Impressionism Essay

Grande Jatte This artwork is made by Georges Seurat. He made it starting in 1884. His painting showed pointillism which means the painting would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than regular brush strokes. What I see in this painting is loads of people sitting and standing by a river just chilling and having a relaxing time probably in the afternoon since there are a couple of shadows going right of the painting. Whats interests me in the painting is that one person is different from

In Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were numerous painting masters who not only inherited the excellent tradition of the Six Dynasties since Han and Wei but also had made innovations (Stephen McGuinness, 2008). Among of them, Wu Daozi was apotheosized as the “Painting Sage” who was a revolutionary turn in Chinese painting. His influence has been profound of the people who joined the “Shuimo Movements” like Wang Wei and Zhang Zao.(Wei Guangjun, 2010). When they were opening the road of Shuimo painting

Exhibition Critique Essay II Larah Davenport ART 200 (Corbin) October 29, 2015 For this project I visited multiple online museums, but decided on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Three pieces of artwork that I found to be interesting to me and that caught my eye are The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder found at http://www.metmuseum.org, Open Window, Collioure by Henri Matisse found at http://www.nga.gov, and

On Thursday January 12, 2017, I, David Osayi, went to Building F with the class and viewed the many paintings that were exhibited there. The painting I am choosing to talk about is Venetian Spirits I by Margee Bright-Ragland. I will be discussing the type of painting, the lighting that surrounds it, the type of frame, the wall the painting is on, and the flooring beneath the painting. The painting displays two humanoid deers with human clothes on and one of the two deer humanoids is playing the

Each period has its artistic characteristics. The Baroque was a style in art that it stark contrast between light and dark. The Northern Renaissance gave so much attention and care and detail and clarity to objects. There are two different artists. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was one of the artists of the Late Baroque period of the 18th-century. Jan van Eyck was one of the famous artists of Northern Renaissance art of the 15th century. I will describe and compare the Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le

To begin to understand the significance behind a painting, one must begin by examining the colors used by the artist in the painting. The first thing that really jumps off the canvas is the fact that there is an obvious equilibrium in the balance of colors used throughout the painting. The farther your eyes go from the lightened focal point in the painting, the darker the setting turns. Dark colors of blue and purple that make up the night sky and rock formations that are in the background are met

Female artists Caterina van Hemessen and Judith Leyster both composed self-portraits of themselves painting on canvases. Hemessen and Leyster, express themselves similarly through their own self portraits. Viewers can picture similarities and differences by looking at basic comparisons, what is incorporated into each of the paintings, and the significance of each painting. Hemessen and Leyster are both female artists. Hemessen was a Flemish Renaissance painter and Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age

II’m presenting my Artwork, Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, c. 1662, Oil on canvas, 38½” X 46¼” (97.8 X 117.5cm). I traded a famous painting, Louis or Antoine Le Nain, A Peasant Family in an Interior, c. 1640, Oil on canvas, 44 ½” X 62 ½” (1.13 X 1.59 m) for this excellent Masterpiece of Vermeer. Vermeer painted a well-detailed picture of the city of Delft, his hometown. The painting is no ordinary pictorial reflection of Delft, but Vermeer put together a collage of buildings from the city to

The article starts with the story of how Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo would start a collection of art that would be the Woman with a Hat by Henry Matisse which they hung in their home in Paris and would continue adding to their collection of art with the help of their wealthy siblings in California who would bring them to be known as the “California Steins” Lubow, 2012 that would come to be known as “ the most important incubator for the Parisian avant-garde. Leo led the way.” Lubow, 2012,

The image that I will be talking about today is the piece called Stacking Hay by an American artist named Jackson Pollock. This picture was made in the about 1935. The medium of the piece is made from lithograph, with the work on paper. The style of this medium is abstract expressionism. With Pollock art, he uses a lot of representation throughout his artwork. The three theories of art criticism to explain why this artwork satisfies the criteria for being considered a significant contribution to