Matte painting

Sort By:
Page 3 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    aspects which made him a unique person. Michelangelo was a person brilliant in sculptures only. On august 4, 1983, Pope Julius II Della Rovere told Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. Although never experienced with paint, especially fresco painting, he painted the whole ceiling by himself, standing up while most painters that painted ceilings did it lying on their backs. He asked his old friend Francesco Granacci to help him, as well as four other fresco painters. However, when he saw that

    • 1798 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    While looking at the painting, it is hard to pinpoint one focal point within the composition when the walls of the gallery are filled with paintings from the floor to the ceiling. The focus becomes about the space Pannini has created and it does not focus on one specific object or figure. Each view of Rome seen in the imagined gallery adds to the illusion of Rome as an ideal city and to the idea of its beauty. By showing a space that reflects this beauty through the numerous paintings, sculptures, and

    • 535 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Rembrandt was a great artist and a man of many talents; he could draw, etch and paint many different genres transitioning between them with great ease. He also suffered many hardships in his life, the death of all his children and his wives who perished before he did, as well as going financially bankrupt. Despite hard times, Rembrandt kept doing what he loved and used those experiences to explore the inner psychology of his subjects. The Wedding Feast of Samson and The Conspiracy of the Batavians

    • 980 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    yet he did interact with well know artist. A changing point in Cole 's life that in my opinion that had a big impact on the painting I am going to be talking about is when Cole discovered and fell in love with the beauty of the Hudson River valley. His beautiful landscape exhibitions led him to become part the National Academy of Design. Cole began to paint

    • 1190 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Turner was without a doubt a fascinating, independent, and highly innovative artist during the 19th century. He began as a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools when he was a young teenager and he began to excel in all areas of his studies from oil painting, watercolors, drawing, to engraving. He acquired a passion for showing his observers real images and recording precisely what he say with slight coloring by his own personal vision. Turner had a love for traveling and exploring areas that his peers

    • 1976 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    animation and my version on certain cartoon. I would like to redraw my favorite cartoon characters and will inform why I like the cartoonist’s style. The cartoon art was one of the reasons I wanted to do try different artistic media such as drawing, painting, or graphic designing. I was thinking, I can ask other people about their favorite characters and in what style they would like to see in. For example, Snoopy from the Peanuts in a Tim Burton style or whatever they prefer. My blog is for anyone

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    point is located. The gradual decreasing in size of the figures also adds to the linear perspective and depth of the painting. The piece similar to A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat in its composition, as two characters are seen in the foreground with many characters in the background. This is the extent of similarities between the two paintings, as the subject content of Anthony Adverse is much heavier than the

    • 1139 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    two things that play a huge role in what a painting is actually about. I felt like I should just naturally understand what each piece of art was trying to describe to me, which was an irritating feeling. It only took me about twenty minutes to go through the entire museum. Nothing really drew me in, except for a couple of pieces. This was entirely different from my visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. There, almost everything drew me in. All the paintings, and especially some of

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cleopatra and Antony will continue to evolve over time. At first glance, these two paintings seem very different to look at. It’s clear that they are of the same genre of ‘still life’ however the composition, colour range and possible meanings behind the artwork themselves, greatly differ. One of the most important differences would be the tonal range used in the two paintings. If we look at the Moillon painting, the tone appears quite wide, going drastically from dark to light as we see in the

    • 1088 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Leonardo’s portrait through stylistic analysis and historical input. Shell and Sironi presents their article Cecilia Gallerani: Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, through studies in the identification of the painting. The authors of the article study physical and historical features of the painting to create meaning. Through the analysis of stylistic features and examination of history, the meaning of the Lady with an Ermine can be uncovered as a portrait with poetic vitality and aristocratic value.

    • 1599 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Decent Essays