The painting “Inside the Colosseum” is a painting by a German artist named Franz Ludwig Catel. The painting can be found in “The Mae And George Barrif Gallery” at The Art Institute of Chicago. According to the museum plaque the painting was created around 1823. The artist used an oil on canvas technique to create the painting. The painting falls into the category of representational artwork, the painting depicts a stone colosseum with people standing outside of the entrance. I chose this artwork
Postmodernism is a concept that has monopolized contemporary theory since the 1960s. It has been widely applied to film theory to review and analyse perspective. Postmodernism is most commonly thought of as a ‘departure from modernism’. It relies heavily on the increased speed of communication and the sharing of ideas; its codes are made up by self-conscious uses of pre-existing artistic styles and media conventions. It also depends on modern society being defined by media culture. In this essay
artwork that I choose to draw a comparison are the painting “Twin pines and Layered Green” from the Chinese artist Wu Hufan and the painting “Yardstick” from the artist Pat Passlof. “Yardstick” is an oil and enamel on canvas painting from the Abstract Expressionist painter Pat Passlof, create in 1948, the size of it is 33.5 by34 inch. It have been collected in “The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC”, and now the painting was displayed on the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY (1931) The Persistence of Memory (1931) was made in 1931 by Salvador Dali, the artwork is 24 x 33 cm oil on canvas painting, and now the artwork is in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style of the artwork is surrealistic. The subject matter is a barren landscape with melting clocks draped over unrelated objects, caricature of Dali’s face on the ground, plus a rocky headland with sea in the background. The focal point of the artwork is the strange caricature of Dali’s
the room does not seem to be a hindrance to the artworks. In fact, it reflects the passage of time and gives light to the characters during that historical period. Inspecting all of Liu’s work, the painting Dirty Pink captured my full attention. This art piece included two canvases: a canvas with a painting of a dandelion and another canvas depicting a male infant with a sweater; a little boy with striped overalls; a woman with a head covering and a dark dress; and a little girl wearing a bright pink
ied ImJournal of Consumer Research, Inc. Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience Author(s): Annamma Joy and John F. Sherry, Jr. Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 30, No. 2 (September 2003), pp. 259-282 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/376802 . Accessed: 22/10/2012 06:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions
Borrowing that is transformative of a source of inspiration, versus a borrowing in which the source is copied exactly, is separated by a very thin line. There is a stark difference in the steaks subsequently raised from crossing this line, between both the artistic and literary communities. Specifically, within the music industry, artists constantly battle hysterical cries of theft when their song sounds similar to that of another. For artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams their hit song “Blurred
Sunflowers (Image 3) Van Gogh’s Vine Yards Margaret Olley and Van Gogh are two of the most well-known impressionists of their time. With more than a century between their eras, they both played significant roles in the progressing development of art today. Similarly painting still life’s and portraits, they also used the same media types and painted what they were surrounded by. For example, rooms of the houses they lived in, flowers and places they travelled. This comparative essay will compare
When exploring the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, one can find themselves enjoying many unique and creative paintings. Sometimes these paintings can draw similarities and differences among each other that make them stand out even more. Two paintings that draw significant similarities while also contrasting one another are Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Dance at the Bougival (accession no. 37.375) and Oskar Kokoschka’s Two Nudes (Lovers) (accession no. 1973.196). Renoir’s piece was made in
eopatra become a mythological creature and has been depicted in art ever since. In 20th century, Cleopatra has been established in moving image form and each Cleopatra film gives the variation of Egyptian themes. With the help of this film production, Egyptian fashion became viral and earn its position in fashion world till now. From 1917, the fashion began with Egyptian motifs, sheer, gauzy skirts and teeny, ornate bra and was just started to move away from the corseted figure. Heavy Egyptian makeup