academy of Design, and wanted to become a history painter. As a student, he made several trips to the White Mountains in New Hampshire to sketch the scenery and decided he wanted to do landscape paintings instead. Hill traveled to Europe and the East Coast and continued to incorporate a California theme into his paintings. In 1865,

Through the years art has been regarded as a form of communication, emotion, a feeling or expression of ideas, by which we mean a person or convey something. This idea can be captured in a painting, sculpture or even through writing, which through their expressions disclose the most characteristic form of a culture. By century to century there has been many creative persons like writer, artist, composer who contributed to development in the all creative fields. We also had so many great visual artists who create greatest arts, music and books. Pablo Picasso is one of them, who took modern art at new level. He was one of well-known artist in history .In fact, his vision and distinct creative style, some of the most innovative pieces he introduced to the art world.

Artworks have played an indelible work to the lives of humanity. The creative nature in Artists is a complex matter to define. The uncertainties in the intrinsic nature in art lay difficult aspects that can only be answered by values, themes and skills depicted in an artist artwork. Apart from playing the intricate psychological effect on humans, the artworks have been used as a tool of expression that has been revered and uniquely preserved for future generation. Among some of the most revered modern forms of artwork has included Chicano Art that had a core relationship to Las Carpas, Indigenismo, rascuachismo and other forms of performance art.

According to Mandel, art reminds us that we’re human. It is a subconscious human instinct, even “in the midst of catastrophe” (Knopf).

The implied lines appear where the light hits the figures and objects in the painting the hardest, where as the strong lines appear more often in the shadows of the painting and the foreground of the piece. The shapes created by these lines are both organic and architectural. The organic lines create the images of the people and some of the sculptures in Raphael’s painting. The architectural lines make up the formation of the arches and steps in his piece. In Raphael’s painting, there are Athenians on the steps and at the bottom of the steps, which creates the foreground, Athenians at the top of the steps and an arch create the middle ground, and the other two arches create the middle ground. The value created in Raphael’s work is very recognizable. The scale of value ranges between a seven and eight if it was being judged on a scale from one, being the lightest, and ten, being the darkest. The value and color start to disappear the closer figures get to the background, which creates an atmospheric perspective. The composition of the painting is placed to where the viewer’s eyes move to the center of the painting. This composition was created by one point perspective. The arch in which the painting

The reason I think Chiapas Paz Mexico mural at City Lights bookstore on Jack Kerouac alley is art because the artist communicates with the viewers by using art theory such as color theory, lines and shapes, and composition on his mural.

On Saturday, November 4th, I visited the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. The piece of art I decided to write about is called “A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)” This two-dimensional oil on canvas painting was completed in America in 1927 by Sven Birger Sandzén. This painting has not been on public view since 1927 and is located in the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. It was a “Free Day” at the museum, so I decided to attend by myself. I was unable to get a picture of myself in front of the work of art I decided to write about, but I did get several pictures of the artwork and a picture of myself with the “Free Day” sticker. I decided to write about this work of art because it was the only piece in the museum that really stood out to me and really caught my attention. A Mountain Symphony is a lively, beautiful landscape painting with a vibrant pallet filled with luminosity and broad brushstrokes. The sculptural quality of the paint surface reflect the influence of turn-of-the century modernist techniques. The balance of color and light brings happiness and joy to the viewer.

The following two paintings were found in the Portland Art Museum. These both art works by Diego Rivera and Joseph Stella portray their own life experiences. A main theme found in both paintings is the representation of identity oneself and the identity of one’s culture.

Line is used in every artwork ever painted. There are many lines in the tree, people, and mountain. The mountain has very curvy line just like the tree does. Lines are also used to separate where the farm ends and where the mountain begins. The lines also help give depth into the artwork where is separates the mountain and

Most of the Mexican art was on paintings and building techniques. Many talented artists became skillful on religious oil painting, modeling religious figures in wax, and the art of the polychrome wood sculpture. Mexican’s and Spaniards influenced created a new mellowness and richness of color that was never achieved in Spain. This started a type of artwork called Mexican Baroque which is a rich red and blue tones. This

Bright colors jumping at you asking for attention, images so real viewers can not tell the difference. These are the thoughts that came to my head as I gazed at two works of art by two Mexican artists at MoLAA museum of art . I visited two museums, Bowers Museum of cultural Art in the heart of Southern California and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach for my report unfortunately I only liked the works in MoLAA and will talk about it through out my paper. I will talk about two Mexican artists Rafael Cauduro and David Alfaro Siqueros that caught my eye, and made me want to learn more of them and their approach to art. Siqueiros caught my eye and interest because according to his biography “no

Central Mountain by Wu Chen is an illustration of mountains that would ordinarily be seen as uninteresting, but with the use of ink on the handscroll, ordinary mountains become a piece of artwork which can be intruiging and interesting to the eye. Bushfire Coroboree Dreaming -Erna Monta Bushfire Coroboree Dreaming by Erna Monta is an Australian Aboriginal piece that symbolizes both the past and present ancestral existence found in Australia's landscape. With various shapes and irregular patterns, the rythem of this piece is irregular. "In Aboriginal art, the "Dreaming," or organizing principle, symbolizes the presence or mark of an ancestral being in the world."

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he was began his interest in drawing at an early age. He began his study of art at the age of ten, where he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. After years of study at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, Rivera left Mexico to study art across Europe. His travels landed him at the feet of many immensely inspirational artists and art movements. He was acquainted with Pablo Picasso during the beginning of Cubism and adopted these influences, becoming an established artist in the time of economic unrest. Rivera began adopting ideas of Marxism, which pushed him to understand the spectacle and power of art. Rivera then moved back to Mexico and began using his art to empower the individual in the face of capitalistic oppression. His early art upon his return to Mexico was focused around socially engaging murals, highlighting the plight of the lower working class and indigenous Mexican heritage. This medium of art spoke to the masses, gifting all citizens with the beauty of art without the bias of a single entity. In her book, Akira to Zoltan: twenty-six men who changed the world, Autor Cynthia Chin-Lee explains the significance of this medium in the way Rivera used it. She states that Rivera “wanted art for all, not just the rich, and his art decorated areas where everyone could see them: in schools, plazas, and public buildings.” (Chin-Lee 7) Being free of museum bias or hegemonic forces that would make his art a commodity, Rivera was able to speak to all citizens, regardless of their class. His pieces related to the human condition and interpolate the viewers to understand themselves in a new and radical fashion. This is the power that visuals and art have, to make us feel a certain emotion or perceive the world around us in a completely

Lines are paths or marks left by moving points and they can be outlines or edges of shapes and forms. Lines have qualities which can help communicate ideas and feelings such as straight or curved, thick or thin, dark or light, and continuous or broken. Implied lines suggest motion or organize an artwork and they are not actually seen, but they are present in the way edges of shapes are lined up.

Photographers documented the building of the transcontinental railroad, scenic landscapes, and socio-geographic changes brought about from building railroads, mining stations, and other land developments of that time. William Henry Jackson photographed various portions of scenery along the Union Pacific railroad, the Yellowstone River and Yellowstone region in Wyoming and Montana, as well as portions of the Rocky Mountains (Bossen, 1982; Hales, 1988; Handy, 2001; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, n.d.b.). John K. Hillers made photographs of the land around the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon (Getty Museum, n.d.; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, n.d.b.). Andrew J. Russell photographed the eastern portion of the Union Pacific railroad, including Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, Promontory and Utah territory, and parts of the Rocky Mountains (Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, 2012). Carleton Watkins is best known for his photographs of Yosemite Valley, and parts of California and Oregon (Alinder, 1996; Anderson, 2011; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,