Art History Essay

In Art-History the first step is always to identify what is exactly in each image which is what I have done for every individual post card. From there I started asking questions, hopefully when I start my research I will be able to find most of answers to those

discussing and critically evaluating Griselda Pollock’s comment while referencing gender and/or body in the broad spectrum while referencing two works of art. Pollock’s comment I will be evaluating is “Deconstructing discursive formation leads to the production of radical knowledges which contaminate the seemingly ‘ungendered’ domains of art history by insisting that ‘sex’ is everywhere. The canon becomes visible as an enunciation of Western masculinity, itself saturated by its own traumatised sexual

Iconography and Iconology of an Advertisement Looking at the art of the past, we see many images depicting nude women. From Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus to Ingres’s Grande Odelisque, many artists like the idea of painting a woman in the nude in an interesting pose. Even modern images in contemporary magazines depict nude images. Yves Saint Laurent’s advertisement of their fragrance Opium depicts a nude woman covering her breast. Her pose is a symbol of the iconography, while beauty serves

followed the Renaissance is usually called ‘Baroque’. ‘But, while it is easy to identify the earlier style by definite marks of recognition, this is not so simple in the case of Baroque.’ Baroque is considered to be ‘one of the great periods of art history’, and it is generally identified as being developed by Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini and Annibale Carracci. The Baroque period developed in Europe in around 1600, and it can be seen partly as a reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism

Art: the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power (Stevenson & Lindberg, 2010). Art takes many forms, such as paintings, drawings, sculptures, and collages, and within each form exists different genres or classifications. The early history of art, or art created within the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, can fall into five major periods:

Progression of the Kouroi What is a kouros? In Greek, kouros means a young man. In art, a kouros is a statue of a young nude male who stands with his hands at his sides and one leg, usually his left, advanced. Throughout the Archaic period, which dates from 610 B.C. to 480 B.C., the basic pose of kouroi (plural for kouros) remained the same, though the anatomy of the figures gradually became more naturalistic or true to life. The ideology that the Greek sculptors wanted to achieve greater

Surrealism is about expressing the unconscious mind. It is not about what is but rather what could be. I chose the art movement because I have been fascinated with it since high school. I researched Surrealism for my art journal, and upon finding Rene Magritte’s works, I fell in love. I love that Surrealism pushes viewers to not just question themselves but to question the world around them. Each Surrealism piece shows a world that cannot exist anywhere but within ourselves, and Surrealism artists

What are the hidden meanings within Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam? Is there significance in God and Adam’s stretched hands? Several art historians analyzed this particular aspect of the fresco, and believe it to have deeper meaning; while many found significance in the nude figures next to and around God. Each interpretation came about using a different methodology, explained in detail below. While all of these interpretations are valid and offer special insight into the fresco, they are not

Presenter: Welcome. Welcome, to the national radio, bringing you the latest news, and updates. Today we have a special guest speaker, all the way from France... I am happy to present Mr. Daumier, the famous 19th century painter. Daumier: Bonum mane, hello... It’s a pleasure to be here. Presenter: Today our fans want to ask you a few questions about some of your paintings and the media you have used. Daumier: Well of course. Daumier picks up his water and takes a small sip. Presenter:

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