Compare Two Paintings Essay

gallery to gallery until I was able to find the two paintings that interested me the most. The first painting to catch my eye was the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, which was painted by Albrecht Durer around 1519. The German artist lived from 1471 to 1528 and is considered by many the greatest German Renaissance artist of them all. Albrecht Durer used an oil medium on a wooden support to

Compare and Contrast Essay The Scream, an artwork of Edvard Munch is also known as The Scream of nature, Edvard Munch was Norwegian artist who is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative, and influential figures in modern art. (Temkin). He loved painting and he was known for referencing to his painting as his children and he did not want to be separated from them in any way. One of his famous act works was The Scream, the art work is seen as a representation of modern

of those previous artists into their own art and create new masterpieces. One particular example is Édouard Manet’s Olympia from the Realism period, and Yasumasa Morimura’s Futago. The two paintings share great similarities in their composition, but the content and purpose of the paintings, and style wise the two pieces are very different. Édouard Manet, a French Realism painter, who set the roots for Modernism, painted Olympia with oil on canvas. In Manet’s Olympia we could see a lot of inspiration

is those choices that determine a person's identity. Without pressures from the outside world, people are a blank canvas, with no horrible or beautiful artwork to display. The potential painting needs to be compared to others so choices can be made, like what colors to use and what shapes work best. The painting needs to be influenced by other artwork, good and bad, so it can have a meaning

or drawing? These two have always been fought over for centuries by Poussiniste and Rubenistes. Two great pieces of art that were created in the 1600’s are Peter Paul Rubens’ The Caledonian Boar Hunt and Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape with Calm. While Rubens argues that color is the most important part of the painting Poussin argues that the drawing is more important. In the paragraphs below I will talk about the paintings each individually and then compare them. The first painting I will be talking

9/21/2017 Grande Odalisque Compare/Contrast As I was scrolling down on my computer looking at the images that was presented to me to do an essay on, I notice all the images was similar but different. So, I decided to put my focus on the young lady in the Grande Odalisque, because of the boldness of the image and how intense the image was considering the young lady is in the nude. Both artist was extremely brave and courageous enough to present such a vision such as this. The painting of Grande Odalisque

assignment, the 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

Demoiselles d’Avignon both compare very favorable with Paul Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers. As the question indicates they are both inspired by Cezanne and yet transcend Cezanne. All of these paintings contain some sort of nudity and are sexualized in some way by it, but in all of these paintings the sensual nature does not define nor does it limit the painting. In fact I'd argue that they all share a common theme of transcending the artistic rules of their time. Cezanne's painting, The bathers depicts

Art Institute of Chicago is that the Islamic Asian art is under develop. There are two pieces that represents Indian Islamic art. The second is the expense to visit is high. Parking and admission for someone who lives out of state will cost fifty dollars. There are two exhibitions and three collections worth mentioning in this institute. The two exhibits are the Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings and Kesa: Japanese Buddhist Monks’ Vestments. The collections that are worth checking

1. Art has evolved over the last century moving from Modernism to Postmodernism. Modernism 's birth is somewhat controversial but our text puts it at 1910. Paul Cezanne, who was closely tied with Cubism, has been credited as one of the fathers of Modernism. A lot was changing during this period which produced a slew of new styles such as, Post Impressionism, Symbolism, and Surrealism to name a few. Modernism thrived from the early 20th century until the period denoted by World War II at which