Action painting

The final artist for your consideration is Jackson Pollock, who invented a form of Abstract Expressionist painting called Action Painting. “This kind of painting is called action painting because the painter tries various means of action and by working from different angles throws the paint to the canvas along with the movement, creates canvases.” (Hajali, 2) As such, Pollock expresses more emotional character without any depictions. When you view them, your eye can not land on one spot, there is

The paintings Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, by Guido Reni and Cupid Chastised, by Bartolomeo Manfredi are both 17th century visual representations of a story. The story behind Salome is the interesting biblical story of the beheading of St. John the Baptist, as it’s title suggests. The story goes that Salome performed a dance for the king and his guests. Herod Antipas saw Salome’s dance and was so impressed, and drunk, that he promised to give her whatever she asked of him. After

resemblance of the royal elite class. Most of Goya’s paintings capture the sensitivity of artistic techniques through brushstrokes. Some of Goya’s artistic works introduce to the audience, a world of ghosts, witches and other creatures, which invade the mind and include nightmarish visions. Goya’s famous

The Cupid Chastised painting was made in 1613 in the early Italian Baroque era by Bartolomeo Manfredi. The painting is 69 x 51 3/8 inches, and painted with Oil paints on canvas. While staring at this painting you can see that with each brushstroke that was made you can see that this painting was an obviously inspired from Caravaggio’s work. Caravaggio's style of painting is very recognizable for its realism, intense chiaroscuro and has the effect that makes you feel as if you are a part of the scenery

The painting by Jean Ranc titled Vertumnus and Pomona shows an encounter of Vertumnus and Pomona, two characters of Roman mythology. Both Vertumnus and Pomona themselves are references to antiquity. The basket of fruit that Pomona rests her arm on is a reference to herself as the Roman goddess of fruit. Although this painting has a Roman mythology basis, it also has ties to contemporary aspects that a viewer in the 18th century could relate to. Pomona and Vertumnus are painted in a modern garden

A Comparative Essay Helen Frankenthaler is an American, abstract expressionist painter who became active in the New York School of the 1950s. She developed stain painting and was the key transitional figure between abstract expressionism and color-field painting (Gorman). An example of stain painting is demonstrated in The Bay that was created in 1963. The artwork is acrylic on canvas and measures 6 feet, 8 3⁄4 inches x 6 feet, 9 1⁄2 inches. In the piece Frankenthaler “combined the chromatic

Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and see the beautiful Yosemite Valley painting by Pablo Munoz. The artist concentrated his painting on distant mountains, and rushing streams that invites viewers to admire the beauty of nature. Pablo Munoz used some elements of art in his painting such as color, light, and line to show his viewers different emotions. One element of art that Munoz used in his painting is color. He used color in his painting for many reasons. For example, he used local colors, which are the

which was published in 1987, focuses on Chinese paintings as sources for Siyah Qalam's paintings and finds connections between these paintings and authentic paintings by specific Chinese painters of the Yuan era. This author identifies four subjects in Siyah Qalam's paintings in common with the purposeful works of two Chinese painters: she writes, "in searching for a cultural milieu that might explain the often bizarre imagery of the Istanbul album paintings, one is, however, tempted to see in them something

printmaker, and draftsman. His paintings played an important role in the history of art. Goya went through many hardships and struggles during his careers and his illness cost him his hearing. Living in such disastrous period of French-Spanish war, combine with his illness had given him strength to carry on deep meanings in his paintings. Many of his paintings consist horror themes such as war, death and corpses. However, his unique styles and emotions in the paintings gave him the position of the

I. We have looked at sculptors, paintings, architecture, and prints with varying styles, from a numerous amount of artists. While I am intrigued by mostly all of what we have studied, The Last Supper paintings catch my eye the most. Many artists have successfully completed paintings of The Last Supper including, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and Leonardo da Vinci; however, da Vinci was the first, original painter of The Last Supper. My favorite Last Supper painting definitely has to be the one by Tintoretto